July 18 1937. A day the world of journalism and reporting will never forget. The day a journalistic behemoth entered this world, hell-bent on breaking all the so-called rules and putting anyone who deserved it (and some who didn’t) in their place. Hunter S. Thompson’s presence is still felt even now, just over 5 years after his death.

Hopefully this year will be a special one for HST with the release of the movie based on his long lost novel The Rum Diary which is supposed to be this year. Even when he began this novel 4 decades ago he was talking about getting it made into a movie. Lets hope, wherever he is he’ll be blowing stuff up, shooting things, and creating havoc in celebration of this milestone.

For some first hand memories of HST go to Wayne Ewing’s great Vodcast here.  And to see Hunter in his own environment in hours of video footage hit Wayne’s site here to buy his DVD’s

For some great reading hit Babylon Falling. I got a email the other day from Sean, giving me the heads up on his recent post. He said.. “Because there is nothing that would indicate that the Who Killed Hunter S. Thompson book will be released anytime soon, I figured I’d put this out in honor of Hunter’s birthday (July 18).” Thanks Sean, great read.

So I’ll leave it there, all there’s left to say is Happy Birthday HST. Thanks to you there’ll never be a dull moment.

Marty.