***BREAKING*** Anthony Bourdain is DEAD to me

NEW YORK (CNN) -- 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.

"It is with extraordinary sadness we can confirm the death of our friend and colleague, Anthony Bourdain," the network said in a statement Friday morning. "His love of great adventure, new friends, fine food and drink and the remarkable stories of the world made him a unique storyteller. His talents never ceased to amaze us and we will miss him very much. Our thoughts and prayers are with his daughter and family at this incredibly difficult time."

Bourdain was in France working on an upcoming episode of his award-winning CNN series. His close friend Eric Ripert, the French chef, found Bourdain unresponsive in his hotel room Friday morning.

I thought this was the fake death troll

but indeed:

Was it something he ate?

What??? Wow... truly shocking.

Drug Addict. Heroin. But that was in his past...wink, wink.

I immediately assumed drug overdose.

He committed suicide?! That shocks me.

Not surprised. He seemed rather too full of himself.

R3 WW

That ranks right up there with "The World Trade Center is an insatiable bottom" posted as the second plane hit the towers.

I'll just say it:

I get that many have mental health issues but this doesn't pass the sniff test.

He either OD'd or someone KILLED him.

Sounds like another doorknob-and-scarf deal.

Wow, all these suicides

I always thought he had a screw lose, I could never get into his shows. Suspension confirmed.

Oh holy fuck. Did he relapse? Bourdain was sober from heroin for many years. I just cannot believe this. Two high profile suicides in a week.

WTF is happening? Why???

People, depression is a SERIOUS illness. If you have it, please seek help. It can be alleviated. Sometimes it cannot, but please try everything possible before either relapsing into drugs and alcohol and/or taking your own life.

A suicide? Really? What a pretentious asshole, in life and in death.

His girlfriend also seems a bit mental. Was it suicide?

10 to 1 he was still using drug, and ODed.

I really am sad. He was amazing! I want to cry. He was my spirit animal!

Let that be a lesson to y'all.

You can get paid tons of money to travel the globe and eat for a living, and still be unhappy.

'Suicided' for disobeying the commands of his NWO masters....or for seeing/hearing something he shouldn't....or maybe planning to tell the truth about something on the air?

Suicide when you are not dying of a real physical illness is a selfish act. Fuck your bitches, I mean my fans, I am out!

Sometimes you just want it all to stop. And that he did.

If it was an accidental OD it wouldn't be getting reported as a suicide. Clearly his body was found in a state where he killed himself, either hanging, cut wrist, or something like that.

Wasn't Asia Argento his girlfriend ?

Yet Guy Fieri lives another day....

[quote]He was my spirit animal!

Get another Spirit Animal not addicted to drugs or with mental illness.

[quote] Erna

Cunt

WW r24

Eran, wtf is wrong with you? You know very well he was a recovered junkie, yet you come here with your “he was murdered bullshit”. Grow the fuck up, Erna, or you’re next.

CNN says "death by hanging"

It was Rachael Ray, in the study

She drowned him in EVOO

It was the food I'm sure. French cuisine has really deteriorated over the years.

Bordain’s death was a when not if. Not surprised at all.

Like most of DL, he just could not live in a world that is bereft of Kate Spade.

[quote]Erna

[quote]Cunt

Slimy Nazi Cunt

Rest in peace.

His girlfriend must be freaking the fuck out. How old is his daughter? Isn’t she pretty young? Early teens?

He was not just a casual drug user, in his own words from a book "seemingly endless use of drugs. Bourdain used everything—psychedelics, pharmaceuticals, amphetamines, cocaine, and heroin. Eventually, he did enter rehab."

Yeah, he hung himself, but thats one of many ways people off themself when they are high and depressed.

I honestly agree with you R32, for decades I figured he would die of a drug overdose.

Whelp, if you're gonna off yourself, Paris is a lovely place to do it.

Thanks Dad. You were embarrassing me anyway.

Jesus.

Bitch stole my media coverage!

Its not a noose, its a magical golden chain and we are going to fly!

He couldn't imagine a world without Kate Spade bags.

1) Kate Spade, 2) Anthony Bourdain, 3) ?

It’s like that song from Heathers but just change the title - “Celebrity suiciiiide, don’t do it!”

I never cared much for his show. For a professional chef and food critic he had an amazingly limited vocabulary when it came to describing food ("This is good, this is really good!"), but I loved the book he wrote about his early days in the restaurant business.

Lol who cares

[quote]1) Kate Spade, 2) Anthony Bourdain, 3) ?

The Tony Awards

Hmm, I wonder what was on his iPod?

Now all the BS talking head are revealing about how great he was and how they knew about is drug and alcohol problems. Thanks CNN for the roll model. Glad money had nothing to do with it.

His daughter is only 11 years old.

[quote]Hmm, I wonder what was on his iPod?

Scenes From An Italian Restaurant (Bottle of Red, Bottle of White, la la la....)

I enjoyed his show and liked him a lot better than many if the other tv chefs. Shame such a useful fellow felt the need to leave the party early. RIP, Anthony.

[quote]Thanks CNN for the roll model.

Which rolls are they modeling?

OMG. A suicide. This really saddens me.

Can't imagine wanting to off myself in Paris. Sheboygan or Detroit, sure. But Paris‽‽‽

🎶"Ding-Dong..."

Another overreaction to the cancellation of "Roseanne."

Wonder if all the news from Kate Spade's suicide finally gave him the courage to finally go through with it.

What the hell??

The new season of exploring "Parts Unknown" has really jumped the shark.

#metoo

The Today Show reported that his body was discover by Eric Ripert.

He had an 11 year old daughter.

Poor Eric Ripert

Now I can finally CNN again.

I knew all that raw Asian food he loved to keep doing shows about would get to him sooner or later. #fishwormsinthebrain

My father committed suicide when I was 10. My heart breaks for the children Bourdain and Spade leave behind.

I'm 62 now. You learn how to move past it, but you never really heal.

"he died doing what he loved most" Ha, ha, yeah, drugs.

days ago on italian magazines there were pics of Asia with her new bf, a hot, 14 years younger french man.

I feel like we are going to see an explosion of suicides now that people know they can do it so quickly, easily and painlessly via asphyxiation. There are instructions all over the internet.

You dont need instructions R71

A life with money and adventure... traveling all over the world, that seems very exciting... the big dark cloud doesn't discriminate. You can feel like shit in all circumstances, that won't let up.

r3 you are so going to hell. And you made me laugh hard.

Read he died in Strasbourg, not Paris

[quote]I feel like we are going to see an explosion of suicides now that people know they can do it so quickly, easily and painlessly via asphyxiation. There are instructions all over the internet.

Apparently Anthony didn't google it.

You just know people will be VERY curious about what he had for his last meal.

You better check yourself, before you wreck yourself!

I blame Trump. He’s the tipping point in making this world truly unlivable.

I always changed the channel when he was on. A smug jerk who would be eating some disgusting usually live squirming creature in a hellhole somewhere in the world.

One reason for not worrying when I put on CNN.

not suicide, he had ev thing to live for. prob a sex thing that went awry, many use hanging to increase the sex orgasm feeling, but can go wrong... he had kid whom he adored … he would not leave her.....

his wife asia a is a monster....

Heroin seems easy to find in Strasbourg, saw a lot of strung out junkies (unlike rest of France which sticks to hash)

What the fuck? Kate Spade, then the Queen of the Netherlands sister and now him. Is June international suicide month?

Please, please if you are depressed and considering this TALK TO SOMEONE. There are a million better options, I guarantee it.

I was just in France last week -- I didn't see him there.

He almost certainly relapsed. I’ve known people who were sober and suicided, but it is quite rare.

Probably heroin. Fuck, what a waste. I didn’t love his show, but I was genuinely happy for him to have found success after all of his struggles with drugs and booze.

I would not be able to do something like that with a child. Never. No way could I leave a child behind.

I never understood his popularity. Before CNN his show show was so boring and unenlightened. Always in some kind of slumy part of the world eating some gross shit people called food and raving about it's authenticity as he bloviated about life. Typical egotistical New Yorker, he always assumed everyone else was just as much an ass hat elitist like himself.

God needed another angel. That’s the only explanation...

And yet, the Cheeto lives.

I didn't know much about Kate Spade so I wasn't really surprised. But Bourdain had such a self-assured swagger...not someone I would have pictured offing himself. This is really shocking to me. Yeah, he came across as an asshole at times but I liked his show and usually learned something from it. I hate that so many people are torturing themselves and feel they have nowhere to turn. RIP.

{quote]God needed another angel. That’s the only explanation

Dark Angles go to hell R87.

God, I hate heroin. Is there ANY hope for addicts to beat it for good? Seems like it always finds you even if you've been sober for years.

he was the epitome of kool

loved his show

one in a million

his damn gf asia left him for some young fool

Why can't it be a Kardashian, Jenner or Trump or someone useless like that? It's always artists and creative types who have something to offer the world.

I loved his early shows, they were funny and informative and honest about the weirdness of travel, and "Kitchen Confidential" was an excellent and unique book. And he was hot when he was younger! But for the last few years he's lost the sharp sense if humor he had, I thought it was because he was older, but he probably had more serious demons.

Still, I'm having a very hard time believing that someone with a kid of eleven would do that. It's not always about you and your feeeeelings.

Was there a Black Hole Painting in the room???

Bourdain looked like Argento's father. No surprise that she dumped him for someone younger.

Swagger is often the first clue that someone really hates themselves, R89.

Since everyone's now waiting for the third show to drop, it's time to get yourself a belt and a private room with s door and doorknob - and get rid of some celebrity who's been annoying you!

[quote]he was the epitome of kool

Are you high? Since you spelled Cool with a K I assume you are 12 years old. Grow the fuck up. He was not cool by any measure of the word.

