So I don’t know why I went and said that I was. Maybe I was feeling guilty that I compared him to Jorge Luis Borges, although who of the two has made a most lasting impression on his art form? To put it another way: who of the two has made a more lasting impression [...]
Last one
You were the Baddest of the Bad. We miss you already.
Michael Jackson and MJ
While reading about Michael Jackson and his struggles with the media, I keep coming back to this piece. Written by Jorge Luis Borges in 1960, the title “Borges and I” is the only introduction you need: It is to that other one, to Borges, that things happen. I walk through Buenos Aires and I pause, [...]
The Demerol shot heard round the world
There has been very little bile so far. Frankly I expected more. Most of it is subtle, tepid (no links, I wouldn’t find it appropriate): “such unfulfilled promise,” “remember what he was, not what he became,” “I loved him as a child star.” The first is a preposterous straw man. Unfulfilled promise? Every LP was [...]
“Tired of injustice/ Tired of the schemes/ The lies are disgusting/ So what does it mean?/ Kicking me down/ I got to get up/ As jacked as it sounds/ The whole system sucks”
Jackson committed a fairly common logical misstep when he wrote that line. It’s the same kind of pardonable error as saying “the health care system” or “the news media is…” or “corporations are greedy.” It’s the hazard of mistaking the plural for the singular, the deliberate for the unorganized. Health care is an “industry,” not [...]
My Reaction to Michael Jackson’s Death
Every blog and news outlet, whether it be music, sports or personal are all a buzz about the death of Michael Jackson. I hate to dog pile the subject considering this blog has already posted one short mention of this news already but I believe I have a thought, possibly a stupor, that quite a [...]
A world without Michael Jackson
Rest in peace, brother.
