Wow. And I thought only California could be this weird
Detroit — Two hearses jammed with stuffed animals left in memory of Michael Jackson were given a two-car police escort Friday to the toys’ burial at Woodlawn Cemetery, leaving police officials highly critical of the decision afterward.“There’s no way to defend it,” Detroit Police 2nd Deputy Chief John Roach said. “It’s unacceptable. Clearly, this is not something that ever should have happened.”
Detroit Police officials said they couldn’t say how much the escort cost the city. The escort guided the hearses from the funeral procession through red lights. [...]
At the cemetery, the toys were unloaded from the tops of the hearses and from boxes inside the vehicles. They were then placed into clear plastic bags and then inside donated vaults.
The cemetery donated the equivalent of three graves for the vaults. A donated gravestone also detailed the singer’s impact on the music industry and the world.
Jackson’s songs played over speakers as a service was held. “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough” played as the hearses arrived and “Ben” as the service ended.
A Teddy Bear funeral. Alrighty, then.
Er, I got nothing else.
(via The Corner)
Comment by happyfeet on 7/21 @ 7:34 pm #
That seems harmless. Detroit and whimsy have been too long parted.
Comment by sdferr on 7/21 @ 7:43 pm #
I kinda feel about Micheal Jackson the way CJ Roberts was wont to characterize the way to end discrimination on the basis of race. It’s a less is more approach I think.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/21 @ 7:46 pm #
Racially motivated maybe, in Detroit..? Naaaah, can’t be…
Comment by newrouter on 7/21 @ 7:49 pm #
this is fun:
here
Comment by JD on 7/21 @ 7:50 pm #
This is less wasteful than Kwame and His Girls raping the city treasury.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/21 @ 7:50 pm #
A good piece that examines the adulation of the late moon-walker with the veritable ignorance of the first moon walker…
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203946904574299851367749282.html#mod=rss_opinion_main
It’s worth a few moments of one’s time…You know, to put things in context…
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/21 @ 7:53 pm #
blanket
Comment by sdferr on 7/21 @ 8:12 pm #
Well, lessee….. there’s still a World Historical Revolution aiming at freedom ongoing in Iran, a press by the people to unseat their tyrannical theocratic oppressors. There are no signs this trend will abate until it is successful.
The Iranian’s neighbors, the Iraqis are still in process of getting up on their own two feet, while overplaying their sovereignty hand somewhat, with American forces pushed to outlying bases where they may be taking casualties due to insufficient force protection in the areas surrounding those bases. On the “good thing to report” side, preparations for another election are underway in Iraq and the Shia Prime Minister is working hand in hand with the Sunni politicos in Anbar in a attempt at achieving national unity (and in the bargain, retain his elective office).
The Indians have shown a forthright dollop of reason, telling Mrs. Clinton to get stuffed with her AGW bullcrap. They want to find wealth for their nation and people and fullwell understand that economic growth and well being is dependent on plentiful and inexpensive energy resources.
Obama wants the Israelis to stop their Jewish people from building apartments in Jerusalem of all places. The Israelis, like the Indians, know how to tell Obama and his arabist State Dept. where they can get off. Three cheers for the sane still abroad in the world.
Hondurans are holding up pretty well against the leftist bully boys of the International Organizations and their pals Chavez, Ortega, Castro and Obama. Why Oscar Arias chose to play ball with the lefties is still a bit of a mystery to me but there it is, so the talks under Costa Rican auspices look to be at an end. Zelaya appears to continue to operate under the illusion that he can return to Honduras in something other than a prison uniform, another mystery yet to be solved.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/21 @ 8:23 pm #
i might have a michael jackson raygun..
no.. i don’t..
but i have a comfy blanket..
hugs!
Comment by Nolanimrod on 7/21 @ 8:42 pm #
And WHO, pray tell, “conducted” the “service?” And what kind of service? Are stuffed animals religious? Stuffing to stuffing? Sawdust to sawdust? Dearly be-snuggled, we are gathered here … Are Barbie & Ken married in heaven?
If those toys are covered with toxic mold and mildew you may have some genuine resurrections occurring in some of the other crypts.
Comment by Nolanimrod on 7/21 @ 8:59 pm #
Is The Pooh Catholic?
Comment by Pablo on 7/21 @ 9:03 pm #
Does a bear shit in the Hundred Acre Wood?
Comment by B Moe on 7/21 @ 9:13 pm #
That pretty much sums up why I can’t bring myself to being an atheist.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/21 @ 9:14 pm #
is tom hanks thankless
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/21 @ 9:20 pm #
tears/ u peeps are funny!
bohemian grove bongo drum salute
{thats not a speed bump/ thats maynard kregs)
Comment by Joe on 7/21 @ 9:28 pm #
Because Jackson cared about children…they are burying Jackson’s toys? How about auctioning them off for charity? No wonder he was nuts, everyone around him was nuts too.
