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Naw, just bad humour. It’s my way of dealing with profound grief. Ed McMahon, Farrah, and now Michael – the pillars of Western Culture are toppling around us.
I’m pretty much a “presumption of innocence” kinda guy…and the folks closest to the trial (the jury) said “not guilty”. In the absence of any other proof, I’ll accept that.
And I’ll leave badmouthing Mr Jackson to others…I think he was an astonishing talent, and most folks that knew him well appear to have genuinely liked him.
I’m with Ron. I never liked his kind of music, I was a punk rocker in my younger days, but I remember the night he showed the world the moonwalk for the first time and he left me speechless.
There always seemed to be something profoundly sad about the guy. It was almost as if he confused attention with love. I feel bad for his family. No matter how weird and fucked up he was.
Right and left may not share much, but I think the politically engaged tend to be equally scornful and dismissive of celebrity culture, especially when it swims in a sewer. We know in our infinite modesty that we are concerned with much more important stuff like ski-helmets, demonizing Obama and defending the good name of poor oppressed black pirates. But among those not politically-engaged, we’re dealing with some heavy-duty collective mourning, starting in my house. Best to keep mum and just retire to read some obscure tome of political theory while everyone else sheds tear while glued to CNN.
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You mean Black or White
Shamon
Something like that
Oh, that’s cold.
You’re a very sick puppy, I’d love to buy you a beer sometime.
I heard he died from choking on a small bone-er.
He will now commence popping up in rural US gas stations along side Elvis.
Well, he did marry the King’s daughter, for nine months. So he’d be pumping gas with his ex-father-in-law
If he had died a week earlier, the whole media world would have been watching him instead of the Iran crisis.
Latest News On Micheal Jackson,… his condition has been upgrade from DEAD ON ARIVAL to MOSTLY DEAD
“What’s Black and White and Dead All Over?”
That’s bad karma my friend.
Naw, just bad humour. It’s my way of dealing with profound grief. Ed McMahon, Farrah, and now Michael – the pillars of Western Culture are toppling around us.
Ouch.
LOL!
Michael died from food poisoning. He had eaten nine year old weiners that night.
His death is already being commercialized.
Target has boys underwear half off.
I’m pretty much a “presumption of innocence” kinda guy…and the folks closest to the trial (the jury) said “not guilty”. In the absence of any other proof, I’ll accept that.
And I’ll leave badmouthing Mr Jackson to others…I think he was an astonishing talent, and most folks that knew him well appear to have genuinely liked him.
I’m with Ron. I never liked his kind of music, I was a punk rocker in my younger days, but I remember the night he showed the world the moonwalk for the first time and he left me speechless.
There always seemed to be something profoundly sad about the guy. It was almost as if he confused attention with love. I feel bad for his family. No matter how weird and fucked up he was.
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Right and left may not share much, but I think the politically engaged tend to be equally scornful and dismissive of celebrity culture, especially when it swims in a sewer. We know in our infinite modesty that we are concerned with much more important stuff like ski-helmets, demonizing Obama and defending the good name of poor oppressed black pirates. But among those not politically-engaged, we’re dealing with some heavy-duty collective mourning, starting in my house. Best to keep mum and just retire to read some obscure tome of political theory while everyone else sheds tear while glued to CNN.
He can’t be dead, I saw him at the car wash yesterday.
Are you sure that was really him, and not the 1,500 inmates of a prison in the Phillippines? I ALWAYS get them mixed up.
I wonder how this guy is taking it.
i heard that he choked to death on 10 year-old nuts
@JJ – On Vancouver Island yesterday? Sounds about right. Spotted this morning on Vancouver’s Fraser Street.
“It’s my way of dealing with profound grief. Ed McMahon, Farrah, and now Michael …” – Balbul
You left out shouter seller Rick Mays, of the SHAM-WOW!!! and others fame
This is one of those old-guy pop-culture gaps I’m experiencing, Canuck.