oh- Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)

Erik: Lest we forget, first and foremost, before he become whatever he was, MJ made us get up and dance. His legacy:
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Slate V - Moonwalk: Michael Jackson's YouTube Legacy
Moonwalk: Michael Jackson's YouTube Legacy: Ever since the late Michael Jackson popularized the moonwalk in 1983, the iconic dance move has entranced people around the world. As a tribute to MJ's influence, Slate V presents a compilation of moonwalks, as captured on amateur video. ............Billy Jean............
On May 16, 1983, during a televised tribute to Motown Records, pop star Michael Jackson performed a relatively unknown dance move.
In the years since, the moonwalk has gone from dance sensation to cliche to visual shorthand for the 1980s.
Here, culled from YouTube, is an organice tribute to the late King of Pop.


Erik: And off to bed. I swear, this week can't end soon enough. If Julie Andrews, Tom Baker, or Sondheim bites it, I will not be pleased. Yesterday at 10:39pm
-Alicia at 5:30am June 26 I said the same thing about Prince ...
-Mary at 8:36am June 26 Look out: Prince needs a double hip replacement and won't do it because he's a Jehovah's Witness and won't get blood transfusions.

- Paul Constant: Now that Michael Jackson's gone, I bet there is going to be an amazing biography in two or three years. Yesterday at 7:34pm
-David 8:04pm June 25 I'll bet there are going to be about 37 amazingly bad biographies in two or three months.


Rachel: Watching CNN -- I'd totally forgotten about the white socks! He really was one of a kind. Yesterday at 7:03pm
-Maya at 7:51pm June 25 i agree! i was obsessed as a kid! i had the jacket, the glove, the zipper pants....
-Susan at 9:46pm June 25 oh, you are so young. The MJ I loved was the little one, with the big hair, brown skin.... the star of the Jackson Five
-Jennifer at 10:55pm June 25 That kid could dance! I know this from video footage, of course. I'm not that old :-)


Paul Constant: I feel weird about Michael Jackson passing away. Is this what it felt like when Elvis died? Quick, somebody ask an old person and find out! Yesterday at 5:55pm You like this.
-Wendy at 6:12pm June 25 I am still shaken by the passing of the King, Paul. August 16th is a bittersweet day in the Manning household.
-Maro at 6:20pm June 25 I feel weird about it too.
-Jane at 7:51pm June 25 That's what I said to my dad. He's all, "Why is all the news about Michael Jackson? Is it that big a deal?" And I'm like, "Shit man, it's like Elvis!"
-Laura at 8:31pm June 25 It is a weird feeling indeed.
-Meredith at 3:33am June 26 yah, I feel weird about it too. Keep having flashbacks of all the ways his music affected me. I didn't even realize it had such a big impact.


Rachel: R.I.P. MJ -- my childhood would not have been the same without you. Yesterday at 5:42pm
-Sara at 5:47pm June 25 I remember dancing in the gym to him songs in second grade at JDS!
-Rachel at 5:48pm June 25 I was obsessed with Thriller. I think I even read his autobiography (I can't believe I'm admitting this in "public"!)
-Katherine at 5:49pm June 25 My best friend and I LOVED the Jackson 5. We saw them perform at Madison Square Garden. RIP Michael
-Maro at 6:04pm June 25 what? !? I had not seen this news. Wow. I don't know if any death of a celebrity has seemed this incredible to me (incredible, as in: I can't readily believe it). Michael Jackson, along with Madonna, and maybe to a lesser extent Boy George and Cyndi Lauper, was formative of the world as I encountered it, around age 8. Pink tshirt that said 1985, fish tackle bracelets, and Beat It. I was pretty into Thriller too, Rachel. I danced to it ... but I had complicated feelings about liking it, and I think I remember telling someone I only owned the record so as to practice my Little Feet routines that were set to the songs.