Dr. Thompson bids us "So long and Mahalo."

Hunter S. Thompson, the godfather of gonzo journalism, took his own life yesterday. He was 67.

His final column, Shotgun Golf with Bill Murray, appeared just last week on ESPN.com (for whom he'd been writing for the last four years), and recounts a very entertaining 3:33 am phone call. (You can find the rest of his ESPN columns archived here and their appreciation here.) He was of course most famous for his extraordinary 1972 book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which became an extraordinary film in 1998. (Photo by Christopher Felver)