Okay, I didn’t have tine to finish up this week’s Shopping Locally post, but it’ll be up next week.

I looked around MBIP World Headquarters for something to fill the gap till then and I found a drawing by Ralph Steadman right here in the MBIP World Headquarters.

It turned out to be a timely found item.

Here’s the MBIP World Headquarters Entertainment Center featuring my treasured boombox which was one of my first purchases in New York City from when I moved there in 1993.

Seated on top of that legendary boombox is the art we’ll be discussing today, so let’s go take a look at it!!

Here it is close-up, but it’s still hard to see so…

Here’s an official scan of the drawing. It’s an illustration of writer Hunter S. Thompson with a gun to his head.

I’ve had this framed piece of art for a long time, so long I can’t even remember when I put it in this frame. I can’t remember where the art came from either, probably from an article in Rolling Stone.

What’s always blown my mind is that the artist who drew it, Ralph Steadman, who worked on so many projects with Hunter S. Thompson nailed it to the wall with this illustration.

Years after this was drawn, Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide by blowing his brains out with a gunshot to his head.

And this illustration predicted the whole thing!

Yesterday was the 16th anniversary of his death, so this is kind of timely and I really didn’t plan it that way. I didn’t know it was the anniversary till I started putting this all together.

Below are six links to online articles about the death of Hunter S. Thompson.