One person who will be happy about this is the OP of the thread which expresses his being fine with opioid addiction and those who will be eliminated because of it.

I know this will be a shocker for all of you but sometimes parents don't give a shit about their kids and will always put themselves and their needs first.

Maybe all the travel is what got him depressed. Maybe he saw a lot of fucked up things that made him think the world is just a cess pool.

God needed another angel hair pasta draining tutorial.

I didn't realize his girlfriend dumped him, wonder if she feels guilty?

I did like his show. I love the marys crowing about "he was in the third world(gasp!), eating weird stuff(gasp!).

Clutch those peals.

I also feel it was a sex thing gone bad, its very trendy : hang to make the cum bigger, but sometimes goes fukd

he was way too much of a happy guy to do it

Can I have his stuff?

No comment yet from (ex?) girlfriend Asia or friend Rose McG?

College dropout. Am I surprised? Nope.

He was sad. He lost a Michelin star, you see.

Oh, do fuck off, R109.

R103 wins the internet on a sad day 😜

10 to 1 it was Auto Erotic Asphyxiation. CNN doesn't want all that info coming out at one time. Just like Micheal Jackson, they sat on the known facts for several days so people could throw a pity party.

Please, Anthony Bourdain knew better than to drain his pasta.

There's a higher sensitivity with creative, artistic people. They feel emotions more acutely and hurt easier. People like trump and the K family are so self involved and narcissistic, suicide wouldn't be an option.

To someone upthread who mentioned June being suicide month -- suicides usually peak in May. I think June may be the second highest month.

R45 this actor died. Alan O'Neill.

r114 that's what she said!

[quote]Bordain’s death was a when not if.

Everyone ‘s death is a when, not if.

I love the Lobster Pot in Provincetown where he started! That was one of his best shows when he went back to his first job!

He was so condescending to the little brown people he visited. Why didn’t he take toady fishlips Ripert with him?

Agree it wasn’t a suicide, but a jerking off gone wrong.

[quote]There's a higher sensitivity with creative, artistic people.

Except he was not creative by any stretch of the imagination. He was a food critic, not a master chef.

[quote]Everyone ‘s death is a when, not if.

That's what you think

R115, That's not necessarily true at all. I have two friends who killed themselves, and neither were artistic, creative, etc.

Also while Bourdain's suicide is sad, as all suicides are, he too is not artistic, creative, etc.

And Sandra Lee's alive and a cancer survivor... cockroaches and Sandy...

Kitchen Confidential was an engrossing read and more than decent legacy.

Animal abuser. Bye, Felicia🤣

r124, why would you want to be friends with anyone who isn't even creative?

WtF??? he just had a baby a few years ago?

did he leave a note or was this sex gone wrong like that actor?

Seemed like a self loathing closet case to me.

R119 Not when it’s a suicide.

I have no sympathy for rich people who commit suicide. They have no clue how the rest of the world is struggling daily just to find their next meal. While you can still struggle with depression when you are rich, the reality is you don't have to worry about where your next meal comes from, if you can pay the rent, if they are going to turn off the power, how you can pay the bills for basic survival.

Bo ho, you're sad, your Asian snatch was cheating on you. Looks like the only answer is to get even with guilt and kill yourself.

Celebr¡ty STARWACKERS str¡ke Aga¡n!!!!

r131 = Rose

maybe he was sick of eating shitty food in shitty countries!

But he had such an easy job, just talk shit and eat shit all over the world.

[quote]Bourdain looked like Argento's father. No surprise that she dumped him for someone younger.

Well it wasn't like he was young when she started dating him

Ha! I was wondering would he get a trollish thread celebrating his death or an "... is DEAD to me" thread xD!

I think he deserved a trollish thread for being such a tool.

Swagger does not discriminate when it comes to suicide, ie Michael Hutchence. I admit Bourdain had swagger for a old.

He was a douchenozzle but he couldn’t live forever.

R92, are you implying that the ex girlfriend is at fault? She wasn’t. Also, yes, she left him. Older men need to get a grip and realize that while a younger woman might find them interesting at first, younger women want younger men. No one wants to fuck someone who is old enough to be their father.

Did I date older men when I was younger? Yes. Was I truly, 100% really into it sexually? No. I don’t blame her. People want to be with people that are closer to their age. She dated him because he was interesting, and had cash. Sexually, she wanted someone who was her age. No matter what a young woman says about older men being great, sex is the one thing that is lacking, and it will be the one thing that leads to a breakup, or divorce.

damn, i've seeing all these young pics of him on twitter and he had such thick, thick hair and very skinny!

someone said it was by hanging!

When i saw his name trending in twitter, i thought he died but really really hoped not. i like his show. i like him. he might come across as an asshole but he looked cool doing it. early on i thought he pinged but later got convinced he's totally straight. cant believe its a suicide and because he got a broken-heart.

rip.

He was such a gentle soul.

Lately he's been some to real hellholes on the show (like One of the Congos, Beirut, Madagascar) that would make even the most optimistic idealist despair. For an (ex-)junkie, dumped by his girlfriend, and tired of seeing so much shit in the world, it's not a surprise that he would take his own life, or risk killing himself.

Good God, at a certain point you need to keep your clothes on.

So young.

[quote]Lately he's been some to real hellholes on the show (like One of the Congos, Beirut, Madagascar) that would make even the most optimistic idealist despair.

It didn't help that he was in Madagascar with Darren Aronofsky.

Wait, Sandra Lee is a real person? I thought she was like Little Debbie or Aunt Jemima.

R144 Beirut is not a hellhole. Its a pretty sophisticated city.

Sre you typing from 1983?

He looked older than 61.

[quote]No one wants to fuck someone who is old enough to be their father.

Samantha found this out on a very special episode of Sex & The City when she met some old man in a bar and then had to figure out how to dump him after sex.

More rich celebs please!

[quote]tired of seeing so much shit in the world, it's not a surprise that he would take his own life

Stop projecting. He loved traveling to those places. He travled to France frequently as a child and loved it. His rebellion or attempt to prove he was not a spoiled child was to go to all the shit holes in the world. He loved shitty Asian food. About 80% of his show are about Asian food and eating live animals or toasty bugs.

CNN being so quick and almost excited to report it as suicide makes me wonder if it WAS auto erotic asphyxiation and CNN is doing damage control.

He was a Trump tard.

He was so excited to bash Democrats for being elitist after the election of Donald Trump.

R143 picture makes me loathe him even more.

Yep, my bet is on Auto Erotic Asphyxiation gone wrong while doing drugs.

Did he leave a note? any pills taken? will they test his blood? will they do autopsy?

[quote]Bo ho, you're sad, your Asian snatch was cheating on you

'Asia' Argento is Italian.

who are his best friends? no one come forward to say nice things about him?

Seems cruel to his daughter to say it was a suicide if it was actually an accident.

[quote] There's a higher sensitivity with creative, artistic people. They feel emotions more acutely and hurt easier.

Well that wasn’t Anthony.

Was Asia really dating a younger guy? From the looks of it they were still together .. and seen dancing 4 days ago.

absolutely::::auto erotic stimulation death. he was a happi soul. the news will never say it tho

R154 I think you’re on to something.

I don’t agree he’d kill himself from seeing dismal places. One, because he was rich so it wouldn’t affect him and two, because he seemed shallow, so wouldn’t affect him.

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I don’t understand how someone can hang themselves from a doorknob. Am I missing something?

He seemed like a really great guy, Trump makes us all think of suicide.

Queen Ines' sister's suicide didn't get much coverage:

Was he gay or straight? I never knew much about him.

Don't let us stop you, R170.

Anthony knew he wasn’t going to kill himself ever since Robin Williams.

R156 - and he was right.

Asia certainly seems besotted in the snaps on DM, right after Bourdain had blogged about them being close. Had to be quite a slap in the face.

A picture IS worth a thousand words...

So now another very young girl has to grow up without a parent due to wounded pride.

Allegedly, he had been abusing alcohol, as of late. People were concerned.

I was under the impression that he had been completely sober. I guess not.

I am shocked. So saddened. I was such an enormous fan - I adored his humour, his curiosity, his poetic view of life.....Absolutely stunned.

Anthony Bourdain never claimed to be completely sober r178, he still openly enjoyed alcohol, including on his TV show. He just supposedly gave up hard drugs.

Not only a college dropout, a Vassar dropout.

Was it over a break up with that Asia person?

So he was a cranky curmudgeon...just like everyone at Datalounge. I wasn't a rabid fan, but I did enjoy his show. I never forgot the interview he did with Boris Nemtsov in Moscow a year before he was murdered.

[quote]e was so excited to bash Democrats for being elitist after the election...

That's the thing about him. If you watch a few of his shows, he projects his own NY elitist attitude onto other people like they have the problem and he is enlightening them. In reality, like most narcissist, he is the one with the problem.

R179 - agreed. I'm pretty taken aback. I watch a ridiculously tiny amount of television, but his shows were the exception. I loved his curiosity, openness, fairness and warm heart.

how can they say for certain it's suicide so soon? isn't that something for the medical examiner to determine?

here's a thought, he was wondering how could someone kill themselves hanging on a doorknob after reading about it...was drunk and decided to try it out and died. didn't mean to do it but was fucked up drunk.

Maybe there was a note, r186

[quote] I adored his humour, his curiosity, his poetic view of life

"You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy."

When they walk into his hotel room and see a noose around his neck, they feel safe reporting it as a suicide r186.

Yes, the "official" cause of death will be declared later.

He was French Catholic on his father's side and (this surprised me) Jewish on his mother's.

But he actually grew up without any religion.

