Strange day
Today was Take Molly To The Vet Day.
Before we left for the vet: Farrah Fawcett died!
After we got home from the vet: Michael Jackson died!
It’s celebrity death day. Fawcett’s passing was sad but not unexpected, since she was ill with cancer. But the Jackson thing is a huge shock. And no, I don’t have anything insightful or clever or important to say about it; I’m just startled. Dude was only four years older than I am.
I know I said yesterday my next post would be on the future of NOW, but I need to get through my emails first and see what’s going on with the Secret Feminist Cabal that rules the world. You didn’t know this blog was the nerve center for the global shadow government, did you?
28 Responses to “Strange day”
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orlando says:
“You didn’t know this blog was the nerve center for the global shadow government, did you?”
I didn’t know, but I always believed it in my heart.
June 25th, 2009 at 7:55 pm EST -
Nora says:
“You didn’t know this blog was the nerve center for the global shadow government, did you?”
Doesn’t surprise me. I knew I hit paydirt the first time I visited this site.
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Lynnerkat says:
Well, duh! Hope all checked out well with Molly.
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Violet says:
Vet didn’t find anything, so we’ll see what the blood work shows. She’ll probably be going back in for X-rays.
She has a persistent cough.
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MojaveWolf says:
Best wishes for Molly! Hope the cough is no big deal.
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Beet says:
Best wishes for your Molly!
It is truly frightening, they said he had passed a 4 1/2 hour medical exam this year.
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Nina M. says:
Get well wishes from me and The Biter… maybe she’s just warming up her vocal cords for an American Idol audition? Best keep a close eye on her.
I’m hooked on the Michael Jackson coverage. All these people speaking extemporaneously - I’m sorry to be insensitive to a person’s death, but its the best television I’ve seen in ages.
From Larry King: [rambling] “he loved little boys, he loved to play with them, he had his toys… Hrmmphrrummmph, there was nothing sexual about it…” Larry also noted that the last time he saw Michael, “he looked great… he looked healthy… there was nothing wrong with him….” Sure, Larry, as a mummy, you’re an expert in mortality.
From Donna Brazile, interviewed by Wolf Blitzer: “Michael was a great humanitarian…. Michael was about hope…. About love…. He cared about everybody…. He embodied love, not just through his music, but through his presence…”
Wolf Blitzer: “Did you ever have the chance to meet him, Donna?”
D’OH! Turns out she met him once, at one of the Clinton inaugurations, and saw him in concert as a teenager. But she knows he embodied love - kinda like a certain messiah (or two).
Other random comments: “He connected with everyone who ever heard him.” “For a long time, he was everyone’s little brother.” “He sold more items than anyone else” (that was from Sharpton). “He was a great humanitarian.” I have also learned that an anomaly in the space time continuum made it possible for “We Are the World” to inspire “Do They Know Its Christmas.”
Its madness. The man’s a bloody tragedy, but they’re carrying on with the same enabling that kept his “bubble” intact.
Or maybe that’s just CNN.
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Violet says:
Is anybody saying, “Yeah, that Michael Jackson was one weird freak-ass dude”?
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sonia says:
“Secret Feminist Cabal that rules the world”
love it-
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samanthasmom says:
Sam has a seizure disorder and chronic ear infections so I spend half my time at the vet. I hope all goes well for you and your pup, Molly.
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Amy K. says:
Is anybody saying, “Yeah, that Michael Jackson was one weird freak-ass dude”?
Yes, Greta VanSusteren. Except she repeatedly uses bizarre rather than ‘freak ass dude’ Always have liked Greta.
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myiq2xu says:
What would be really bizarre would be if Michael had turned out “normal” after everything he went through as a child.
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Violet says:
I think Nina said it best. The man was a tragedy.
Insulated by money, surrounded by people who wouldn’t say no or help arrest his self-destruction. For several years I have avoided even looking at photos of him because it was just too disturbing.
Huge talent. Tragic life. Just sad all the way around.
I didn’t realize his children were already as old as 11, 12. Dear god. They’ve had plenty of time to get completely fucked up.
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Fredster says:
I hate to say this: It’s sad that he died, yes.
