Hunter S. Thompson's Ashes Airborne

Well, as it will apparently say on Hunter S. Thompson's Air Force-issue tombstone, "It never got weird enough for me." Over the weekend Johnny Depp funded a ceremony for Thompson's ashes that involved heavy-duty fireworks and a tower taller than the Statue of Liberty. Only 350 people were allowed to attend, but there's a photo of it in the New York Times (linked to title above). Somehow it all makes too much sense that a movie star would pay $2 million for such a ceremony, but maybe that's because in the end Thompson was part of the literary establishment, same as other major writers like his heroes Faulkner and Hemingway. That's not a bad thing. His writing will last long after his glowing ashes fade from the sky... (which probably only took a few seconds).

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