Gizmo is sitting on the carpet weve had airing on the back deck for a week, Miss Margot is chasing fluff around the deck and being a crazy cat, first batch of waffles is on, and Katies coming over later to help motivate me to unpack.  Sometime between now and her arrival I must pick off another song. Times a-wasting!  At my age a year goes by like nothing!
On a completely different subject I have been thinking about the cultural reverber-erberations around Michael Jacksons unfortunate death.  He was fifty and Im fifty and dont think I havent thought about what he did in his life and with it and what Ive done with mine.  I am the tape measure for everything I perceive.  I must make a big effort to see things otherwise.
If I was taking 10 Xanax every night, my brother would stage an intervention.  It would take him a long time to work up to it, because hes a pretty laid back guy and doesnt stick his nose in other peoples biz without thinking about it in a considered way, but hed pick up the phone, call the kids and Paul, and get me to a doctor.
The saddest thing about Jacksons death is the extent to which it reveals how none of his friends thought enough of his one, single, precious life to make more than arm-wavy gestures about his drug use. One of his sisters tried, apparently, and one can only wonder at why she didnt pick up the phone and call the cops.  He needed to be arrested for the godawful stew of illegally prescribed/obtained drugs he had in his house, and so did every person illegally prescribing and obtaining them on his behalf.
The best case scenario was a Robert Downey Jr. style self-reinvention as somebody who beat addiction and childhood trauma to head to the top of his game.  It would have involved his handlers and psychic moneychangers getting their meretricious mitts away from him and into something resembling honest employment. The worst case scenario was dying like Elvis, which, according to published reports by Lisa Presley, he fully expected to happen.  Kinda like Christ knowing he was going to get it; except in this case a willing offering on the pyre of celebrity.

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