I can’t even imagine how much time and painstaking effort this took, and what’s even more? It was filled with REALLY great-smelling herbal tea baths and soaps!
Good LORD do I love Von. I emailed you Von, but I’ll say it again – thank you SO much!
While I’m thinking of people who’ve sent me things, I’d like to take a second (I’m not sure if I mentioned it when I got it) to say thanks to reader Kelly, who sent me Living at the Edge of the World. I finished reading it last night, and liked it a great deal (and looky here – Joe Bob Briggs liked the book, too! He also does a better review of it than I ever could.)
The funny thing with books about real people is that you tend to get somewhat invested in their lives (Hey! Kind of like online journals, eh?) and once the book ends, you wish you knew where they were and how they were doing. I spent some time searching for information on Tina S., but there’s not really anything online about her that isn’t connected to the book.
Wherever she is, I hope her life is going well.
I got, I think, $30 for the cross-stitch picture I put on eBay. I could be wrong, it could be more, but that’s the number sticking in my head.
Reader Dawn asks: Why don’t you have either a guestbook or a comment section (like you have over at OFB)? I always wondered this. I always like signing guestbooks or comment sections.
That’s actually a fairly timely question. The only reason I don’t have a comment section is because I haven’t installed (or rather, had Fred install) Movable Type on this site. I’m shooting for having it up and running on May 1st, which will include a comments section. I prefer comments to a guestbook only because I’ve found that it’s easier to figure out what people are referring to if the comments they leave are at the end of the entries they’re commenting about.
Is that a completely convoluted paragraph right there, or what? So in any case, the look will be changing soon, and y’all can leave comments to your heart’s content.
Reader Cindy asks: You wrote about wanting to watch the Jacko/Martin Bashir interview but I don’t recall you saying that you had watched the tape. I just wondered what you thought about it afterwards.
I did watch the tape, and while I thought that Michael Jackson only came across as a bit odd in the first part of the interview, he came across as a total whack-job in the rest.
I don’t know if he’s a child molester – I’m leaning toward yes – but I think his insistence on continuing to have children spend the night at his house and in his room after those allegations and the lawsuit, show either that he thinks he’s untouchable, or he has no sense of self-preservation. Any reasonable person who’d gone through that would make a point of never being alone with a child again.
The whole bit showing him with his children was more disturbing than I’d expected. They’re clearly possessions to him, and I have a feeling we’ll be lining up to buy copies of Jacko: My father the nutball in 18 years or so.
Overall, though, I find it amazing that Michael Jackson would so completely open up his life to Martin Bashir; I’d never in a million years let a reporter into my life that way (though of course, I hope my life will forever be such that a reporter would never be interested!). It shows a shocking lack of common sense.
On the other hand, I don’t think Martin Bashir is lily-white in this whole thing, either. Lulling someone into your confidence so they’ll open their life to you is a fairly shitty thing to do. But the media in all it’s forms has never shown itself to be trustworthy in any way, and I think Michael Jackson would have been better off keeping that in mind.
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