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The amazing thing is that everyone everwhere knows Michael Jackson. Interesting interesting guy.
I love his music, and although I am not one of those super fans. He was a legend, and it is kind of sad to me to hear a legend died, and from something so ordinary.
Do you know of a single person who is so famous, or infamous?
I have nothing but pity for that freaky talented manchild.
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Caught most of the Fox promo...it was "Creed," on screen, but still sounded like "Creedence" to me. Maybe I'm hearing it with ears and a brain more used to "Creedence."
All this before the Michael Jackson media circus kicked in. Given his position in pop culture, I'm not surprised at the reaction...outside of political figures, expect this kind of treatment for Paul and Ringo...maybe for Elton...Jacko might've gotten it if he'd died a lingering death, like Farrah...for any other show biz figure, it'll need something more. "Sudden" is good as always.
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Y'know, at the beginning of the week, there were press reports that Walter Cronkite was near death, or at least very ill. (For those of you who aren't old enough, he was a prominent CBS anchorman / reporter, the guy right before Dan Rather.) No further word...meanwhile, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson have all, er, moved on.
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In some way I imagine Michael would have enjoyed being immortalized, which his early death will most certainly grant him. I wonder how long it will take for them to have people voting for "which Micheal" to be the first on a postage stamp.
Fortunately, I imagine he has alienated enough of the people who would typically be the ones to put his image on a velvet wallpiece.
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Oh, and ready yourselves for all the conspiracy-theorists who are going to say he is not really dead and this has all been staged. (We're going to hear about this for the next 40 years)
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I got to wondering...who gets custody of the Glove. (Sometime in the future, WALL-E has it. Look in the scene, early in the movie, where he "wakes up" with low power, and tries to focus his eyes on his stuff on the opposite wall of the truck. I'm pretty sure the Glove is there.)
[edited 'cause I just said "wall" when I should've said more.]
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Alas, even I found myself wondering - is he really dead? What if it's just a publicity stunt? Yeah, the conspiracy theorists are going to have a blast with this one....
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Robert, the glove is actually in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland. That was my favorite exhibit there.
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thats because there is no body. MJ was not human, he was an Ancient. he asended to a higher being. i know because i hunted him for many a year to end his life before he could asend. i failed.
also Billy Mays was found dead in his house yesterday. everyone seems to be dieing. Damn
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I think any critique of the 1st 13 should be respectful of the writer, even if the critter don't respect the words on the page. Any critique should be received with the attitude, Take what you Like and Leave the Rest. ...am I in the wrong thread?
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I was just going to mention Billy Mays. Do you thing it was Antony or the ShamWow guy who did it?
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I'm kind of glad Billy Mays won't be screaming at me anymore. He always made me feel like I was being verbally attacked by bad-ass verbal ninjas. Not as cool as it sounds.
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They're dropping like flies. I heard this morning that Gale Storm died...I heard this afternoon Fred Travalena died. Now a lot of you may not remember them, one being big in the, well, mostly the seventies, and the other being very big in the fifties. (I think if Gale Storm had died fifty years ago the equivalent media storm would've been about as big as the Michael Jackson thing today.)
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Snowy Blizzard was always my favorite. Then there was Sunny Heatwave and Rock Boulder, they were great too!
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I'm kind of glad Billy Mays won't be screaming at me anymore. He always made me feel like I was being verbally attacked by bad-ass verbal ninjas. Not as cool as it sounds.
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Gale Storm. Brings back memories. She had a couple of TV shows. One was about being an activities director on a cruise ship... way before Love Boat. I was just a boy at the time. I only knew her in black and white.
Billy Mays. My heart stopped when I heard the news. I thought Willy Mays, the SF Giant. I am a Giants fan. Billy Mays drove (and will continue to drive) my wife crazy with his irritatingly loud barking. I'm sad to see anyone go, but give me a choice... he was only 49. A mere lad.
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Usually they yank commercials right away when somebody in them dies---given how ubiquitous Billy Mays was, I thought there'd be some slipups somewhere, but I haven't seen any so far.
(This is only if they're easily identifiable in the commercial. When Phil Hartman was shot to death by his wife, I kept hearing his very recognizable voice in commercials for about six months or so after.)
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There is no future King...the industry and the media are too fragmented to allow this sort of thing to happen. A convergence of factors might bring someone into this place...but I can't predict what they would be.
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I was trying to explain to my 11 year old what it was like when I was her age and Michael Jackson was everything. There really hasn't been anything like that in her lifetime. The closest I could think of was Miley Cyrus.
Now that I think of it, if you look at all the industries put together, Harry Potter has been that iconic. Funny that the internet would bring readers together but split music apart.
However, Lady Gaga has that solved. You just have to hear Pokerface once and the tune will be seared into your brain and it will stay there forever. Melanie
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There's been a fair amount of coverage on the great joy Michael Jackson brought to millions...but I don't think it excuses the great pain he brought to a certain few.
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Last I heard, Scotland has something on the menu besides "guilty" and "not guilty." "Not proven." I wish this were available in the United States, 'cause Jackson's crimes and acquittal both fall into that category.
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This morning as I was leaving for work, I turned the corner and saw a heavy-set man, say late-50's, not particularly overweight and not particularly muscled, but somewhere in between. He had wavy salt-and-pepper hair and a broad nose, with rough but clean shaven skin the colour of faded leather that made him appear Greek or at least of some other Mediterranean heritage. He was wearing a light grey suit and a white shirt, open collar, no tie.
He was standing on the sidewalk talking to a hedge.
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Yesterday, at the Barnes & Noble, I was standing in the SF section when, a row over, this woman started yelling at her kid. The kid was crying. I mean, I've heard moms yelling at their kids before, and this kid may have been been misbehaving...but, man, she used language and words I wouldn't have used to an adult. (The "F" word was prominently represented, and she said a certain backsided piece of anatomy would be hers when they got back to the car.)
I wonder right now, and may wonder for some time, whether I should have gone with my feelings and said something to her.
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Robert, often when people do say something to a mother who is swearing out her crying kid, what they say is likely to make the situation worse.
I've heard that the best thing to do is approach the woman as if she is the victim, not the kid. "Can I help you? Are you all right? It's hard doing any shopping with a kid. Would you like to sit down for a minute?" And so on, because that kind of response is less likely to put her on the defensive and lead her to really take it out on the kid later.
quote:Oh, and ready yourselves for all the conspiracy-theorists who are going to say he is not really dead and this has all been staged. (We're going to hear about this for the next 40 years)
Sounds like you know something I don't. Were you actually present at his 'death'?
Hey! *calls to everyone else*
Philocinemas was actually present at Michael Jackson's death and can confirm he didn't die!
(let the chinese whispers begin!)
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I hate when people whisper, I can hear it along with the stupid little rasp, the spit pooling and slurping in their mouths. I'd rather they yell in Chinese.
I agree that saying something in the store might make things worse. Chances are the mother will feel a "see! you embarrassed me!" type of thing.
Dude I just saw a sheep on a ship shave a man hanging from from a cliff with a telescoping razor. You see the sheep had cotton in his ears and misheard "Save me!"
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I have been on the phone waiting for tech support for 36 minutes and 11 seconds now. When I got on the phone they said the current wait time was 10 minutes. Do you think I've been put in neverland and ought to hang up and try again, or do you think I should wait it out????
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