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Michael Jackson Helped Develop Merchandise For London Event
The sleep masks pictured were Bea's idea, and the she designed the bag they are referring to. She's pretty stoked right now.
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From his rented mansion on Carolwood Drive, Michael Jackson sketched out ideas for the merchandise he planned to sell in conjunction with his "This Is It" concert series at London's O2 Arena, including a varsity jacket and a red handbag with a diagonal black stripe that evoked his costumes from the "Thriller" music video.
The May brainstorming session resulted in designs for more than 300 items, including jigsaw puzzles and games for children and rhinestone dog tags. The collection will go on sale as soon as this week at such retailers as Hot Topic, Target, JCPenney and Spencer's.
The sleep masks pictured were Bea's idea, and the she designed the bag they are referring to. She's pretty stoked right now.
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- Music:Merchandise - Fugazi
Me neither. Apparently we invaded the place and stuff, and finally are withdrawing our troops, or like, most of them—or something.
Stuck in the Desert with Nowhere to Go
Too bad nobody could have foreseen that this wouldn't end up being totally awesome.
Stuck in the Desert with Nowhere to Go
US interests have hardly been served by the six year occupation. Apart from defense contractors and a few oil companies it is hard to imagine that anyone sees any benefits.
4319 Americans and at least 90,000 Iraqis killed violently since 2003. At a cost of maybe as much as $5 trillion when all the bills are paid by our grandchildren. Saddam’s secularism has been replaced by a Shi’ite dominated power structure and Iraq’s role as an Arab bulwark against Iranian hegemony is just a memory. The Christian minority, protected under Saddam, has more-or-less fled the country. Iran has benefited most from America’s takedown of Saddam.
And yet there are 130,000 US troops remaining in their fortress-bases outside the cities, there to help maintain order, apparently. Bring them home and tell the Iraqis to use their oil money to hire more police. The whole Iraq adventure made no sense when it started and makes even less sense now.
Cheney is getting a $2 million advance for his memoirs.
Too bad nobody could have foreseen that this wouldn't end up being totally awesome.
- Music:Wasted - Black Flag
- 00:21 I found a great old picture of @andycomplains before the he went Amish & grew a rainforest on his face: yfrog.com/0u4esj #
- 16:15 Illegal e-waste dumped in Ghana includes unencrypted hard drives full of US security secrets— twurl.nl/uv1wjx —I feel safer already! #
- 18:30 A 13 year-old kid reviews a 30 year-old Sony Walkman— twurl.nl/v6plpj —Confusion ensues: cassettes have two sides? #
- 20:04 Why would FedEx call and specifically schedule a delivery for a certain day--like TODAY for example--and then not show up? Why did you call? #
- 10:09 What I Learned From The Death Of Michael Jackson: twurl.nl/mzsvq8 (via @@iannrobinson) #
- 11:56 I think I'm going to put some TruckNutz on my bike. #
- 15:05 “Come on, you homosexual demon! You homosexual spirit, we call you out right now!— twurl.nl/38fnfq —Crazy. #
- 15:07 Do people who believe that a gay person can just choose to be straight therefore believe that they themselves could just choose to be gay? #
- 16:16 I'm tired of everyone's green Twitter icons. The Ayatollahs are not intimidated, even though you all look like the Incredible Hulk. #
- 18:33 Fuck you torrential downpour, I have my full rainsuit today--I WIN. yfrog.com/58rqaj #
Bea just spent a couple of weeks as a freelancer designing the line of merchandise and accessories for MJ's upcoming 50 London shows. They were sampled and everything, it all looked really great and Michael personally loved what she did.
The merchandising deal that would have put all the approved items into production was supposed to be signed yesterday.
The merchandising deal that would have put all the approved items into production was supposed to be signed yesterday.
