May (s)he rest...

Michael Jackson was an entertainment legend who molested or at the very least exploited children. One of the greatest dancers/performers of all time, he never came to terms with his lost childhood or embraced elusive adulthood. Not a boy, never quite a man, he lived in perpetuity in an arrested development -- at once promise fulfilled as well as unrealized potential. This was an extraordinarily blessed and accomplished individual who nevertheless followed the sad trajectory of what turned out to be an ordinary, oedipal, tragic prologue of a life.

But damn it if Off the Wall isn't one of the finest albums EVER made.

*sniffle*



P.S. Condolences to the family & friends of another entertainment icon who also passed away today, Farrah Fawcett.



They always seem to go in pairs, don't they?