I remember how shocking Bad was when it first came out.
Who died and made you Elvis?
Cordelia ,'Storyteller'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Barb - Jun 25, 2009 2:04:27 pm PDT #25906 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Theodosia - Jun 25, 2009 2:09:06 pm PDT #25907 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
My prediction is that the next online site to crash will be YouTube, as people rush to look at MJ when he was young, talented, and not crazy.
Connie Neil - Jun 25, 2009 2:11:09 pm PDT #25908 of 30000
brillig
Just watched the Motown thing. You think, "boy, what a collection of '80s cliche moves," then it dawns on you, "Oh, yeah, it's cliche because everyone loved this guy who did them."
Mustn't get teary-eyed. It's as much for my youth gone by as anything else.
sarameg - Jun 25, 2009 2:17:19 pm PDT #25909 of 30000
Why am I getting wedding catalogs?
msbelle - Jun 25, 2009 2:23:14 pm PDT #25910 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
So I accidentally bleached out an area of my rug, aaannnd the cat peed on the floor again. Kinda sick of him.
msbelle - Jun 25, 2009 2:33:14 pm PDT #25911 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Tv guide channel has live coverage about mj. The entertainment evening shows are all doing farrah retrospectives, but were filmed before the full mj news.
tommyrot - Jun 25, 2009 2:35:54 pm PDT #25912 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm surprised at how sad I am about Michael's death. I mean, I've been making fun of him for many years now.
Yeah, he was really talented, before he got all weird....
Tom Scola - Jun 25, 2009 2:38:24 pm PDT #25913 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
He didn't get weird, he was made weird.
From a young age Jackson was physically and mentally abused by his father, enduring incessant rehearsals, whippings and name-calling. Jackson's abuse as a child affected him throughout his grown life. In one altercation—later recalled by Marlon Jackson—Joseph held Michael upside down by one leg and "pummeled him over and over again with his hand, hitting him on his back and buttocks". Joseph would often trip up, or push the male children into walls. One night while Jackson was asleep, Joseph climbed into his room through the bedroom window. Wearing a fright mask, he entered the room screaming and shouting. Joseph said he wanted to teach his children not to leave the window open when they went to sleep. For years afterward, Jackson suffered nightmares about being kidnapped from his bedroom.
§ ita § - Jun 25, 2009 2:46:26 pm PDT #25914 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jaysus Christ.
Steph L. - Jun 25, 2009 3:01:28 pm PDT #25915 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
He didn't get weird, he was made weird.
You have to have a license to drive a car, to fish, to hunt, but not to be a goddamn parent. Jesus.