Comments on: In the News: Train Wrecks http://paintedbridequarterly.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/in-the-news-train-wrecks/ One of the oldest independent literary magazines in the country Sun, 12 Sep 2010 10:33:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: stephaniehop http://paintedbridequarterly.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/in-the-news-train-wrecks/#comment-333 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:21:47 +0000 http://paintedbridequarterly.wordpress.com/?p=673#comment-333 I can’t help feeling that we’ve let MJ down. Yes, I mean you DrSooner and you Mike, and yes, I mean me. That’s right, I take full responsibility for MJ’s freakness. After all, isn’t that we want? Oh, how we love to hate freaks, how we love to hate celebs past their “prime,” just like we love tid bits in the news of freakish diseases and three-nippled women and people who dress up as clowns and stuffed animals and horsies to get off. Just like we love to hate poor people and fat people and anyone who says or does anything in public that we might do, on a bad day, but thank god we didn’t because then it would be us there, loved and stoned and stoned and loved again after we’re gone. How can someone who grows up under our fickle attention not be messed up? I’m sorry MJ, that I laughed at your plastic face. I’m sorry Farrah, that I felt better than you, for just a moment, because I haven’t yet “aged” as you had to. I’m sorry, infomercial guy, that I thought you irrelevant, even as I wrote down the number of almost everything you tried to sell me. I’d like to say I won’t do it again, but I’m only human.

]]> By: DrSooner http://paintedbridequarterly.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/in-the-news-train-wrecks/#comment-316 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:44:52 +0000 http://paintedbridequarterly.wordpress.com/?p=673#comment-316 Mike,
Well written and right on point!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Mike http://paintedbridequarterly.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/in-the-news-train-wrecks/#comment-311 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:56:16 +0000 http://paintedbridequarterly.wordpress.com/?p=673#comment-311 I’ve never understood why anyone even remotely gives a damn about these people’s lives.

Farrah’s and Michael’s role in our lives was to entertain us and I could understand some sorrow if we had, perhaps, thought that we’d now be missing out on something; moments to laugh, or dance, or be moved by some dramatic moments on the silver screen. But they were both way, way, way past their primes. We already had the best they had to offer. Are we *really* going to miss them?

Another thing I don’t understand: the shock over Jackson’s death. “But he was only 50! Can you believe it!” Color me unsurprised that a mentally unstable drug-addled freakshow passed at the tender age of 50. If he was your neighbor you’d say to yourself “I can’t believe that guy’s still alive!” every time you saw him.

And with that, Happy Friday!

]]> By: DrSooner http://paintedbridequarterly.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/in-the-news-train-wrecks/#comment-310 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:06:48 +0000 http://paintedbridequarterly.wordpress.com/?p=673#comment-310 It was nice to see the old poster of Farrah. She was pretty and harmless, but she just could not choose a good man to live her life with, which ultimately culminated in one useless son. Michael Jackson, on the other hand, was not so harmless as several young boys can attest. He was the poster boy for the saddest group of humans on the planet: the entertainment industry. His lifestyle and depravity far overshadow any “genius”, as the media is quick to throw out, people may have thought he had. He certainly was never the King, but then again The King was no great shakes either in his departure from the world. Tabloids or main stream media; how can you tell them apart?

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