Iowa asks: Is butter an art?

Published on July 12th, 2009

Don’t laugh. You’re not somebody until you have referred
to yourself in the third person AND been made into butter sculpture.

Plans to erect a giant statue of Michael Jackson made from butter at the Iowa State Fair are being put to the vote.

Fair organisers announced their intention to create the butter tribute to the King of Pop just days after Jackson’s death.

But the idea has proved so controversial that they are now to hold an online poll to decide whether or not to go ahead with it.

Spokeswoman Lori Chappell says Jackson was to be part of a sculpture commemorating the 40th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s moon landing.

You can vote here: Poll: Should Michael Jackson be turned into butter?

Thanks, K B

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# 1 Floyd said, on July 12th, 2009 at 6:12 am

At the Minnesota State Fair, busts of the dairy queen and her court are each sculpted in butter. The butter sculptor and each member of the court sit in a cold room when the bust is being carved.

Why do they do this? I’m not certain, but this has apparently been a tradition for a long time, and the art work is paid for by the Minnesota Dairy Association.

The rest of you can argue about whether Michael Jackson ought to be immortalized in butter in Iowa. The guy was born in Indiana, so should he be immortalized at the Indiana State Fair instead?

# 2 LDA said, on July 12th, 2009 at 6:49 am

It is not the medium but the result.

# 3 Jägermeister said, on July 12th, 2009 at 7:34 am

Don’t they have any local child molesters that they glorify in butter?

# 4 AdmFubar said, on July 12th, 2009 at 8:38 am

it wont look anything like him, the butter will be too dark

# 5 AdmFubar said, on July 12th, 2009 at 8:41 am

hhmmm perhaps they can play weird al yankovic’s “FAT” parody at the display…

# 6 chris said, on July 12th, 2009 at 9:16 am

Slimy in real life, slimy in butter. I say yes!

# 7 Rich said, on July 12th, 2009 at 9:18 am

He’s not the FIRST celebrity I’d like to see rendered in butter. I would say somebody, like, say, Denise Richards and then you could have, like, the most wonderful breakfasts and stuff, for a long time…

# 8 Don Marsh said, on July 12th, 2009 at 9:43 am

This is close, but not really appropriate. After all, Michael is TOAST.

I could not help myself.

# 9 Amar said, on July 12th, 2009 at 9:46 am

Everybody’s missing the point!
The real question is;

“Where’s the biscuits!”

# 10 John Paradox said, on July 12th, 2009 at 11:38 am

I thought it was the tigers that were turned to butter

J/P=?

# 11 RTaylor said, on July 12th, 2009 at 11:54 am

When will it all end? Please send Jesse and Al home and just bury the withered carcass.

# 12 Tonsils out said, on July 12th, 2009 at 12:03 pm

Any kind of solid can be turned into art, comprising butter. This is the interpretation of it which gives a value to the masterpiece. The choice of this singer is then secondary.

# 13 hhopper said, on July 12th, 2009 at 1:17 pm

RTaylor: You’d better start ignoring it. They’re still worshiping Elvis if you hadn’t noticed.

# 14 Jägermeister said, on July 12th, 2009 at 1:45 pm

#13 – hhopper

Elvis is still alive… I’ve seen him in Vegas.

# 15 sargasso said, on July 12th, 2009 at 1:48 pm

Somehow, Michael Jackson and butter make me recall “that scene” in Last Tango in Paris.

# 16 cfk1 said, on July 12th, 2009 at 3:51 pm

The butter sculptors couldn’t do a worse job than his plastic surgeons…

# 17 SparkyOne said, on July 12th, 2009 at 4:55 pm

mad cow art

no thanks

# 18 Photog said, on July 12th, 2009 at 6:45 pm

Let’s not do any more Michael Jackson shit, OK??????????????

# 19 qb said, on July 12th, 2009 at 7:16 pm

I thought MJ was going to be encased in plastic and turned into a lego block so children could play with him forever.

# 20 deowll said, on July 12th, 2009 at 8:50 pm

Put his face on bars of soap.

# 21 moondawg said, on July 13th, 2009 at 5:14 am

Woot! said it best: “Every child that visits the statue will get a little pat.”

http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=8645

# 22 Benjamin said, on July 13th, 2009 at 5:31 am

The butter cow and the butter sculptures are highlights of the the Iowa State Fair, which by the way, is the largest state fair in the United States. They shouldn’t waste this year’s butter sculpture on honoring a pedophile.

If Thriller had just come out, then maybe, but Michael Jackson did a lot of creepy stuff since Thriller, so no butter sculpture of him.

# 23 orangetiki said, on July 13th, 2009 at 9:02 am

Hopefully it will be a hot day when they show the statue. You will be able to see his face melt just like his real one did.

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