The real tragedy in this story is not that Richards apparently took his father’s ashes, and mixed it with some nose candy and had a good snort, it is that no on is actually all that surprosed that he did.

Rolling Stones wildman Keith Richards claims he snorted his own father’s ashes during a drugs binge.

Richards made the extraordinary admission in an interview with NME magazine.

“The strangest thing I’ve tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father,” he said

“He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn’t have cared, he didn’t give a s***.

Seriously, while the average reaction is “ewww” it is usually followed by the sad realization that it is not as shocking as first thought.  The guy is so wierd and freaked out that nothing is really a surprise, other then that he is still alive, reasonably lucid and still able to perform.

A coworker of mine had the money quote on this:

…it is bad enough he would do it, but why would you even want to tell anyone about it?”

Indeed.

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