Perhaps there is incriminating DNA.
Comment by newrouter on 7/21 @ 9:31 pm #
O! man ’70’s vibe
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/21 @ 9:32 pm #
help me
when dorothy put the bucket of water on margaret hamilton..
and she melted..
did she say “what a world”
or.. help would be nice
thank you
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/21 @ 9:41 pm #
thank u newrouter
stilted/ but i must be gay
i was checkin out their shoes..
and i call bullshit on that,,,
construction workers don’t wear cowboy boots
get ur heine down from brokeback silly hilly
Comment by sdferr on 7/21 @ 9:42 pm #
Total eclipse on video from India.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/21 @ 9:51 pm #
u people suck!
now i’m in a conga line and i’m thinking in indian english//
ha ha/ thanks
Comment by B Moe on 7/21 @ 10:02 pm #
I have no idea because I am always standing on my chair screaming “That’s right! Fuck you and your fucking flying fucking monkeys bitch!!!” when that happens.
I hate those fucking flying monkeys worse than dirty fucking Hungarian socialist muppets.
Don’t know if I have ever mentioned that before.
Comment by SBP on 7/21 @ 10:04 pm #
Will Bert and Ernie lie together forever, as they always wanted?
Please tell me they weren’t separated.
Comment by bh on 7/21 @ 10:12 pm #
Lol x2
Comment by JD on 7/21 @ 10:13 pm #
Those flying monkeys are almost as scary as midget clowns.
Comment by bh on 7/21 @ 10:22 pm #
Very oddly fitting.
Comment by geoffb on 7/21 @ 10:25 pm #
pdbuttons
A couple of pictures I took in Jan/Feb 1980. Detroit and music related not MJ, punk.
Comment by Joe on 7/21 @ 10:30 pm #
B Moe. Go see Wicked. Things are not as they seem.
Comment by bh on 7/21 @ 10:37 pm #
Go see Wicked? I think we might need an emoticon to express ironic gayness. Or, you know, one for recommending musicals.
Comment by B Moe on 7/21 @ 10:39 pm #
It serves me right to suffer.
Comment by bh on 7/21 @ 10:44 pm #
Milk, cream, and alchohol.
Preach it, brother.
Comment by bh on 7/21 @ 10:45 pm #
Alchohol is the long lost Mayan spelling. Trust me.
Comment by geoffb on 7/21 @ 10:58 pm #
Add a little expresso and I’ll drink it.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/21 @ 11:19 pm #
thank u so much
u make my milk more creamy
and my david cassidy more dreamy
tank u
i love mr hooker
question guitar bots
was his guitar in standard/ or g..
who cares!
Comment by bh on 7/21 @ 11:30 pm #
pd is easy to like
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/21 @ 11:40 pm #
ok / lets make a blood/cut fart..
no u first
i lurve me the pw..
i will splay.. if i evah pass out on winning the lottery..
that u freaks will zip up my magilla gorilla suit
and bring me to burningman
and wake me up with
milk cream and alcho..haul..
hi my millionare maybe friends!
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/21 @ 11:46 pm #
i’ve changed my name to jonny danger
Comment by bh on 7/21 @ 11:48 pm #
like I said, easy to like
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/21 @ 11:48 pm #
cuz i’m cantankerous
Comment by bh on 7/21 @ 11:49 pm #
I say that because, if pd is playing the wu tang ny’er johnny danger, that there is some impressive range.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/21 @ 11:50 pm #
bh/ if i wasn’t so bozo the clown ginger like
i might blush
back at ya
ur groovy
and so say all of us
Comment by bh on 7/21 @ 11:50 pm #
method man? once said, call me johnny danger, solo album.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/21 @ 11:53 pm #
i’m a yankee doodle dandy
born on the fourth of…
what.. ?
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/21 @ 11:55 pm #
wu tang clang is sooo 90 dees
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/21 @ 11:57 pm #
born on the 4th of july!
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/21 @ 11:58 pm #
bobby orr wore number 4
tis true
Comment by bh on 7/21 @ 11:58 pm #
gimmie three songs to find it
Comment by bh on 7/22 @ 12:08 am #
thought it was on tical 2000, thought wrong
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 12:11 am #
gimme shelter
gimmie three steps
give me a reason bh is gonna gimmie gimmie what i kinda don’t want..
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 12:12 am #
no bigs/ happy to know ya..
i’m pillow bound
Comment by geoffb on 7/22 @ 12:13 am #
This or this?
