Okay, it’s been a while, I know. No excuses. I browse Facebook quite a bit and seem to do all my catching up over there but as far as long posts go, that’s no replacement for this blog. I’ve had a number of things to post and just never have seemed to find the time so I thought I’d finally sit down and do this since I’m listening to Thriller.
This month, we’ve lost four greats in the entertainment industry: David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. What a body of work between them! As I get older, of course, I’m seeing those of my youth (even adulthood) dying more and more. It’s to be expected I guess but the segue into it from those of the previous generation seemed to have happened when I wasn’t looking. I still remember where I was and what I was doing when I found out George Burns died and now, here I am mourning the loss of stars of my own lifetime. The best I can say is, “Requiescat in pace.”
Of course, having said that, the conspirist in me thinks, “Michael Jackson isn’t dead.” There’s already too many “What?” questions floating around; too many events that happened that make you ask “Why?” I’ll touch on that in a moment but it was these things plus the fact that MJ had such close ties to the Elvis Pressley family that make me just say that the King of Pop, the “King of the Show,” still has something in store for us. Keep in mind that before his last major shows, he canceled because of anxiety and now, before his next tour, he suddenly dies? His doctor suddenly disappears and no one can find him for a day. The mysterious trucks that pull up and take away a car and other stuff, no explination given? Now the autopsy was supposed to be done today (that was quick) but now, instead of giving a cause of death, they said that the lab tests will take time and it will be weeks before the results are known. I remember this with the initial reports yesterday but can’t find it now but even his brothers didn’t see his body when they arrived at his home and at the hospital. It’s a bunch of weird questions and, half-tongue-in-cheek, I think a “Back From the Dead” tour would rock people’s socks off.
Looks like Futurama got picked up for another season on Comedy Central. A good thing, I think. While, for the most part, I liked the movies they released, I just didn’t feel like movies were the creator’s forte. I really liked the last season of Futurama, it seemed like the show’s team were really getting into their groove. It was a shame to end it. I hope that the movies will have been some practice for the team so that they’re ready to get back into their groove and pick it up again… time will tell.
I still love my G1. While the recent software update seems to have made charging the battery take even longer than it was and shortening the standby time, some of the functionality it added is great and third parties (and Google) continue to release great apps for it: I picked up Sky Map by Google and, after the inital excitement about the compass died down, I think it has to be the coolest app I’ve seen so far. Now if someone will just make a VPN client for it, I’d be set.
I’ll wrap up here since I seem to have run out of steam. Keep an eye out for Michael!
