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    mollymlf05Kelly Faircloth
    6/23/16 5:31pm

    I always wonder what people do with this stuff. Someone spent - with fees - over 10 grand on a feathered coat with the E! logo in the lining. Surely you’re not going to wear that, are you? Do you put in on a mannequin and display it so you can say “That belonged to Joan Rivers,” and people reply, “Oh, cool?” Is that worth 10 grand?

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      Kelly Fairclothmollymlf05
      6/23/16 5:33pm

      To clarify on those prices—for the dresses I used not the highest bid, but the final price from the Christie’s site. So somebody did spend $9,375 total. Which is still bananagrams.

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      mollymlf05Kelly Faircloth
      6/23/16 5:46pm

      Bananagrams, indeed.

      I am honestly mostly baffled by what you’d do with a feathered coat vs. the amount of money it cost.

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    benjaminalloverKelly Faircloth
    6/23/16 5:34pm

    Would wear. On what occasion, I have no idea, but that’s hardly salient.

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      DeltaEchoBravo Wants to Watch Daredevil Nowbenjaminallover
      6/23/16 6:18pm

      Fuck, yes.

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      renosweenybenjaminallover
      6/24/16 9:29am

      That is one ugly quilt

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    iamthemotherofgoblinsKelly Faircloth
    6/23/16 5:30pm

    God’s Love We Deliver is a non-religious organization that provides meals for home-bound elderly and ill people and is a very worthy cause. Thank you Joan for providing food to those in need in NYC.

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      HaHaYouFooliamthemotherofgoblins
      6/23/16 5:51pm

      why is it named that if it’s non-religious? confusing.

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      EileenOnSundayNightsAfterAllInTheFamilyOnCBSHaHaYouFool
      6/23/16 10:55pm

      The wonderful woman who started it, was religous and unashamed of that because she believed God’s love was definitely for the HIV positive and AIDS afflicted people she took home-cooked meals to. And it grew from there.

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    SquirmishesKelly Faircloth
    6/23/16 6:03pm

    I don’t mean to be a museum employed, former NYC gallery employed jerk about this, but they make auction catalogs for a reason. You see what lot the stuff is you’re interested in, and show up when they get to it. I think they livestream or at least publish what lot they’re on on the website.

    Also, you think 10k on a dog bowl is bad, I routinely watched second rate Monets go for 45 mil+ I’d leave every Christie’s or Sotheby’s auction, trudge to the subway and go home to my dilapidated BK apartment.

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      Adrastra, patron saint of snarkSquirmishes
      6/23/16 6:41pm

      I can’t handle the fact that some people don’t realize that even paintings by masters can be bad. Also, Christie’s and Sotheby’s regularly send our broke, broke, so broke museum auction guides as though they think we might actually have enough money to buy something from them.

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      ComeWhatMayFlowerSquirmishes
      6/23/16 7:45pm

      What I don’t get about the $10K dog bowl is that it’s just a medium sized silver Revere bowl, engraved. I have 4 or 5 of various sizes (from about a half-cup to a quart), and I picked up a dog-bowl size one for $5 at Goodwill. (OK, so it had some minor damage on the inside where you can’t see it.)

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    T-FaceKelly Faircloth
    6/23/16 5:50pm

    Damn I miss that lady, ridiculousness and all.

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      Agent ScullyKelly Faircloth
      6/23/16 10:04pm

      I would absolutely wear any of these. But especially the two shiny jackets on the left. FABULOUS. I can see myself swishing around the office in the purple one.

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        FromTexasWithLoveAgent Scully
        6/23/16 11:39pm

        Those are so slouchy but fabulous, I’m obsessed. I wish she also had the purple one in black. Then it would be my soulmate.

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      Stephanie WernerKelly Faircloth
      6/23/16 8:07pm

      First Wives Club left out the best parts of the book. I missed seeing the tween sculptress girlfriend go insane making an art installation out of her own shit.

      I would be the rich yang to Joan River’s rich yin. My palace would be so minimalist, you wouldn’t be able to find a spoon for your freshly-flown-in-from-Rome gelato. Because utensils are for plebs who eat at home.

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        Betty SlocombeKelly Faircloth
        6/23/16 8:57pm

        I won’t lie, if I could afford and fit into that pink and black dress...I’d wear it. Sure it would just be to eat cheerios and ben and jerry’s on my couch while watching OITNB, but I’d still wear it.

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          iwontbeyouryokoonoKelly Faircloth
          6/23/16 6:17pm

          “cheerful bitchiness”...that is something I aspire to in life.

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            Pleasure of Ruins: Bitch of the MomentKelly Faircloth
            6/23/16 5:42pm

            I loved reading this and I wish I could have been there. Joan’s possessions seem to reflect the persona she shared with the world. I wonder how many of the buyers really love the stuff for what it is rather than for the fact that it belonged to Joan. Even though she was a controversial figure, I’ve always thought her death was so unnecessary and avoidable. I’m glad she supported such great causes.

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