Some praise for Keith
May 10th, 2006 by Bill
I came across The things that happen to Keith and I just loved it. It relates, in a way, to my post yesterday, Fat, skinny and missing things.
(Unfortunately, while I can access the page from work it appears the idiots at the Globe and Mail refuse to let anyone access it unless they pay for “premium” content. Just another way the corporate boneheads at newspapers continue to put themselves out of business.)
Canadian commentator Rex Murphy manages to say what I was trying to say, but he’s much more articulate … and funny (in his dry way).
Some people say Keith Richards hasn’t aged well. What they mean, of course, is that in the great conga line of Botoxed, breast-sculptured, personal-trainered, South-Beach-dieting, yoga-pretzled, old-age-phobic, health-and-youth delusionists whose nipped and tucked faces gargoyle out at us from the front covers of the celebrity magazines — Keith Richards refuses to hop in sequence.What they mean when they say he hasn’t aged well is that he’s actually aged, while they, chained to vanity and self-delusion, have tried to put surgery and silicone between them and mortality. They’ve made the fool’s bargain. The bell will toll, and a hundred face-peels won’t mute the summons.
It’s too bad the Globe and Mail won’t let you read it. It’s perfect. And bang on the money.
Of course they think he hasn’t aged well, precisely because he had the audacity to let himself age at all! What morons!!!!
As to the previous post about size, etc., I couldn’t agree more, especially with your commenter who said that his/her size made people uncomfortable because it wasn’t a problem for him/her. People seem to think that a larger person should walk around with their head hung down in shame, when in reality, they should be the one’s living with shame.
I couldn’t agree with that sentiment more. Embrace the wrinkles and learn to love yourself and your life. Or, life will go on without you.
He has looked the same for the last 20 years. He’s aging better than anyone of us.
Yes, I wish I could have pasted in the entire commentary. It was so good and so funny about how there are rock stars getting knighthoods, celebrities nip and tucking and raging about world poverty with their ermine cloaks … and Keith is still just Keith, smoking and falling out of palm trees and not giving a shit.
Keith lives in my town. Sometimes we see him.