Susan Sarandon's a freak Hollywood hippy moonbat, heh.
At USA Today, "Susan Sarandon carried LSD guru Timothy Leary's ashes in a Burning Man ceremony":
BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. — Timothy Leary, the late father of LSD, was memorialized at Burning Man after a fantastic procession and burning of his ashes in the Black Rock Desert.Still more.
It was a spectacle that not even he probably could have imagined, as actress Susan Sarandon led a march with his ashes into a temporary church built as an art installation in the desert for the week-long festival.
The church was scheduled to burn as part of the event on Saturday after the "man", a giant wooden structure, burned.
"I think he'd be so happy. I think he would have loved the chaos (of Burning Man). He would have loved it," said Sarandon, one of Leary's closest friends. "And all these people honoring him with LSD."
When Leary died in 1996, several of his friends, including Sarandon, received some of his ashes. His friends sent most of his ashes to outer space in 1997, but Sarandon kept some.
"When I went to Burning Man last time, that's when I thought I'd bring him back here," Sarandon said.
She described him as a creative man, full of ideas. He was also hopeful for youth and "worshipped women," Sarandon said.
This year, Sarandon worked as part of the building crew for Burning Man artist and Northern California-based photographer Michael Garlington, whose work Sarandon admires greatly.
Known best for his "photo chapel" at Burning Man two years ago, Garlington debuted the "Totem of Confessions" at Burning Man last week.
This year's structure was a gothic cathedral-style piece plastered in Kafkaesque photo collages of animals and people. Much of it was gilded in gold.
On Thursday, dozens of participants were standing in line to see the inside of the 60-foot high structure, which had a confession booth and eerie peephole rooms.
When the parade of people surrounding Leary's ashes came through and separated the crowd, everyone turned to watch.
"I feel so privileged to be here. This is a great opportunity," said Orgon Hunter, who built a Burning Man art piece this year, "High Witness Tower 1963," inspired by Leary's time living in Mexico. "Tim is someone I respect a lot. He was a great thinker, just really great, genius. This would have brought him great joy."
And at Vanity Fair, "See Susan Sarandon Take On Burning Man."
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