For reasons I can’t really put my finger on, the death of Michael Jackson just seems so surreal. His music meanders through much of the landscape of my childhood. I know the news coverage of his passing is going to continue ad naseum and there is a lot of other really important news pushed to the side for stories of his life, but I’d like to share one memory from childhood that I think you might get a chuckle out of.
I distinctly remember LOVING the Thriller video as a kid. I still get chills watching (or people doing the dance) even now as an adult. One night while flipping through TV Guide, back before the internets when people actually had to use a paper catalog to figure out the TV schedule, I was excited to see thriller pop up several times in the pages. I gleefully tuned in only to find it was not Thriller, but the description of some “scary” movie. I was crushed. But I later developed a taste for scary movies, go figure.
So I leave you with this, which mixes the nostalgia with the AWESOME.