- Music:Workin' Day And Night - Michael Jackson
- 14:31 Have any of you EVER seen ANYONE wearing these, the pinnacle of douchetastic-ness? twurl.nl/pq48w7 I cannot imagine who would. #
- 14:47 I'd follow Jesus if he was on Twitter. #
- 15:35 The Great Global Warming Swindle SWINDLE— twurl.nl/xzun2e #
- 15:58 I worry that part of the reason I lose my friends is because they can see whats on my Netflix acct and don't let me explain. (via @theOtter) #
- 16:06 Ghosts reacting violently to holy water? twurl.nl/mbxuvo Flick water in my face like that a few times and I'll react violently too. #
- 16:56 This is why I stopped writing graffiti— twurl.nl/qxq446 —I hate when that happens. #
- 18:31 Hey shithead, NY has a Safe Haven law. You don't have to leave your unwanted newborn in a fucking Timberland shoe box twurl.nl/winii2 #
- 18:54 I wish it had been Michael Jackson that broke the story of TMZ dying. I can almost hear the high-fives. (via @robcorddry) #
- Music:It's A Small World - H2O
- 10:17 As if Snuggie wasn't redundant enough— twurl.nl/p73yez —Hey assholes, "wearable towels" already exist, they're fucking called ROBES.
- 10:35 Who's going to buy this toy for me—uhh, I mean, MY UNBORN SON? twurl.nl/v3qr0p I know I—er, I mean, HE—will love it.
- 11:45 When adding a blog feed to my newsreader, should I use the RSS or the Atom feed? What's the difference, is one better than the other?
- 12:24 Dead Snow— twurl.nl/1ax8st —this movie about Nazi zombies looks both terrible and awesome at the same time.
- 13:43 "See how the genitals make use of the gap."— twurl.nl/gals1n —I bet that chair rules. Placing my order right now.
- 16:41 HOLY FUCK YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS— twurl.nl/h8we4o —Kid freaks out because mom cancelled his World Of Warcraft acct. BEST VIDEO EVAR.
- 16:42 And yes I realize it's more than a month old so 75% of you have already seen it. But it's so good that I have to show the other 25% haha
- 20:02 At Soy & Sake with Bea, Purkey and Topher. About to pig out. yfrog.com/5irruj
- 20:05 Hey, if any NYers riding the 4 train this morning found a sketchbook, please contact me. Come on internets, RT and help my friend out!
- Music:Robots - Gameface
Have you ever just been chilling out, listening to some dance music and thought to yourself, "Hey, I wonder what this would sound like if some asshole was screaming over this?"
No, me either. Because that's a fucking terrible idea. Need proof?
Buske and I had the misfortune of coming across this video at work a couple of weeks ago, and the first thing we did after we recovered from our shock and revulsion was to scour their MySpace page to check their tour dates so that could attack them if they came to NYC. Literally—go to their show and fight them. They need to be beaten up. Let me explain.
BrokeNCYDE is what happens when freaks and geeks don't get beaten up in high school. Back in the 70's and 80's, losers and oddballs were set upon by the jocks and popular kids and their lives were made a living hell. It put us in our place and we converted our misery and hate into some of the best, most pissed-off music ever made: punk and hardcore. It was music made by losers and outcasts.
But these days, being "punk" is cool and accepted. Political-correctness has taken over, and the unpopular, unattractive and weird kids are supposed to be treated equally and fairly; we're supposed to celebrate everyone's diversity instead of openly mocking it for personal enjoyment.
So what you end up with a bunch of kids who are supposed to be relegated to the margins of society (and turning that frustration into great music) being accepted instead, not getting beaten up, and as a result, taking the worst elements of several acceptable genres and making absolutely horrific music.
Just because these fuckers made it through high school unscathed doesn't mean it's too late to put them in their place. Especially the screaming one.
No, me either. Because that's a fucking terrible idea. Need proof?
Buske and I had the misfortune of coming across this video at work a couple of weeks ago, and the first thing we did after we recovered from our shock and revulsion was to scour their MySpace page to check their tour dates so that could attack them if they came to NYC. Literally—go to their show and fight them. They need to be beaten up. Let me explain.
BrokeNCYDE is what happens when freaks and geeks don't get beaten up in high school. Back in the 70's and 80's, losers and oddballs were set upon by the jocks and popular kids and their lives were made a living hell. It put us in our place and we converted our misery and hate into some of the best, most pissed-off music ever made: punk and hardcore. It was music made by losers and outcasts.
But these days, being "punk" is cool and accepted. Political-correctness has taken over, and the unpopular, unattractive and weird kids are supposed to be treated equally and fairly; we're supposed to celebrate everyone's diversity instead of openly mocking it for personal enjoyment.
So what you end up with a bunch of kids who are supposed to be relegated to the margins of society (and turning that frustration into great music) being accepted instead, not getting beaten up, and as a result, taking the worst elements of several acceptable genres and making absolutely horrific music.
