You know how we all now know that Johnny Depp paid 2 million dollars to create a 150 foot tower to shoot the ashes of Hunter S. Thompson (who killed himself six months ago in a somewhat notorious manner) out of a cannon in a big kaboom? The BBC writes this morning:

The writer's friend Matt Moseley told the BBC the funeral would be "the grandest celebration you can imagine". "It's going to be the grandest celebration happening on the planet anywhere," Mr Moseley told Radio 4's Today programme. He said there had already been spontaneous tributes to the writer as people gathered in Aspen, including readings and musical performances. Sean Penn, Lyle Lovett and the Nitty Gritty Dirt band will be among those paying last respects to Thompson...Mr Moseley said the sound would be equivalent to 34 mortar shells going off simultaneously.

I had originally thought I heard his ashes were going to be packed in to 34 fireworks and set off. That would have been cooler. What do you do when someone spends 2 million dollars to blow up your ashes and doesn't do the coolest thing?