Was it a warning to Asia to shut her mouth after her speech at Cannes? I can't help but remember her quote, "you know who you are, and more importantly WE know who you are." Rose talked about Harvey Weinstein sending agents after her, so I can't dismiss the possibility something similar may have happened here. He defended Asia vehemently after all. Something about this whole situation just doesn't seem right.

Jesus Christ, my mother is gonna be soooo upset. She loved him and that show.

Anthony Bourdain Twitter @Bourdain "Laughing about your demise by auto-erotic asphyxia in a public lavatory ?"

[quote]Lol who cares

A not irrelevant question. Celebrities have replaced real, face to face human relationships for so many of us. We sit isolated in our homes staring at images of people we’ve never met and never will, and care about them although we are total strangers to them.

[quote]When they walk into his hotel room and see a noose around his neck, they feel safe reporting it as a suicide [R186].

Why though? It could have been an accident. Could have been auto erotic fan fiction.

Has Bradley Cooper made a statement?

I feel guilty for hating on him because I thought he always looked like he smelled bad.

where did he get a fucking rope?

He was found by another chef Eric R. the famous frech chef, they were supposed to be filming another episode! I think it's an accident!

He left a note in his hotel room. Maid, please clean up this mess, here's a couples bucks for your service.

Fishlips the toady found him!

maybe there were gonna be "metoo" stories about him coming out soon?

R148 You're thinking of Sara Lee, Rose. Sandra Lee is a real person, inventor of Kwanzaa cake.

Our culture is poisonous.

It's all good, though, right??

r203, She shoulda picked a different name. How can I be expected to remember the difference? I mean, really.

french food killed him

I can put my head in your lap if you need it.

Wouldnt it have been more poetic if he was strapped into a chair and forced to eat fat until his liver was 3 times it's normal size and ready to explode? Foie Gras suicide.

auto asphyx by door: I think u sit by doorknob, twist belt around neck and onto nob and somehow twist it tighter and tigher till u have big orgasm...unless u pass out and die.

luved him ,, one of the few shows I adored on teevee.

rest well sir

he ate all kinds of foods and he never got fat! fucking lucky dude! and nice thick hair too!

Wow, even Fox gave him a respectful tribute.

Still there are so many shits we all thought would kill themselves but no, those shits (Weinstein, the entire Cheney family, both Mr & Mrs. Cosby, Mario Batali, Giuliani, Jarad Kushner etc. ) live forever.

Seems like Asia was very close with french journalist Hugo Clement these past few days....they got papped in Rome and they looked like a couple.

Has Goop commented?

R192, why send a real threat a “warning”, by killing her ex boyfriend, when you can just kill her, who is indeed, the real threat?

The logic of some people here astounds me. Or should I say, lack of logic.

Bourdain was drinking, traveling, and somewhat isolated due to constant traveling. He is admittedly an ex junkie, and the chances of him having relapsed are pretty damn good. He killed himself. There may have been a note, which is why they are certain of his suicide.

JFC, not everyone who is wealthy is caught up in some imagined Clinton pedo-gate conspiracy, coinciding with Harvey Weinstein being taken down for being a rapist. Stop going for the most convoluted, ridiculous theories, and get a grip.

Addicts and alcoholics are likely to kill themselves as they get older, if they do not seek help!

He's not that lucky R210, hes dead.

[quote]I never understood his popularity. Before CNN his show show was so boring and unenlightened.

Yes I’ll give you that, but you must admit his show show show was fascinating!

God, they already have a video tribute to him? That's planning ahead.

[quote]Seemed like a self loathing closet case to me.

Thanks, I’d temporarily forgotten what forum I was reading.

watched a vid on youtube bout auto asphyx, … very easy to die from it, very!

some of you are awful cheap bitches

[quote]Bo ho, you're sad, your Asian snatch was cheating on you. Looks like the only answer is to get even with guilt and kill yourself.

She wasn’t Asian just because her name was Asia, lol

did he puke up food he ate? some chefs film and then puke into a bucket next to him, they don't swallow, just chew and then puke into the bucket. how was he so thin?

Someone should have told him, as someone who wasn't a hot piece of ass, he could have lived forever!

[quote]She wasn’t Asian just because her name was Asia, lol

It was a joke Rose.

Anthony Bourdain was most assuredly creative. He was a novelist, memoirist, chef, and TV producer with a very ambitious crew working in sometimes very difficult conditions, offering an unusual take on unusual destinations.. No matter what you think of his output, he was a creator.

I worked with him and he was exactly as you might think -- difficult and cynical, but also open and respectful. He achieved a lot in his life and I wish him peace.

So who's making dinner tonight?

Traveling all around the world did not kill Anthony. Samantha Brown traveled around the world for years with her show and she's happy as ever. I hope at least. I love Samantha Brown there's something really comforting about her.

Rest in peace Anthony!

"I have no sympathy for rich people who commit suicide."

Is upper middle class okay? Middle class? At what point does your sympathy kick in? Net worth or salary--whoever you want to do it, give me a number.

I am guessing a relapse. Don't most addicts OD after they have been off of it for a while? Their body's can't take the dosage.

[quote]No matter what you think of his output, he was a creator.

Nope, sorry, what you described was a producer, a business man. Not a creative.

Girls, girls! He was a floor wax AND a dessert topping.

R225 = Anthony's CNN clean up team.

DL hates success.

omg there is a vid on line of actual victims of auto asphysiation that ended bad...yikes.

surely that's what happened to him.

he was not that depressed type of man! maybe he was sex playing with an whore and he accid died and the ho fled.

He was a successful suicidalist.

[quote]Is upper middle class okay? Middle class? At what point does your sympathy kick in? Net worth or salary--whoever you want to do it, give me a number.

You obliviously are clueless and should fallow Anthony's last move. People are struggling every day in this world to survive and that rich a-hole cant take his poor first world privileged life so he fucks everyone who probably loved him including his child.

There is a difference between those who live pay check to pay check or meal to meal and those who complain about the thread count of their pillow in a French hotel.

R225 “achieved a lot” yeah. Passed a lot of poor, dead animals out his ass. And was a total smug bore on tv.

sickening there are so many haters on this site.

Pics in Italian media and all over internet of girlfriend with writer Hugo Cement. Looks like it had been going on for several weeks.

His show was a non stop booze-a-thon, but, I guess he was just highlighting how a lot of people live around the globe: pickled!

oh please that actress asia is a mental case. claims weintein raped her but then she went on the fuck up for 2 years, consensual sex. would you fuck your rapist ?

i'm sorry I don't feel sorry for him. He was paid to travel the world and eat!!! How depressing is that?

If we see Asia Argento wearing a rat mask we'll know something really weird is going on.

Thanks for the needed laugh R243

"You obliviously are clueless and should fallow Anthony's last move."

Oblivious and clueless? I'm sensing a trend. As for fallowing him, well, I wasn't planning on ploughing him. What made you think of that? You're not one of those people who keeps getting fired from mortuaries, are you?

So sad.

[quote]If we see Asia Argento wearing a rat mask we'll know something really weird is going on.

I don't get it. What's the significance of a rat mask?

R247. I think he stabbed a rat in one of his kitchens once. Took joy in it.

R238 = Eric Ripert

So curious who's next.

my guess is death from hanging

an overdose would be called an overdose-not suicide

Rose has already made this all about her.

Catch up on your suicides R247

From The Daily Mail: “His childhood also sparked his drug addiction. In a 2013 interview with the Guardian, he said he got into using drugs because of the normalcy of his suburban upbringing.

'I deeply resented the relative stability at my house. I started taking drugs as soon as I encountered them,' Bourdain said. ”

So was he just trying to give his daughter what he didn’t have? An absent father who was constantly drunk and offed himself? What the fuck.

I feel the same way, r17. I used to 'get lost' in his rivetting shows - the various cultures, the dark humour sometimes, the honesty......you felt his energy and his entire being manifest through his travels and experiences. I just can't even fathom no longer seeing Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.

R253, did Kate Spade wear a rat mask when she killed herself?

I hated the guy thought he was a pretentious New York asshole and his show and persona made me cring...................BUT.........as someone who survived multiple suicide attemots 30 years ago, I wish anyone suffering such pain relief. To be in so much pain you wish to actually be DEAD is profound. Even for a New York prententious asshole.

R236, stfu already. No one here gives a shit what you think, or about your categorization of who is deemed worthy of suicide, and who isn’t.

People don’t fucking kill themselves because they are living hand to mouth. Most homeless people who are living in the manner in which you describe, and have been doing so for long periods of time, either resolve their situation by getting into government assisted section 8 housing, or die from malnutrition, lack of medical intervention for diseases that they may be aware or not aware that they suffer from, or die from exposure to the elements, or a combination thereof. How exactly would a homeless person kill themselves? They live nowhere, so there is no privacy, no door knob to hang from, and no money to buy a gun and shoot themselves.

You’re more of a pompous asshole than those struggling with depression, and kill themselves. You must also be a poor Rethug, if you honestly believe that attaining a certain amount of money and success, is the answer to all of life’s problems.

Your bills are paid for when you have lots of money. You can get on a plane and go anywhere, and you can buy anything you want, and do, for about a year. Then it’s back to reality. Not much changes when you become upper middle class or wealthy. Everyday, you must still, wake up, take a shit, get dressed, and do something, even if that something is doing nothing.

Money helps a whole fucking lot, but it doesn’t make you happy, asshole.

r244, either add something to the discussion or, if you have nothing to contribute, but still feel the urge to gobble up bandwidth, put that shit in the Underwhelm Me With The Excruciating Minutiae of Your Day Thread:

Today, I read something that make me chuckle.

[quote]I just can't even fathom no longer seeing Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.

Why can't you still see it? The current season is only halfway over and they filmed the next season. So there is still 2 seasons to watch.

