Posted
4/13/2009 04:39:00 PM
by Douglas
I wish I were rich. That way I'd be "eccentric" like
him instead of just being bat-shit crazy:
Millionaire prankster and artist Stanley Marsh 3 is back at it.
The 71-year-old's newest creation is unlike most of his others, though. This one - not far from where Marsh began his playful ways 35 years ago by burying 10 vintage Cadillacs nose down in a wheat field - will be peaceful and verdant.
And less noticeable, which is how he likes it.
This time the art lover, philanthropist and, some say, eccentric is building a replica of Claude Monet's water-lilies pond - a very big one - to grace the backyard of Toad Hall, his 300-acre spread in Amarillo.
What the worst thing that anyone could say about me in the paper:
He's been sober for years, said Wyatt McSpadden, a longtime friend.
Oh Noes! I has the sober!