MJ? Who is this MJ? My name is... Guy Incognito.
Michael Jackson died a little while ago. Not being a fan myself, I took the news with equanimity, but this is apparently not a sentiment shared by many. The cable news networks assure me that despite overwhelming public outcry, Jackson is still dead. There’s probably no good reason for this state of affairs, and it seems a cruel trick on the part of Nature.
Naturally, some people are taking the news pretty hard – there are the usual suggestions that his death was faked, as with any celebrity who dies relatively young, though the Gloved One was no Elvis or 2Pac or Marilyn Monroe (although it could be argued that if you take those three, mash them together in a trash compactor, and force the resulting flesh-cube to take the lead role in Satan’s production of Peter Pan, you’d pretty much have Michael Jackson in a nutshell). A wonderful article in the Daily Telegraph sums up some of the early theories, and a series of hysterical Yahoo Answers threads provides a good gauge of paranoid opinion: