To hell with Michael Jackson
You want to read about a true musical legend who’s actually worth bothering about as a human being? Look no further than here.
Update! Good line from Lileks, on Farrah Fawcett, yesterday’s other pop-culture death:
If they’d invented cheap scanners in the 70s, they would have been big enough to handle a poster.
Yes indeedy. Spent countless hours as a teenager myself staring at that poster, trying to conjure the image of the reality behind the poster’s strong hint about those high-beams by sheer force of über-libidinous will. Then she posed for Playboy; mystery solved — if there ever really was one.




