Are you watching the Jacko coverage? I can’t stomach it, so the teevee is turned off.
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I had switched to Animal Planet & History by 6.30 last night. Evertything else was Jacko.
and no one seemed to want to point out that the guy had a thing for little boys or that he preyed on weak families with sick children and financial problems. Ok, he was a great artist, but talent doesn’t excuse everything.
I’m watching Pareto Charts and regression analyses…
I can honestly say I have not watched 60 seconds of it total.
If a channel has it on I click past it, or put on a movie. Last night it was ‘Marley and Me.’
Supposedly Jackson died 200+ million in debt. You HAVE to respect THAT!
nalbar
As they say, you can’t take it with you.
Hopefully he has provided trust funds or something similar for his children.
I can’t seem to shake this nagging sensation that there was a massacre of some sort in a middle-eastern country somewhere recently…I guess it must not have happened.
I was never a big fan of his stuff. Liked some of it and bought a few 45s years ago. I wondering if there’s any truth in that rumor that Dad Jackson pumped little Michael with estrogen to prevent the onset of puberty and thus lose his beautiful boy voice. That would explain a lot.
A sad ending for a sad man.
No, I’m not watching any of the extra coverage. I’ll be interested in his medical conditions when the autopsy comes out though.
Well, Bob, credit where credit is due. I don’t think you do pop any better than this. That’s perfection. No wedding can go without.
Ummmn. You must go to some interesting weddings!
disco is absolutely mandatory at all wedding receptions. madonna, too.
I think he was a brilliant artist around the time of Thriller. Maybe the best of his era.
Whenever he was talking instead of singing, though, he seemed like someone drowning in relentless, pounding misery. No one has the right to make such a judgment, but I can’t help thinking this death was what my stepmother would have called a “blessing”.
Not watching the tv “coverage” even a little. If I want to see vipers and braying parrots I’ll go to the zoo.
There’s a lot circulating about what was done to him physically-to keep that voice. Truly disturbing.
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What’s a tevee?
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Nope.
Nope, not watching the coverage. I don’t need to see that.
Despite the problems he had and caused himself later in life, I’ll still remember him for two of the most memorable events of my early life. The first was seeing We are the World on TV. After watching this again, I recognize all of the artists who sing…but in my memory from childhood, it was all about Michael.
The other was when I was in Junior High and he released his single Black or White. This was a major media event. I don’t know anybody who wasn’t glued to their teevee to see the video premiere (seems weird now, what with youtube and streaming video!). It made huge news with its themes of racial and intercultural harmony and its revolutionary special effects (at the time, obviously) at the end where the faces morph into each other.
And I have to admit that I still listen to Man in the Mirror pretty often when I’m feeling introspective. Great song.
He could MOVE;
Oops;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC1TTz2bMmM
Oops;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC1TTz2bMmM
LOL!
I got warned and I still posted it twice.
nalbar
I cried and cried when John Lennon died.
Not so with Jacko.
I haven’t watched a television station since the DTV conversion obsolelesced my set.
I picked up the news on My Left Wing hours before the radio took note, and then it was All Things Considered. Weird, I thought he was a radio star.
Tennis is good.
Dave, if you have not done so already, please read my comment to you in yesterday’s open thread. I do not expect you to respond necessarily, but would like you read my response to your comment from a couple of days ago.
Thanks,
I couldn’t believe how Jackson’s death pre-empted ALL other news last night. And it’s still happening? Jeez.
I won’t be turning on my tv until Virtuality comes on at 8p. Luv me some scifi.
You know, there’s something I really need to get off my chest-here. I was never ever aware that Michael Jackson was ever found guilty of pedophile conduct. I seem to remember an acquital, and a case against him so weak-that complaints could not even be filed.
What has realy made me angy is Maureen Orth-Tim Russert’s widow going on television and doing her best to destroy whatever peace of mind his family, and his children, can hope to achieve at such a difficult time for all of them.
I remembe when Orth lost her husband the former host of “Meet the Press.” “Meet the Press” carried a lot of weight. Russert was one of the biggest cheerleaders the Bush White House could ever have wanted. He-and others like him-have done more damage to this country than we will ever recover from.
For Russert, to give his “good-housekeeping” stamp of approval for a war of greed and aggression was an absolute act of treason in my book-and it always will be.
Can anyone really comprehend the horror, the sorrow, the bloodshed, and the pain this war has caused-to everyone? People were literally tortured to death-weren’t they? They died screaming in pain-didn’t they?
Every pay-period, people like Russert and Orth got richer on a war that has violenttly, horribly, killed how many people? And many of them-innocent.
The day Russert died, I remember nothing but praise for him. All over the internet. Even people who knew he was one of George Bush’s biggest cheerleaders, kept their comments to themselves. Frankly, it was sickening. The man was a whore and a traitor.
I guess, never speak ill of the dead applies to only some of us. Apparently-not to all of us.
Russert’s wife-one of the people who made money on this war-who grew rich on this ungodly war-is all over the air-trashing a man who literally just died. Literally.
Has she no common decency of any kind? She ought to take a look in the mirror. “Timmeh” was a whore and a traitor. I honesly believe that before people start shooting at a corpse, they should at least allow the body to get cold.
If they can’t do that, maybe they could at least deal with the “facts.” Something that apparently Orth is no more able to do-than was the traitor she was married to.
Frankly, as regards Michael Jackson, I never understood what the fuss was all about. He is being eulogized as if he were the reincarnation of Beethoven.
He wasn’t.
Yeah, I was overdosing on the wall-to-wall coverage. Listened to a couple of tidbits from the E! True Hollywood Story and saw a kind of mesmerizing loop on Larry King that had Cher doing a dance number with the Jacksons (her hair was wild! – kind of a faux-fro). bailed on the coverage rather quickly and opted for On Demand movies.
Something I stumbled across at-
Wikipedia:
Verdict:
At approximately 2:25pm PDT (21:25 UTC) on June 13, 2005 the jury of the Superior Court of the State of California, held in and for the County of Santa Barbara, determined that Michael Jackson was not guilty on any of the charges he had been accused with.
The not guilty verdicts on all ten charges, including four lesser substitute charges, were read aloud by court clerk Lorna Frye.
Fans cried from happiness outside of the courthouse as the verdicts were announced (one woman even went as far as setting free doves for each time a “not guilty” verdict was announced).
The investigation and trial lasted for 574 days.