Thursday, July 09, 2009

Seriously?

Not to rehash overplayed recent events or anything, but this whole Michael Jackson thing is a bit too much for me.

On June 24th, he was a weirdo with a half-melted plastic face and creepy (read: probably illegal) attitudes towards children. And apparently starting from June 25th, he was one of the most amazing people in history and to say anything negative about him means you're a bad, bad person.

While I think some of the obituaries and articles that only focus on his scandals, legal issues and financial woes are in somewhat poor taste, the idea that I'm no longer allowed to even mention the fact that the dude was clearly one of the biggest freaks in modern times annoys the crap out of me. Or maybe I'm just bitter because I'm pretty sure the moment I die people aren't going to magically forget what a complete asshole I was. Whatever. If I want to tweet jokes about MJ being a dead pedophile all day while everyone else is being melodramatic, I will, and I won't feel bad about it.

The most offensive part is the people wailing in the streets and saying things like "A part of my childhood has died." Actually you self-obsessed dickhead, an ACTUAL PERSON has died, and you were not him, you were not related to him, and there's a 99.73 chance that you never even met the dude. As a matter of fact, your life before his death is likely identical to your life after his death, other than your incessant moaning about a guy who hadn't released anything worth listening to in over a decade. SHUT UP.

2 comments:

Vicki said...

Every comment I start to write sounds even more asshole-ish than what you wrote so I'll leave it at:

1. Thank you for not writing a load of BS like everyone else has been doing.

2. You will always be remembered as an asshole, no matter what you do. But deep down you like it.

PS My word verification is "rearfund". There's an MJ joke in there somewhere.

Kayleigh said...

I'm not getting any grant money for college because the state is so broke, but sure, let's make the tax payers foot the bill for a pedophile's memorial service.

Awesome.