Just because these fuckers made it through high school unscathed doesn't mean it's too late to put them in their place. Especially the screaming one.
- Music:The Freaks, Nerds, & Romantics - Bouncing Souls
- 10:55 Happy Father's Day greetings are trickling in. I didn't think I was eligible for that yet!
- 12:35 Brunch with Bea, then off to Michael's, Home Depot, Target and then painting baby room. yfrog.com/7e4e6j
- 21:25 Hey @trohman, thanks for eating with us! yfrog.com/58u0nj
- 11:37 Dear God/Allah/Odin/FSM: Please change days from 24 to 36 hours long. Also please lower our sleep requirements to 4 hours a night. Thanks.
- 12:30 Oh my goth! twurl.nl/8xrf2x
- 14:00 Why did I have to pay a $5.35 "Service Fee" and a $1.25 "Delivery Fee" for a concert ticket that I PRINT OUT AT HOME? What a fucking scam.
- 14:36 Set your location to Tehran and your time zone to GMT +3.30. Iran is doing location/timezone searches to track down bloggers. Pass it on.
- 17:51 Columbite-tantalite: Rape-camps lurk in the history of your gadgets twurl.nl/w5ahua
- 20:08 Just sold our ice cream parlor booth. I am a little sad.
- 09:59 There are few less enjoyable ways to start your workday than soaking wet.
- 11:18 How To Use The Best 40 Features of iPhone 3.0 — twurl.nl/azlh6s
- 11:24 Economic Recovery Plan FAIL— twurl.nl/fywjij —$25 weekly bump in unemployment checks makes some ppl ineligibile for their food stamps
- 12:27 Hey Apple, your iPhone 3.0 software has completely screwed up both mine and Bea's iPhones—it totally different ways. Awesome! #iPhone #Apple
- 16:36 MD Zoo spent $500,000 to make an escape-proof prairie dog habitat. The prairie dogs escaped within 10 minutes. twurl.nl/6ekgb1
- 09:57 Syracuse graffiti ain't what it used to be— tinyurl.com/mbvr87 —dude has been arrested 21 times in 3 yrs. Uhm, you're doin it wrong.
- 11:50 "Hash Wednesdays" at the office isn't the same without Buske—because he always brings the hash browns for us. DON'T miss the Cam'ron tho.
- 13:03 FINALLY! The technological breakthrough we've all been waiting for: a Twitter client for the Commodore 64— twurl.nl/u4avws
- 14:07 Just LOOKING at these shelves stresses me the fuck out: twurl.nl/2l8sae
- 15:05 This iPhone app Vlingo is pretty amazing. I'm tweeting this by talking into the phone and it converts the words to text.
- 15:39 Bea and I have decided that Megan Fox is far too pretty. It's just too much, we can't take her seriously as a human.
- 15:15 RT @robcorddry: Never surprise your wife with jewelry—she should help you choose something. Also, never surprise her with Judo.
- 15:55 Buske is all out of wet wipes & has to go poop—he just held up a container of computer screen wipes & asked, "Do you think I can use these?"
- 16:14 The Daily Show's clip on Long Island seceding is amazing: twurl.nl/0b1grw
- 18:45 Iranians riot when their elections are stolen. Americans riot when their favorite team wins. (via @waltisfrozen)
- 19:13 The 1st Stars And Stripes record, "Shaved For Battle": Still one of the best Oi! records ever written. The 2nd record: SO disappointing.
- 00:23 Kleberg County, TX has made "heaven-o" the county's official greeting—because "hello" contains the word "hell." bit.ly/1swu6P Srsly?!
- 12:14 Counterpoint: AT&T isn't cheating iPhone 3G customers— twurl.nl/2u8xv3
- 17:12 Listening to "Expect To Change" on 7 Second's "New Wind" album. It's amazing how terrible the vocals are.
- 18:14 Comfort Wipe— twurl.nl/5ifdvh —Come on, you don't want to wipe your ass "old style" like they did in the 1800's, do you? Archaic!
- 18:43 First 'anti-stab' knife to go on sale in Britain— twurl.nl/0b7utv —That will almost certainly end knife crime ... Problem solved!
- 22:34 Quadruple date success--UP in digital 3D was awesome!
- 23:20 Awesome PATH train quote of the night: "Whatever, I mean just whatever. I was like ...... WHATEVER."
-Some Chick - 14:36 Trip to Ikea has gone a bit longer than intended. It always does :)
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