Here we go - Olaf Mary, Grainne Proinseas, & I are all now en route to our BULGARIOUS BLOG REUNION. We've pre-scheduled a few posts for July, as we won't be able to access the series tubes as often, but when we do post, it will be for our TRAVEL DEPARTMENT. We will be rendezvousing in Bucharest, drinking rakia in Rusa, making a movie with young girls, fields, & donkey carts in the Big Little. So look for our travel correspondences, be well & bye bye!
Note: Keen observers will notice that there are temporarily ads on this blog. Don't worry, it hasn't become itwaslost.com. It is only to take advantage of the temporary windfall of tens of thousands of clicks on that Michael Jackson castrato article - & I'm beginning to fear that if something IS leaked from the autopsy, there might be a shitstorm which could possibly put that essay into even great exposure. And fund our trip. Great heavens. Anyway, SAFE TRAVELS!
June 30, 2009
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
PROPHECY & DOGGEREL - Illuminated Nonsense Poetry Book FOR SALE
150 pages... over fifteen hundred really good words (including "proboscis" & "stalactickle")...
With over a hundred original illustrations by Grainne Proinseas, Olaf Mary Mohammad, & James Quill...
I am proud to publish - ONLINE only - on scribd.com
PROPHECY & DOGGEREL
All the poetry published on the website www.itwaslost.org over the past three years, in one colorful poetry book -
Nonsense, doggerel, prophecy, songs & a few long poems.
After long consideration, I have decided to SELL this book for $2.15, altho I'm making a bit of it visible for free. I realize it is quixotic to dream of making any money off a non-physical collection of weird & sometimes dense nonsense verse, BUT I reckon I'm offering a pretty good product which we put a lot of work into. You could e-mail me (o [[at]]itwaslost .org) for a trial copy. Please support the nonsense vanity press! And a lot of the poetry is still on www.itwaslost.org here or there, just not with the classy layout & fancy illuminations, which is well worth two dollars & fifteen cents. Maybe convince a wealthy friend to purchase the digital edition from scribd, curl up with a cup of hot cocoa & your uncle's color printer, & print a nice double-sided physical copy. I believe in physical books. But this one will doubtful never be published as one. Meanwhile, a new hardcover copy of Barbara Walters' Audition: A Memoir sells for $29.95, & she doesn't do things like rhyme "cuddle" with "butthole."
Tell your friends & loved ones!
Prophecy & Doggerel is published.
Mix Tape was lost! Vol. 23
THIS MIX TAPE WAS LOST! FEATURES THE MAJORITY OF THE A-SIDE OF A beautiful FAVORITE RECORD:"STARS OF GHANA"
BE SURE TO CHECK IN NEXT MONTH FOR EXCITING TURKO-BULGICK-CENTROASAIN MIXTAPES
June 29, 2009
From the Tweetosphere: The real @samamamidon challenges the phony @samamidon: DAYS SIX & SEVEN
This weekend was a troubling time for the Real Sam Amidon project. If you haven't been following the development, a mysterious & poetic new impostor appeared on Day Five, the green "sam amidon and ham", following the shortlived "iamsamamidon". Without any prodding from samamamidon, several new sam amidons appeared on the scene on Saturday, spinning quickly into chaos - - - One of the new ones, "SamSamidon", has a naughty tongue, & I think I have to censor some of his or her twots for the bigosphere.
samsamidon
but this chicken proved f@#king suck f@#ksamsamidon
all is well? all is a santorumface shit.
samamamidon
I am the Real Sam Amidon, campaigning, DAY SIX.samamamidon
Goals for the Real Sam Amidon Project, DAY SIX: 1) Wipe the faces off of the heads of all the lame imitators; 2) buzzard dance; 3) lunch.samamamidon
Brief RECAP of the campaign to dethrone the usurping poseur @samamidon: DAYS THREE THRU FIVE➪http://bit.ly/Samamamidon2samsamidon
but this chicken proved your grandmothers fish taintsamsamidon
@samidon @iamsamamidon @samamamidon @samamidonandham @samiamidon @samamidon @samsamidon suck it
samamidon
@samsamidon don't knock @samidon, that's my cousin!samamidon
Ok this is getting out of control! RT @samsamidon: @iamsamamidon @samamamidon @samamidonandham @samamidon suck itsamamamidon
Goals for the Real Sam Amidon, DAY SIX: Great Jehovah, what pandora's box have we opened!? RT @samsamidon: @samamamidon suck it.
