The media was not allowed to attend Saturday Night's memorial to Hunter Thompson at the Hotel Jerome in Aspen. One reporter "was "there as a continuation of Hunter's legacy," and Sunday, the family agreed to allow him to write about it.

The event was in the Jerome Ballroom, where people mingled and shared memories of Hunter. For the "ceremony," many read a passage or two from a work by Hunter, and recounted a Hunter moment. Here's a sample:

Reading aloud from Hunter Thompson works was a kitchen mainstay. And Saturday night was no exception, replete with the crowd warning people, as Thompson did, "slower, slower."

Actor, neighbor and friend Don Johnson recounted how Thompson would lie down with Johnson's horse when it was sick. Johnson did not quite know what to make of that....A gravelly voiced Johnson read a Thompson passage about electricity - a lazy, actually neutral force - that could turn quickly and punch someone in the gut with one wrong move. Just like when Johnson asked Thompson, What is the sound of one hand clapping? Thompson slapped him across the face.