{"id":3593,"date":"2009-06-29T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2009-07-02T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T18:51:00","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-michael-jackson-puppet-drink-kooler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-michael-jackson-puppet-drink-kooler\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day &#8211; Michael Jackson Puppet Drink Kooler"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3595\" title=\"michael-jackson-drink-cooler_8248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/michael-jackson-drink-cooler_8248.jpg\" alt=\"michael-jackson-drink-cooler_8248\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/michael-jackson-drink-cooler_8248.jpg 375w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/michael-jackson-drink-cooler_8248-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/>\n<p>This awkwardly made 1988 plastic drink kooler is one of the rarest and kitschiest of all my MJ memorabilia. You put the puppet kooler in the freezer til the patented freezing gel kicks in, insert a can in MJ&#8217;s torso once it&#8217;s out and flip his Smooth Criminal hat to get at the drink which supposedly stays cool for hours. It comes with a plastic drinking glass, a total inconvenience as there&#8217;s no place to keep it once the drink is popped into Michael. The bottom of the cooler reads &#8220;Sherman Oaks, CA., Made in Mexico&#8221;, a mysterious combo indeed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I would not suggest wearing matching white clothes while using this apparatus. The drink has a&nbsp;weird&nbsp;fit inside of the kooler and I&#8217;ve stained my own clothes along with Michael&#8217;s fabric legs when attempting to operate.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3597\" title=\"michael-jackson-drink-cooler_8253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/michael-jackson-drink-cooler_8253.jpg\" alt=\"michael-jackson-drink-cooler_8253\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/michael-jackson-drink-cooler_8253.jpg 338w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/michael-jackson-drink-cooler_8253-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3599\" title=\"michael-jackson-drink-cooler_8257\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/michael-jackson-drink-cooler_8257.jpg\" alt=\"michael-jackson-drink-cooler_8257\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/michael-jackson-drink-cooler_8257.jpg 338w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/michael-jackson-drink-cooler_8257-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3603\" title=\"michael-jackson-drink-cooler_9298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/michael-jackson-drink-cooler_9298.jpg\" alt=\"michael-jackson-drink-cooler_9298\" width=\"388\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/michael-jackson-drink-cooler_9298.jpg 388w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/michael-jackson-drink-cooler_9298-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This awkwardly made 1988 plastic drink kooler is one of the rarest and kitschiest of all my MJ memorabilia. You put the puppet kooler in the freezer til the patented freezing gel kicks in, insert a can in MJ&#8217;s torso once it&#8217;s out and flip his Smooth Criminal hat to get at the drink which &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-michael-jackson-puppet-drink-kooler\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,413,159,191,1,181,87,193,167,13],"tags":[61,3232,3245,399,401],"class_list":["post-3593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bar-accessory","category-celebrity","category-dolls","category-drink","category-forgot-to-categorize","category-furniture-and-housewares","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-memorabilia","category-music","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-michael-jackson-drink-cooler","tag-michael-jackson-puppet-kooler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}