FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY

[dslartoo]

I was going to spend today listening to Michael Jackson tunes in honor of his death but discovered to my surprise that I only own "Thriller". Well, I'll listen to that, then. MJ became a trainwreck in the last several years, but he was always a great damn musician, and (like arkhamrefugee has said) that's all I care to remember.

Anyone want to make bets on who the third celeb to take the dirt nap will be?

[[edit: oops, forgot that Ed McMahon died Tuesday. I guess Jackson was the third.]]

Hooray it's FRIDAY!

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[[The Oracle would like to know if you have ever been really terrified while in a car.]]

Comments

[traumedy.livejournal.com]

We've already completed this cycle of three, sir. First: Ed McMahon; Second: Farrah Fawcett; Third: Michael Jackson.

If you want another after MJ, we'll have to kill two additional celebs. Not that there is anything wrong with that...

[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

What he/she said. There were already three!

I was sort of shocked by MJ's death.

[dslartoo.livejournal.com]

I just remembered McMahon, like, two seconds ago. Ooops, me. :) In my defense, I never watched Carson, so McMahon didn't make much of an impact on me.

cheers,
Phil

[dslartoo.livejournal.com]

I just remembered McMahon, like, two seconds ago. Ooops, me. :) In my defense, I never watched Carson, so McMahon didn't make much of an impact on me.

cheers,
Phil

[traumedy.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. If you'd have been on the ground when he went skydiving, perhaps his impact would've been more...well, just more.

In any case, Happy Friday.

[mpceccato.livejournal.com]

I had $5 on Walter Cronkite. I lost that one.

[sketchington.livejournal.com]

Farrah Fawcett died earlier in the day yesterday. You didn't hear about it because Micheal Jackson died.

[dslartoo.livejournal.com]

Oh, no. I knew about Farrah and mourned her a lot. She was very beautiful and talented. I was considering her #1 of 2 until I remembered McMahon.

cheers,
Phil

Done

[grunion.livejournal.com]

I've declared Michael Jackson to be the new Lady Di and I'm officially over the death entirely. I've yet to hear or see a single newscast that didn't have SOME mention of it (including SportCenter for crying out loud).

I mourn Jackson as much as any other random human's death. I feel for his family (that's not new come to think of it), but that's about the sum total of it.

Maybe I'm missing the point (I'm told I did when the last 'voice of a generation' died), but I'm already done.

Re: Done

[dslartoo.livejournal.com]

I was that way when Kurt Cobain blew his head off. About a day of news stories on that was all I could take. Then again, I never liked Nirvana.

cheers,
Phil

[eminor9th.livejournal.com]

Yes, really terrified while in a car many times, most recently, in a company van driving from Ft. Lauderdale to Naples, FL across the everglades. As i got out of tthe everglades and near Naples, it began to rain. I was behind a Hummer, I noticed his brake lights & then blue smoke from underneath. It was than I realized a small car going the other way had hhydroplaned, spun & come accross the median. I stood on the brakes and held the van straight. The little car went between me & the Hummer, just missing the Hummer, and I stopped just short of hitting the Hummer... Nobody hit anybody, and all was OK, but we all had to walk around in the rain for a while to calm the nerves before driving away...