2009 may have been Taylor Swift’s best year ever, but Beyonce had one of the best years of all time. OF ALL TIME!!!
Al Sharpton, to Michael Jackson’s kids: “There wasn’t nothing strange about your daddy.” Joe Mama, in comments: “It’s these kinds of reckless statements that risk tearing the very fabric of the space-time continuum, trapping all light and heat, and sucking a good part of Los Angeles into another dimension.” Heh. (Actually, if we take Sharpton’s use of the double-negative literally,… Read more »
In the wake of yesterday’s shocking events, most people seem, unsurprisingly and perhaps even understandably, to be primarily eulogizing Michael Jackson, pop icon and troubled genius, rather than Michael Jackson, accused child molester and all-around weirdo. This reminds me a bit of Richard Nixon’s death, when there was a tendency, at least in the initial days after he died, to… Read more »
Per TMZ. Also per @BreakingNews, which states: “FLASH — LOS ANGELES — “KING OF POP” MICHAEL JACKSON HAS DIED.” He was 50. UPDATE: The L.A. Times confirms. After the jump, I’ve posted a screenshot of the Times‘s homepage right now. Top story: Michael Jackson dies. Second story: Farrah Fawcett dies. Third story: the fiscal crisis that is about to cause… Read more »