It was kind of a shock to look at the headline news on my homepage this evening and see that Michael Jackson has passed away. While I wasn’t a huge fan of his music, I do think that he had some good songs. So I just spent like an hour watching news footage online (since we don’t get any TV channels) that was mostly documentaries about MJ’s life. Lots of sad stuff there. It kind of irks me how the media plays up Jackson’s “strangeness” so much. I mean, I know we have all done weird things at different points in our lives and there are plenty of eccentric people out there, but it seems like if you are already a star and you do eccentric things, that makes you like 500% weirder than anyone else doing the same stuff.
I will always like that Free Willy song, no matter how retarded it actually is. I think I owe that to my 7-year-old self.
