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Former teen idol Leif Garrett comments on the recent Keith Richards revelation that he snorted his cremated father’s ashes

Garrett: “I realize it isn’t quite the same thing, but one time up in Canyon City, Jimmy Baio, Jackie Earle Haley, and I were so high from huffing model glue that we actually rummaged through a Quizno’s dumpster for an overtoasted cheese steak , then cut it with a handful of ground-up Sudafed and snorted it.  Tasted just like chicken!  Or maybe Lauren Tewes’ squeezebox, if you can believe Baio.

“Anyway, to make a long story short, the upshot was, none of us so much as sneezed for well over a month.  So let’s not judge Keith too harshly, because it’s possible that snorting your dead Pop might have some kind of kickass medical benefit that science hasn’t yet uncovered.  Like curing cancer.  Or, you know, acting like heroin—only a special kind of heroin that simultaneously reprimands you for using it and threatens to cut you off financially if you don’t get a fucking job and stop leaving empty Doritos bags all over the basement.”*

22 Replies to “Former teen idol Leif Garrett comments on the recent Keith Richards revelation that he snorted his cremated father’s ashes”

  1. Dan Collins says:

    Those were pharmaceutical-grade ashes.

  2. Dennis Miller says:

    Lauren Tewes’ squeezebox

    You win, babe.

  3. Jimmy Baio says:

    Lauren Tewes? No man, I told him I like ‘em young, it was really Jill Whelan!

  4. JFH says:

    Interesting, Tewes is pronounced such that it rhymes with “squeeze”

  5. FabioC. says:

    Snorting your dad’s ashes with coke is so Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas… a funeral high, that must be.

  6. Tai Chi Wawa says:

    Will snorting your father’s ashes give you a deviated septum?

  7. FabioC. says:

    I know from experience that having your nose broken during a furious mosh session gives a deviated septum.

  8. markg8 says:

    Gullible wingnuts fooled again.

    http://tinyurl.com/yrnzvg

    In any event, this dodgy quote was picked up by a horde of newspapers, wire services and TV and online outlets on both sides of the Atlantic, among them Reuters, Forbes, Google, Breitbart and the Drudge Report. And evidently, none of them attempted to confirm the story with a Richards representative.

    MTV News took the novel step of contacting Richards’ manager, who responded with what sounded like a sigh, but was in fact an e-mail. The dad-snorting story, she explained, was, quote, “said in jest … [I] can’t believe anyone took [it] seriously.”

    And now, this just in from Keith Richards himself, who says, “The complete story is lost in the usual slanting.” As for the actual use to which his father’s ashes were put, he said, “The truth of the matter is that I planted a sturdy English Oak. I took the … ashes [and sprinkled them beneath the tree], and he is now growing oak trees and he would love me for it!”

    As for the ashes-and-cocaine-snorting story he told to the NME, Richards said, “I was trying to say how tight Bert and I were — that tight!

    “I wouldn’t take cocaine at this point in my life,” he added, “unless I wished to commit suicide.”

  9. So, marky, are you heading over to Fark to tell all these people they were fooled again?

    Because, really, we were all taking this so seriously until you showed up. I count, oh, zero serious comments before yours.

    (And, yeah, Fark posted a follow-up with Richards’ “I was joking” statement. But the thread at Fark had a lot more serious comments than this one.)

  10. Oh, I forgot something:

    You humorless git.

  11. SteveG says:

    I think his story was that he fell out of a coconut tree and landed face down where his dad’s ashes were buried and was forced to snort them.

    He is now resting comfortably at home and wondering when the Toronto police are going give him back the 22oz of herion they stole from him

  12. B Moe says:

    Because, really, we were all taking this so seriously until you showed up. I count, oh, zero serious comments before yours.

    Are you saying Leif Garret made that story up, RC?

  13. markg8 says:

    Serious like these RC?

    It’ll just be him and the cockroaches after the nukes go off.

    That’s nothing compared to huffing Abraham Lincoln’s morning breath. It’s the most powerful hallucinogen known to man, and they keep it locked up in the National Archives.

    Dennis Leary: “I saw something on MTV the other night where Keith Richards told kids to not do drugs. We can’t do drugs since YOU DID ‘EM ALL! When you die we’re gonna have to smoke your ashes!”

    What a wanker. Can’t even tell the truth about something as meaningless as this.

  14. Pablo says:

    Gullible wingnuts fooled again.

    And where, exactly, do you see any evidence of that?

    Keith is a Sagittarius. A rascally bastard by nature. I’ve had no doubt that he was having a larf with the journo. Which you can afford to do when you’ve got more money than God and all the pussy you can handle.

    tw: money97

    Percentile?

  15. Great Mencken's Ghost! says:

    Considering the ritual cannibalism in my ancestral heritage, I probably can’t be as judgmental about this as I should…

  16. wishbone says:

    Gullible wingnuts fooled again.

    It is a rare talent to combine sanctimony and ignorance in one statement.  Congrats on that–your mother would be proud.

    Someone tell every major news outlet in the country that they are invested with wingnuts(EXCEPT MTV–and how it makes me laugh that mark thinks he scooped us by citing that hotbed of journalistic panache).

    Having said that–would anyone be surprised if Keith, had in fact, done this?

    Didn’t think so.

    I have to go check MTV now for their coverage of the US/ROK free trade agreement.

  17. gahrie says:

    I actually wrote a post about this time last year about Keith dying, and people lining up to snort his ashes.

  18. McGehee says:

    Gullible wingnuts fooled again.

    Fooled into perusing one of your comments, maybe.

  19. Wanker markg8?  I assure you that we all know exactly who is the one person who has his hand firmly grasping himself. 

    We just want to advise you to let go slowly.

  20. What a wanker. Can’t even tell the truth about something as meaningless as this.

    BS. There were jokes over there, too. I didn’t say there weren’t, asshat. There were comments like this, though:

    He finally crossed the line.

    That’s it. He wins the “Bet you can’t top this” award. He should be proud.

    Ya know after listening to the Rolling Stones for 30 years now I can honestly say that the headline did not suprise me in the least.

    Well, I guess that’s one way to do a bit of bonding with dad….

    I really thought this was going to be a case of a misleading headline based on some sort of a bad pun. Guess I should have known better.

    That is all human “ashes” are, leftover bone. Any pro pill head like keith would be expert in grinding shiat up. Top of a pill bottle or mortar and pestle…..

    Use a mortar and pestle, and you could probably grid it up nice ‘n fine.

    Congratz Mr. Richards. You are now officially more farked up than Michael Jackson

    In retrospect snorting pixie stick dust in church during 7th grade confirmation class was not the most sacrilegious activity one can do…

    Author Anne Lamott wrote about tasting the ashes of a friend. Somehow it seemed a little more tender then.

    Was anyone here really surprised when they read this about Keith?

    True or bull shiat?

    Who can tell; knowing what I know about Keith, he could have

    ACTUALLY done it or just being pulling our collective leg.

    Me? I dunno, I guess I lean to him having done it.

    So if this is the strangest thing he has ever snorted, it seems he must have put some other pretty weird substances in his nose as well. I am curious to know what else would make the top five…

    Call me naive but I actually thought maybe Keith had slowed down in his old age. I’d assumed upon reading the article that he’d snorted his dad back in the 70’s or 80’s. Nope, 2002.

    Wow, those were hard to find. Wonder why you didn’t notice them.

    Maybe because you’re a dishonest prick?

  21. Jeff Goldstein says:

    WHY DO YOU HATE LEIF GARRETT, MARKG8?

  22. SOG knives says:

    Interesting ideas… I wonder how the Hollywood media would portray this?

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