RIP MJ & FF

Say what you like about their choices and reasons. Question their ethics and morality if you choose.

MJ:

The man could sing. He could dance and I sang and danced along with many of his songs. Songs can reflect you, speak for you. Remind you of a time and make you feel better, or wallow in your pity party with you. MJ's music did all of this. ABC was a favorite 45 in my super-young youth. "Living Off The Wall" was a great album when one started to understand the teen connection to music. Thriller was like nothing I had ever seen in a music video. When he moonwalked years ago on that stage at the awards show I was one who witnessed and was electrified. Nothing like it had been seen on a national level and it was like magic happening for a moment. I remember that well. Kids at school for weeks trying to emulate.

I will choose to enjoy and remember this legacy of music for him because that is the best of him. His showmanship, music and lyrics that touched on common human conditions. He will always remain one of the most gifted entertainers to have shared his gift with others, in my eyes.

FF:

FF was always lovely and her eyes promised mischief with a smile to melt the ice in your heart. I remember watching "Charlie's Angels" too and she always was the "sex bomb," the guaranteed sexiness, hair-flipped femininity. Later both of us older, I saw her Emmy winning performance as a battered wife and thought "Wow, she can really act." She posed for Playboy later in her life and looked hot. She was on Letterman and seemed odd - but well-meaning. Her strength in sharing the struggle of her fight with cancer and how it affected and invaded her life was sad, heroic and a reminder. Nothing is promised so enjoy all you have and can. That illness is savage. She went down "a-swinging," my dad would say.

I'd say in doing so she retains all of her beauty inside and out. Her legacy trascends her beauty tremendous as that remains. For me she has achieved a measure of grace.

I feel for their kids and families. Loss like this just sucks.

Michael Jackson. Farrah Fawcett. Sad day.