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From: "George Baldwin"
Everyone's gone to the moon....
Not *everyone*, the writer of the song just went "inside" for a
bit.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4388913.stm
Ha! not exactly 'synchonicity-in-action' but pretty fair
timing... not to mention the question on everyone's lips, did Mick
and Stevie nab those lyrics offa JohnnyK?
Not to mention, since this post in radiply sinking into the
Pop-culture realm of the titillating abstraction...(pass me a
cigar, Bill)... it would have been nice to have worked-in a
synchronous nod to Anne B. (RIP, Mrs. Robinson), who probably
never had a clue how many young American males imprinted on her 35
yrars ago as an object of some primordially-advanced urge - not
"just" lust, but well-experienced-lust that seeks you out. Quite a
novelty back then.
King does look suspiciously like Benny Hill, no? Or is that
"look" kind of a genetic thing that goes hand-in-glove with the...
er... the territory, so to speak. Would Benny go to the trouble of
claiming complete innocence, or just give you are wink and a nod ?
Never mind that some of King's hits included "Lick A Smurp For
Christmas," and "Leap Up And Down And Wave Your Knickers In The
Air" ... whoa.... some prudes might opine that he should have done
at least 5 more years for those little jewels... or so says the
Santa Barbara DA who is prosecuting "Jacko"... for something
closer to improper "appearnances" than factuality (but what an
appropos nickname for such a perp) ... a great injustice... at
least according to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a longtime family
friend, who said that "shifting standards" are responsible for the
little misunderstanding... i.e. there exist mysterious unnamed
"financial forces" in music-land which seek to bring the
King-of-Pop down (Yankee version), and which the lily-white media
haven't discussed in print" ... riiiight, Jesse ... translation:
he is too broke to pay-off his vics any longer.
Rev. Jackson, however, continued to be accurately vocal about the
curious but not-surprising fact that there are no African
Americans on that jury, a consequence he says white media is also
downplaying. "If you had the highest profile white entertainer,
accused of molesting some Black children and you had an all-Black
jury, they would question whether that jury had the capacity to be
fair," he said. "A jury of your peers is just a reasonable
expectation."
Well, Jesse, lets not forget that Jacko chose "where" to flaunt
his wealth and predilections [or should I say pre-de-pedelections]
... so the peer-pool out there in the vicinity of "Neverland"
where the average ranch goes for over 10 million, well, it just
isn't going to heavily weighted towards the rainbow coalition...
plus you already nailed them on the no-busing-business, so you
can't have it both ways and just be glad we didn't impanel Nancy
...
...but, aside from all that....isn't there a little lapse of logic
hidden in the Jackson/Jackson injusitice equation somewhere?
I mean ... Yo, Jesse ....shouldn't a dedicated man-of-the-cloth be
speaking for the poor young black vicitms of crime, rather than
for the rich (er, formerly rich) and no-longer-white, King-of-Pop,
Jacko-the-Wacko ?
I will relinguish the soapbox to whomever would like to raise the
bar a bit - "bar" being the operative word.
