Today is Friday, June 25, 2010.
Now, to me, that date means a hectic day (due to the fact that it is my boss' last day in the office for two weeks). It also means a hectic night (due to the fact that Titanica & Son will be stopping by our abode tomorrow, so I need to clean up the hobbit house).
That's all. Just another hectic day.
But for the rest of the world (for most of the people it seems); today is a day of mourning for the one year anniversary of Michael Jackson.
I had no ill will to the guy. I was never a fan. Last year on this date, when the Pocket Ferengei and I were out to dinner and we saw the new flash that Jackson "was rushed to the hospital", I stated to the PF "Well, he's dead". Then a half hour later another news flash ran "Michael Jackson died". No surprise there.
Why no surprise? Because the man was an unhappy human. As I stated on my Facebook page on the day after "Yesterday, the first race transplant proved unsuccessful". He really was an unhappy human in his skin. If you look on the internet and see all the photo's of him then and now (well, at least before he died); he didn't want to be a black man anymore. He had doctor's come-up with 'legitimate' disease for why his skin was lightening. But come on, doctor's can come up with anything just to make people feel justified in their feeling the way they do. (Sheesh, they've come up with "seasonal dysfunction disorder" for people who can't handle the holidays; and for the young kids there are "ADD" or "HADD", and a whole lot more.) I'm not saying that it's the doctor's fault that all these stupid diseases are being named.
Nowaday's people do not seem to want to take personal responsibility for themselves. It has to be someone else's fault or some new diseases fault.
Getting back to the Michael Jackson thing: Danny Bonaduce's (of the Partridge Family fame) has a scheduled appearance everyday on a news channel we listen to in the morning. This morning he spoke about how he knew Michael Jackson (from the TV shows they appeared on together, to school they went together). He stated that he didn't really know Michael as a friend, but he knew him. He then went on to tell about how, when Danny was in his "bad phase" (as he put it), he remembered a day when Danny was living in a bad part of town and one day a limo pulled onto his street. The back window got rolled down and there was Michael Jackson. Jackson says "How you doing Danny?" and Danny said "Good Michael". Then Michael Jackson rolled his window up and the limo took off and Danny [his words] "went off to do something bad." Then Danny Bonaduce went on to say that was one of his most special memories of how Michael Jackson was a nice person. My reaction to that is: Why? Just because Jackson took a moment of his time to see a down on his luck ex-school buddy? Jackson didn't actually do anything: like, oh let's say, offer to take Danny to rehab (since this is the time Danny said when he was doing "bad things" (Danny's euphemism for doing drugs)).
Fame to me equals "nothing" really. And especially with regards to Michael Jackson.
What was he really famous for? He was famous for his music (OK, that's a given). He was famous for his dancing (OK, I'll give you that too). He was also famous for being a strange person. Without getting into the kid aspect, he sure liked to buy some weird thing. Like an oxygen bed, and the Elephant Man's (John Merrick's) bones, etc. But, as I stated in the beginning of this rant, he loved to have plastic surgery. He just happened to use the world's worst plastic surgeon "EVER".
The sad part about this whole thing: people are still making money off of him. Granted all deceased famous people have this happen to them (Elvis comes to mind; so does Jim Morrison). I mention these two specifically because, given time, we'll be having Michael Jackson sightings. He's becoming infamous, just like those two. Hopefully his kids will benefit from his name (most likely they will).
Oh well, rant over. Time for this slave to get back to work.
More later (not on this subject, I hope -- the fame aspect sure, just not Jackson) -- Booboo
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