Goodbye, Brain! Sorry I Accidentally Exploded You!

1. But if it were all auctioned off to different people, it would never be experienced all together in one place again. And when the new owners showed off one piece of it and said it was Michael Jackson’s, you’d think it was just the delusional work of a dotty fan. Nobody would believe he was really that crazy without seeing the whole lot.

2. holy shit

3. I’d heard that fairies dance and goblins sing, but until now I’d never seen proof.

4. Hey Lindy West:
   Here is a video too if you are interested in posting:
   http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound…

5. Thank you and ohmygod! More please! More!

6. So I guess we know what Reagan meant when he prattled on about traditional values…

   And whats with the one monster child in the third picture?

7. More! More!

   What the motherfucking FUCK is with the statues? of the the crazy-face redhead girls? in the glass case? with her hand up bunny’s ass? Appalachian Death Camp For Kids?

   And the weeping woman — you can’t design these details, they can only be handed down to you by God.

   Wow. WOW. You’ve gone too far this, time, Lindy. I think my gums just started to bleed.

8. Are the signed catalogs still for sale even though the auction is apparently closed? They were selling for $500 or so.

9. Who doesn’t go to view a bankrupt celebrity’s possessions while wearing a red rubber dress?

   That auction contains enough material, both props and story ideas, for 5,000 horror flicks. I call dibs on a movie starring the red headed statues.

10. Fine, exemplary work.

11. I think that I wouldn’t mind too much if for one day, Slog consisted of only Michael Jackson auction items.

12. Does anybody else find the Sam Phillips quote scrawled on Elvis (“If I can only find a white man with a black man’s sound, I could make a million dollars”) really unsettling? Obviously it applies to Elvis, who got that magic by appropriating a black man’s sound, but it also applies to Michael Jackson, who seems to have tried to appropriate a white man’s look.

    Things like this make me think he must be the loneliest guy in the world.

13. Dear Lindy,

    I.

    Love.

    You.

    Never die.

14. Unreal. He’s even more fucked up than we imagined him to be. Creep-tastic.

15. more, please! muchas gracias!

16. And yes. Please post more pictures. I need more to gawk at.

17. When he dies, hopefully soon, his carcass should just be unceremoniously dumped into a sewage treatment pool or a landfill. What a horrible human being.

18. Roddy McDowell? As a child?

    Ohhhhhh…. NOW it all makes sense.

    Thank you.

19. This is what happens to your brain when you have more money than god and have spent your entire life living outside of reality.

    Then it all turns to shit and we get to see it on display.

    Bizarre, thy name is Michael Jackson.

20. C’mon, Lindy, write the book. Somebody has to. Have you seen that documentary that Brit did a few years ago, where they wander around the world’s ugliest antique store in Vegas, with Michael pointing at every single monstrosity in it, saying either “I have one of those” or “I’ll have that, please”. Not to mention the perv stuff — I mean, he’s the world’s weirdest person even before you get to the perv stuff.

    “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough” and “Shake Your Body Down To The Ground” are still the world’s most perfect pop records, though, which just makes the story even better.

21. @17, what a philistine. When MJ dies, his body should be covered in gold and placed on a rotating plinth with hundreds of lasers shining on it on the Mall in Washington, DC.

22. I feel like I just walked thru an old-timey freak show. It was horrifying but I couldn’t look away. Thank you so much for posting these – more please.

23. my idea of hell is viewing this stuff while on a bad acid trip.

24. I crapped my pants.

25. it just makes me so happy that his costume designer just took a normal, economical sock, and then made it a bedazzled masterpiece. IT IS NOT A SPECIAL SOCK. IT IS JUST A NORMAL SOCK WITH ADORNMENTS.

26. Up until now, I really, really thought I knew what “bat-shit crazy” meant. I was wrong.

27. i’ve seen graceland and pictures of liberace shit..but this joint right here?..it’s the sistine chapel of crazy town. it’s …it’s… it’s…
    …and people dropped off their kids here to play and spend the night ???.. i mean .. and this is the shit he decided to sell ? what did he get to keep ?

28. Is that a huge sculpture of Michael Jackson as a cowboy in the background of the ring of children dancing?

    Was the woman in red held in the Neverland prison as a child?

    This MADE MY FRIDAY.

29. Holy Shit…The California Raisins memorabilia are the least bizarre items there.

    The Little Orphan Annies with the bunny rabbit hand puppet look like they are screaming to get out of that glass case. There’s a creepy metaphor in there somewhere.

    I recognize most of the cartoon characters in the first painting but who is the green duck in the lower right corner? And why is MJ aiming a slingshot at him?

30. The auctioneer’s catalogs are online, so you can take a look at many more of the creepy fantastical things

    ( http://www.juliensauctions.com/auctions/… )

31. I need that triptych. Oh, my.

32. @29,

    Aren’t most of them Tiny Toons? So the green duck would be Plucky Duck.

33. You know, if had a lot of money, I would totally collect weird and funny things. And I could never even get close to Michael Jackson being completely serious.

34. Am I the only person thinking that the gate-weeping lady looks pretty fine from behind..?

35. Thanks, keshmeshi, I guess Plucky Duck and the Tiny Toons were after my time. Still wonder what’s up with the slingshot. Doesn’t Jocko know he could shoot someone’s eye out with that thing?

    I’m still marveling at the Reagan letter. It isn’t every day the President of the United States writes a sympathy note to a celebrity whose hair caught on fire.

36. i love those socks, though.. seriously, if i had the money and the auction weren’t canceled and all, they’d be on my feet right now.

37. Oh my god, you just made my month.

    That was fanfuckingtastic.

38. That’s the most incredible piece of wow I’ve seen in a very long time.

39. Wait, what the fuck, Ronald Reagan “knew from experience” that “these things can happen on set”? DID RONALD REAGAN’S HAIR CATCH ON FIRE AND I MISSED IT?

    (I will have hideous nightmares about those redhead Exorcistic face-eating Orphan Zombies for the rest of my life.)

40. These photos must still be a poor representation of what it must be like to walk among that stuff. Oh, my god, Lindy, you’ll have to write a full article about it.

    John Waters once quoted someone else about Ike Turner, saying that he was the only person who could spend a million dollars at Woolworth’s. This shows that Michael Jackson is the only person who could spend a billion dollars at a flea market.

41. It is unfortunate that he actually had the money to flaunt his insanity whereas the millions of others of similar persuasion are just too poor to seem anything but sane.

42. …….what do you even say to that?

43. That man is a national treasure.

44. All that money, and all he bought was crap…..

    This child molester is a piece of shit. He deserves nothing more then a long, miserable, lonely life, duct taped in my basement receiving meal time beatings….

    “It rubs the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again.”

    blmartech@yahoo.com

45. Who would’ve ever wanted to buy any of that shit???

46. The ring of bronze children is a copy of the one in down town Stalingrad

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barmaley_Fo…

    It is amazing this made it through the worst, longest fighting in world war two!

47. The man is one sick mother fucker.
    Who would have that shit in the garage.

48. DUDE. THE MONSTER CHILE IN 3RD PIC IS TOTALLY WEBSTER……

    DUHZHHHHHZZZZZ YO!

49. oh my god… listed in the same catalog for sale are a butter churn and a crystal ball. He is a walking mad lib!

50. i think the wax figures of the little girls are the Olsen twins. Oh the humanity.

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