He was attempting a comeback, and that’s the sad thing about some of these celebrities when the scene has passed them by. They can’t give it up.
He was a great talent but his life got so screwed up by his upbringing and then by celebrity itself.
What’s bizarre to me is all this wall-to-wall coverage of him. He died, they told us, okay. Enough! (can’t imagine what the funeral is going to be like)
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TheOtherDelphyne says:
Nerve center for the shadow government - love it! It’s better than any government on Planet Earth now.
Hoping Molly is better soon! My sister’s dog, Grace, had that strange cough, too - it turned out to be nothing. She was put on a round of antibiotics and seems fine - her normal rowdy and gluttonous self! Kylie sends regards to Molly…
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Sis says:
Farrah Fawcett was stunning in The Burning Bed. She made huge gains for community understanding of battered women’s experience. So many people watched that movie, just because it was Farrah.
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Melissa says:
I always felt that Michael Jackson got terrible advice from his handlers/advisors when all the child molestation stuff was swirling. Didn’t anyone ever tell him that 30 or 40 something year old men shouldn’t be sleeping in the same bed with children? It could be completely innocent (I’m on the fence about whether or not it was), but it looks really bad. Maybe he just didn’t want to listen to anyone who tried to tell him this. I don’t know, the whole thing, his life and death are just sad.
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TheOtherDelphyne says:
Yes, she was, Sis - and I liked Extremities, too.
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Modem XX says:
I’m just wondering what went on in D.C. today while everyone was distracted by the deaths of Farrah and Michael. Friday is always “news dump” day and when they have a story that takes all the media’s attention, it is really dangerous.
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angienc says:
Modem XX — oh, haven’t you heard? While the media is pre-occupied with Michael, Obama is signing an Executive Order to indefinitely detain “terror suspects.” Barack W. Bush.
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sister of ye says:
I feel like an apostate admitting this, but I never much cared for Jackson’s music. I’m just enough older than him that a pre-pubescent boy screeching love songs didn’t do a thing for me. (Ditto Donnie Osmond.) His adult music was okay, but I’ve never been into “the latest sensation!” My contrarian streak.
I give him credit on two points: he used Vincent Price in Thriller, and he was always cooperative with Weird Al’s send-ups of his hits, even appearing on one of the vids. Plus I understand he did a lot to support various charities.
It’s not a deep loss for me, but it’s always sad when someone dies so relatively young. He seemed very troubled, so hopefully, if there is a life beyond, he’s found his peace.
Farah Fawcett hit me a little more, because I’ve known a few people who died of cancer, and it’s a rough way to go. I admire her efforts to get beyond pin-up status, and efforts to help others while battling for her own life.
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Violet says:
Hey you guys, no fair writing comments about the same thing I’m writing a post on. Especially you, angienc. What’s the matter, the mindreading not working out for you?
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soopermouse says:
and today I have seen the day when Twisty/Jill proves yet again that shesa mysoginist ad classist knob with the best of them.
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Sis says:
Forced:
“(…) potentially stigmatizing condition that can be the result of infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV), a sexually transmitted infection.
“This does not mean that she was promiscuous,” noted Dr. Jay Brooks, chairman of the department of hematology and oncology at Ochsner Clinic Foundation and Hospital in Baton Rouge, La. “It simply means that she, at some point in her life, was probably exposed to the human papilloma virus.”
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Sis says:
So c’mon. What’s the real cause of Farrah’s death? You know, the one none of the media, and certainly none of the ‘fun feminists’ will acknowledge?
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Level Best says:
Sis, the major news media are not about to use Farrah’s death as a teaching point that anal sex is dangerous for women, because men LOVE degrading women with it in the name of sexual freedom. Yes, I’ve heard some women are OK with it, but it is not worth the risks.
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Sis says:
Well some women (most?) at some time, are *ok* with some manner of women-hating. Eventually, they can’t pretend and smile anymore. Don’t leave the matches next to the bed.
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teresainpa says:
I never would have thought today would be the day for a discussion of a**l sex. I think some women don’t find it degrading, but I could be wrong. I just always thought it would be painful… particularly with the hemeroids that come from giving birth to two very large sons. = )
