This whole Michael Jackson stuff stinks…

I gotta be honest, I liked Michael Jackson. I really liked him in his early years. And watching my uncle inexplicably nod his head for 30 seconds to the intro to ‘Beat It’ – I appreciated his middle years. His latter years were weird to me. I couldn’t understand his transmogrification. So I found his denouement weird and yet bizarrely predictable. I’d written about it just prior: 'He would never die of standard old age like your average mortal because he’d never had the benefit of going through the standard cognitive processes that anchor standard mortal life'. (Turgid, yes i know. But I was naive back then). I often used to joke that if I were Michael I would question why people drown when Peter Pan could fly. Controversial, simplistic... but sod it I’m putting it out there anyway. The whole Dr. Conrad case has been as bizarre as the dumbfounded expression on the Doctor’s face. The ‘who me?’ look has been discombobulating. But not because I think he did wrong, more because given the parcel that was Michael Jackson, he found it incomprehensible that the music could possibly stop on his watch.