In case you hadn’t guessed, I’m not that fussed about Michael Jackson’s death. Actually, I am in a way, because it has lead to a good week’s worth of tasteless jokes, especially good when aimed at the girlfriend’s housemate who not only broke the news of his passing at the most inopportune moment, but also really likes (liked?) the guy and so gets extra annoyed at them.
Anywho, I found this cartoonvia a trawl from blog to blog to blog, which I feel properly sums up the most momentous event this decade:
Put a "BBC News" logo on and it could pass for the real thing
July 2, 2009 at 10:00
On the night, the news was a bit confused; it was hard to work out what was going on. At one stage, there were reports that he had been admitted to A&E with a heart attack.
That wasn’t true: he was in the Children’s Ward having a stroke.
July 6, 2009 at 10:27
Spot on. The number of nobodies, has been’s and never were’s who were winkled out of the woodwork to pass inane comment on MJ was staggering. Whenever I was (accidentally) exposed to such empty rhetoric I found myself repeating “who really gives a toss?”. It’s the Twitter mentality: “I’ve got nothing to say, but I’m gonna say something anyway. Existence is noise.”