This Guy Lived An...Interesting...Life

[DudeAsInCool]

The UK Telegraph reports the demise of a count:

Count Gottfried von Bismarck, who was found dead on Monday aged 44, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies.

The great-great-grandson of Prince Otto, Germany's Iron Chancellor and architect of the modern German state, the young von Bismarck showed early promise as a brilliant scholar, but led an exotic life of gilded aimlessness that attracted the attention of the gossip columns from the moment he arrived in Oxford in 1983 and hosted a dinner at which the severed heads of two pigs were placed at either end of the table.

Read More

And there's more

[rainbowdemon]

Not sure what to say about all that!!

[DudeAsInCool]

Not sure what to say about all that!!

[slum_goddess]

they used the word 'louche' as if it's an every day word --- I LOVE IT! (and it is an everyday word, to some but not all).

too bad i'm not rich and famous; i can relate to a LOT about this dude. hahahahahahaha

[CTC Command]

He never married.

[slum_goddess]

The UK Telegraph reports the demise of a count:

The great-great-grandson of Prince Otto, Germany's Iron Chancellor and architect of the modern German state, the young von Bismarck showed early promise as a brilliant scholar, but led an exotic life of gilded aimlessness that attracted the attention of the gossip columns from the moment he arrived in Oxford in 1983 and hosted a dinner at which the severed heads of two pigs were placed at either end of the table.

i just noticed that 'exotic life of gilded aimlessness' bit --- hilarious!

[DudeAsInCool]

i just noticed that 'exotic life of gilded aimlessness' bit --- hilarious!

that about sums it up for most of us, except for the dinner party bit

[slum_goddess]

that about sums it up for most of us, except for the dinner party bit

HAHAHAHAHAHA, yeah, i was thinking of me (for a change); anyway, just remove the 'exotic' and 'gilded' and there i am...and you and you and you --- no, not youse, not the ones who have normal jobs and normal lives and families; in all truth, every now and then i envy people like that although i don't know that many (in meatspace) who fit that description. which all reminds me of Jung's quote: 'To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful'. guilty as charged, Dr Jung,

moving right along, ages ago when i lived in California, i was invited to a big party (freak-type thing on some dude's land up in --- shit, Dude, what's the name of the area/town right above SF where they have houseboats? damn what's left of my memory). anyway, they had a pig on a spit, slowly turning round and round above the flames. i was sickened by the sight, actually (and i have no compunctions about being a carnivore). at the same time i was busy being sickened, i was totally aware i'd be eating from same and actually enjoying it later on. and i did, once i got that image out of my head, once the pig was removed from our sight.

about those severed heads at table, if i walked in anywhere and saw that shit, i'd be outta there sooooo fast, the heads themselves would be spinning.

[DudeAsInCool]

shit, Dude, what's the name of the area/town right above SF where they have houseboats?

Sausalito - Marin County?