Monday, July 6, 2009

The Come Back Tour Comes Home

Nothing, it seems, could have energized Michael Jackson's career more than his death. The potential for revenue and record sales and mass hysteria and unbelievable popularity created by the fifty concert thing pales to what has been accomplished by this city consuming traffic stopping madness which will reach its zenith tomorrow morning at ten here in La La Land. Here in LLL streets will close and hearts will stop when the doors to the Staples Center open. Free tickets are advertised on ebay for twenty thousand dollars.
Surely no one -- not even the King of Pop himself -- would want to be remembered for funeral ticket scalping and custody battles and who, by the way, has recently asked how his children are doing. Their father is dead. Surely that simple fact is worth at least a few solemn pages somewhere.

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