Let’s Lay MJ To Rest…Seriously

I didn’t want to be the bad guy here, but I guess I’ll step up to the plate.

I’m talking about the soon-to-be-infamous Michael Jackson Memorial Service/Concert.  A memorial service to remember a man who died tragically before his time, people…not a kick-ass concert. Something that many people, mostly those who spent an entire day online (on Independence Day, no less) vying for tickets, seem to have forgotten.

I have so many problems with this spectacle.  For one, does anyone else think it’s about time we moved on from Michael Jackson’s death to, say…anything else in the news?  There are way more important things going on (stock market plunging…again? Secret troop movements? Hello?).  Don’t get me wrong – I rock out to MJ like you would not believe (not music videos, though…his face freaks me out), but I’m not about to buy a plane ticket and camp out at the Staples Center (yeah right – more like three miles from the Staples Center, due to the hundreds of thousands of crazy people who are/will be there) for his memorial service/random celebrity concert. Read More »