Nobody created a HOLY SHIT Michael Jackson is rushed to the hospital thread yet?

[isoS]

The obsession with celebrity deaths has gone too far.. I remember a point in time where when someone dies regardless of it's stature, it ends up in the obituary. I mean if you love his music and performances, there is a reason for cd's and dvd's...

Do you think MJ stole that flute? Is that why you're mad?

[TomHicks]

I don't know if we were holding a competition, but if we were, I think I won. This if from the L.A. Times story about people who went down to the hospital at UCLA.

A few hundred people gathered for a vigil outside the hospital at dusk, singing, holding signs, even dancing.

"I came because no one around me felt my pain," said Zai Bryant, a customer service representative who lives in Inglewood. "I said, 'You know what, those people at UCLA, they feel my pain. I need to be among fans who know what I'm going through.' "

Zai works here at the Business Journal.

[bao]

America made MJ, the good and the bad. And lo, we are a fickle master; praising him one moment and condemning him the next. He was too sensitive for this world. All of our racism, cruelty and our obsession with looks and money poisoned him. He was the public face of our societal ills. The cave is toxic: Our canary has died.

At its base, I absolutely agree with this, but it still doesn't account for the pp touching. Which is to say, I understand that he was ultimately destroyed by his own sensitivity, but overly-sensitive people don't necessarily go on to molest children.

That said, I was ten in 1984, and it is the first year that I remember vividly. Michael Jackson is a huge part of those memories, and I will miss that MJ. Though I have missed that MJ for the last 20 years.

[aenemaTron]

It's true, and it's why I don't feel anything now. The Michael Jackson I admired died a long time ago. Everything that he did is still here, he's just not.

[Carradine's_missing_flute]

No, you don't. This time never existed. It certainly didn't exist in your lifetime.

I'm trying to wrap my head around this particular post being left by someone who joined the forum using the name of a recently-dead celebrity whose body was still warm.

Actually, I had this name reserved long before his death... It was filed under my rejected list surnames for gmail accounts...

[DJ Sam]

Live Tribute to MJ on MTV tonight, 6pm.

[isoS]

Will Michael Jackson be performing?

[Fentmore]

We won't be able to say he looks pale.

[andrearunge]

"Morphine"

He got flat baby
Kick in the back baby
A heart attack baby
I need your body

A hot kiss honey
He's just a bitch baby
You make me sick baby
So unrelying

I'm such a swine baby
All down the line daddy
I hate your kind baby
So unreliable

A hot buzz baby
He's one of us baby
Another drug baby
You so desire

Trust in me
Trust in me
Put all your trust in me
You're doin' morphine

Hoo!

They got place baby
Kicked in the face baby
You hate your race baby
You're just a liar

Your every lick baby
Your dog's a bitch baby
You make me sick baby
You soul survivor

She never cut from me
She never cut baby
I had to work baby
You just a rival

Always to please daddy
Right up and leave daddy
You're thorwing shame daddy
So undesirable

Trust in me
Just in me
Put all your trsut in me
You're doin' morphine

Go'on babe

Relax
This won't hurt you
Before I put it in
Close your eyes and count to ten
Don't cry
I won't convert you
There's no need to dismay
Close your eyes and drift away

Demerol
Demerol
Oh God he's taking demerol
Demerol
Demerol
Oh God he's taking demerol

He's tried
Hard to convince her
To be over what he had
Today he wants it twice as bad
Don't cry
I won't resent you
Yesterday you had his trust
Today he's taking twice as much

Demerol
Demerol
Oh God he's taking demerol
Hee-hee-hee
Demerol
Demerol
Oh my Oh God it's Demerol
Hee
Oooh

Oh!

He got shit baby
Your dog's a bitch baby
You make me sick baby
You are a liar

Is truth a game daddy
To win the fame baby
It's all the same baby
You're so reliable

Trust in me
Trust in me
Put all your trust in me
She's doin' morphine

Hoo!

You just sit around just talkin' nothing
You're takin' morphine
Hoo!
Go'on baby
You just sit around just talking about it
You're takin' morphine
Hoo-hoo!
Just sit around just talking nothing about it
You're takin' morphine
You just sit around just talking about it
You're taking morphine
You just sit around just talkin' nothin'
And takin' morphine

Hoo-hoo
I'm going down baby
You're talkin' Morphine

Go'on baby!
Hoo!
Hoo!
Morphine!
Do it!
Hoo!
He's takin' morphine
Morphine!
Morphine!

[bao]

Here in Mexico as a tribute to Michael Jackson they are showing Man In the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story, starring Out Cold's Flex Alexander as MJ.

It is the worst thing I have ever seen. Ever. I'm sure Michael is rolling over in his drawer.

[Aaron1933]

Here in Mexico as a tribute to Michael Jackson they are showing Man In the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story, starring Out Cold's Flex Alexander as MJ.

It is the worst thing I have ever seen. Ever. I'm sure Michael is rolling over in his drawer.

To be honest, I really don't have much of a relationship with Michael Jackson's music, so that TV movie is mostly what I think about when his death is brought up.

[dorothy mantooth]

"I came because no one around me felt my pain," said Zai Bryant, a customer service representative who lives in Inglewood. "I said, 'You know what, those people at UCLA, they feel my pain. I need to be among fans who know what I'm going through.' "

Zai works here at the Business Journal.

On my way to Borders last night I encountered the eastside Zai Bryants. They had congregated around Michael Jackson the radio announcer's star on the Walk of Fame where they were singing, crying and generally hamming it up for the cameras.

(I also saw a guy "reporting on the scene" that I was sure I recognized. After a while I finally figured it out. His name is Rick and he was on that A&E show about OCD. He works out approximately 50 times per week, constantly spins counter-clockwise and has to have a toothbrush in his mouth when driving. I suspect it was a long day for Rick.)

[AggroCrag]

Some imagined New York Post headlines;

WACKO JACKO HEART-ATTACKO

MAMA-SAY MAMA-SA MA-MY CONDOLENCES

Take out New York Post with Boston Herald (Boston's Post equivalent) and I'd say you hit the nail on the head-o.

http://wbztv.com/local/Michael.Jacks...2.1061505.html

[andrearunge]

On my way to Borders last night I encountered the eastside Zai Bryants. They had congregated around Michael Jackson the radio announcer's star on the Walk of Fame where they were singing, crying and generally hamming it up for the cameras.

(I also saw a guy "reporting on the scene" that I was sure I recognized. After a while I finally figured it out. His name is Rick and he was on that A&E show about OCD. He works out approximately 50 times per week, constantly spins counter-clockwise and has to have a toothbrush in his mouth when driving. I suspect it was a long day for Rick.)

What was Rick reporting on and did he work out in the middle of it?

[chapina]

Vh1 Classic is doing a MJ marathon and it's pretty sweet because they've got the awesome videos but also some what-the-fuck-is-this videos. It's like the sweet and the sour.

[dorothy mantooth]

What was Rick reporting on and did he work out in the middle of it?

Presumably, Rick was reporting on the outpouring of (manufactured) emotion by the 50-some people (f*cktards) gathered around (the wrong) Michael Jackson's star.

I was hoping for a squat-thrust or a deep-knee bend but, alas, I got nuthin'. I wonder if he was cured?

[Trial]

[DavidtheDavid]

I first heard of Michael Jackson when a 3rd grade teacher invited us to bring tapes of our favorite songs to play in class and a classmate brought in "Man In the Mirror" from Bad. The teacher would not play it. She said Michael Jackson had dirty lyrics. I have been fascinated by Michael Jackson since then. A truly mythic figure for my childhood.

i just caught this:

America made MJ, the good and the bad. And lo, we are a fickle master; praising him one moment and condemning him the next. He was too sensitive for this world. All of our racism, cruelty and our obsession with looks and money poisoned him. He was the public face of our societal ills. The cave is toxic: Our canary has died.

man babychoby, what a perfect and concise summation. you could easily expand this thought to an essay. i hope you write for a living.

[Big Box Of Money]

Take out New York Post with Boston Herald (Boston's Post equivalent) and I'd say you hit the nail on the head-o.

http://wbztv.com/local/Michael.Jacks...2.1061505.html

Strangely enough, no wordplay from the Post. Plenty of awfulness though.



We've come a long way since the 30's, newspapers are now sensitive enough to drop the exlcamation points off of headlines like these.

[_Astra_]

part of my childhood died with him, fuck you, you're toast, go fuck yourself, you're shit, when you burst no one will care

Ok, Ok, I'm an asshole for posting something too offensive, too soon, but there are a hell of a lot worse things posted too.