PLEASE READ (ESP MODS W/R/T OVERMODDING/CENSORSHIP) ALSO WARNING LONG
i was talking to a friend today about the day we found out about MJ's death.
we were both overseas on that day and she had came to my hotel and woke me up at 4 in the morning because we were on assignment way out in the countryside. as she came in, she sat down in front of my laptop via which I had been uploading pix to my flickr and cnn was open as well. MJ's death was a breaking item at the time.
in my stupidity i checked ILX to confirm (lol) and saw this thread.
there was a message among the top 10-15 posts mentioning unconfirmed rumor that he had died as a result of overdosing on sleeping pills (memory kinda fuzzy). Alba references it here: Michael Jackson R.I.P.
maybe goole had posted it? someone like that. and that it was questioned and rescinded pretty quickly, i think again by goole? (sorry, i don't remember exactly)
but as we all know the media immediately spun into serious damage control: first heart attack, then stress, he was a mere skeleton, barely could walk, etc.
but then came the video of his last performance and we all saw that MJ was pretty healthy, not sure I know many 50 year olds who can still shake their booty like that.
so anyways back to my friend... last night we were talking about that morning because we were both crazy jetlagged, it was 4am, both delirious and we're all wtf in my pre-dawn hotel room, very hazy and vague, dreamlike.
and the reality is was that he probably did overdose but that there was a huge concerted effort to shift into a complete media circus mode. my friend and i were talking about that, and I went back to this thread to kinda relive that moment when a glimmer of truth is revealed unpopularly and obscurely...
and i was shocked to find out that it was deleted!!! and also the rescinding?!?!?!?
i mean, i don't LOVE ilx or anything, sure you can get some pretty cool content (mp3s, apps, ringtones) and listen in on the babble of hundreds of bored officeworkers daily, but still, I was kinda disappointed that something so not entirely WTF would be redacted from the annals.
so my question is: (a) am i making this up? seriously, i was jetlagged and it was 4am but still there are clues that the original post existed. (b) why? (c) can we have a little bit of restraint on the MODDING front? that seems a little bit severe, a call for more fibre and an unclench if that post really rattled your essence.
All sincerity and curiousity,
Steve Shasta
Wakeboarding Magnate/Baron
Malibu, CA
― (*ﾟーﾟ)θ L(。･＿･) °~ヾ(･ε･ *) (Steve Shasta), Friday, 17 July 2009 16:33 (fifteen years ago)