Well, let's be clear. He probably beat it a lot with those kids around. Frankly, I was shocked because I always assumed Michael Jackson would never die-- the mother ship would just return and bring him home.
I guess I'm just pissed because now all the thunder has been stolen by the untimely demise of Ed McMahon. I mean, he wasn't even 90. Lord, why do you take the best first? Now I'm waiting for Elton John's tribute song, "Goodbye Scary Freak".
Chances are, Jackson killed himself by overwork and using substances to dull the pain caused by the stress he was putting on his emaciated 50 year old body. A body that he undoubtedly destoyed in his quest to be Diana Ross with a dick. Well, too fucking bad. He had everything, and like a cross-dressing Tony Montana, he let it all go to shit because he didn't have a lick of common sense and all the parasites feeding off of him wouldn't dare try to set him straight.
Or, it could be that the backers of his egomaniacal "come back" realized he was going to flop (I mean, get serious-- a 50 year old reputed child exploiter is going to recapture the magic by twitching around in a style that's been outdated for two decades? har dee har har har. There's a reason that the earth turns, my friends) and killed him off to collect on the key man insurance policy. Better that then have the whole tour collapse after two months because he just doesn't have it any more and nobody really gives a shit.
Either way, fuck him. The way he manipulated parents to donate their children to his clutches was sickening. In a just society, those parents and him would have been strung up a long time ago. I can only imagine that he's going to spend eternity in the clutches of a 12 foot tall psycho transvestite, dressing him up in dolly clothes and making him have "tea" with Ken.
Just wait until Sir Paul kicks it. The Boomers will go into such a tizzy over their own now impending mortality that the damn stock market will crash again, the housing market will tank anew, and the only business left worth investing in will be cryogen chambers and clones.
