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Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett are not the only people to have died this month. Many more have also passed away - some whose cultural impact was not nearly so great, obviously, but one of them was Ed McMahon. Which is sad.

I'm really sad about Farrah Fawcett - she was a very brave woman, and tried very hard to hold onto her life, but in the end, she wasn't able to do so. I hope that she has found peace.

And as for Michael Jackson... I'm more sad for his life than for his death. Something went wrong in his life, even as he was rocketing to stardom, and something happened to his mind. The world watched him slowly metamorphose into something that no longer looked human as he obsessively destroyed his body in hopes of becoming something else, looking for happiness.

I hope he has also found peace. What a sad life - going from megastardom to world-wide ridicule and suspicion, to a sudden death at only fifty years old when he was trying to save what was left of his career.

But... I want all of you to look at that list of other people who died this month alone, and those are just the people who got mention in Wikipedia. Even as you honor Michael and Farrah, honor them a little.

I think this quote from "Oh What a Circus" in the musical Evita says it all:

"For I am ordinary, unimportant
And undeserving of such attention
Unless we all are, I think we all are
So share my glory, so share my coffin
So share my glory, so share my coffin"





In other news, I won't be on much for a while. I'll probably be dismantling the computer tonight or tomorrow and I don't see myself using Mom's computer much, so I'll be out for a couple of weeks to a month depending on how long it takes to get into my house.