[quote]he said he got into using drugs because of the normalcy of his suburban upbringing.

If there is any truth to this, this was one majorly fucked-up dude.

r260, because he has hysterical blindness from this scourge of society suicides!

We got a regular Sherlock Holmes at r251.

r93 shallow people never off themselves . It's always the artist who seem to always have a dark side that do it

Maybe he ran out of little brown people in grimy regions to visit and pretend to relate to?

I always thought of Bourdain as a writer more than a chef. His milieu was the world of food but he really wrote about life. A writer is a creative person and fuck you for saying otherwise. Listen to his narration on his shows as he ruminated about the joy and commonality food provides us. He was definitely a creative person.

We live in such a crass and ruthless society I know I shouldn't be shocked at people's lack of empathy or compassion over a celebrity who took his own life, but its still troublesome to see the comments here knowing that they are simply a microcosm of the way people in a Trump world think these days. Depression is a killer. Those saying that its a selfish act to leave your kid just because of you feel bad obviously have no conception of what depression can do to one's brain, where you live in a state in which you convince yourself that you are actually no good for your child; that they would be better off without you. It is a cruel and merciless force in your head and it is relentless.

RIP, Anthony. His sarcasm was what I enjoyed about him, but there was a warmth to him that was always present and I loved to hear him pontificate. An intelligent presence in the cooking world.

r264, did you run that post through Google Translate?

Rose: "Anthony, Please come back! Asia needs you."

Ugh, I don't think he can. The ship kinda already sailed on that one, Rose.

Some frau I know posted this on her Facebook:

[quote] Just found out Anthony Bourdain died, so I sat in my car and cried like you wouldn’t believe.

MARY!

[quote]did Kate Spade wear a rat mask when she killed herself?

Yes. She REALLY wanted to scare that cleaning lady.

May God comfort and heal his family and friends. This is devastating.

Has Roseanne Barr weighed in yet?

Why couldn't it have been Bobby Flay?

R269, so that person has a sensitive heart and empathy for others? Your point is...

[quote] I sat in my car and cried like you wouldn’t believe.

Thank god she did it in her car r269.

I sit in the cubicle next to that bitch.

^ Or Alton Brown.

A super dark man, and that enlivened his wonderful storytelling. RIP

he loved his little daughter. WTH. I was hoping for a happy morning with DL. :((

Kate Spade is still a trend-setter.

r272, she's clocking in around 235lbs these days, but we're going to put lead in her pockets.

[quote]May God comfort and heal his family and friends. This is devastating.

We call a dead relative Tuesday

And yet Gordon Ramsay and Bobby Flay live on.

[quote]We live in such a crass and ruthless society I know I shouldn't be shocked at people's lack of empathy or compassion

See, a lot of us think Bourdain was crass and ruthless too, sarcastic and hostile and the typical white guy acting superior for eating "weird" things native peoples had been eating for centuries. He was pretentious and rude to other celebs, sometimes just out of petty jealousy (or that tiresome "I'M a real chef, unlike the awful people on television" attitude of his) and it was grating.

I get that you're a fan but your lengthy moral scolding at DLers is unwarranted. DL isn't going to pull punches just to spare your feelings.

Yeah he was kind of an asshole.

That girlfriend of his was weird.

Father God, please console his loved ones. My heart breaks. 🙏🏾

There are 100% romantic pics of Asia and this Hugo guy walking around holding hands. Over the last few weeks. I’m guessing this was a tipping point. And perhaps he relapsed.

Question: do the suicide hotline phone numbers being shared help people? What happens when you call? Besides being talked down. Hopefully you’re set up with a therapist or emergency medical treatment?

[quote]Seemed like a self loathing closet case to me.

CNN just showed a pic with him standing in between two pretty hot guys in tank tops, along with another celebrity chef. He was smirking.

The sad truth is that no amount of luck, wealth, or happiness can make a depressed person save him from his depressed point of view. That will always be around and taint everything he experiences. That and the need of others telling you that you are indeed worthy of other people's respect and admiration fuels people to look for outside approval and ignore the actual approval that really matters: Your own. And in the end it's "OMG, what have I done and for what?" and the shame, the guilt, and the anger of your own actions push you over the edge.

R218 nailed it.

Wouldn't be the DL without some people working out how everyone on earth is gay.

[quote]I always thought he had a screw lose, I could never get into his shows. Suspension confirmed.

Oh Dear!

but yes, suspension has been confirmed

[quote]

[quote]CNN says "death by hanging"

Really looking forward to more Rose and Asia all over the media. Thanks, Bourdain.

all DLers care about, confirming he was hung

Did he really eat live animals like someone posted upthread?

If he was hung he would have choked on his own dick and not have to rely on a rope, Rose.

Best thing for him really. His therapy was going nowhere.

R293, what a vile thing to say. Smh

[quote]You can get paid tons of money to travel the globe and eat for a living, and still be unhappy.

This is the truth. As someone whose two great loves are food and travel, I thought he had a dream life.

I have a morbid question. If you discover a person who’s hung/hanged themselves and you know they’re dead, should you cut them down or release the noose? It seems like the natural reaction and the thing most of us would do. But would that be tampering with evidence? Like, maybe it was a murder made to look like a suicide (especially those doorknob hangings). But then would it look suspicious if you just left them there and called 911?

From Page Six:

Authorities in France said Bourdain killed himself at the Le Chambard hotel in Kaysersberg-Vignoble, near the border of Germany.

“We learned this morning about the death by hanging of an American chef at a luxury hotel of Kaysersberg, Le Chambard,” a prosecutor in Kaysersberg-Vignoble told French newspaper Dernière Nouvelle D’alsace. “At this point nothing suggests the intervention of a third party.”

[quote]all DLers care about, confirming he was hung

Anthony Bourdain was hung

He's fine! He sends his love!

Law enforcement would prefer you not to tamper with the scene r300.

[quote] And yet Gordon Ramsay and Bobby Flay live on.

R282, you're waaaay late to the game. R24 covered this eons ago.

What an over the top Mary R28 is. "Erna" clearly hit a nerve or two.

The Hotel. Serene and elegant.

[quote]Eran

This works. She is now Eran.

ERAN shits on every thread

How about "Erase"

Eran hates murderers, thieves, fish and therapy.

[quote] “At this point nothing suggests the intervention of a third party.”

Wait, was there a second party?

Eran, captured on a recent secret vacation at the shore

Who's taking his place?

He had been a major drug addict, so it's entirely possible that he recently prolapsed.

Michael loves when you give him attention. The best thing to do is not pay attention Erna/Eran/Mrs Patrick Campbell

None of the people on this thread who think they're funny are actually funny.

[quote] Mrs Patrick Campbell

Cunt

I loved the episodes where he went to Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and The Congo. I learned a lot about those places and they were photographed beautifully.

Of course, he would commit suicide, he was always a follower.

Then please show us how it's done r317, I await you dazzling us with your wit.

I think it’s so sad! I liked him. Maybe he broke up with Asia and was depressed and seeing those pictures of Asia and her new boyfriend, being all loved up, sent him to a spiral of deep depression. I remember the feeling of seeing my ex with someone new, I felt like I was in a dark hole of desperation ( if you still love the person).

His first Rome episode was brilliant.

R17...He ate spirit animals for a living.

his "parts unknown" episode on New England was the least exotic but the most relieving, delving into his drugged past there in the seventies, and frankly discussing the oxycontin epidemic there now. he (almost) never pulled punches. He dined with obama in a modest vietnamese cafe. he forced Anderson cooper to eat liver. he extolled the bravery of his girlfriend about standing up to sexual abuse. He was more good than bad. though clearly conflicted.

My partner told me before I had a cup of coffee, and I thought he meant Guy Fiori. I was not sad. Then I realized who he was talking about, and I welled up. I enjoyed his work, and he seemed genuine.

[quote] We live in such a crass and ruthless society I know I shouldn't be shocked at people's lack of empathy or compassion

Oh Mary, it WOUNDS you!!!

Hanging? Does Paris have a HomeDepot?

The bad pierogies he ate in Pittsburgh finally took their toll.

I think news is going to come out - that it's more than depression or addiction. I think something ugly is going to be revealed.

[quote]"Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it."

he clearly understood the DL better than most of youse

Anyone joking about suicide is reprobate

[quote] Eran, captured on a recent secret vacation at the shore

Tehe. Stinkfish.

SHRIEEEEEK!

Please catch me!

CNN now...sobbing news anchor.

R83, I'd heard about the death of Queen Maxima's sister, but I didn't know that one was believed to be a suicide as well. Jesus Christ, this is weird. Three high-profile suicides in the space of a few days. All the Illuminati conspiracy theorists must be freaking out.

He was the OP from the thread last week

Kate Balduan (sp) on CNN havng a emotional nterview tight now on CNN.

Evan Benn, Miami Herald editor:

In 2010, I covered a @Bourdain book-tour stop at #stl’s @TheFoxTheatre where a boy with leukemia asked his culinary idol where he should go eat - anywhere in the world - once he’s in remission. Bourdain didn’t hesitate: Spain. But then after @Bourdain left town and our story about the tour appearance ran, his assistant reached out to me, privately. Bourdain wanted to help send this kid to Spain and make it the time of his life

So, with the help of @MakeAWish, Evan Piña-White went to Spain. We wrote about that - but the story doesn’t mention Bourdain’s involvement (per his wishes). He set the kid up at the best restaurants & helped make the trip incredible. He was special.

[quote] Myanmar, Sri Lanka

Burma. Ceylon.

Yes, R295, he took part in the Ortolans, one of the cruelest of culinary items. One traditionally eats this dish with a napkin over one's head to hide from God. And, no, I am not exaggerating.

[quote] One traditionally eats this dish with a napkin over one's head to hide from God. And, no, I am not exaggerating.