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 12:19 am #
obviously i’ve raised my natty dread head..
slave driver is b/d/e
but
wit riddim
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 12:24 am #
geoffb b is an owning bee
snot a leave pdbuttons alone bee
he /she/ has to own me..
huzzah!
i bow in ur general direction..
as a mater of crack..
For he’s a jolly good fellow
for he’s a jolly good fellow and so say all of us
and so say all of us!
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 12:26 am #
matter of crack/
i sold the other tee in a glee/ whee wee
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 12:29 am #
yeah/ pd is nice to like
#4?
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 12:35 am #
monday monday
shit this is wenseday
i think
just making joke about mamas and papas
cuz their like all dead..and thats not funny
but wot is not equally funny is a 50 dollah ticket to see the”mammas and papas”‘
when they only have that fat moustache guy
just venting
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 12:36 am #
scott/ i think
Comment by bh on 7/22 @ 12:39 am #
Ok, give me another hint, pd.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 12:48 am #
i’m a yankee doodle dandy
a yankee doodle/ do or die
a real live nephew of my uncle sam
born on the fourth of july
i’ve got a yankee doodle sweetheart
she’s my yankee doodle joy
yankee doodle came to london
just to ride the ponies
i am that pd button yankee boy
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 12:50 am #
hint/ change ur lint
fire is bad
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/22 @ 12:51 am #
whoa, you’re James Cagney?
Comment by bh on 7/22 @ 12:57 am #
Booo!
pd, booo!
Comment by geoffb on 7/22 @ 1:00 am #
G’night bh. G’night buttons, you fine even if you’re not a “409″.
Comment by bh on 7/22 @ 1:03 am #
night, geoff. Punch a midget REM style, for me.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 1:06 am #
i wish!
over there,over there
send the word send the word
over there
that the yanks are coming
the yanks are coming
the drums rum tumming everywhere
so prepare
say a prayer
send the word
send the word to beware
We’ll be over,we’re coming over
And we won’t be back till it’s over over there
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 1:15 am #
guy asks maggie
hmm would col think i’m cool guys rather be cagney or cary grant>
females that guy think females
katherine hepburn baby burn..
or
bette davis?
tough choice
u can pick both
we not snobs
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/22 @ 1:18 am #
um, Hepburn?
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 1:19 am #
in english
guy has choice/ cagney or cary grant..
woman has ..options
bette davis or katherine hepburn
just throwing it out there
i like anne bancroft..
hee thats just me
{jack lemon)
Comment by bh on 7/22 @ 1:21 am #
easy to like
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 1:26 am #
not to hi jack the thread but i likee alotee
phillydelph story..
witty..
but i also like bette davis shooting bad husbands..
mmm..
sophies choice..
Comment by Yackums on 7/22 @ 1:27 am #
Is it just me, or were John Lee Hooker and Morgan Freeman separated at birth?
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 1:29 am #
in the back..with force.. yup
bette davis rings my dinga ling
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/22 @ 1:29 am #
sorry, I’m just completely stupid lately.
I loves me some George Sanders and TCM is running a bunch of movies with him today/tomorrow, whatever. 22nd.
women, I would have to think about. Love that Jeannette Macdonald can sing and act.
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/22 @ 1:31 am #
Barbara Stanwyck? kinda hammy at times, but not always.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 1:31 am #
she’s a yankee doodle do or die
{oh shut up)
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 1:32 am #
maggie/ i totally love stanwyck
u rule!
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/22 @ 1:33 am #
w007! other one I like would be Claudette Colbert.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 1:37 am #
i want a tcm health care[cough)
card…
u may lube ur thick finger and ask me to bend over..
i like that hendrix son..
whoops
there it is!
charity begins at home
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 1:38 am #
i think jean arthur looks like rene russo..
maggie!
ur so fine!
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 1:42 am #
gimme gimme what i want want now yesterday top ten maggie craggy 2 and a half hours
shit
u gonna waste my time maggie.,.
i don’t think so.,.
relax…
i have a big tv..
u first..
north by northwest
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/22 @ 1:49 am #
Bringing up Baby
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 1:55 am #
submit..
if you say the philly delph ia story
and front page w rosalind russel
u got 7
wait/ out of towners w jack lemon..
otay..
i shall drink for 20 minutes
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 1:58 am #
checkmate/ she said bringing up baby
she punked me.
suite /i am ur cabana banna slighty older than a teenage boy
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/22 @ 1:59 am #
I have not seen Philadelphia Story. : (
Swing Time
my brain is eated…
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 2:08 am #
i think philadelphia story is better than bringing up baby
i think north by northwest is mmm purty good cock/ hitchcock u pervs
tho all his shit is way cool..
oh snap big macho qouth godfather stuff..thats 3..
u wouldn’t disagree..?
