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Published Letters: 3
News-flash!
Memorials are almost always strange and somber. They happen when someone dies.
"Maybe, I thought, the low energy derived from the fact that Michael's death, despite what we keep hearing on TV, wasn't an unexpected tragedy."
Sorry it didn't provide the high energy thrills you were looking for.
Michael Jackson was never particularly high on my radar, even though I'm as old as he was, but I can fathom his importance in the civil rights spectre - he created a huge pop-cultural opening where there had been none.
That said, I can't believe his memorial is being 'critiqued' by all the hipster news sites as if they were expecting some show that had been in heavy rehearsal for months. And did you all really expect his legal travails and plastic surgery abuse to be hot memorial topics? Or maybe you were looking for tribute dancing to rival the introduction of the moonwalk?
Mercy! It was a damn memorial for a dead person! I'm disappointed with all vulture journalism. I'm sorry he confused you, maybe you shouldn't have watched. Death is ultimately confusing.
Yes. That's all I have to say. Your virtue is exhausting.
