I’ve pondered the thought of joining the blog nation for the last year or so, and finally with the death of pop icon Michael Jackson, I’ve decided now is as good a time as ever. I don’t know what to tell anyone who may read this what to expect – all six of you, anyway – and I don’t know if this will be a big success or a complete flop. I guess I won’t know for quite some time what this thing may evolve into. For now I will just say that I plan on blogging two to three times a week on a variety of topics. I’m not going to set myself up for boundaries or cliché’ tags – I don’t want to be the “Sports Blog” or the “Cooking Blog” or anything so simple minded and generic. I want my writing to express freedom of thought because to me, that is what has helped the best writers over the past 200 years be successful in telling their stories. For the most part this blog will not be heavily edited. If I get an idea I will just come here and put it out there for everyone to reflect on. At times it may be a bit crude or uncut and possibly not appropriate for general audiences. I guess I should apologize in advance, although I don’t feel like I will be doing anything wrong. In the end I will leave the readers – five of you now – to decide what to make of this experience. I guess we’ll see what happens.
I don’t want to take up too much time, but I think Michael Jackson deserves a bit of dignity in his death – more dignity than he sure as hell received while he was alive. The man was a musical genius and a gentle human being whose contributions to the world were often over looked because of the insecurities that haunted his past. I’m not saying he was a saint. But what I am saying is he was one of a kind who will probably sky rocket to cult like status now that he’s dead. That’s usually what happens though – when you’re living people think the worst of you, whether it is based on speculation or rumor, and once you die the human conscience comes out and tries to throw its weight in a different direction. Some of us ignore it; others have no choice but to accept it. I’m not asking anyone to like Michael Jackson.
I’m simply hoping that people will treat his family with dignity and recognize him as a human being first, before a pop culture icon.
Rest in Peace.