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/22 @ 2:15 am #
nope.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 2:16 am #
wtf u waiting for?
go rent it..
i think the local libary[sp)
has them old bones for free
front page is a keeper too
but u throw down bringing up baby..
ur texas tuff
like a bettie davis bang a lang
she was born in lowell massachusetts
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 2:20 am #
i’m a
yankee.. doodle..
dandy..
mmm/ born on the… fourth of..
mmmm
july…
yeah.. a real live [cough) nephew of ur
uncle sam..
nite maggs~!
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/22 @ 2:22 am #
I not know… I’ll go add it to the Netflix queue.
Arsenic and Old Lace?
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/22 @ 2:22 am #
oooooh, Charade.
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/22 @ 2:23 am #
night, buttons!
Comment by serr8d on 7/22 @ 5:24 am #
Let me get this straight…Americans buried (in 3 plots no less!) stuffed animals? Because…why? A perfect example of an exercise in symbolism over substance.
If I wasn’t sure before that the U.S.A was in a terminal, Romanesque sort of shrivelly decline, then this episode would nail that notion.
We go, in some 40 short years, from putting Americans on the moon to burying Michael Jackson’s stuffed memorial toys. Points on a line that’s on a negative slope.
Hey, why can’t we turn this around and make Michael Jackson’s incipient burial not an otherwise mindless display of further strangeness, but symbolic of burying child molestation forever?
At least Michael Jackson’s lifetime craziness would finally end with a real accomplishment.
Comment by serr8d on 7/22 @ 6:05 am #
Birther twoofers won’t go away, either.
They’re starting to sound like the Boooooosh! haters. GORE WON FLORIDA!!!111!1!!
Comment by Spam Heap on 7/22 @ 6:12 am #
Woodlawn Cemetary. Isn’t that the place where the gravediggers have been digging up the dead and reselling plots?
We haven’t seen the last of those toys, not by a long shot.
Comment by Salt Lick on 7/22 @ 6:16 am #
We haven’t seen the last of those toys, not by a long shot.
Mr. Chuckie, your office is calling.
Comment by LTC John on 7/22 @ 6:52 am #
“Detroit and whimsy have been too long parted”
That is rather quotable, I think.
Comment by Carin on 7/22 @ 7:05 am #
I don’t think that is Woodlawn. Not positive. But Woodlawn is down the street from where I used to live. Actually it’s a REALLY cool cemetary. hilly and old. neato.
Comment by alppuccino on 7/22 @ 7:24 am #
Shouldn’t GI Joe have been taken to Arlington?
Comment by geoffb on 7/22 @ 9:11 am #
Burr Oak cemetery in Alsip, IL. Suburb of Chicago.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/22 @ 10:33 am #
To Catch A Thief, Maggie. My favourite Cary Grant, plus Grace Kelly looking like a billion bucks. Smooching with fireworks on the Riviera, and cold chicken picnics …”Breast, or thigh?”.
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/22 @ 11:32 am #
I have tried to watch that one a couple times, SW. it just doesn’t do anything for me.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/22 @ 11:47 am #
Oh Maggie, we will never share the movie couch.
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/22 @ 11:52 am #
LOL, I’m sure that will make RTO happy. ;D
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/22 @ 11:57 am #
How is the good RTO?
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/22 @ 12:02 pm #
Okay, I guess. haven’t seen him since the 8th. talked to him a couple times. I posted a couple news stories about his National Guard unit’s annual training at his blog. He should be home this Sunday. yay!
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/22 @ 12:20 pm #
Then if RTO is anything like me, you could watch Notorious together. Please tell me you don’t have anything against Ingrid, too.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/22 @ 2:38 pm #
drive by teddy bear drop
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/22 @ 4:59 pm #
yeah, we’ve seen that one, SW. and I also like Suspicion. for a while we were trying to work our way through some Hitchcock. perhaps I should give To Catch a Thief one more try, cause I’ve liked everything else and it’s been a while.
Comment by PaleoPat on 7/22 @ 10:00 pm #
Don’t look at me, wasn’t my idea. I’m from here, and when I found out about it. I thought “How dumb!”
Comment by JD on 7/22 @ 10:05 pm #
STFU, you fat ass goat fucker. Crawl back into your cellar, cover yourself in lard, and play wax the weasel while staring at photos of Whoopi and Rosie munging Michael Moore.
Comment by JD on 7/22 @ 10:07 pm #
Yeah, I remember you, Paleo Pat.
Comment by JD on 7/22 @ 10:22 pm #
This is the greasy dirty nasty kind of person that people need to be reminded of. Paleo Pat, I mean.
Comment by scooter (still not libby) on 7/23 @ 10:42 am #
They buried Michael Jackson, too, and his body is no less artificial than the bears.
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