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Thursday, June 25, 2009

RIP Finding a Silver Lining…

Posted by Megan Seling on Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:27 PM

Michael Jackson’s death has put to rest the controversial man he had become. For right now, all skeletons have been released from the closet and all alleged sins have been forgiven.*

The world can now unabashedly celebrate a man who made some of the best goddamn pop music history has ever known, and tonight we should all motherfucking dance. If you know of any Michael Jackson tribute sets/dance parties happening around the city tonight, let us know about them in the comments.

RIP, Michael Jackson.

*Statement only valid for the next 12 hours—the internet moves quickly and it is an unforgiving place.

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i cant wait for george bush to die... so we can forgive him of all his sins.

Posted by gary smith on June 25, 2009 at 4:40 PM

His whats have been WHAT!?

You have to be fucking joking.

Posted by Nick on June 25, 2009 at 4:46 PM

Thrifty @ Capitol Club (414 E. Pine) is throwing a dance party tonight with DJs playing classic and remixed MJ tracks!

Starts @ 10pm
Drink specials all night!
No Cover!!

Posted by get thee to Capitol Club tonight! on June 25, 2009 at 4:56 PM

Wha? Does anybody actually suggest that his later craziness diminishes the quality of his classic works? That is an unsound argument. (Clearly his output went downhill as he got older, but that's an entirely separate issue from the alleged child molestation.) We can appreciated MJ the freak and MJ the freaking genius without any affected moral conflict.

Posted by Eric Grandy on June 25, 2009 at 5:20 PM

i like his music.. i just thought it would be fun to to mock the whole sins forgiven thang..

Posted by gary smith on June 25, 2009 at 5:27 PM

@4 - Thank you! Not to mention the affect his work had on most of our childhoods, which has almost nothing to do with who he was as a person, especially later in life.

Posted by thegeneral on June 25, 2009 at 5:41 PM

Moonwalker was my favorite movie as a child. I used to try to do the "lean" from the "Smooth Criminal" video all the time. With no success.

Posted by marsgirl

on June 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM

I dunno @4 and @6, for the last 10 years or so, when I've heard the words "Michael Jackson", I've thought "batshit-crazy child-toucher" before I thought "genius musician". I guess it doesn't make his music any worse in my mind, but it DEFINITELY adds some context that clouds the original rosy picture a bit.

Posted by robby1066 on June 25, 2009 at 6:39 PM