I think I'm at peace with it. UPDATED

It was a bad week to be famous.

Goodbye to the many celebrities who passed in the last 7 days, Karl Malden (Mladen George Sekulovich), (George Harvey) "Harve" Presnell, Farrah (Leni) Fawcett, and of course, Michael (Joseph) Jackson.

My apologies to any celebs I missed. (A reader below points out the sin of missing (William Darrell) Billy Mays Jr.!) It was tough to notice with Michael "Headlining" the obits. Hat tip to "Althouse."

For a different take altogether, try Michelle at Six Meat Buffet, who offers up this observation of Michael Jackson's death. Come on, we all thought it.

"The way I see it, asking us to remember Michael Jackson as a magnificent talent is like asking us to remember John Wayne Gacy for being a hilarious clown."

Read it all. Michelle points to Linda Stasi cutting loose at the New York Post. One of the reasons these people are paid to write (Stasi) is that they do it better than we do. Here's the evidence. Yes, we all thought it once again, but Linda says it with a little crack to the whip.

"(I)t's about time somebody had the nerve to say what millions of people must feel and believe about the once-talented black man who turned himself into a white woman before turning himself into a monster."

Now, can we have some real news?

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Michael Jackson Dead, so is Farrah Fawcett (UPDATED)

I mourn one, and raise the eyebrow at the other.

The Los Angeles Times - "The circumstances of Jackson's death remain unclear. Law enforcement sources said that Los Angeles Police Department robbery-homicide detectives have opened an investigation into the death, though they stressed there was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing. The detectives plan to interview relatives, friends and Jackson's doctors to try to figure out what happened. The L.A. County coroner's office will determine a cause of death."

So, Liz Taylor outlives him, and Farrah doesn't. I regard the death of Neda as more newsworthy. Jackson died a Hollywood death. It's only too typical. So "Elvis." Farrah's death was more touching, Ryan O'Neal, a man at her bedside. UPDATE: "Car Lust" chose to eulogize Michael and Farrah by showing car commercials, (in Michael's case a scooter commerical) that they appeared in. Separately of course. Michael has now been sliced and diced, twice.

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