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

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

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.

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.

LOVE.

And to everyone mourning – love yourself and make a difference. That will be more productive!

Create a Great Day!
Pat

Here in DC, we’re still mourning the loss of 9 people due to that accident on Metro on Monday. Everyday people, just goin’ about their business, commuting home from – or to – work, the victims now of an apparent computer relay problem and some too-old cars not built to withstand that kind of impact. Could’ve happened to me. I ride that train line and was trying to get on a train on a different part of it that day.

As you know, I’m mostly annoyed that the media isn’t giving equal coverage to two celebrity deaths. I get that MJ was sudden and Farrah had been sick for a while now, but both were icons of their generation.

I’m not sad- more reverant about the fact that my generation lost someone of mass influence- both positive and negative. It’s a milestone for everyone who owned a cassette of Thriller.