Phoenix circa 2005: Photo by Tony Shek

“Did you know that mother snakes keep their eggs warm by wrapping their bodies around them and then shivering to generate heat?”
Although he has since cleaned up his look–and his act, initially, I could not take Phoenix seriously. My head overflowed with images of grizzly bear bearded Phoenix wavin’ his hands in the air like he just don’t care until the camera pans off of luxury snakeskin shoes and handbags and onto the twitching, severed head of a snake.
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