R.I.P., King of Pop

What terrible news to wake up to yesterday. For some fluke reason, I decided to get on the Internet before I got out of bed. My homepage is the International Herald Tribune, and it had this huge headline, "Michael Jackson dead at 50."

Huh?

I was never really a huge Michael Jackson fan or anything, but the man could put out some catchy tunes. And man could he make a music video. Michael Jackson just doesn't seem like the kind of person who could just die, y'know? When I was a kid, my brothers and I would always try to do the moonwalk on the kitchen floor. Everyone knew all the words to his songs, everyone wanted to be able to dance as well as him... People like him can't just die...

Anyway, it was a big deal in China too, which says a lot because I haven't noticed Chinese people really listening to Western artists, aside from the Carpenters. The TV's in our office were all tuned to CNN, which our company pays extra to receive. Our friend Pang Li, who took us to see "Transformers 2," is a huuuuuuuge MJ fan. He actually had tickets to one of the concerts in London, but had to sell them a while back when the dates changed. Well, we all offered Pang Li our condolences in the morning and took him out for a beer after work in honor of the King of Pop. I doubt MJ was a drinker, but it seemed like an appropriate enough way to commemorate him...