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Startling To Painful Religious Album Covers

These are some of my picks. 

Jackson-Inspired Artwork & Flash Mob / Is Michael in Heaven? Did He Really Have 10,000 Books?

See Best, Worst and Weirdest Art Inspired by MJ here. Here is a composite:

 

July 8 Flashmob

Is Michael in Heaven goes into the Top Five MJ stories I found worth reading.

Michael Jackson was raised by Jehovah’s Witnesses and flirted with Scientology and Islam. Now many Christian groups wonder if the King of Pop is residing with the King of Kings.

Seattle PI Blog reports that Michael had 10,000 books. They reported that a judge who knew him said in an interview:

"He loved to read. He had over 10,000 books at his house. And I know that because - and I hate to keep referring to the case, because I don't want the case - the case should not define him. But one of the things that we learned - the DA went through his entire library and found, for instance, a German art book from 1930-something. And it turned out that the guy who was the artist behind the book had been prosecuted by the Nazis. Nobody knew that, but then the cops get up there and say, 'We found this book with pictures of nude people in it.' But it was art, with a lot of text. It was art. And they found some other things, a briefcase that didn't belong to him that had some Playboys in it or something. But they went through the guy's entire house, 10,000 books. And it caused us to do the same thing, and look at it."

"And there were places that he liked to sit, and you could see the books with his bookmarks in it, with notes and everything in it where he liked to sit and read. And I can tell you from talking to him that he had a very - especially for someone who was self-taught, as it were, and had his own reading list - he was very well-read. And I don't want to say that I'm well-read, but I've certainly read a lot, let's put it that way, and I enjoy philosophy and history and everything myself, and it was very nice to talk to him, because he was very intellectual, and he liked to talk about those things. But he didn't flaunt it, and it was very seldom that he would initiate the conversation like that, but if you got into a conversation like that with him, he was there."

Apparently MJ was a frequenter of several bookstores and a Johny Appleseed of reading, spreading books to all children.  He would bring in vanloads of kids and buy them whatever books they wanted.  He would often wear a surgical mask and have an assistant hold an umbrealla to shield him from the glare of florescent lighting.  They contrasted him with Kanye West who doesn't like to read and discussed the disconnect between pop and intellect in America.  

Shepard Fairey Clean Energy Stickers

  free from MoveOn

Meet James Ensor, Belgium's Famous Painter

Meet Hermione Bubble, who does "Meet James Ensor" by They Might Be Giants on the ukulele. She has had 60 views. Let's make her famous. Here's also the original by TMBG.

  

Meet Ken, who went all the way to Belgium to see the work of James Ensor, after hearing the They Might Be Giants Song.  Meet James Ensor (deceased), whose paintings are currently exhibited in New York and we may go to see them.

New Herobuilders Dolls: Jon/Kate Gosselin, NJ Housewife, Jacko Baby Drop

Obama Entrepreneurs - Ghana / Ghana Video from ONE Campaign

So .. he's in Africa, surrounded by Africans and African fabric and he has on his flag pin, his hand on his heart and is singing the national anthem. 

Letter from LSD Inventor Albert Hoffman to Microsoft's Steve Jobs

at the link you can see Hoffman's actual 101 year old handwriting

I met Dr. Hoffman when I was 25 year old student and attended the Conference on Evolution and Lateralization of the Brain in New York City. I asked him any of the experiments he reported on with animals had been replicated with humans. He said they had but  they couldn't report it.   Slugbug       So here is the letter.

Dear Mr. Steve Jobs, 

Hello from Albert Hofmann. I understand from media accounts that you feel LSD helped you creatively in your development of Apple computers and your personal spiritual quest. I'm interested in learning more about how LSD was useful to you. 

I'm writing now, shortly after my 101st birthday, to request that you support Swiss psychiatrist Dr. Peter Gasser's proposed study of LSD-assisted psychotherapy in subjects with anxiety associated with life-threatening illness. This will become the first LSD-assisted psychotherapy study in over 35 years. I hope you will help in the transformation of my problem child into a wonder child. 

Sincerely, A. Hofmann

Der Reviews Are In, Der Brünö Häs Länded

 

The New York Times is ambivalent.

Obama Crop Circle Appears in Italy

In this photo provided by Italian artist Dario Gambarin Thursday, a giant portrait of President Barak Obama is seen in an aerial view in the countryside of Mena' di Castagnaro, near Verona in Northern Italy. The portrait, completed by the writing "The hope is in the land," covers some 27,000 square meters and was realized, as other previous works of Gambarin, with a tractor drawing a harrow, without previous tracing on the field, during a 90-minute performance on July 5. The artist said he wanted to vehicle a message of "respect" for the land. Obama is currently in L'Aquila, in central Italy, attending the G8 summit.  (seen at Seattle P-I online)

United States Senator Al Franken Sworn In