King of Pop Dies at 50

At work today (or rather, last night), one of my coworkers said the moment she saw me, "Did you hear?!?!? Michael Jackson's dead!!!" I was kind of taken aback since that was a tidbit of unexpected news, especially the first thing to hear before your shift at work. While I know not everyone was a fan of Michael, especially after the whole child molestation accusations and that other time he showed his baby to a crowd off of a balcony (I remember people chanting "Jacko the Wacko"), you still have to give him credit that he was a very talented singer.

I grew up with Michael. Well, I grew up on a couple other songs as well, but I can still quite vividly remember listening to Michael Jackson's songs like "Black or White" as a child, which led me to discover such classics as Billie Jean, Thriller, and Beat It recorded and released before I was even born but timeless classics. So the "King of Pop" is dead... kind of crazy to think about it. He was "young" considering the average life expectancy of the American male (75.6 years). Kind of strange, but I couldn't help noticing that Elvis Presley, King of Rock 'n' Roll, also "died young" at age 42. Maybe people really talented in music just don't last that long. I mean, my favorite classical composer of all time is Mozart and he died young (at age 35). Actually Mozart had so much left in him, had he lived who knows what other beautiful pieces would have been produced. He was too gifted for this world, perhaps. OK, so I'm getting sidetracked now. Just wanted to express my shock and I realized I hadn't updated this blog in a long while.

RIP Michael...

Today's Random Video:

Zinadine Zidane to Alyssa Milano

Thanks to Les for sending me this compilation of several "celebrities" and public figures' childhood/present (before/after) pictures. I decided to share them with you =) Some people look exactly the same (Katie Holmes), others look amazingly different (Marylin Manson), and it seems many women turned blond: