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Reading Michael Jackson's Painting's Mind

The other week, I was blessed (by Jesus, I’m pretty sure!) with the opportunity to visit a most wondrous land, entitled “A Whole Bunch of Michael Jackson’s Stuff Sitting in a Big Room.” You see, Michael Jackson accidentally got suuuper destitute, because he spent all of his money on child-sized flying carpets and gold-plated best friends and Teaching Your Pet Chimp Sign Language for Dummies, so he decided to auction off his crazy-shit collection to raise some bucks. All of which meant that people—like ME—could go look at it at an auction house in Los Angeles! At the shit! For a minute! (Later, MJ changed his mind and demanded his shit back, but whatevs. He can’t take back what’s already in my eyeballs.) The most spectacular entry in Michael’s creepy, baroque boudoir of shame was a 1991 oil painting by one Ralph Cowan, depicting “Apocalyptic Scene with Portrait of Michael Jackson in Armor.” Let us explore it in detail. (Click image at right.)

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1
I LOVE YOU LINDY!!
Posted by Justin on April 29, 2009 at 12:39 PM · Report
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I LOVE YOU ADRIAN RYAN! wait...
Posted by tamaraj on April 29, 2009 at 1:25 PM · Report
3
Lindy rocks my world on a weekly basis.

And what happened to Adrian Ryan, anyways?
Posted by Lloyd on April 29, 2009 at 1:36 PM · Report
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you gotta see Paul Scheer's (Human Giant dude) photos from that exhibit
Posted by lar on April 29, 2009 at 5:36 PM · Report
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who gives a shit

zzz
Posted by Ace on April 29, 2009 at 9:35 PM · Report
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Douchebag, how the fuck am I supposed to read your fucking tiny writing fuck fuck?
Posted by Lolo on April 30, 2009 at 7:03 AM · Report
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Goodness the apocalypse will be worse than I feared. That was hilarious, Lindy!
Posted by kathryn on April 30, 2009 at 7:36 AM · Report
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Upper right corner -- that's a king on the left side of the urn and (presumably) a queen on the right side of the urn.
Posted by MidwayPete on April 30, 2009 at 8:20 AM · Report
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wow, I didnt realize michel jackson looked that good.
Posted by whatever on April 30, 2009 at 1:20 PM · Report
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What about his other arm? Clearly a white, rather hairy man's arm. Or is he pulling the old not-my-arm trick with a guy who's standing behind him? Horus?
Posted by Mr Me on May 2, 2009 at 9:44 AM · Report
Violet_DaGrinder 11
Lindy is on a roll lately. This made me roffle.
Posted by Violet_DaGrinder http://www.imeem.com/jukeboxmusic51/music/y1malqpG/prince-the-new-power-generation-featuring-eric-leeds-on-f/ on May 4, 2009 at 4:33 PM · Report
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Little boys never grow up. They just get taller and weirder until their noses fall off, and then they wander off into another dimension looking for their eyeliner.


This may be the best thing I have ever read.

I must mention how disappointed I was that there was no apparent Captain EO paraphernalia at that auction.
Posted by keshmeshi on May 4, 2009 at 5:35 PM · Report
emsique 13
Quit whining about the size. Save it. Enlarge it. Easy. Funny.
Posted by emsique http://emsique.blogspot.com on May 5, 2009 at 12:33 AM · Report
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Absolutely disturbing. A friend of mine in LA recently tried persuading me to go to this exhibit and I politely declined...this picture settles the argument (in my head) of why I didn't go.
Posted by D310 on May 5, 2009 at 9:01 AM · Report
yelahneb 15
so how do we get this for Strangercrombie?
Posted by yelahneb http://www.strangebutharmless.com on May 5, 2009 at 9:48 AM · Report

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