Friday, 8 June 2018

Anthony Bourdain dead at 61

quote [ Anthony Bourdain, a gifted storyteller and writer who took CNN viewers around the world, has died. He was 61.

CNN confirmed Bourdain's death on Friday and said the cause of death was suicide. ]

I always enjoyed watching him on No Reservations...
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[by XregnaR@11:52amGMT]

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HoZay said @ 2:46am GMT on 9th Jun [Score:3 Good]
Olive Garden Reviewer Had Special Bond With Bourdain

People were saying what a funny strange thing it was for anyone to write about the Olive Garden, and all of a sudden Anthony Bourdain came to my side,”
Nextdooryeti said[1] @ 4:35am GMT on 9th Jun [Score:2]
This one hurt. Ages ago, I was traveling from Seattle (my ancestral home) to Denver (The paradise I'd always needed but did not yet know it) after having had my heart ripped out by a scurrilous creature of lust and evil (Oh yes johnny, this is a break up story!). I had secured living arrangements in my newly adopted city and was looking forward to the trip when that savage succubus broke me. This, compounded with a host of other issues that lead to a deep deep depression served to make this endeavor an much more difficult proposition. Seattle to Denver is a long drive, about 20 hours. Not so bad when you have a friend to share the trip with. Interminable when otherwise. It is scenic but in a singularly lonely manor when all of your life is stuck in the back of the run down Uhaul you've rented. Bourdain was that friend. I plopped into my very serviceable discman both of the books he had written ( Kitchen Confidential and A Cooks Tour) that I had previously acquired through less than legal means prior to the trip. I was emotionally destitute and his voice was literally the only thing that made that trip bearable. I have no doubt I'd have met a voluntary end of my own without him narrating the foods of his youth and the grotesqueness of his industry.. Bon Voyage you Cunty Genius.
Bob Denver said @ 12:10pm GMT on 8th Jun [Score:1 Good]
That he died early is sad but he defied the odds and, let's be frank, he took big bites of life. That he found himself with suicide as the only option is fucking heartbreaking.
C18H27NO3 said @ 2:56pm GMT on 8th Jun [Score:1 Underrated]
Waiting to hear if he had liver cancer or something as debilitating and cruel. Not to say depression isn't. A mystery, for sure.
hellboy said @ 6:20pm GMT on 8th Jun [Score:1 Underrated]
"Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind." - Anthony Bourdain
hellboy said @ 6:32pm GMT on 8th Jun [Score:4 Underrated]
"Once you've been to Cambodia, you'll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking... While Henry continues to nibble nori rolls and remaki at A-list parties, Cambodia, the neutral nation he secretly and illegally bombed, invaded, undermined, and then threw to the dogs, is still trying to raise itself up on its one remaining leg."
HoZay said @ 7:10pm GMT on 8th Jun [Score:1 Underrated]
You don't have to have been to Cambodia to want to beat Kissinger to death.
steele said @ 7:31pm GMT on 8th Jun [Score:1 Underrated]
Hugh E. said @ 8:58pm GMT on 8th Jun
JFC! I was depressed enough. This is not helping! I guess I get what he was going for, but ... but given the occasion, I'll put a pin in that.
slaytanik said @ 12:17pm GMT on 8th Jun
Ugh, fucking shit. He's my favourite
HoZay said @ 12:32pm GMT on 8th Jun
This is a damned shame. I wanted to hang out with Anthony. He seemed so joyful and loving, and his tv shows were so much better than any other foodie or travel shows. I do not understand.
slaytanik said @ 12:33pm GMT on 8th Jun
Depression is a motherfucker man
knumbknutz said @ 3:20pm GMT on 8th Jun
Fuck. It's a really bad week to be clinically depressed all throughout America. Fame is not a requirement.
dolemite said @ 12:52am GMT on 10th Jun
Yeah. Because it couldn't have been Guy Fieri instead. Of fucking course not.
Hugh E. said @ 2:53am GMT on 11th Jun [Score:1 Underrated]
dolemite said @ 2:43pm GMT on 11th Jun
I'm not ready to talk about what Guy Fieri did to me.
Nextdooryeti said @ 5:31pm GMT on 10th Jun
Not a fan of encouraging anyone to suicide.... however just his facial hair incites ideas of deep frying him and feeding him back to himself.
dolemite said[1] @ 2:11am GMT on 11th Jun
Which would only be slightly worse for his health than what he's eating already.

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