I hate to give publicity to those I do not think deserve it and I don't think Hunter S. Thompson deserves publicity for committing suicide. But news is news, so here goes.
The "gonzo cannon" is almost complete and organizational details are almost worked out.
On August 20 the cannon will blast about half the ashes of the late Hunter S. Thompson into the air above his home at Woody Creek.
The "cannon," which at present is shrouded in fabric to hide it from prying eyes, is a steel cylinder tapered toward the top that is formed around the steel framework of a crane boom. It reaches 153 feet above the field behind Thompson's Owl Farm, which makes it roughly two feet taller than the Statue of Liberty, as measured from the top of Liberty's base to the tip of the torch.
The "gonzo cannon" is topped off with Thompson's infamous emblem, a dagger with a double-thumbed fist clenched around a peyote button as the hilt.
It is the fiberglass fist that forms the platform and framework for the device, which has been described as being similar to a fireworks launcher, that will shoot the writer's ashes skyward.
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