Maybe the people on the bus should have handled the death of Michael Jackson like the millions of Twitter users who heard about the tragedy first. On the bus a fight broke out. A physical fight mind you. Over how we should all be remembering the life and times of the biggest pop icon of our time. A fight broke out over opinions, imagine that. Read the story about getting physical over Michael Jackson’s memory HERE
That’s just some of what happened in the world when Michael Jackson passed away of an apparent drug induced heart attack. Now what else happened this week? Well if you forgot or just didn’t hear the news over the noise, first Ed Mcmahon died and then on the morning of Michael Jackson’s death, Farrah Fawcett went to be with her lord after fighting a losing battle against anal cancer. Anal cancer I tell you. Who would have thought.
Ed Mcmahon was old and we all knew it. He was having a hard time too, what with the issues with finances and his home. Ed Mcmahon went slowly to the light. The right time for a man like him to see his god, Ed Mcmahon went with a prayer from those who loved him and a thought of how he was in a better place. Ed Mcmahon was responsible for more than we give him credit for. When Britney Spears speaks of Ed Mcmahon as the one who started her career, she’d be right. Ed Mcmahon was the guy on Star Search who made it all happen. So we lay to rest the man but keep the memories, fond and without scandal. Goodnight Ed.
So Farrah was next on the short list of who’s time was up. Farrah was a girl we loved when we were too young to love a girl for all those reasons. Full sized and on the television screen most young men yearned to see just a little bit more than we should. What we did not have physically in the flesh we imagined and found that our sexuality was something that could be focused, if not just for the body, but the whole package. As an Angel she was the most lusted after woman on the screen (Outside of Wonder Woman). So Farrah passed just before her time. The disease took her just too soon and we were somewhat happy that her suffering was over.
So after watching the ebb and flow of life after death the world came to a complete halt, at least online, when Twitter started getting the reports published by people like you and me. Forget that some people went to far and started throwing all sorts of celebrity names into the death reports, the truth to me was realized on the third post that Michael Jackson had died. Forget that TMZ was the first to report it. Harvey Levin is a lawyer and I think the most real news reporter there is when it comes to celebrity news. So for me it was true just a couple hours real time after Michael Jackson died rather than the four hours it took the networks to finally say the King of Pop had died.
When you want to get raw news that doesn’t flinch, then Twitter is the outlet for you. So everyone is dead and we are left to find out what happened. But we know already right? Ed died of old age and probably a life that can wear you down emotionally and physically. When your that close to death, death comes as no surprise. And for Farrah the disease she had was terminal and we’re glad she suffers no more. But Michael, Michael will be the story that keeps going because at fifty, no matter how rough life is we still have enough of it to survive. Unless a ‘perfect’ doctor gives us just a little too much of what we’re looking for. Goodnight Michael, your medicine or your doctor took your life, life didn’t go willingly I’m sure.
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