Michael Jackson

December 5, 2003 5:52 PM

Like Michael Jackson? Amazon customers recommend...
posted by Mwongozi (30 comments total)

That's just unspeakably cruel.

Sweet.
posted by Reverend Mykeru at 6:03 PM on December 5, 2003

O_O
posted by nthdegx at 6:06 PM on December 5, 2003

oooo...very good!
posted by amberglow at 6:08 PM on December 5, 2003

Obvious, immature, completely unfair . . . . So of course, I laughed out loud.
posted by Zonker at 6:09 PM on December 5, 2003

Yes, I agree that it's unfair. I mean, anyone can see that Michael Jackson is an innocent, unfairly persecuted genius.

It's a plain as the nose ...on...his...

Nevermind.
posted by Reverend Mykeru at 6:13 PM on December 5, 2003

Hilarious! Reminiscent of Bil Keane's fans....
posted by Oriole Adams at 7:33 PM on December 5, 2003

To play devil's advocate here: what happened to "innocent until proven guilty"?
posted by ashbury at 7:38 PM on December 5, 2003

Google&AmazonBombingFilter?
posted by gyc at 7:44 PM on December 5, 2003

ashbury: "To play devil's advocate here: what happened to "innocent until proven guilty"?"

That's a legal distinction for the courts. As private citizens we can think he is guilty of everything up to and including the Kennedy assassination and being the silent partner financing Can't Stop the Music.
posted by Reverend Mykeru at 7:58 PM on December 5, 2003

FREE MICHAEL JACKSON
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 8:05 PM on December 5, 2003

Reverend, I agree, that it is a distinction for the courts. But it also spills into the private citizenry IF he actually is innocent. It smells like vigilantee-ism at the worst and smells like slander at best and is simply an all-around shitty thing to say about anybody. IF they are innocent.
posted by ashbury at 8:13 PM on December 5, 2003

BE MICHAEL JACKSON
posted by eatitlive at 9:44 PM on December 5, 2003

Innocent until proven guilty.
posted by Keyser Soze at 9:47 PM on December 5, 2003

But that wont stop my or the other proletariats opinions. Only TV and movies can.
posted by Keyser Soze at 9:48 PM on December 5, 2003

Innocent until molested.
posted by alms at 10:08 PM on December 5, 2003

Too bad Amazon doesn't have a link to recommend stuff from, say, Home Depot. Then we could all recommend torches & pitchforks as well.
posted by Johnny Assay at 10:09 PM on December 5, 2003

Biting social commentary in the 21st century
posted by Fupped Duck at 10:11 PM on December 5, 2003

XQUZYPHYR, someone was swabbing the poop decks, if you know what I mean.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 12:26 AM on December 6, 2003

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(Damn... too late -- what did it say?)
posted by feelinglistless at 2:37 AM on December 6, 2003

ashbury spake: Reverend, I agree, that it is a distinction for the courts. But it also spills into the private citizenry IF he actually is innocent. It smells like vigilantee-ism at the worst and smells like slander at best and is simply an all-around shitty thing to say about anybody. IF they are innocent.

You know, anyone with a friggin' MacCauly Culkin shrine in his home is guilty of something.
posted by wdpeck at 3:41 AM on December 6, 2003

Everyone knows things like this get flushed as soon as the hosting site gets wind of it. Did nobody take a snap???
posted by Blue Stone at 5:40 AM on December 6, 2003

XQUZYPHYR - I almost took a class when I was at college that would have required reading that book.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 7:08 AM on December 6, 2003

I've read parts of Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition. It's pretty cool.
posted by Nelson at 8:38 AM on December 6, 2003

But that wont stop my or the other proletariats opinions. Only TV and movies can.

But you aristocrats are otherwise enlightened?
posted by jonmc at 9:23 AM on December 6, 2003

my friend took a screenshot before amazon took it down...
let the hilarity ensue.
posted by sixtwenty3dc at 10:25 AM on December 6, 2003

Bah. Nobody had the sense to recommend Gary Glitter?
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 10:59 AM on December 6, 2003

Part of the list is also available at Gawker.
posted by macrone at 12:12 PM on December 6, 2003

XQUZYPHYR--I attended a panel at the 1990 Modern Language Association that featured scholarly papers on male/male pirate sex.

That was the same convention, I believe, at which film theorist Tania Modleski talked about the hot-dog tree in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure as a "phallosyncretic symbol".
posted by Sidhedevil at 12:38 PM on December 6, 2003

Looks like they've now started on another Jackson album. No doubt this list will soon be deleted, too. (And this one, which recommends "plastic surgery disasters".)
posted by Zonker at 2:33 PM on December 6, 2003

I can appreciate the feelings of people who wish Michael Jackson to remain unmolested...

*snort*
posted by Reverend Mykeru at 8:15 PM on December 7, 2003