Del, I am hardly an expert, I just know what I know and base my opinions from there. Still not sold on “what” exactly he did with young boys, could be a matter of extorting a rich person — if you read the court documents they are plenty damaging of the accusers as well. That said, I would NOT let him babysit my kids and I was over the “orgy of grief” three days after he died.

MJ may have been an entertaining icon to many, but he’s no Kurt Cobain, Paul Newman or Jimi Hendrix in my book. I am personally SICK of hearing about it, because the media is full of shit. If he were alive they’d be taking craps on him everyday, so yeah, enough with the hypocrisy already.

I was MUCH sadder when Princess Diana died, that was genuinely depressing. And when Kurt Cobain died, I actually spiraled into a pretty dark place for a while. Then again, I loved Nirvana, saw Kurt in concert shortly before he died, and they worst thing he ever did was dull his pain with drugs — no accusations of being a bad guy.

So there you have it, my opinion. Time to move from Michael Jackson, more a controversial figure than the world’s greatest entertainer.

I hate these faux orgies of grief we have these days. Grieving when someone famous dies It’s become something like a theme park ride since Diana died, it’s a recreational activity. People get a vicarous thrill out of it but two weeks later they don’t care. And they would probably never even bother crossing the road if it happened to their neighbour.

Okay Madge is banging on about him but would she let him babysit?

Just because Dawn wrote stuff anbout him while he was alive that was critical doesn’t mean that now he’s dead it’s untrue. (We’re all going to die you know, whether we are good or bad). Dying doesn’t make you a good person.

Anyway, next time I come on here I will be back to bitching about Dawn anyway. But on this point she is right.

I was surprised at how saddened I felt at hearing of his death.