samspamidon
@samamidon @iamsamamidon @samamamidon @samamidonandham hey guys, how's everyone doing?samamidon
You have got to be kidding RT @Samspamidon: @samamidon @iamsamamidon @samamamidon @samamidonandham hey guys, how's everyone doing?samamamidon
This new @samsamidon is especially violent & foulmouthed. RT @samsamidon: all is well? all is a santorumface shit.samamamidon
I feel sorry for @samidon, who never claimed to be Sam Amidon, also getting disabused by the potty mouth @samsamidon.samsamidon
i never fucking claimed to be sam amidon. cocksuck 
SSandrigon
God it's getting hard to keep up with @samamamidon @samspamidon @samsamidon @samamidonandham @iamsamidon not to mention @samamidon 
samamidonandham
samamidonandham I am not @samsamidon samamidonandham
samamidonandham I do not like @samsamidon samsamidon
samsamidon im sam samidon an your a bucket of possum turdsamamamidon
Goals for DAY SIX: 5) Close this pandora's box.
asalaamidon
all sam amidons are 1asalaamidon
@Samspamidon @samamidon @iamsamamidon @samamamidon @samamidonandham @samsamidon all sam amidons are 1asalaamidon
all sam amidons are 1. god is love. 1 love. 1 sam amidon. 1 god. many faces of many sam amidonsamsamidon
@asalaamidon fuck you asalaamidon
Jolomoco
@samamidon ARRGHH! I just got a round house kick to the jaw by somone claiming to be SamVanDamidon!
samidon
@samamamidon haha haha didn't mean to grab your name haha I miss you mansamamamidon
@Jolomoco Don't even joke about things like "Samcramidon" & "SamVanDamidon." Can't you see we have a situation? It's way past the tipping...samamamidon
End of DAY SIX: Daily Report: Accomplished no goals, all goals a failure, Six new phony Sam Amidons appeared. Day Six a failure.
nicomuhly@samamidon I am one of these tweets away from unfollowing you.
samamidonAll things must pass/the war is over. i vanquish all imposters RT @nicomuhly: @samamidon I am one of these tweets away from unfollowing you.
matt_heaton@Samspamidon @samamidon @iamsamamidon @samamamidon @samamidonandham @samsamidon @asalaamidon
samamamidonI am the real Sam Amidon, campaigning, DAY SEVEN. Goals: 1) rest; 2) persevere; 3) destroy at least one phony Sam Amidon impostor.
samamamidonI'm beginning to fulfill my goal of convincing the fake @samamidon's followers to unfollow him. And Nico Muhly first would be sweet justice.
samamamidonAll silent from all new fake Sam Amidons today? Did the spurious @samamidon's " i vanquish all imposters" work??? You'll have to fight me.
asalaamidonasalaamidon you @samamidon cannot vanquish us. we are all sam amidon - like horcruxes each an undiminishable part of yor soul. all sam amidons are 1.
DAY TWO
DAYS THREE THRU FIVE
DAYS SIX & SEVEN
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June 28, 2009
Comments from the Michael Jackson Castration Article, New Evidence, Counterarguments, & More About Castrati: PART TWO
Continued from below, more comments from the original Michael Jackson castration article. The first comment from 2009 was posted at January 14th at 4:59am by "anonymous":Ha ha!!
Is it just me, or does that totally sound like Mr Jackson himself, perhaps googiling himself in the middle of the night? Amazing. Anyway, since there's no way to disprove it, we'll just assume that the late Michael Jackson himself commented on my blog six months before he died. I first heard of his passing whilst driving back from Mr Olaf Mary's family's cabin, which has no phone reception or internet, & this comment was e-mailed to my phone, by "sweetgrass":
This is one of the most pathetic things I've ever read.
You need to do more research on Michael + open your mind.
Castrated? ... What kind of statement is that to make? Wow, how pathetic & ridiculous. It doesn't even make me angry, I just laugh at small-minded people.
Good luck with thatHello.. I have been saying the same thing for years.
I completely agree.
There is something about the way bones and ligaments develop as well that helps to add credence to this idea.
I am deeply saddened to hear of his passing, his musical genius is undeniable.
Then in the past two days, there's been a bunch of new comments. June 26th, 10:13am:I have also thought this may well be the case for a number of years. It does fit with his persona and his singing voice, as well as his ambitious, overbearing father. Time will tell...
7:05pm:I remember hearing rumors that he'd been castrated back in the 70s. I was a kid - 5th grade, and I've never forgotten that, because I had to ask what it meant. So it's interesting that the thought it crossing someone's mind after 30+ years.
