who now have "worn out their welcome" - check out this weirdness. But my main question is: what the hell is with the band-aids on all his fingers? The first thing I thought was - that he is systematically obliterating his own finger-prints.
Posted by sheila"Weirdness" doesn't even begin do him justice. There has to be a stronger word, that also connotes icky revulsion.
Posted by: Dave J at August 19, 2004 4:33 PMIcky is good.
Ah, nothing can take "Off the Wall" away from him ... but I try not to think about Michael Jackson too much anymore.
Only now I'm obsessing about those band-aids.
Posted by: red at August 19, 2004 4:34 PMIt may be the most embarrassing thing I've ever done in my life, but in grad school I once wrote an essay titled "The Political Importance of Michael Jackson." My friends remind me of it, often.
But what's really sad is that I was playing "Off the Wall" for my 9-year old son recently, and he picked up the album cover and said "that's not Michael Jackson!" Well, it was, once.
Posted by: Jeff at August 19, 2004 4:35 PMOh my God, Jeff. You have GOT to tell me: what exactly IS the political importance of Michael Jackson?
Posted by: red at August 19, 2004 4:43 PMOh boy, I knew I would regret bringing that up. You'll have to forgive me. All copies have been destroyed so I'm going on memory a bit here, but I think the theory was that he was going to use his vast popularity to energize an entire generation of young Americans ("the Pepsi generation," I suppose) to a new level of political awareness...God, it hurts just to think about it.
Posted by: Jeff at August 19, 2004 4:56 PMmaybe the band-aid bit is a scaled down glove?
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at August 19, 2004 5:54 PMHe is making himself invisible. Think about it. His nose is smaller, his skin is getting lighter and lighter, his voice is so high it's almost a whisper. The only time he exists, is when he's on stage.
He's the most terriffying celeb of our time.
Posted by: Alex at August 19, 2004 5:58 PMI think he's got some swami who's teaching him some home therapy - every time he has an urge to touch a child inappropriately, he has to go touch a hot stove.
Posted by: Barry at August 19, 2004 9:49 PMJeepers! Neither he nor the other two look human.
He's beyond terrifffying.
Posted by: CW at August 19, 2004 11:42 PMas a black women i worked with in 1986 said, "michael jackson has gone from being a handsome black man to an ugly white woman"
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at August 20, 2004 8:49 AMAlex - heh heh heh
I agree. Terrifying man.
I watched that controversial documentary about him - could not look away. Even though it was disgusting and disturbing.
I mean - I LOVED Michael Jackson. Very weird.
Posted by: red at August 20, 2004 11:58 AMI think the word Dave J is looking for is "skeevy" or "skeeves me out"
as in "Michael Jackson is one skeevy man" or "Michael Jackson skeeves me out."
In my circle at least, "skeevy" denotes creepy and weird, usually with kind of a sexual overtone.
Posted by: ricki at August 20, 2004 3:11 PM