C’est vrai.

The "hide from God" thing is a pretentious addition to the legend -- you eat with a napkin over your head because you eat the cooked bird whole and then spit out the bones and beak.

Social media is fucking insufferable at times like these. It's wall-to-wall "Bourdain was a saint" when he was no such thing. The tendency to become maudlin and self-satisfied when a celebrity dies unexpectedly is really unappealing. I've never understood it.

[quote]Anyone joking about suicide is reprobate

Where do you think you are...? If you don't like a little gallows humor, why on earth do you come to this board.

Not pretension, part of the legend, asshole@R343

The whole fucking thing is pretentious.

He even had to be an asshole in death.

Will the hotel now charge a premium to stay in that room?

If my pointing that out upsets you so much, r346, you may be too delicate for DL.

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Oh dear god, it was the fucking dudebro troll lecturing us about not joking about suicide.

Stick to your instagram ho threads, bro, before Muriel slaps another 5029 red tag on you.

Bourdain was far hotter than Asia's young side piece.

Don't look at me!

Anthony Bourdain's piece on Waffle House is a classic

OMG the Mossad under Whalestein's direction took him out. Asia you in danger gurl! Heavy's reach knows no bounds.

I wonder if his long history of using drugs led to such profound depression.

Alternately, his depression led to his using lots of drugs as a way of self- medicating

Kate Balduan (sp) was actually weeping. She was overcome having just interviewed Anthony 3 weeks ago.

R341, for my last meal, I want to try bald eagle!

Chicken and egg, r356.

I don't know which drugs he used, but coke is particularly bad for this type of thing. I abused it for about a year in my 20s. I met coke heads in their 50s and 60s who had been addicts since their 20s. I felt really bad for them (it was one of my reasons for quitting). They had fucked up their brains' ability to ever feel not-depressed without coke.

Please do not think I am an apologist for the rich and famous but something has occurred to me. I have a close friend who has been suicidal most of this year, including two hospitializations. She, her family, friends, have pretty much had to move heaven and earth to save her life- not just seeking help in mental health institutions, but quitting her job, counselling every wweek, developing an " emergency plan of action" that is like a phone tree of szzzorts for when my friend is in crisis. I wonder if these celebrity types look at these types of life-saving interventions for their mental health and see the demise of their careers. Just a thought.

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r199, See r10.

I abandoned the Kate Spade threads because of the crazies so I missed the mask thing. That's both tacky and terrifying.

I have a feeling a lot of people who knew Bourdain personally are going to be upset for a long time, r357, not only for the obvious reasons but because this was very unexpected. He was supposed to be filming today, for crying out loud. Very strange situation.

Does anyone else think that Bourdain and Eric Repair were more than just friends? They went everywhere together.

He had odd taste in women, but truly, what a prick to abandon his daughter like that. 6th grade is usually one of those worst years for kids. Hers certainly will be.

Three big suicides within a month of each other--Bourdain, Spade and Aviici.

I really do blame this increase in suicides on Trump's election. There's been a dark cloud hanging over society ever since he appeared.

Yuck ! Asia has trashy tattoos.

R356, I wondered if all the drug use too a toll on his body and he had a medical condition.

Wait; Kate Spade was wearing a rat (mouse?) mask? I know this is a digression here, but her husband the next day wore a mouse mask in public.

R341, thanks for pointing that out. Despicable.

[quote] The fragile songbird from France, which weighs less than an ounce and is about the size of your thumb, was served exclusively to royalty and rich gourmands until it became illegal in 1999. The procedure for preparing ortolan has long been controversial. They are kept in darkness for weeks or are blinded, which causes the bird to gorge on grains and grapes and become fat, the key ingredient to its decadence when cooked. The birds are then thrown alive into a vat of Armagnac brandy (which both drowns and marinades them), then roasted. Ortolans are meant to be eaten feet-first and whole, except for the beak, according to the Times.

[quote] And author and TV personality Anthony Bourdain describes his own ortolan experience in his 2010 book "Medium Raw." The bird, smuggled into New York, was served at a private dinner.

[quote] "I bring my molars down and through my bird's rib cage with a wet crunch and am rewarded with a scalding hot rush of burning fat and guts down my throat. Rarely have pain and delight combined so well. I'm giddily uncomfortable, breathing in short, controlled gasps as I continue slowly – ever so slowly – to chew. With every bite, as the thin bones and layers of fat, meat, skin, and organs compact in on themselves, there are sublime dribbles of varied and wondrous ancient flavors: figs, Armagnac, dark flesh slightly infused with the salty taste of my own blood as my mouth is pricked by the sharp bones. As I swallow, I draw in the head and beak, which, until now, have been hanging from my lips, and blithely crush the skull."

Rose was fucking him.

That's my sense too, r363, it's the shock. When I first saw the online news on The NY Post today, I caught myself saying "No. No. No.' Kept reading, andwhispering, "No. No. No" with my hand covering my mouth. So, yes, the shock.

Pure evil.

Bourdain certainly had his flaws but I'm still shocked at this suicide. He survived the depths of drug addiction so I thought he was stronger than he looked. I guess I was sadly mistaken. I did notice that he looked gaunt and much older lately on his CNN travel show and that he drank A LOT on the shows. He had demons that finally caught up with him. I feel badly for his daughter. He had wanted a child for a long time and doted on her. RIP Badass Bourdain.

R99. Eat shit and die. I, too, found Tony cool.

I like his international shows which are wonderfully informative and provide good references for great dining experiences for travelers. In Asia I've eaten at some of the restaurant s he featured on his shows and people there who worked with/encountered him love him Not one person spoke poorly of him

Which hotel was it?

He certainly couldn’t have been claiming he was sober. Every time I channel-surfed that show, he was drinking some kind of alcohol, wine, apertifs.

Not sober at all.

If he was off drugs, but still drinking, that’s just switching seats on the “Titanic.”

What I liked about Bourdain is that he always seemed real, no pretensenses, he was unapologetically himself.

Which is surprising to me he was apparently hiding this deep depression.

More evil people please. They're delicious.

I loved the guy, and I’ll miss him terribly.

More evil Boomers please.

See r307 for the hotel, r377. Lazy Ass.

Loved Bourdain and his show. I wonder if his girlfriend Asia Argento screwed with him. He seemed to be crazy about her.

He was amusing in The Big Short.

M'kay. So these things come in threes. Who will be next? Depp? Matthew Perry?

They are saying now that he hanged himself jesus

So sad

Nope. The lesson here, r386 is that it is whoever you least expect.

R387 They've been saying that all fucking day. Not new news.

As I recall, the proper consumption of ortilans was explained by her Aunt Alicia to to a nauve Leslie Carin in the morning sical, “Gigi.”

He broke bread with the homophobic Rastafarian tribe in Jamaica as well as with right wing white trash animal Turd Nugent. All you had to do to win this guy's approval was to roast a pig and blow the smoke his way... eventually he became the celebrity chef that he built his career bashing...

Yikes! That was all over the place!

I meant “to a naive Leslie Caron in the musical.”

Asia was never the sanest person in the world, i'm afraid this new blow could really push her over the edge. And she just signed to judge on X Factor! I'm sure producers are shitting bricks RN.

I'm looking forward to the #MeToo stories to come out. Everyone is gushing over this sociopath right now. Just wait...

After Spade--and now this--this will be a big media thing for a couple weeks. Someone will have to come up with a new hashtag phrase for celeb suicides, STAT.

r387 just woke from a 2 week coma. Anything else you'd like to be de-briefed on while you're here hon?

Weather is fine

Trump just canceled meeting with Macron

Andy Spade wore a rat mask day after Kate's death

Don't forget to flush your toilet

Someone seize his hard drives. Let's take a look.

R396 how can you be so cruel?

I don't get the appeal of Asia Argento. What am I missing?

There are a lot of people at Versailles today.

The sky is so blue today.

With extreme styling, I suppose she's considered hot, r400. Otherwise....meh.....

Has Lidia weighed in yet?

R369, just fyi, that mask is not just any rat or mouse mask.

That is "Bernard" from the Disney films "The Rescuers" and "The Rescuers Down Under."

So, a Disney trademark is involved in this.

I want to see his juvenile arrest record. So curious.

The mouse thing is just too weird.

Without makeup, Asia looks like Juliette Lewis on a good day.

R399 Shouldn't you be at Oprah.com or something?

R396, it has long been known that there is a strong copy cat effect in teen and adolescent suicide.

Would not surprise me if the copy cat effect exists amongst adults.

LOL, r404. Love the look on Walken's face. Priceless.

Juliette Lewis didn’t have good days.

R404, Walken is thinking that he needs more cowbell!!

Sorry, that was lame to the max.

Social media has caught on to those pictures of Asia and Hugo Clement. She's getting bashed.

^links?

Here's a frightening pic

If you google "Suicide Doorknob" the first hit is a Suicide Prevention Hotline.

Good to know.

His shtick was getting old: I'm such a modern man's man, I've seen it all. Rolling Stones, heroin, edgy as fuck. But I'm a father and a, I'll say it in a meta ironic but authentic and actually earnest way, I'm a feminist and have NEVER EVER harmed a woman (uh huh). I'm so complicated - life is complicated if you're TRULY alive - and I KNOW reality and the darkness of the world - the pain. But also the pleasure. LIFE... France... I knew poverty. But I had my days - success... DEATH... c'est la vie!

That Boomer shit is tired AF.

LOL.

I have a feeling this was somehow due to Asia Argento(not blaming her). She doesn't seem like the most stable person.

Damn, this one saddens me. I feel bad for his kid. I know this is something family never gets over.

My favorite episode was the one with Obama.

Dear Lord in Heaven!

Do we think Asia Argento drove him to it?

