Kids are safe now!!!!
"The only thing that Columbus discovered was that he was lost"
And the burning question- who has the rights to the Beatles songs now?!
Yes, that's a damn good question? Hopefully its never Yoko
"The only thing that Columbus discovered was that he was lost"
Boy pants half-off sales will never be the same.
And the burning question- who has the rights to the Beatles songs now?!
My guess is Macaulay Culkin...
RIP Michael... He may have been fucked up lately, but he was amazing back in the 80s...
My guess is Macaulay Culkin...
or Emanuelle Lewis.
Ben: "We've laid in a gala reception for your fair-haired boys tonight. All of Twin Peaks' best and brightest."
Jerry: "We're holding it in a phone booth?"
or Emanuelle Lewis.
if this was intentional, bravo. if it was accidental, seek help
Surgeons are now looking at the Man in the MRI.
his masked kids?
saw this on a website today
Jordan .
Surgeons are now looking at the Man in the MRI.
hahah nice.
ok i finally have my reaction to this (i pulled my second 12-hour day in a row yesterday so i wasn't quite as on top of this as i could be). choose whichever you like best:
1. This is the most mundane, everyday thing michael jackson has done in 20 years.
2. a lithe, feminine icon with long beautiful hair died yesterday. oh, and farah fawcett kicked the bucket, too.
Joke all you want, guys. Somewhere a poor craftsman specializing in the making of sequined gloves for only the left hand is weeping over his ruined life.
"What? Did your life pass before your eyes? Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea..."
ooh ooh dibs on the elephant man's bones. i call dibs, world!
Has anyone been blowing bubbles in his honor?
if this was intentional, bravo. if it was accidental, seek helpIf you think that was accidental you obviously haven't seen him smoke.
or Emanuelle Lewis.
if this was intentional, bravo. if it was accidental, seek helpIf you think that was accidental you obviously haven't seen him smoke.
As all the initial hilarity of death simmers down, there are three children who could have been rescued years earlier. But now at ages 12, 11 and 7, is it too late? Will living in Encino with the grandparents be better? Will they keep the same nannies? Will they actually attend SCHOOL now? Who will pay the bills? Who did pay the bills for the other Jacksons? Janet and Michael alone? Will the older two children meet their birth mother? Does she even care? Will Blanket's surrogate mommy sell her story for big bucks?
I recall a few years back that legal briefs were filed with social services in an attempt to protect the kids from the erratic, deranged man whose kids appeared to be a few more toys for Peter Pan -- or to be charitable, custom designed playmates born to people Neverland and meant to compensate for that oft referenced "stolen childhood."
What a bloody mess. I hope these kids have an abundance of resilience. This morning I'm hearing claims of demerol and/or morphine overdose. A sudden death amnesia clouds the negative memories for the media and the public but that won't last. The circle of the culpable will ripple outward as days go by. Think Anna Nicole, Elvis or Howard Hughes with their cadres of enablers. How long before the parade of paid off boys surface again to retell their sordid tales?
Feh. I miss the days of guessing the color of the armband MJ would wear to court.
Susan PS A familiar name resurfaces: Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran is performing the autopsy. He was the coroner who testified in the OJ Simpson case all those many years ago. Since none of the lawyers could pronounce his name he became "Dr. Lakshy" for the duration of his testimony.
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”
Ben Franklin
I'm sure there are worse ways to be raised than as MJ's son. Surely they have always had a team of caretakers. Even 12 is young enough to be able to take a drastic life change and bounce back. I mean, they have been kept out of the limelight for the most part, which is amazing. That seems to be more irrevocably damaging than just having a weirdo in the public eye for a dad.
I suspect that there will be a slew of unauthorized bios, much like those that Marilyn Monroe spawned. You can't libel the dead and it is just too good of a story not to turn into an adult fairy tale. Probably a molestor, but still one of the most fascinating characters of the century.
Didja read that Madonna can't stop crying? Bet she's feeling the reaper at her heels.
all I can say is that guy had some damn good dance moves.
Didja read that Madonna can't stop crying? Bet she's feeling the reaper at her heels.
Oh no, she di-int go there!
Ben: "We've laid in a gala reception for your fair-haired boys tonight. All of Twin Peaks' best and brightest."
Jerry: "We're holding it in a phone booth?"
Been sick of him/her for decades. Farrah has my love.
Susan's favorite person wants to do something with Michael Jackson
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1195750/Michael-Jackson-set-plastinated-missing-deadline-cryogenic-freezing.html
I don't really see a difference between plastination and a Mme. Tussaud's dummy. It's all just lifeless matter.
However, Tussaud's wouldn't memorialize obese, drug addicted Vegas Elvis. Why would anyone preserve the memory of the travesty that was the deformed, child molesting Micheal Jackson? Maybe von Hagen can make him look like he did circa Bad with his magic. You know, black. With a nose.
Did I miss some kind of plastination controversy?
Did I miss some kind of plastination controversy?
Yes.
I am quite sure this rumor was squelched pretty much the moment it came to light last Thursday though.
Dead human matter -- a corpse or any human remains -- have been viewed with respect throughout history from the Iliad forward to war remains and even body parts from 9/11. I wouldn't expect that everyone sees eye to eye with that li'l extra sumpin sumpin about loved ones remains but... most people do. Books could be written on why that is.
Susan
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”
Ben Franklin
But if a consenting adult agrees to it, why should anyone have the right to stop it? It's totally victimless.
..............hmmm
Wait, are we dicussing plasticization, or gay marriage?
edit: Let's outlaw everything that makes people feel kind of icky at the expense of freedom!
Who wants ice cream?
it's caramelized cadaaver...
Respectful is really subjective. Cultural norms about these things shift
Should mummies be removed from museums because it's morally repugnant to do anything with a body other than burn or bury it, even if future generations can be entertained and informed by putting it on display or having it otherwise used by the living? Should bodies not be used for ballistics testing, organ harvesting, or forensics research at the Body Farm?
The death taboo is really weird. Bataille says burial rituals and avoidance/horror of corpses are how the living say no to death. He says because death (and pleasure) is opposed to work, it makes everything pointless.
Much more risky to the ego to get intimate with death. But it's not for everyone, I guess.
Talking about your friend again?get intimate with death.
Does anyone have what Bondo says in Riget about treating the dead body with respect written down?