Losing Neverland
I usually watch a few minutes of NBC's Today Show after local news and before I dash out the door. This morning, Today was broadcast from Neverland. Off went the TV.
That's my new rule - MJ "news" comes on, I change the channel or turn the set off. I don't care whether Prince Michael II was fathered by aliens - I don't want to know.
I liked Michael Jackson as much as the next guy, but enough is enough.
That's my new rule - MJ "news" comes on, I change the channel or turn the set off. I don't care whether Prince Michael II was fathered by aliens - I don't want to know.
I liked Michael Jackson as much as the next guy, but enough is enough.
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yez.
If there was any doubt as to the uselessness of the MSM, I'm fairly sure that it is no longer in question.
July 2, 2009 8:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
good rule. MJ on, TV off.
July 2, 2009 8:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
I started to get really angry until I remembered Anna Nicole. Then I realized that you just have to let some fights go, lest you lose the rest of your hair.
July 2, 2009 9:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
Last night, I read a book.
July 2, 2009 3:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'd rec your comment if I could. We turned off the TV and played a game.
July 2, 2009 5:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Donal: I agree; I have not watched one minute of MSM coverage of the MJ carnivale.
Instead, yesterday I went to the Frank Lloyd Wright exhibit at the Guggenheim. But, curiously, it was also vaguely macabre, in a very similar way. Precious renderings too precious to be displayed in light which would allow actually looking at and appreciating them. Cheek by jowl with intense hordes of the "following" fans.
So it was a lovely and relieving thing to come across drawings from his unbuilt projects, even though most of them resembled Wagnerian allusions to Valhalla. Did you know? (I'm sure you did) that he did a massive study of Baghdad, including a proposal for an arts center including an opera house, a gallery, a planetarium.. blah, blah, as well as a redo of the university, on an island in the river?
How much better would that have been, to be our Baghdad legacy, rather than the chaos we have wrought?????
Are you familiar with Wright's last (unbuilt) project -- the Donahue mountaintop enclave for an older woman and her two grown sons? Interesting correction to mountain topping/strip mining/bastardization and toxification of our landscape.
Of course, both the Baghdad proposal and the Donahue proposal so far out there that it is no surprise that they were not built.
Nonetheless, the vision of them, not to mention the ink, graphite and gouache renderings of all of it are absolutely sublime.
All one needed was a flashlight, or, in NeverLand terms, all one needed was to "think lovely, impossible thoughts.... and up you'll go..."
July 2, 2009 6:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed. At this point it is the media version of carrion birds feeding.
July 3, 2009 12:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
I have no TV and have complete freedom of choice not to watch MJ segments on line which I am grateful for.
July 3, 2009 12:44 AM | Reply | Permalink