This headline from MSNBC.com.
Wow. Just ... Wow.
On the other hand, given that it *is* Keith we're talking about, I also find this entirely understandable. This fits my image of Keith to perfection. I think he is a man who has never -- ever -- said "No, thanks" to an idea that has shot across his synapses. If any other person's name was associated with this headline, I'd probably think, "How sad" or "How desperate" or "What a freak!" But with Keith, I mean, that's just the cut of his cloth.
Rock 'n' roll
Honestly, the first thing through my mine was "Well, of COURSE he snorted the ashes. I mean, really, what else would Keith Richards do with ashes?"
Posted by: Nightwind | Wednesday, April 04, 2007 at 00:41
LOL and so true, Catherine.
Posted by: Janet | Wednesday, April 04, 2007 at 08:34
Maybe it's a sign that I read far too much, but using cremains as snuff (or even having a taste) has been mentioned in too many books, bad jokes, and memoirs for it to have any real shock value left... come on, Keith - be creative!
Posted by: jaz | Wednesday, April 04, 2007 at 09:39
What a beautiful metaphor for the people of the 60s who, unable to change their worldview in these times, have transitioned to this kind of thought process. Ashes of a loved one with the dust of another love. Is Keith repeating the words:"From dust we art, and to dust we return"....again, and again, and again?
All I can add is......beautiful!
Posted by: Agricola | Wednesday, April 04, 2007 at 10:42
How sad.
Posted by: Tim | Wednesday, April 04, 2007 at 13:19
Now he denies it, says it was a joke
Nonetheless, the remarkable thing is that NO ONE took it to be so.
Posted by: jmsloop | Wednesday, April 04, 2007 at 13:30
father's little helpers?
father was the little helper?
Posted by: hue | Wednesday, April 04, 2007 at 18:27
I don't believe the "retraction" even for a second.
But I would have paid green dollars to have been a fly on the wall at the funeral parlor where the poor funeral director (probably a Stones fan, and well aware of the distinctive uncertainty of Mr. Richards achieving "final peace") had to hand over the ashes to Keith.
"And, um, just a final word, Mr. Keith, if I may. We like to recommend that family members, um, how to put this, leave the remains alone. By this we mean to suggest that the urn and its contents are purely for memorializing purposes, not, um, 'interactive,' as one might put it. Mr. Keith? Mr. Keith? Oh, dear. He's gone under again...."
Posted by: Spibby | Wednesday, April 04, 2007 at 21:36
Posted by: Daniel | Thursday, April 05, 2007 at 09:33
Look, I know its only rocking roll, but I like it. Come on, this was a joke. Keef is on the Disney Pay-roll now, he can't have cigarettes in bed or snort old Burt up his head. Keef is even more the barometer of the smart thing to now more than ever. Remember when he saved Charlie's life when the Stone's drummer O.D.'d on H? Don't let the cover fool you; Keef is solid.
Posted by: JET | Monday, April 09, 2007 at 10:20