That was news to me, that this theory had been floating around since the 70s. Then, I saw there's a new article about this by Daniel McCarthy in The American Conservative called "The Last Castrato", which begins with a quote by Michael Kinsley from the New Republic in1984:What’s happened to Michael Jackson isn’t too different from what they used to do to young male singers in Europe a few centuries ago, to keep their voices sweet. In another way, it resembles the exploitation of child stars like Judy Garland in the heyday of the Hollywood studios. In fact, what American capitalism has done to Michael Jackson is even a bit like what the Soviets do to their women athletes.
McCarthy also posts a recording of the actual Last Castrato, Alessandro Moreschi, from 1902:
On June 27th, 5:29am, Anselmo commented:I've landed here because I was looking for evidences or opinion about this theory. Riccardo Muti, a famous orchestra director, today remembered how his life and his consuption, not only his voice and aspect, were so similar to the famous castrato singers, like Farinelli. If you understand italian:
Here's some of Muti's article google-translated:
http://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/09_giugno_27/grande_come_farinelli_33634b46-62f4-11de-ac0d-00144f02aabc.shtmlMaestro, which idea has been done to Michael Jackson? "His controversial affair, its weaknesses, the extreme restlessness and exhausted at the end make me think about the events of the great baroque castrated as Farinelli and Caffarelli, objects of worship and an unbridled idolatry. Often the victims of this cult. "
Another anonymous wrote, yesterday at 5:44pm:
She was neither black nor white, had a voice that was neither male nor female ... "For I spoke of the castrated. wow this article explains how castration helps autoimmune disease in some mice - remember MJ had vitiligo and lupus, two different autoimmune diseases: http://books.google.com/books?id=PNPU0sknfCUC&lpg=PA161&ots=ol0M73G-Z6&dq=castration%20autoimmune&pg=PA161
That's pretty interesting about his diseases. Thanks for the thoughts, anonymous, & I knew there's was something about a photo of his genetalia being odd... The Huffington Post just had an article about how people with those conditions often die young of heart attacks - that it may have been more of a factor than any painkiller addiction. Hmm. Well, anyway, thanks everyone for your comments. The first post of comments (many about his "deep voice") is here. The original article is here.
and this:
http://endo.endojournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/134/6/2516
Also pointing to the castration theory is the testimony that the child who brought him to court knew something strange about the appearance of his genetalia. In this theory, it would be clear that MJ wouldn't want that to get out, so settling out of court makes even more sense. The photo was thrown out of court and never leaked.
And for the record, MJ was not a pervert, but a very gentle nurturing soul, misunderstood by almost everyone, and probably the most amazing performer we have seen in our lifetime. He may not have appeared to understand "real life" but he sure did care about it and devote himself to the world. If we lived in a different society, that honored mentorship and service to the youth, that provided a place for children to explore their imaginations ... a society that wasn't so over-sexed and constantly adding stigma and sexual connotation to the idea of men hanging out with children ... and for all the positive ideology and love he's given to the world, Michael would be considered a saint.
Comments from the Michael Jackson Castration Article, New Evidence, Counterarguments, & More About Castrati: PART ONE
Since that old essay about the Michael Jackson castrato theory has gotten another couple thousand hits in the last few days, I seems timely to reread thru all the comments - there were a few good counterarguments & some are like additional little essays themselves. I had called out if anyone knew of any moments where Mr Jackson "throws in a masculine phrase or Elvis impersonation, where is it, & are we sure that he sang it?", so there first couple are about that:
On October 13th, 2007, 946pm, welshirishwoman wrote:Hello,
Anyone have any idea where to find that clip?
Michael actually has a deeper voice in real life...his high pitched voice is part of his stage persona. Lisa Marie Presley also said this in an interview after she and Michael were divorced (not sure of the date though). Also, if you watch Michael's "private home movies" special, there's a clip where he's in the grocery store shopping (it was closed for the night), and there's a moment when he's looking for some gum...when he finds it, the camera zooms in on him, and he says something about "Not just red, but big red," and then laughed, all in a deeper voice...deeper than I've ever heard it.
Oh, shoot! back in December 2007, a few comments later, I wrote "Also, has anyone heard Jimmy Scott sing? He's on the Twin Peaks soundtrack, & I just heard him do 'Tea for Two' as a duet with Pink Martini's China Forbes. He had Kallman's condition, so he never went thru puberty. Now he's eighty-two years old, & his voice is chillingly beautiful."
