• Archive: Michael Jackson

I’d Rather Be High While Watching That Amazingly Strange Ad with Bowie

Nov 13

We’re inured to it now — even those of us who remember a time when weirdo rock music, even of the most commercially popular sort, wasn’t used in television advertisement.  But every once in awhile, there is an odd or interesting enough juxtaposition of the content of the song to the company being advertised… or even just to the fact that someone deemed this appropriate to be part of an ad, that it makes me, at least, sit up and take notice (and wonder why no one else ever seems to).

Was Michael Jackson A Transhumanist?

Oct 23

h+, June 2009

The rumor– whether true or not — that Michael Jackson missed his cryonics appointment, but instead arrangements are being made to have him plastinated by the ever-controversial Gunther von  Hagens would not surprise anybody, if true.  Rather, one is — to some degree — surprised that Jacko did not arrange for the greatest return engagement in entertainment history.