My Prediction On Michael Jackson: The Doctor, In The Bedroom, With A Needle

After my post on the events of yesterday, a reader e-mailed:

(I) held off on putting my two cents in on the demise of Michael Jackson, and this is because you and ML held him in higher esteem than I did. And, heaven forbid I run afoul of the bulkheads of the Ya Ya's.

This guy was a kooky, bleached out, pedophile. I always changed the channel when he came on MTV way back in the mid to late 1980's. There is weird, and then there's Michael Jackson weird. Remember the time that he held his infant child out of the window? Hanging with Liz Taylor, now that's the height of cool isn't it?

He is probably the reason that I was an REM fan, and remain one now. When Warren Zevon died, now that was sad. This....is just so much cleansing of the cultural waste of our society.

Bearock Alabama will fly in for his funeral, at the taxpayers expense.

Farrah Fawcett should be put on a stamp. Michael Jackson should be stamped out.

I chuckled at this one. First, because I think I've been misunderstood . . . second, because as one of "the bulkheads of the YaYas", I was pleased (tongue firmly-in-cheek) that we are feared (as it should be) . . . and third, because I think Jackson will be the one who winds up on a stamp.

It is, alas, the world we live in.

Here's what I wrote back (slightly edited):

I think, from ML's comment, that she was more enamored of Farrah . . . and put-out that Michael pushed her off the front page.

When folks are dead, I try to remember the good things . . . in this case a whole body of music that I can still tap my feet too - even if I'm creeped out by all the rest (and I am creeped out).

I do own "Thriller". "Billie Jean" was a masterpiece. But I had little use for Michael Jackson's beyond weird predilections - and even less use for the leeches & sycophants & yes-people (including his own family) that let him do the things he did.

And Martin Bashir is just the lowest of the low.

The repetitive plastic surgery was just WAY just over-the-top . . . IMHO, MD's should have gone to jail for assault. But I've got to say that I was never completely convinced Jackson was a pedophile. To me, he seemed to be completely disinterested in sex (*for all of the gyrations and crotch-grabbing and imaginary humping on various videos) - with anyone (including Elvis's daughter). Asexual. But he damned sure crossed some lines that sensible adults do not cross.

He didn't have a childhood. Okay. Fine. He wasn't the only one. Unlike others in that boat, I think he had plenty of time and plenty of money to make up for it and come to terms with it. He never did.

It's for sure that a doctor (directly or indirectly) killed him. Mark my words . . . Demerol or Dilaudid - probably in conjunction with Ambiens . . . did him in.

There you have it. What I really think. I also think I'm done posting on this subject. This is gonna make that Anna Nicole mess look like an English tea party.

And I don't want any of what they're having.

Update: Sent this e-mail as follow-up to my anonymous not-so-enamored-of-the-King-of-Pop reader:

From a Dr. Frank Drackman in a comment thread at the Happy Hospitalist:

Jacko was doin fine till the Ambulance pulled up to the Children's Hospital by mistake....His heart couldn't take the excitement... sounds like Malpractice to me....

And/So. You are not alone;