I totally forgot about Jimmy Scott! Here's him singing, for comparison:
And don't miss him in Twin Peaks, altho, spoiler alert if you haven't made it to the finale of Season Two yet. On June 5th, 2008, 2:00pm, someone posted:I agree with castration thesis... But there's another moment when Michael sings deep:in "get on the floor" ("Then why don't you just dance across the floor")
I responded: "...However the lowest of those low notes is an F below Middle C - I'm a tenor with a pretty high range, & that note is only in the middle of my low range; Jackson sounds like he's singing it really low in his voice.
"Also, it's hard or unwise to prove anything from a recording (My Uncle Tom insists, for instance, that Elvis had backup singers sing his lowest notes.) Please send more instances of Michael Jackson singing or speaking low, especially a live video, would disprove this forever."
And someone else added: "...and to the people above the low vocals in 'Get on the Floor' are background singers: Jim Gilstrap, Augie Johnson, Mortonette Jenkins, Paulette McWilliams and Zedric Williams."
Another commenter linked to this video from The Wiz to hear Jackson's supposedly deep voice:
But, come on! He sounds way below his range singing an A two steps below Middle C! Most altos can comfortably sing lower than that. He ends on a pretty weak 'e'.
Stay tuned: More from the Comments to that old article
June 27, 2009
This website is now exclusively about Michael Jackson's Testicles
A few years ago I wrote an essay positing if Michael Jackson was a castrato. If you haven't heard, Mr Jackson just died. And that essay, which seemed to always get a lot of hits, got like a thousand hits in a day & a half. As we wait anxiously for the full results of the autopsy (my God, could this be the moment!?!?) here's a look at what some people have googlied to reach that page in the past thirty-six hours:
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From the Tweetosphere: The real @samamamidon challenges the phony @samamidon: DAYS TWO THRU FIVE
If you recall, the Real Sam Amidon, @samamamidon, disappeared at the end of Day Two at a secret Sam Amidon retreat. Our story resumes dawn Wednesday morning...
KarlRichard
@samamidon We know you are the real deal... These phonies: @samamamidon, @iamsamamidon are Jive! Or is this some viral marketing business??? samamidon
@KarlRichard thank you for your support, this has been a difficult and emotional time for all of usKarlRichard
@samamidon We know false hearted chickens when we see 'em...
verbalsoup
Public Service Announcement: I now represent @samamamidon
lyndaspark
@samamamidon I'm amazed there's no @samiamidon. samamamidonBrief RECAP of the campaign to dethrone the usurping poseur @samamidon: DAY TWO➪ http://bit.ly/samamamidon2samamamidon
...back from my secret Sam Amidon retreat. Can't say much, but there was: Sam Amidon, redwood trees, republican congressmen & male escorts.samamamidon
I am the authentic real Sam Amidon, campaigning, DAY FIVE. Goals for Day Five: 1) Vanquish pretending fraudulent Sam Amdons to be forgotten.samamidonandham
I am not @samamidon.samamidonandham
I am not @samamamidon.samamidonandham
I am not @iamsamamidon.samamidonandham
I do not like @samamidon.samamidonandham
I do not like @samamamidon.samamidonandham
I do not like @iamsamamidon.samamamidon
Oh no! RT @samamidonandham: I am not @samamamidon.SSandrigon
Yes! When will it end??? RT @samamamidon: Oh no! RT @samamidonandham: I am not @samamamidon.samamidon
RT @SSandrigon: Yes! When will it end??? RT @samamamidon: Oh no! RT @samamidonandham: I am not @samamamidon.samamidon
Thank you for the support RT @frunobulax19: I am officially casting my vote for the real Sam Amidon. I vote for @samamidon!samamamidon@frunobulax19 @samamidon You cannot vote on identity, if left to popular vote mixed-race marriage would be illegal & Elvis' twin brother!samamamidonThe @iamsamamidon seems to be dead in the water, have we destroyed him? But now there's a mysterious GREEN @samamidonandham. 1 DOWN, 2 to gosamamamidonGoals for the Real Sam Amidon DAY FIVE: 2) Find #michaeljackson autopsy & prove that he was a Castrato: http://bit.ly/MJballssamamamidonThe best part about this new upstart phony greenie @samamidonandham twitter location is listed as "Tehran-idon, Iran-idon".samamamidonThank God @lyndaspark there's no @samiamidon, YET. For every one impostor we seem to annihilate, two more pop up.
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