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Keith Richards has acknowledged consuming a raft of illegal substances in his time, but this may top them all.
In comments published Tuesday, the 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist said he had snorted his father’s ashes mixed with cocaine.
“The strangest thing I’ve tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father,” Richards was quoted as saying by British music magazine NME.
“He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn’t have cared,” he said. “… It went down pretty well, and I’m still alive.”
Richards’ father, Bert, died in 2002, at 84.
Richards, one of rock’s legendary wild men, told the magazine that his survival was the result of luck, and advised young musicians against trying to emulate him.
“I did it because that was the way I did it. Now people think it’s a way of life,” he was quoted as saying.
“I’ve no pretensions about immortality,” he added. “I’m the same as everyone … just kind of lucky.
“I was No. 1 on the `who’s likely to die’ list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list,” Richards said.
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Richard Branson offers £10m prize to stop global warming!
Published by February 10th, 2007 in News. 2 CommentsBy Steve Connor, Science Editor, Independant
Published: 09 February 2007
Sir Richard Branson is raising his game as “saviour of the planet” by announcing a multimillion-pound prize for the best way of removing thousands of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
The prize - expected to be in the range of £10m - will go to the originator of the most convincing invention for actively absorbing and storing the principal man-made gas in the atmosphere responsible for global warming.
Sir Richard has drawn up a distinguished panel of judges to oversee the prize including James Lovelock, the inventor of the Gaia theory; James Hansen, the Nasa researcher who first warned the US government of climate change, and Tim Flannery, the Australian zoologist and explorer.
The competition is based on the idea of the $10m X-prize for the first privately-built, reusable aircraft that could fly into “space” - defined as 100km above ground - twice in one week. The X-prize was awarded in 2004.
The irony of basing an environment prize for absorbing carbon dioxide on a prize for releasing the gas in the fastest way possible will not be lost on many environmentalists who want to curb the unnecessary use of fossil fuel rather than relying on untried and unproven technological fixes for global warming.
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Jack Bauer’s Hit List - Everyone he’s killed in every episode ever!!
Published by January 14th, 2007 in Digg, Bloody Cool! and TV. 0 CommentsEveryone that Jack has killed — includes method of execution, photo, video, and time of death. Excellent.
Check out the site at bauercount.com
Top 10 Gaming Wallpapers
Published by January 7th, 2007 in Digg, Bloody Cool!, News and Gaming. 0 CommentsAll in 1920×1200 quality, gathered from Flickr and picked the best. A must see.
Family Guy Writers Report Back To Work!
Published by January 7th, 2007 in Digg, News and TV. 0 CommentsProduction has finally begun on the sixth season of Fox’s animated smash “Family Guy,” 2
½ months after the show’s writers were told not to report to work. Work was halted on “Family Guy” last fall as talks between producer 20th Century Fox TV and series creator Seth MacFarlane on an overall deal had reached an impasse.
James Brown, the legendary singer known as the “Godfather of Soul,” has died, his agent said early Monday. He was 73.
