Le Mort de le Roi

Dearest Lilah,

Ok, little did Mommy know that when she used the phrase "G'on" in her earlier post that she was experiencing some eerie foreshadowing.

Michael Jackson died today at the age of 50.

Why is this significant?

So glad you asked.

Michael Jackson was probably the BIGGEST star in music and even in all of entertainment when I was growing up. He had been singing since around 1964 - which is 13 years before Mommy was even born - so he had been entertaining people for a long time. But in the early 1980's, he really sort of coined a new sound and became very famous as a solo artist. Everyone liked Michael Jackson. He was the awesomest. He was called "The King of Pop." He's been a little reclusive in the past few years. He was a strange man. He had a lot of plastic surgery and was accused of doing bad things to some children. He had three kids who - honestly - they are not his biological children. But a lot of people still really liked him, and so a lot of people are really sad.

I have lived through a similar experience, though I don't remember it. When I was six months old, Elvis Presley died. He was called "The King of Rock and Roll." He had also become somewhat reclusive shortly before he died. He had problems with drugs and - like Michael Jackson - died from cardiac arrest. But he had made a much longer lasting impact on people and so there were a lot of very sad people. He was also not very old when he died.

Anyway - I wanted to write about it for you, because it'll be something that you hear people talking about, and you can say that you were 5.5 months old and that you had just rolled over front to back for the first time that day.

Love,
Mommy