I think that Charlie Sheen is the Generation X version of Hunter S. Thompson.

Links?

Explain yourself, sir or madam.

Noes!!!11 I don't want to piss off a Gen Xer.

I take it back!

Please don't make me sit through Wayne's World. Pls

(I was jerking the OP around. Not you)

:shrug:

and that wasn't HST.

...except for the fact that Thompson was something of a genius while Sheen is just a creep.

Now that I think about it, it's a ridiculous comparison. Shame on you.

but it's an epic fail.

s.o.b.'s running this country.

Charlie Sheen is interested in informing us about only one thing: himself.

I will say, though, that he is performing a public service by letting the world see what an episode of full-blown mania and addiction look like.

The world can also see how powerless his family is to do anything to help him, because he continues to be in denial...his parents are suffering and his children are suffering.

BTW, my son is a Generation X'er, and he would take great exception to the fact that you even put Hunter S. Thompson and Charlie Sheen in the same sentence.

I hope Mr. Sheen will wake up, get well, and use the talents that he has for the good of everyone in his family AND this nation.

... the weird turn to porn?"

the comparison is not only absurd, it's absurdly stupid.

I met him while I was working for Dick Goodwin who was, at the time, political editor of RS.

i suggest reading some HST, in more depth than you apparently have, before trying to find a parallel...

other than 'unique individuals', the comparison seems uninformed at best...

on the other hand, as Charlie Robison sang in 'Sunset Boulevard':

Well, i wish i had my picture on the Rolling Stone today
I wish that the Enquirer spread a rumor that i was gay
I wish i had some buddies, some movie stars and such
Cause i probably wouldn't worry about the two of us as much

And i'd spend all my money on caviar and cocaine
And i would not remember how you broke my heart today

You know i, i wish i had a super model so skinny and so wild
And a waitress in nevada, she says she's carrying my child
I'd drive down sunset boulevard, my hair blowin' in the wind
I'd stop at fancy restaurants and they'd finally let me in

And i'd spend all my money on caviar and cocaine
And i would not remember how you broke my heart today

Yeah, i wish i had my picture with the Rolling Stones today
And i wish the Enquirer would spread a rumor that i was gay
I wish i knew a movie star, someone like Charlie Sheen
'cause if he'd hang out with Kato Kaelin
Well i guess he'd hang out with me

And i'd spend all my money on caviar and rogaine
And i would not remember how you broke my heart today

James Dean?...

amuse us and define your parallels...should be interesting if you would attempt

...f***ing Kato didn't even have shit, in any manner, Hollywood or not, with even Edd Byrnes...

your mama should have turned off your TV earlier in the day or made you watch it really late into the night...

katofuckingkaelin...houseboy...only a houseboy...

HST at least had something to say.

If you little fuckers had turned out in greater numbers, W would be a drunk footnote to 'Murkin politics.

The boomers are the ones that enabled Reagan by not turning out, starting the whole shitstorm.

Again, thanks for not turning out to support Carter.

abuse problem, then that says something about Gen X.

HST was a journalist first and formost and Charlie is far from it.

There is no comparision.

journalist who also wrote books, while Charlie Sheen is an overpaid teevee star and serial domestic abuser, I completely concur. :eyes:

He was born in 1965 which technically makes him the last boomer.

The last boomer...now someone could have an interesting take on that!

or maybe 66.

Discuss.

Rock on.

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It was worth it...

:rofl:

the drugs and craziness sure, but his only real contribution to the arts has been reading what other people wrote for him.

of Karen Silkwood...

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In fact he got his ass kicked by the Hells Angels trying to prevent one of them from beating a woman.

Also, Hunter Thompson ended his life with more brain cells than Sheen had before he snorted his first line.

...for you

Charlie Sheen to be on ET at 7PM this evening.

it describes the practice of fishing off the back of a moving boat... I can't quite remember what it's called but for some unknown reason.. this thread reminds me of it.

open waters, just hoping for a bite.

Those two have nothing in common.

Hunter handled his drug excesses just fine, and actually reported on events in a way that made the madness of the late 60's and the '70's palatable for many of us.

I'd suggest you read his book on the Hells Angels and tell me where Charlie Sheen fits with that kind of balls.

Very impressive...if your name is Koko.

Not even close.

It's like Sheen is trying to prove to everyone that he's not a child anymore by acting like a spoiled, brat.

Unlike Thompson, Sheen will burn out soon enough. He lacks real staying power, conviction and imagination and when the newness of "winner" fails to garner attention he'll get lonely and try to regain that 'high' that catapulted him to where he is at this moment. So eventually he'll return to heavy drug and alcohol use and it seems almost a sure bet he'll be found dead in a trashed out hotel room with a suitcase of cocaine by his side before he's 50.

And as wild as Hunter was he wrote passionately for decades before his demise. Charlie on the other hand has been a clean and sober 'winner' for how many days now? I don't think Sheen can keep up this charade for very long.

He needs to replay the tapes of her slamming AA and then the appearance on the roast of Pamela Anderson after saying all hr crap about AA.
How'd that work out superwoman?
Charlie will probably die from ego.
Too bad, I really like him a lot. Smart guy tossing it all.

although your post makes me wish the good Dr. were still around to offer his perspective on Sheen's circle jerk.

:rofl:

his addiction and nothing more.