Comments on: A tribute to Michael…

By: foolery

foolery — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 05:02:55 +0000

I still love this. One of your more insightful posts, Marcy.

By: Auds at Barking Mad

Auds at Barking Mad — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:15:59 +0000

AMEN!

By: annbb

annbb — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:42:57 +0000

Stopped by from Mental Mama’s blog. Love this post of yours. So well thought out and I couldn’t agree with you more.

By: Mental P Mama

Mental P Mama — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:37:12 +0000

Amen! A Michael Jackson to truly celebrate! Thank you so much for the heads-up.

By: April Driggers

April Driggers — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:23:15 +0000

This… is brilliant! I whole-heartedly agree 100%

By: Keri

Keri — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:39:37 +0000

well put i couldn’t agree more

By: Shelley

Shelley — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:01:47 +0000

Great post, Marcy. So true, so true :)

By: Alisa

Alisa — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:50:12 +0000

I wubba you! I don’t feel one iota sad that any celebrities died. Lots of more important people also died. Thanks for keeping it real.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:29:41 +0000

This post conveys my thoughts in a way I am unable to. Thank you for making what should have been an obvious point… but somehow isn’t. Although I can recognize his contribution musically, I just don’t understand why his death is such a huge media circus.

RIP, Smitty. Your positive contribution to the world will be missed! :)

By: Beate

Beate — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:46:41 +0000

Thank you :) LOVE your post.

By: Raezin

Raezin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:26:18 +0000

Cheers to Smitty!!! What a cute little old man, and inspiring.

Another awesome and bold post, Marcie! Well done, you.

By: Kathi D

Kathi D — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:07:46 +0000

So we should be sad every moment of every day? Because Good People die every day, somewhere.

Let’s face it, the nature of News is that it’s about things that are out of the ordinary (you know, like “man bites dog”?). The news can’t report on every good person who dies, and who would read it? The nature of Fame itself is that people are interested in the famous person for some reason. So events in the life of a famous person are news. I don’t take that as giving a value appraisal to one life over another.

It’s just the News Business.

By: Melanie @ Mel, A Dramatic Mommy

Melanie @ Mel, A Dramatic Mommy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:27:41 +0000

And this is where we agree to disagree.

By: Martha

Martha — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:55:13 +0000

I can’t imagine crying over any famous person’s death. I did get teared up over the state funeral of Ronald Reagan because of his widow’s reaction, but not his actual death. But yeah, not someone like Michael Jackson, and especially not enough to go to the extremes some of these fans have. Don’t they have family they can focus their passion on?

By: Adriane

Adriane — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:36:43 +0000

Well said! :)

By: Cassie

Cassie — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:10:10 +0000

I’m glad you said it! It amazed me when people said they CRIED when they heard about it. Yes he made good music 20 years ago but that just isn’t enough for me to cry over.

By: foolery

foolery — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:05:04 +0000

*Sigh.*

Marcy for the win. Eloquently written, but more than that? You have a GIFT of being able to pull from the atmosphere just the right image, just the right example, to drive home your point.

That tribute to Smitty made me tear up, for real. Michael Jackson’s death didn’t cause so much as a sniffle. It was very sad — for him, for his family, but not for me. I’ll even argue with you over the question of the degree of his talent (but not for very long) because I just plain DID NOT LIKE his music. Influential, innovative, savvy, charismatic — absolutely. But talented? With asterisks. (But his dancing was fantastic.)

And all of the above points made by your commenters were spot-on as well. Gosh, The Glamorous Life Association has SUCH smart members. ;)

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:02:55 +0000

Amen!!!

By: C. J.

C. J. — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:41:16 +0000

Very well put, Marcy. I was afraid I was the only one who felt this way.

By: MomZombie

MomZombie — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:24:34 +0000

I like that you point out that ordinary folks who make a difference in their own worlds die every day without much notice. I’ve always loved the stories of the average-everyday people better than the mostly trivial exploits of the superstars.