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By: Marc

Marc — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:17:37 +0000

I wonder how OJ feels?

By: Gary Pig Gold

Gary Pig Gold — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:33:47 +0000

“This doesn’t change a thing!”

Col. Tom Parker,
August 18, 1977

By: jayne doniger

jayne doniger — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:13:40 +0000

Thanks for a great piece on the milking of the death of MJ. There was a movie called the Art of Love (1965) with James Garner and Dick Van Dyke where Dick is an artist and they fake his death so that his art will become more valuable. Unfortunately James Garner gets accused of murdering him and the plan goes under. Wonder if that will happen here and some greedy people will have their money making schemes blow up in their faces. Its a shame that people get more out of death than life and they aren’t around to enjoy it!

By: Lenny Karle-Zenith

Lenny Karle-Zenith — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:11:51 +0000

Excellent critique on the man in the mirror (us) – and the forever upcoming years of examination, tawdry fetishism and endless entertainment courtesy of his carrion (which I had to look up) !

By: Bob Sarles

Bob Sarles — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:01:36 +0000

Greatest career move since Elvis faked his death.

By: Mark Blankenship

Mark Blankenship — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:43:00 +0000

To me, the potential of the Michael Jackson Tribute Industry is most apparent in the flood of “RIP Michael” t-shirts that crashed on Brooklyn less than 48 hours after his death. It’s like there was a t-shirt machine somewhere that had been prepped and ready to go for years, and that some wizened old operator was just waiting for the call to start spewing out shirts.

It says a lot about perceived demand if capitalists will work that fast to get product on the market. I mean, I certainly didn’t see any “RIP Heath Ledger” or “RIP Farrah” t-shirts, you know?

What’s more, I saw a lot of these t-shirts on people, not in store windows. The manufacturers were obviously right: There’s a market for their GriefWear.