Last night I thought a lot about the idea of a tribute song. Aaliyah had a tribute video for her last single, “Miss You,” which came out over a year following her death. Biggie had his “I’ll Be Missing You” all-star tribute. It was released
As a bit of an anti-paeon to the state of public tragedy, I offer this: an interwebs-eye view of all things “tragic.” What cream would settle to the top of the heap via our friend and trust magic-eight ball of relative importance, GOOGLE, when one types in the word, “Tragedy?” The results speak for themselves.
Speaking of mortality, what is the deal with child-cancer? More importantly, what is the deal with sad-ass movies and books that just make you insanely depressed? Hello, “The Notebook,” I’m talking to you! Authors like Jodi Picoult and Nicholas Sparks are feeding this fear of
I’m young and the truth is, I could die at any moment from some freak accident or illness. But, aside from this random possibility, I will potentially live to die from old age (that’s ironic). According to the Actuarial Life Table, courtesy of the Social
August 29, 1958-June 25, 2009 There are obviously far more than ten that I could listen to on a loop. Please feel free to add your own! 10. Another Part of Me Two words: Captain EO. This song is sense memory for me. Summertime, Disneyland,
We came of age with Obama. This past November our generation, reacting to the final painful throws of our Bush puberty, elected a leader that reflected all the ideals we’d developed through our twenty-plus year childhood. His ascension and election was nothing less than the
This is how I will always remember Michael best. I think he’ll be remembered similarly to Elvis ~ Sure he changed a lot and became something else over time, but in my memory Michael at his peak never faded. I know everyone is going to
With a site named PopTen, I think we each need to pitch in to remember the megacy* of Michael Jackson. He is, undoubtedly, one of the architects of this media whale whose belly we blog from… he helped conceive it, he fed it everything he