Responses to his suicide... Obama responded, as did Trump (somewhere further down in the article)

Asia speaks

R80, eating live writhing creatures: yuck!

Death by diarrhea.

Bonehead with a boner, r416?

Has Emeril Lagasse commented yet? He and Bourdain had a feud going from years ago.

I think it was heartbreak, r414. I posted a similar image up thread. She's seen hugging and flirting with writer Hug Clement in Rome. Clement has supposedly been following/tweeting her and it's been going on for weeks.

Our last legitimate president speaks

He was my kind of world traveller. Fuck this, fuck that, this guy's an asshole, omg that's beautiful and it has changed my life

Yes, I know, r405. I just thought I'd leave VC out of it. ;-)

In a better world Rose would be grieving in private.

I don't know why people have to always blame a woman for everything but they do. Cut it out. Does Bourdain really seem the type to off himself because he got dumped? Please.

Blaming Asia is silly.

It's not like his ex Octavia became suicidal because of his subsequent affair with Asia.

Men lose their minds over Italian women. I've seen it happen over and over again.

Did he get word of Ronan's latest article for next week?

Do we think that Asia was about to #metoo him? Now she can't without looking like a tremendous CUNT!

Ashia Arshento

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My mouth is watering for the true story. The dirt. What was he hiding? Ronan PLEASE publish the article! I think we're going to have an article about several celeb chefs, all in one.

MAGA

Asia's new bf is a handsome version of Anthony Weiner.

Her craziness contaminated him.

i'm sorry but you have to be crazy to be dating that mental case. or she will probably drive you crazy if you're not. Seen affectionate with another man is no big deal, she is Italian, they do this all the time and remember she fucked her rapist for 2 years afterwards for jobs. He probably has some use to her...

I always liked the idea of his shows but never liked him. His "cooler than cool" and "I'm a badass" attitude annoyed the shit out of me. I wonder what he was like in real life. He has a child so that's so sad though

Asia Argento = CRAZY PUTTY!

I don't think it was auto erotic asphyxia because the media would be all too eager to claim it as an accidental death if they could. Anything but suicide in the wake of Kate Spade. Everyone I afraid of copy cats.

They called it suicide because it couldn't be called anything else.

Four months before he killed himself in a hotel room in France, Anthony Bourdain eerily spoke about death — but also said he was “happy in ways I didn’t think I ever would be.”

“I’m going to pretty much die in the saddle,” he told People magazine in February while filming his show “Parts Unknown.”

The 61-year-old chef and TV show host said he spends about 250 days a year on the road — but wasn’t planning on retiring from his globe-trotting life any time soon.

“I gave up on that. I’ve tried. I just think I’m just too nervous, neurotic, driven,” he said. “I would have had a different answer a few years ago. I might have deluded myself into thinking that I’d be happy in a hammock or gardening. But no, I’m quite sure I can’t.”

Despite his busy schedule, Bourdain made sure to carve out five days a month to spend time with his 11-year-old daughter Ariane, who lives with his ex-wife Ottavia Busia in Manhattan.

“I’ll go back, see my daughter, unpack, repack, mimic a normal life, which is extraordinarily pleasurable to me,” he said.

Bourdain said the birth of his only child made him feel like he had “some responsibility” to “at least try to live.”

“I also do feel I have things to live for,” he said. “There have been times, honestly, in my life that I figured, ‘I’ve had a good run — why not just do this stupid thing, this selfish thing … jump off a cliff into water of indeterminate depth,'” he said, recalling something he’d once done for his show “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.”

Before his daughter was born, Bourdain said he’d often push his boundaries.

“I was, frankly, asking for trouble. It was a daredevil move,” he said. “In retrospect, I don’t know that I would do that today, now that I’m a dad or reasonably happy.”

He described himself to People as being “happy in ways that I have not been in memory” and “happy in ways I didn’t think I ever would be, for sure.”

He credited girlfriend Asia Argento with his contentment.

The pair met in 2016, when the Italian actress appeared on season eight of “Parts Unknown.”

Bourdain also admitted he was once addicted to heroin and cocaine and was drinking too much in his final years working in the restaurant industry, but he said he wasn’t a daily drinker.

“It’s never been an addiction for me,” he said about alcohol. “I’ve abused alcohol, for sure, but I’ve never felt a compulsion to … cigarettes, obviously, that’s an addiction.”

Christine Teigen retweeted a song Bourdain shared just days ago and wrote she was playing it for him this morning. The song was from a recent episode of "Parts Unknown."

I want to option the story for a movie. Women are going to cream their pants over the story of an edgy, grungy man-of-the-world who kills himself for a crazy Italian chick.

Or just fictionalize it a bit, change the names, and slap that shit together. Magnum ice cream tie-in. Fragrance tie-in. In theaters in 3 years.

Kate is to Anthony as Farrah was to M.J.

r449 It needs to be like "Sleeping with the Enemy" meets "Mommy Dearest".

wow, i can't believe that fame whore Rose Mcgowen posted a video of herself crying...like he was her brother or bf or something. What a fucking crazy bitch!

I liked him. Found him unpretentious and with a joke de vivre. Shocked he killed himself. You never know what’s going on with people. Reminds me that even tho I’m not rich I’m happy - which is so much more valuable. RIP - he did more good than a lot of people. Why can’t the bad people die.

r452 she doesn't want Asia getting more credit than her for #metoo.

It must be truly difficult to live a drug-free existence after using drugs for so long.

[quote]I don't think it was auto erotic asphyxia because the media would be all too eager to claim it as an accidental death if they could.

Unless I'm missing something, isn't it sort of obvious? Pants on = suicide. Pants off, cock out. = auto erotic asphyxia.

people blaming Asia for this are cunts.

[quote]Wouldn't be the DL without some people working out how everyone on earth is gay.

Beard Club is even more predictable than DL in that regard:

r457 = Asia's PR flunkie

r450, And as Aldous Huxley is to JFK.

He wasn't a great chef and didn't pretend to be one. Other, greater, chefs adored him. Eric Ripert, Marco Pierre White, Heston Blumenthal, etc., they were all good friends with Bourdain. "Kitchen Confidential" was a fantastic, ground-breaking book. It's a must read and not many writers can say that.

Bourdain came out swinging hard against Harvey Weinstein when Argento spoke up against him. He didn't hesitate to publicly take him on and trash him. Whatever else he was, Bourdain was no coward.

I don't believe it was auto-asphyxiation. Junkies have a reason they are shooting heroin into their veins that goes beyond addiction. The addiction is the visible symptom. They don't shoot dope every day because they love living in this world. Bourdain had old demons, deeply rooted, and he finally gave in to them. Argento dumping him may have been the trigger for his suicide but it wasn't the cause.

R366 if that’s true, hopefully Anna Wintour will be triggered next.

r462 I could see her committing murder, but not suicide.

Andy Spade today is to Gary Condit on Sept 12th 2001.

Did anyone watch that "Kitchen Confidential" show that was on TV for less than a season before it got cancelled, starring Bradley Cooper?

wait, so he was fully clothed? I didn't see that in any reports. Just hanged was what I heard on TV and internet.

R464, yup! He can toss that mouse mask in the trash!

his daughter is 11 years old.

So many cunts on this thread. I'd like to "suicide" a good handful of you.

r469 ^ paragon of virtue, wishing death upon people

Can someone post the excerpt from his book of his experience eating stinkfish? I recall a lot of slurping and Ripert’s lips getting crusted with foul brine.

Remember folks, if you're feeling depressed and suicidal, call one of the 24/7 suicide hotlines.

Also, if you have any people in your life who are even slightly negative, kick them to the curb STAT.

Back in the late 70s there was a rash of teen “suicide pacts” in my area. All of them involved CO poisoning in cars. Police kept pleading with news media to stop covering the deaths. Finally, the local newspapers agreed and the suicide pacts stopped. Suicide can be “contagious.”

Who's that big caftan Vogue guy? He seems depressed.

r472 lol!

Ignore the grammatical error.

The stakes are high, people. 🙃

R473, thanks.

Yup, this copycat effect has been documented!

R460, right!

And C.S. Lewis as well!

He clearly had friends in the media - they’re not reporting on the auto erotic asphyxiation and drugs.

Production for Parts Unknown received the menu for their upcoming visit to the Korowai village, and in spite of his iron stomach, Tony just couldn't go through with it.

A few hours before his death was announced, Asia put up a photo on her Instagram a pic of her in a "Fuck Everyone" t-shirt, captioning it "You know who you are".

It has since been deleted but a screen capture is at the link.

That last interview up thread was very telling. So he had contemplated suicide before? And Asia seemed to be the great love of his life? Then we had photos of her showing PDA with another guy just several days ago.

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So she DID kill him!

she might have been a factor, but the geotag was in Rome, he was in strasbourg

On the other Bourdain thread (from last December) it was stated that accusations were about to be made...

r486 but she could have called him and said "DO IT! DO IT!" (but in Italian)

I don't believe that "accusations" about him were about to come out. I just don't.

R487, maybe he had an overwhelming wave of self-loathing in the face of the massive hypocrisy that was going to be exposed. Maybe someone called him ahead of publication. He might have been trying to guilt the reporter from publishing the piece.

Can you imagine if Ronan have actually written a #metoo piece about him? The same man who made Asia a "warrior" icon. It would really be shakesperian stuff!

Something truly delicious is almost ready to be served....🤤

He came across as an asshole sometimes in his public persona. I met him after a lecture he gave, though, and he was gracious and nothing like an asshole.

This thread needs more photos of David looking hoooot

^^ oops, wrong thread. Although, to be fair, any thread would benefit from that.

Wait, is there actually gonna be a Ronan piece on him?

R496, just speculation. No word at all.

