im with u on that one. he did steal farrah's thunder. like gee u couldnt wait one day to have a heart attack. it was suppose to b about farrah yesterday. instead everyone is trying to glorify a child molester that died of an overdose of precription drugs. im not sad that he died. i actully laughed when i heard it. farrah i did shed a tear. your not a jerk for not being upset. unless other ppl think u are then ill gladly b a jerk to. i read your site everyday. i love your honest approch to everything. one of the few sites that tells it like it is :)

This is exactly the way I feel about this.

My response was "Oh yeah, he is dead" confirming rumors we heard at dinner at work. And then "tomatillo quesadillas!", reading the next thing in my inbox.

Well done, Stacey. And you're absolutely right. We mourned the loss of Michael Jackson as a supremely talented artist many years ago.

Oh Stacey, who can melt your cold, cold heart?
Never was a fan (in fact that picture brings back my hatred of the 80's overexposure of BOTH ET and MJ).
But at least he is at peace now. Make no mistake; he was haunted by his terrible childhood, and it is most certain he was a victim of molestation himself.
The trouble was that he was poorly managed after Thriller. Nobody did anything to curb his sick behavior around children, and he was allowed to do fuck-all with his music career.

I agree with you, Stacey. I never cared for his music, but I'll take the word of others who swear he was a musical genius. Whatever his talent was, he's lucky that it wasn't completely overshadowed by his wackadoodle behavior later in life. I'm not completely certain he molested those kids, but I'm not convinced he didn't. Mostly I just think that it's good that he brought and will continue to bring happiness to people through the one thing he seemed to really love (that would be the music, not touching children, despite the glee of '90s late-night talk show hosts), and that he genuinely does deserve to rest in peace, free of what has haunted him for so long.

Oh, be still my beating heart for I, one lowly student living in the south of Eng-er-land, has fallen madly - nay, passionately - in love with an internet blog.

I'm slightly lost on why we aren't celebrating the death of a peadophile.

Oh, hang on... because he could moonwalk. Gotcha.

It is tragic, but as you said, the tragedy is the way he lived for the past 20 years or more.

Being the heartless bastard that I am, the first thought when I heard MJ was dead was this--they probably won't have to use that much chemicals to embalm his body. I mean, how much of his body do you think was OEM?

Such poetic words you speak of the dead, dear Stacey. I didn't know you could steal someone's thunder in death. I'm sure he totally planned that and deserved to be called an asshole for such. People suffer from cancer and die everyday. Farrah is not forgotten.

I think the difference here is that M.J slowly and by choice killed himself. Now we are supposed to mourn a addict? Poor Farrah had suffered a agonizing death. And having lost my Dad from cancer I wish that on no one. Cancer patients suffer horribly. But who are people falling over and weeping over a pedohile and junkie. Its like when Johnny Cash and John Ritter died on the same day. Johnny Cash (who sure battled many a personal demon) was a footnote to the man who played Jack Tripper. Sigh.

I dont understand really though how anyone "mourns" a celebrity anyhow. You didnt know them, they didnt know you and yet people weep and wail over them. Sure its sad that they died. But so did many many other people that day. Babies and children who never had a chance. M.J had his chance and he squandered it.

Also Fuck him and his contributions. His musical career does not negate the fact that he was sick in the head. And having a shitty child hood does not excuse it either. So he had a hard childhood so that makes it o.k to ruin another childs?

Before you all go patting yourselves on the back so much: didn't Farrah also have substance abuse problems as well? Not to mention her crap-ass relationships and episodes of lunacy? And wasn't she pretty much the proto-Pamela Anderson in the first place, known more for spank bank material than any real talent? As far as being abuse not being an excuse, does that apply to Farrah's spousal abuse too?

Seriously, ask yourselves: would you give one whit about Farrah Fawcett if she didn't have cancer? Did you give a whit before she was diagnosed, when she was simply a has-been actress?

Sheesh. Maybe if you could climb off your high horses for a minute, you'd realize spitting on the man's grave makes about much difference as weeping over hers: none.

Oh and a heart attack ain't exactly whistlin' Dixie either. At least Farrah had the fortune of preparing for her end.

I mourned Natasha Richardson's death. This one not at all.

farrahs last wish was that the children of the world be safe, so god killed michael jackson....

Christ, what the hell is wrong with you people?

Well put Salty.

Vermillion needs to go to JacksonloversFawcetthaters.com

Ah yes. Because only a guy who thinks like a cartoon would believe some thing that simplistic. Never dawns on anyone that a person could feel sympathy for BOTH at the same time, regardless of their personal lives. Nope, has to be one or the other, don't it?

"At least Farrah had the fortune of preparing for her end."

Have you ever lost someone to cancer? I would rather a million other deaths for my Father then have him suffer the way he did. I would choose a heart attack if it was fast and relatively painless in a instant. Oh yeah Farrah was real fortunate to have lingered in pain waiting, knowing that you were going to die you just didnt know when. And I don't say this as a fan of hers. I mourned her now more then I mourn any celebrity I dont know. I had a fleeting thought that well at least she isnt suffering anymore. And she may have been nothing more then jerk off material, at least she kept her hands off little boys.

Shame on you people. Michael Jackson was an angel.