Vacation!

Okay folks, I am off back to Indiana for a long-needed vacation.

I’ll be spending time with the family, including a big redneck 4th of July Extravaganza with promises of singed fingers and hoses available on standby to put out grass fires.

I’ll also get a chance to visit with some friends I have not seen in a while and play a lot of golf.

Just get me to the airport put me on a plane
Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane


Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, is dead.

Woah.

Michael Jackson was our generation’s Elvis or John Lennon.  I was born in ‘76 and always knew of him as a solo artist who came from Gary, Indiana.  When I was a kid, I had the cassette tapes of Thriller, Bad, and Dangerous and wore them out.

The infant music network, MTV, was not really playing music videos from African-American artists, until the astronomical success of Thriller.  The industry stood up and took notice.

We were all fans.

When I was a kid, my sister and I, along with our neighbor friends, would make music videos on their dad’s new video camera, including lip-syncing to Michael Jackson.  I do remember at one point I was wearing my pleather lacket and had wild hair sprayed with green Halloween hairspray.

Did Michael Jackson have problems? Yes.  His personal life was a mess, granted, but he was a musical genius that I don’t think we will ever see again.  He changed the music industry for the better, his music will live on.

Rest in Peace Michael.

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