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Posts Tagged ‘Michael Jackson’

A Medley of the La Las and Na Nas and Da Das

A joyous and creative experiment, the “history of lyrics that aren’t lyrics”: Unfortunately, you can also hear the devolution of mainstream pop as the quality steeply drops in the songs chosen from the last couple decades. Your Thoughts?

The Camels With Halloween Finale

Hope you’ve had a wonderful Camels With Halloween!!! Your Fears?

Thoughts on Style, Dignity, and Virtuous Self-Formation

David Brooks’s recent NY Times article is rather eloquent on our first president’s attempts to shape his inner man through adherence to a rigid code for outward behavior.  I personally in general inclined to interpret moralities most fundamentally as codes of discipline, whether they be culturally enforced or personally adopted as a deliberate tool for [...]

What About Him?

A couple clips of Rebecca Walker’s article on meeting Michael Jackson at 14, on experiencing life to his soundtrack, on gawking at his sordid personal implosion, and, finally, on responding to his death: Why Michael approached me in a room full of superstars after the show I will never know. Perhaps because I was the [...]

Judge This: Rep. King Calls Michael Jackson A “Pervert” And A “Lowlife” Michael Jackson

NY Congressman Peter King repeatedly calls Michael Jackson a pervert and a child molester and says the media has disgraced itself and there is “nothing good about this guy.”  We argues instead of honoring Michael Jackson we should glorify the men and women in the armed forces, those working with dying cancer patients and in [...]

Daily Hilarity: “Hitler Learns of Michael Jackson’s Death”

More bad news for Hitler:

Westboro Baptist Church To Picket Michael Jackson’s Funeral

Disgusting as every other time they picket a funeral. Members of Fred Phelps’s fundamentalist church are planning to picket the funeral of late pop icon Michael Jackson, according to the group’s website. For the full story on this group watch this 8 part series of videos beginning with this one: And yesterday, we saw this [...]

My One Michael Jackson Song

So, the other night I checked my computer and realized that not one of the 10,259 songs on it were by Michael Jackson. Then today I was randomly listening to the Simpsons soundtracks for the first time in years and it hit me.  There is one song from Michael Jackson (even though he didn’t actually [...]

Intimate Anecdotes About Michael Jackson

A rabbi friend mourns not just his death but his life, I would overcome my feelings of pity with a spirit of defiance. No, I will not cry. He hadn’t earned it.But then the news came that he had died. And I was devastated. Especially when I saw my children’s tears. Michael was accused of [...]