I feel strangely unmoved by the death of Michael Jackson and don't share in the outpouring of grief. There are suggestions that his death may have been caused by his intake of prescription drugs, which just last week I suggested isn't necessarily a good thing.
Although John Peel undoubtedly, perhaps surprisingly, did, I don't have a single track of Jackson's in my extensive collection of music. That could be because my one enduring memory of him is from the appearances of the Jackson 5 on the Andy Williams Show which I had to watch because when I was a lad there were only two channels on British TV. Their hit at the time was One Bad Apple, which that squeaky kid failed to live down throughout his unfortunate life.
Although premature deaths are unfortunate, for Sony and Warner who hold the rights to his recordings, his death may not be untimely.
Others will cash in, possibly these two:
Would MJ have used any other?
Available online here................................
I'm not a fan of blood sports, and boxing in particular. Thumping someone in the head for a living shows that you've either got brain damage or soon will have.
However, Chris John is a boxer who is the WBA Featherweight Champion and Indonesia's only (?) world champion in any sport. His site sent Firefox crashing! So instead, check out this wiki page for loads of adulatory info.
Reading the sports pages, mainly because Andy Murray is one Brit worth championing, I noted that Chris John has had to postpone a match because he's been ill. Nothing serious, maybe, but according to his wife he occasionally has a bout of sprue, a word I'd never come across before.
Indonesians do suffer from mild hypochondria, regularly taking nostrums for such maladies as masuk angin, literally 'wind entering' which is generally known as breathing, and panas dalam which means hot inside. Of course, if you're dingin dalam, meaning cold inside, you're dead.
But sprue? My trusty Websters tells me that it is a chiefly tropical disease characterised by defective absorption of food, anaemia, gastrointestinal disorders etc.
Sounds like he didn't have the stomach to face his next opponent.
However, Chris John is a boxer who is the WBA Featherweight Champion and Indonesia's only (?) world champion in any sport. His site sent Firefox crashing! So instead, check out this wiki page for loads of adulatory info.
Reading the sports pages, mainly because Andy Murray is one Brit worth championing, I noted that Chris John has had to postpone a match because he's been ill. Nothing serious, maybe, but according to his wife he occasionally has a bout of sprue, a word I'd never come across before.
Indonesians do suffer from mild hypochondria, regularly taking nostrums for such maladies as masuk angin, literally 'wind entering' which is generally known as breathing, and panas dalam which means hot inside. Of course, if you're dingin dalam, meaning cold inside, you're dead.
But sprue? My trusty Websters tells me that it is a chiefly tropical disease characterised by defective absorption of food, anaemia, gastrointestinal disorders etc.
Sounds like he didn't have the stomach to face his next opponent.
