View From The Porch: As you have no doubt been informed...

Friday, June 25, 2010

As you have no doubt been informed...

...by every televisor and radio communications device within earshot all morning long already, Michael Jackson is still dead, and has actually been so for 365 days now.

27 comments:

The Duck said...: Who is Michael Jackson?; 8:55 AM, June 25, 2010
Tam said...: Some dead guy.; 8:56 AM, June 25, 2010
Robb Allen said...: Since I'm not a TV / Radio consumer, this little factoid would have completely escaped my attention had it not been for the magic of RSS feeds.

Thanks!; 8:58 AM, June 25, 2010
Michael W. said...: The hell you say......

I didn't even know he was sick (other than mentally); 9:00 AM, June 25, 2010
Mike W. said...: Good. The last thing I need to worry about are moonwalking zombies singing "Beat it"; 9:03 AM, June 25, 2010
Robert said...: I knew there was something I had to celebrate today...; 9:14 AM, June 25, 2010
dave said...: A couple of friends are staying with me while they look for work (just moved back to town), and one turned on the DVD Viewer Thingy this morning as I was leaving for work. As I was leaving, she commented that she "couldn't believe it's been a year already."

For the life of me, I couldn't figure out what she was talking about.

wv: pholyz. Yes, yes they are.; 9:17 AM, June 25, 2010
BobG said...: *Yawn*; 9:34 AM, June 25, 2010
New Jovian Thunderbolt said...: Well they are wrong. Michael Jackson died almost 3 years ago. And I still miss him. I even met him once. Man, that guy could knock back a few...; 9:34 AM, June 25, 2010
OrangeNeck said...: Knock back a few what, children??; 10:04 AM, June 25, 2010
Anonymous said...: Who?
What did he do?
Oh he was that One Bad Apple dude wasn't he?; 10:13 AM, June 25, 2010
Themadlemming said...: Yet, I wonder how many of them realize today's also the 60 year anniversary of the start of the Korean War and also the 134 year anniversary of the Battle of the Little Big Horn.; 10:34 AM, June 25, 2010
Mister_V said...: As long as they've got him properly staked into his casket I don't care about the details.; 10:40 AM, June 25, 2010
Matt G said...: "Who is Michael Jackson?"

A close relative of Generalissimo Francisco Franco.; 11:48 AM, June 25, 2010
New Jovian Thunderbolt said...: Michael Jackson was a very important contributor to world culture and a vital adjunct to my formative years (college). I will miss his fat, bearded, bleary visage.

He never gave me the Scotch habit, oddly enough. And I like the Belgian varieties, but not nearly as much as Mr. Jackson did.; 12:34 PM, June 25, 2010
Anonymous said...: Latoya's brain appears to have died years ago and she get's along fine with out it.

Gerry; 2:13 PM, June 25, 2010
Don M said...: Cementary said that relatively few people showed up. They tried to make the point that he was there all year, not just on anniverseries, and on other days there wouldn't be a long walk, delays to park, limited time available to "commune" and less competition with others for your floral display.; 8:42 PM, June 25, 2010
Brad K. said...: Oh, this is horrible news, just horrible (I love that line, from Secret of My Success).

Michael Jackson whiffed out on my Birthday last year - and I never noticed the date??!? Now I can never forget the day Michael Jackson died? Ever!?

I mean, I heard "Beat It" on the radio last week, and kept wondering what happened to the real words I came to know and love - "Eat it" by Weird Al Yankovic.

I hear Michael, and think of the lovely lament to Ben (the rat, as in, actual, rodent-type rat). When the ill-flamed Pepsi commercial is mentioned, I remember Bekley Brethed's Bloom County treatment, with Steve getting the mascara on his chest hair burned off. Ouch.

I remember watching the Jacksons and the Osmonds on the Andy Williams show. Andy Williams had the cute French wife singing about Tangerines, just don't take her skiing, she gets wound up about things. I remember the Jacksons sounded great, but that Donny O was cute (kept staring at the on-air camera, instead of holding his position for the in-studio audience.

And, naive me, a year ago or so, I remember feeling relieve that we don't have to go through the kiddie molestation thing anymore, since he won't be releasing more albums. I always thought that was a crass way to get publicity.

Thank you, Tam, for reassuring me that the guy is still dead. Even if you did inform me that compromised my birthday, in passing. Besides, I think Weird Al does better lyrics and presentation.

Grr.; 9:25 PM, June 25, 2010
Joel said...: Can we resurrect him now? Seriously, that guy just can't die enough for me.; 9:45 PM, June 25, 2010
Anonymous said...: My grandsons seemed particularly relaxed today. Hmmm...; 10:36 PM, June 25, 2010
Eric said...: This is the first time I've seen the word televisor outside the works of Col. Cooper.

:-); 10:37 PM, June 25, 2010
Bubblehead Les. said...: I'm with Themadlemming. The men who fought at the Pusan Perimeter, Inchon, Frozen Chosen, Pork Chop Hill, etc. have done more for true peace and freedom on this planet than a screwed up pedophile proclaiming "We are the World". "Lest we forget".....; 11:35 PM, June 25, 2010
Pop N Fresh said...: my local radio station accidentally announced that Michael Jordan was dead, that was interesting; 12:15 AM, June 26, 2010
Roberta X said...: After a year, if he's still dead, all they have to do is dig him up. cut off his head and bury it at crossroads, then rebury the body with a hardwood stake through the heart and he can never come back, never ever.

Never, children; he's gone. I promise. Please stop crying and shivering now.

Please?; 12:52 AM, June 26, 2010
JTbassist said...: Guys, you missed it! Farah Fawcett has been dead for a year!; 3:08 AM, June 26, 2010
John B said...: Well if he didn't come back on the third day, then he's gone for good.; 4:42 AM, June 26, 2010
Joel said...: How can we be sure unless we interrogate him?; 11:22 AM, June 28, 2010