Ronan very silent about this death on socials so far...

Rumor, r496.

DL is sinking. i spent 45 mins scanning these postings and NOTHING new. its been hours since he died. and NOTHING here. i am disappointed.

If there is an article, it'll never be published now. The backlash would be overwhelming - in large part because it'll make the public mourners look like fools.

well, can someone tell us are they gonna do a tox sceen? what are the procedures like in Paris?

R502, Strasbourg!! Not Paris!

Asia Argento yet again. The girl is poison.

[quote]Wonder if all the news from Kate Spade's suicide finally gave him the courage to finally go through with it.

I truly belive this: She was high-profile like him, similar ages, their daughters are similar ages, and his relationship was ending. He probably said ‘fuck it. She had it all like I do, and she was still depressed like I am, and she couldn’t deal with it, so I guess there really is no hope.’

Celebrity chef Sandra Lee tweeted a video of Stevie Nicks performing "Nightbird" in 1983, and dedicated the song to Anthony Bourdain.

"I want to dedicate this to Anthony Bourdain, our Culinary Nightbird. May he Rest In Peace Forever," she tweeted.

r478, Apparently it's about to be: As Anthony Bourdain is to David Beckham's divorce!

After he spoke out about Batali there were BIs that he was lucky no one had spoke out about him.

Apparently Asia was pissed at him for something. Maybe she found out he did something (or someone) and that is why she left and did the FU thing. It doesn't make sense she would say FU when she was at fault for breaking it off.

Was he about to get #metoo-ed?

I'm imaging him writing a letter back home to his family and friends with the Eiffel Tower in the background behind him, except the letter is a suicide note.

but was he really the type to off himself just to avoid of allegations against him? he never pretended to be a saint .

I'm thinking one of two things. Mob hit, or, and I really don't like this one, he was SO vocal about MeToo, and SUCH a champion, but maybe he fucked up and did something bad and was about to be exposed. His reputation would have been ruined & Tony was prideful. That could have done it

what stikes me as strange is where are the authorities? Have they issued a statement? who is his next of kin? is he only child? parents still around?

According to daily mail, Last week, Bourdain bought a painting with the ominous title 'The sky is falling, I am learning to live with it'

R512, I think you have it in your latter theory. I'm sure some journalists are on the case, digging.

Nice that people are being kind but he didn't have a sterling reputation and was definitely not a particularly nice guy, not even on "Top Chef' when the cameras were rolling. I would not be surprised at all if there was a MeToo thing lurking -- with Asia and her big mouth right next to him making it worse.

I thought he always looked sexy.

Are you guys talking about Asia Agento?

Godspeed, Mr. Bourdain. And Thank You!

Yep. I gave her an extra R by mistake upthread.

R225, I liked your post. You're right, he wrote 2 mysteries before he hit it big with KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL. I met him a few times at book/publishing events. He was really friendly and sexy, very charismatic (this was the 90s). He could be really arrogant in his public pronouncements but was known to be sweet and shy in private. This is a real bummer.

He adored Italy, Italiian food and culture and he adored Asia. She represented the retired life in Italy he imagined for himself in the future.

I'm going to miss this guy and all the wonderful places he could have taken us while exhibiting his quirky sense of humor and self depreciation.

He was a nice guy. The grumpiness was usually directed at himself or an utterly obvious asshole.

Last year, Mr Bourdin said he had blacked out in a restaurant in France and said he would happily return to abusing heroin if he ever had 'a bad chest X-ray'.

The macabre admission was made by the recovering American drug addict to the New Yorker magazine.

The New Yorker interview describes how Mr Bourdin had improved his health after relying on heroin for many years, but collapsed in France soon after making an episode of 'Parts Unknown' in Vietnam.

He was in the southwest seaside resort of Arachon in around 2014 or 2015, and had taken a 'battery of battery of painkillers and anti-inflammatories'.

The article by Patrick Radden Keefe reads: 'After impulsively swallowing a week’s supply, Bourdain realized that he had not eaten in thirty-six hours.

'He drove to a café in a nearby town, Arcachon, and ordered spaghetti and a bottle of Chianti. He was halfway through the wine when he realized that he was sweating through his clothes. Then he blacked out.'

Mr Bourdain survived the incident, but the article recalls how his father, music producer father Pierre Bourdain, died of a stroke in 1987, aged just 57.

The article reads: 'Bourdain often thinks about dying; more than once, he told me that, if he got “a bad chest X-ray,” he would happily renew his acquaintance with heroin.

'Taking meds and booze on an empty stomach was just a foolish mistake, but it left him shaken.'

That's Asia "Dated Harvey for months after the so-called rapes" Argento. Indeed with an R in the last name.

She's up there with Amber Heard in the cunt department. That's Amber Heard with 2 r's.

People, t's not metoo and it's not the loss of Asia!

It's the being an ex heroin user that put him out of whack and made him off himself.

Bourdain was born in New York City in 1956, and was raised in New Jersey by French music executive Pierre Bourdain and his wife Gladys, a staff editor at the New York Times. He credited summers spent in France as a child with his obsession with food.

Bourdian attended Vassar College but dropped out after two years. He started working in restaurants on Cape Cod, and decided to hone his craft further by studying at the Culinary Institute of America.

After graduating from the Institute in 1978, Bourdain moved to New York City and worked in some of Manhattan's most famous restaurants such as the Supper Club, One Fifth Avenue and Sullivan's - before becoming the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles.

It was during his grueling days as a chef that Bourdain got into drugs, mostly cocaine and heroin. In a 2013 interview with the Guardian, he said he got into using cocaine and heroin because of the normalcy of his suburban upbringing.

'I deeply resented the relative stability at my house. I started taking drugs as soon as I encountered them,' Bourdain said.

Former neighbor Ted Scofield told DailyMail.com on Friday that Bourdain was a 'super nice guy and very encouraging'.

'I wouldn't say we were friends, but I knew him well enough to call him Tony. One Sunday a few years back I ran into him on a Sunday morning dropping off a bag of baby clothes that needed to be laundered at a place across the street from our building.

'When I remarked that a big TV star like him shouldn't have to do that, he reminded me that he worked for a cable station. Then, a while after that I saw him again, this time under different circumstances. He pulled up to our building in a shiny new BMW. With a wink and a smile, he said "new contract baby!"' he recalled.

Doorman Jose Hernandez, said that 'Mr. B, as we called him, was a nice, sweet man. He came out every morning and me and the other doormen would ask him questions about his travels. He always took the time to answer and smiled while doing so.'

Jose added: 'But he never talked much about his family. He was private in that regard.'

While Bourdain's TV career seemed to be better than ever, he had suffered one business failure recently.

For the past two years, the chef had been working on 'Bourdain Market' - a Singapore-style food hall planned for New York City's Pier 57 development.

But in December, he told Eater that the market had been cancelled.

'Launching what is admittedly a very ambitious venture has proven to be challenging at every turn,' he said. 'It seems increasingly clear that in spite of my best efforts, the stars may not align at Pier 57 which is an especially complicated site for which we still do not have a lease.'

Bourdain's death comes three days after American designer Kate Spade, who built a fashion empire on her signature handbags, was found dead in her New York apartment of suicide on Tuesday. She also hanged herself.

Suicide rates rose in nearly every U.S. state from 1999 to 2016, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday. Nearly 45,000 people committed suicide in 2016, making it one of three leading causes of death in the United States, along with Alzheimer's disease and drug overdoses.

Now, I worry about Johnny Depp, you guys think he's next? He didn't look good recently...there were a few threads about him.

Asia seems perpetually angry and like she is on the verge of a mental breakdown.

r528 Yeah, this shit comes in threes. I wouldn't be surprised at this point if Depp offed himself. God knows he's been trying slowly the past few years.

R127 what does that article say? It wants you to pay to read it.

R529 If you know anything about Bourdain, you would know that he had a lot of issues, was perpetually angry, and like he was on the verge of a huge meltdown.

People are assholes. When a celebrity commits suicide suddenly everybody cares but when you suffer from mental illness and are suicidal every day but you’re a nobody people just treat you like a burden.

Asia's rant at Cannes was particularly cringe-worthy. Speaking of... where the hell did Rose and her Army go? (Talk about a suicide watch).

r531 He also had a tremendous lust for life. He lived for travel, food, music, people, other cultures.

R531, it's an article about his criticism of Hillary. - He said something she did was "shameful".

his demons got the better of him.

I wonder if all the years of drug abuse changed his brain?

[quote]She wasn’t Asian just because her name was Asia, lol

[quote]It was a joke Rose.

Right, and Brooke Shields tripped on the Carson show "on purpose."

[quote]You can get paid tons of money to travel the globe and eat for a living, and still be unhappy.

You can say that again!

Nice of Sandra Lee to say something as I think she was a target of Bourdain's. Has Rachel Ray or Guy Fieri chimed in?

[quote]he extolled the bravery of his girlfriend about standing up to sexual abuse.

And then she dumped him.

Ha!

It's somewhere on a post here but Anthony says Asia is the best thing that has happened to him or words to that effect. Then she's photographed snogging with 28 year old Hugo Clement in the past few hours. In Rome. In Public. Figure it out.

He died from Trump Derangement Syndrome.

[quote]Bourdain was far hotter than Asia's young side piece.

Apparently not to Asia....

R423 Yes Asia ,Tony was your rock and Hugo was giving you his cock. Typical crazy Italian girl with her bullshit. She drove him to it.

[quote]Why couldn't it have been Bobby Flay?

I know, right? Why is it that, in general, no one I hate dies? I didn't love Bourdain, and knew little about Kate Spade (when her death was announced I said, who?), but I didn't hate either of them. There are plenty of people I hate out there. DIE ALREADY.

