Michael and Farrah...oh yeah...and Ed

I never met Michael Jackson or Farrah Fawcett but I, like so may others feel a connection to them both. Michael sang and danced and he and his brothers had their own cartoon show on Saturday morning. That was cool. Farrah came along at a time when I really first started noticing girls. That was cool too.

Charlie? Who was Charlie? All I remember is this great tv show with three really good looking ladies running around chasing bad guys and looking good doing it. (To me, the remake with those other three nice looking ladies pales in comparison.) And unlike many of the younger people I know, I remember when Michael was black.

They both got really strange as time went by. Michael reinvented himself in his own image, bought himself a chimp and started sleeping in an iron lung machine (that could just be a rumor, but it was in the Enquirer). Farrah showed up on David Letterman stoned out of her mind and giggly. But Michael wasn't the only one with a monkey. Elvis had one too. And since Farrah showed up wasted on tv, so has Danny DeVito and that Phoenix kid with the weird first name. Before that, Elizabeth Taylor showed up on 60 Minutes (I think) drunk and went off on a tangent about Road Runner cartoons.

There are a whole lot of Michael/Elvis connections in that last paragraph. Monkeys, Elizabeth Taylor, showing up high, (Elvis was reportedly wasted when he made a late night call on President Nixon). Not to mention the Farrah/Elizabeth Taylor wasted on tv connection...and the Elvis/Michael/I married your daughter connection...the Danny DeVito moonwalk video on Youtube.com...the possibilities go on and on...I won't even get into Michael's legal problems.

Bottom line is, this week we lost Michael, Farrah and Ed MacMahon. It is sad, but they all had full lives, were loved by millions, and are being mourned by their fans and the world. What more can one ask but to remembered when we're gone? (And by the way before you go and look, there is no Danny DeVito moonwalk video on Youtube.com.)
And life goes on...Hiyoooooo!