the king is dead.
Michael Jackson died today. He was 50.
I thought it was important to make note of it here in the journal as the future Noodle would look back at this post and remember the date.
It was a weird day. I watched the news unfold on the internet while at work like I did on September 11th, 2001. It was kind of creepy watching all the different sites proclaim him dead when actual official confirmation didn’t come until later in the day. It makes you wonder how accurate our news sources are these days. There was minute by minute updates. Live video feeds from a helicopter above the hospital. My Twitter feeds seemed to have second by second updates and rumors.
Yeah, I know. Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, blah blah, YAWN. Enough already. I am about done with the whole lot of them, but I’m saving that topic for another post. YAWN to the whole internet I say!
I was pretty sad that Michael passed. Before it became official news I was really hoping that it was just a rumor and he was going to jump out and say tah dah!
Everybody loved the “Thriller” years of course. As a kid we were definitely wowed by his moves. I think it’s a shame that all the coverage so far today in what I’ve seen in the media of his life is focusing heavily on his troubled freaky years. The man was a genius folks!
I’m not going to any memorial services and don’t think that I have any of his albums anymore, so I’m not weirding out about it. I’m not playing “Billy Jean” and crying as I type this. I just thought it seemed like an important moment to make note of.
Oh yeah. Farrah Fawcett died today as well. Cancer. So bizarre how she started the day as the top news story and is now bumped to page 2. That’s strange. We’ll forever remember her now dying on the same day that Michael died. Maybe we’ll remember Michael dying on the day Farrah died?
Mr. Baptist, K and G are still at the beach. I am at home alone with the dogs and cat.
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