[quote]Kate Spade (when her death was announced I said, who?)

That's kind of sad. Sorry, but it is.

r546 That's kind of honest of the poster. Sorry, but it is.

Excerpt from Sohpia Loren's letters reveal the Hollywood star’s passionate pursuit of her while filming in Spain:

Speaking two years ago, Loren explained that she had been in search of a father figure, but it had to be the right man: “You know, I had to make a choice, Carlo was Italian; he belonged to my world. I know it was the right thing to do, for me. “At the time I didn’t have any regrets, I was in love with my husband. I was very affectionate with Cary, but I was 23 years old. I couldn’t make up my mind to marry a giant from another country and leave Carlo. I didn’t feel like making the big step.”

Who? Never heard of him and doesn't seem worthy to google.

Honestly with so many posts I thought it would be someone memorable and well known.

r549 was just born a few days ago.

r549, Amish

It's sad. Only because the poster seem to have no reservations about his ignorance.

You OK, twat at R547? Itching to get into some back and forth? Will insults make your day better?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the ONLY reason that I would take my own life, is if I was told I had aggressive Alzheimer’s. If a neurologist performed a scan, and said that I’d be completely out of it within a few years, then I would either move to a state where I can participate in legal, assisted suicide, or I’d do the doorknob thing.

I’d probably discuss it with close friends and family beforehand, and it would be clear to those closest to me why I chose to do so.

Perhaps he was given a highly unfavorable medical diagnosis about his health. We really don’t know why he did this. I am assuming depression, however, that may not be the case.

Personally, I wouldn’t want to stick around if I thought I’d not know how to wipe my own ass, or know my own name. There are other illnesses that will also take you completely out of commission, such as MS, and Parkinson’s.

Bourdain was fiercely independent. People like that cannot imagine life without the ability to travel, or to do the things that they enjoy, and I completely understand that.

So who gets all his dough?

Is he officially divorced from the ex wife?

Was grifter Asia in the will?

Why wasn't it the slave keeper Lidia Bastianich or her vile son? Are they excused because that is what their people do? Tony was a white ethnic but a decent guy. The Bastianichs are evil.

So can I have his job?

Cue Wendy Williams on Monday with her daggy Superman-designer box of tissues to ruminate and cogitate on link to Kate Spade. (1:52 minutes)

Was this auto erotic asphyxiation? AB had some kinks. Asia was a super kinky girl. I hope the truth comes out.

r553 True, but he is quoted as saying if he ever got "A bad chest Xray" he would go back on heroin in a flash. Enjoy the drugs again. That's another reason why I don't get his death by hanging. I would have thought he would deliberately OK with his drug of choice that he said he missed.

Ha R500 No America isn't the be all and end all. Why don't you get out of your bubble and realise just because a bear shits in the woods in USA doesn't mean it makes news elsewhere in the world.

UGH I meant OD obviously

Tune in to my show tonight where I'll explain Hillary Clinton's connection to the death of Anthony Bourdain.

Waiting for the Larry King Special thread, please

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he's 61, his cock probably doesn't even work half the time ffs. hence the young cock in the picture.

Anthony - Asia - Harvey - Hillary.

Not hard.

[quote]It's somewhere on a post here but Anthony says Asia is the best thing that has happened to him or words to that effect. Then she's photographed snogging with 28 year old Hugo Clement in the past few hours. In Rome. In Public. Figure it out.

It's called being a Drama Queen.

What kind of Italian name is Asia?

any one read val kilmers post about how selfish he finds this suicide

DLers must truly be from the Bronze Age with all these references to Asia as a young woman. Comparing her to Sophia Loren at 23? Asia is 42! It sounds more like Asia was having a little mid-life crisis of her own.

Mid life crisis? Who are we kidding? Asia is a fucking MESS.

R564 I hate how this cunt is playing the grieving girlfriend when her affair with the younger man probably put AB over the edge. What a puttana Asia is!

R569, whatever you do, don't post a helpful link or anything, OK?

Asia is probably pulling a Coco with this focus pulling suicide: "Still raped over here."

Amen, R571. Whack-tresses are me-me-ME users composed of bundles of neuroses, mixed with huge dollops of overwhelming ego, and a core of steely narcissism.

I love how the media keeps blaming the public for not being in touch with suicide when if fact it was they who have the problem. They knew he was a long term drug addict. They knew he had a drinking problem. They knew he was unstable. They knew he was fixated on death. Yet they hired him anyway with no oversight and hid all that from the public. There is no reason they couldn't have required him as part of his deal to meet with a counselor or psychiatrist on a weekly basis or the contract gets voided. Studios do morality clauses all the time, they just didn't bother, its not that different.

I just learned he once ate a meal that contained innards ripped from a live duck. Past time for that shit to be dead.

Agreed about Asia if she was cheating on him. Doing it in such a public way. she will feel Guilty forever.

[quote]I hate how this cunt is playing the grieving girlfriend when her affair with the younger man probably put AB over the edge. What a puttana Asia is!

Oh look, lets blame one narcissist for the other narcissists drama!

[quote]I just learned he once ate a meal that contained innards ripped from a live duck. Past time for that shit to be dead.

Wouldn't it be fitting if they ground up his body and fed it to the ducks? Although, it would probably kill them with all the residual drug use.

R572, Bourdain was suicidal for decades, the daily fail has him quoted in interviews about this, and he had lots of issues. It's sad but he had every reason to live, he should have just retired from being a reality TV star and stayed with his daughter instead.

R577, ew, gross.

Anthony B. and Steve Irwin would not have been friends!

R581 I honestly had no idea he was suicidal for years. I knew about the heroin and drinking, not the mental health issues. Any links anyone?

All you folks who are saying you are happy he is dead and good riddance are all assholes. This guy called bullshit on the folks that deserved it and highlighted the less acknowledged in his world. Forget whether he had swagger or not and what that means.

First World Problems.

Luxury Hotel in France? I haven't eaten in 3 days and the last hotel I stayed in was made from cow shit and straw.

[quote]This guy called bullshit on the folks that deserved it and highlighted

I call bullshit on your bullshit. He called out no one. It was all for show and to stroke his ego and to pretend he was not what he did himself. He was just as smug and full of self importance. Look everyone, I am here in a 3rd world Asian country eating food that would gross most people out. Of course I dont care how cruel the people were to the animals they slaughter for my dinner, I just love showing how a New Yorker is cool hanging with the yellow people.

R552 knows literally everything.

Hetero male writers often suffer from the Hemingway curse, always trying to prove their masculinity by doing heinous shit like animal abuse. I don't condone Bourdain's cruelty but it's so common among all these guys who mistakenly think that shit makes them manly and edgy. Bourdain got in from both the chef world and the literary world. Both professions harbor a lot of false machismo because the straight men in those professions constantly feel the need to prove they're manly. It's sad and pitiful. Hemingway ended up dead too, much good the bullfighting and gun worship did him.

“Would you have taken your life two years ago when like me you were unable to take in food and move it with your tongue over your taste buds because your tongue was too swollen?"

excerpt from Val Kilmer

Is Wendy Williams the secret half sister of Ron Perlman?

Hemingway was a true artist R588, Bourdain was a drug addict.

Val's question doesn't make any sense.

Now Val Kilmer, he's an asshole.

Or maybe they are just "manly," r588, and doing what manly men do?

[quote]Celebrity chef Sandra Lee tweeted a video of Stevie Nicks performing "Nightbird" in 1983, and dedicated the song to Anthony Bourdain.

This is almost as insensitive as her Kwanzaa cake.

R586 You're talking out your ass. goo.gl/vWCSjd

Jewish Voice for Peace

We are saddened to hear of the death of Anthony Bourdain. It is a great loss for all of us.

He spoke up for many, showing humanity and compassion. He was a particular friend to Palestinians and traveled to Gaza and in 2014 when accepting an award from the Muslim Public Affairs Council said: "The world has visited many terrible things on the Palestinian people, none more shameful than robbing them of their basic humanity."

Actually, Val Kilmer has a point that people keep missing. Lots of people are struggling to survive just one more day, and this ass hat just kills himself for no good reason. Just ask anyone with Cancer if they would like another day of life without it, or anyone dying of AIDS or anyone in a 3rd world country literally starving to death without food.

[Quote] Darfur Orphan

I'm pretty sure the real Darfur Orphan is a pile of bones in the desert by now.

[quote]He spoke up for many, showing humanity and compassion

As he gleefully consumed my liver ripped out of my body while I was still alive. And went on a public campain to turn back the laws so they would be legal in the US once again.

I met him in an elevator at the building where I work. I think he was there working out some immigration paperwork. He seemed, stern and not necessarily friendly. I left him alone after I told him I admired his work.

Yeah, I buried one two weeks ago that would've gladly changed places. That motivates me a bit to stay alive and not do anything stupid. But it's all easier if drugs are not involved.

"Anthony Bourdain DEAD to me" should prompt a sequel rife with speculation, condolences, Asia and Rose hate, and Hugo worshipping.

[quote]He was a particular friend to Palestinians and traveled to Gaza and in 2014 when accepting an award from the Muslim Public Affairs Council

Low hanging fruit. It's pretty easy to get an award by visiting a country that everyone hates. Its a show, he got paid handsomely to do it, they have writers and producer and yes, scripts.

Fuck this guy. And let it be known.

You blast and criticize Matt Damon like Bourdain did, then you end up dead in a hotel room.

DON'T EVER GO AT DAMON, AND I MEAN EVER. He plays in the shadows, in the dark of the night. He'll always get his revenge and you won't ever see it coming.

Darfur Orphan is feasting tonight, r598. Sharing this bowl of rice among his 18 siblings.

I postes this upthread: Kate Bolduan from CNN weeping during today's interview over Anthony's death.