#305 - Celebrity Deaths

The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, died yesterday as did Farrah Fawcett.  I think it's time for me to weigh in on celebrity deaths.

Here's the skinny.  I don't give a shit.  Really.  I don't care.  I don't think that celebrity deaths are news.  I don't think celebrities are news.

There's always such a brew-ha-ha over celebrity stuff.  Who's together, who's split, who's pregnant, who's dead, who's drunk/high.  To be honest, I don't care what these people do with their spare time.  My only beef is when they aren't punished for committing crimes.  Take Chris Brown for instance.  He wailed on a woman's head with his fist and doesn't do any jail time.  Malarky!

At any rate, Michael Jackson is dead.  OK.  Why should I care?  I'm not related to him.  He doesn't pay me.  He hasn't had a decent song in about a decade.  Farrah Fawcett is dead.  OK.  Why should I care?  Does this mean that I am a sociopath?  No.  It just means that these people aren't important to me.  You tell me that GM died?  That's important to me.  Babysteps is in poor health and on death's doorstep (he's perfectly fine), you have my attention.  Why?  Because these people are important to me.  They have impacted my life in a profound way.

I'm not going to say that the aforementioned dead celebrities didn't impact people's lives; however, when I see fans in tears over their death, I want to ask these people, "Don't you people have anyone in your lives that actually care about you?"  If the answer is "Yes" then I would pimp slap them and say, "Get over it, moron."  If the answer is "No" then I would feel a little bit of pity for them before I pimp slapped them and said, "Get over it, moron."

Now I'm not saying celebrities don't add to society.  Many of them are entertainers and they do just that.  Entertain us.  Michael Jackson did make Thriller after all.  I'm just saying that I don't get misty eyed over their deaths.  Sure, you can wonder about all the great things they could have accomplished if they had had more time, but nowadays, even those musings can be quelled.  Case in point, Tupac Shakur.  I think he came out with a new album last year and he's been dead since 1996.

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