Posts Tagged ‘integral-final’

Funeral or Circus

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Or putting the “fun” in funeral!  What a side show this is turning out to be. Obviously, Michael Jackson’s life was like some kind of weird tragic opera in which his death was was an integral final scene.  Now that he’s dead, the events since his his passing are more like Opera Buffa .  Every shirttail relative, every sycophant in his entourage and his greedy old man are all jockeying for whatever is left of his legacy and fortune.  And now, adding to that mix,  Al  Sharpton and Jesse Jackson

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Funeral or Circus

“Suffer little children to come unto him” – Michael Jackson is the new Messiah

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

It never ceases to amaze me how death can make even the most reviled monsters into wonderful heroes. In life, “Wacko Jacko” was branded a freak, a kiddie-fiddler, a madman… but now he’s dead, everyone loves the guy. For years, his CDs have sat gathering dust on record store shelves; a day after his death, they’re all sold out. It would surprise me less if Saddam Hussein’s birthday was proclaimed a national holiday in the USA. Crazy. Of course, the public has always been pretty irrational w


“Suffer little children to come unto him” – Michael Jackson is the new Messiah