As the book points out, one advantage to having a blog is being able to voice your opinion on anything and everything. It can be quite satisfying to voice an opinion or simply express concerns over a controversial subject, or even something that is going on in the media.
Hmm. Well, there’s certainly a lot going on in the media lately. What’s with all of the celebrities dying? First David Carradine, then Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson in the same day! And then Billy Mays on Sunday! David and Farrah you could sort of see coming, since David was in his 70s and Farrah had cancer. But Michael Jackson? Billy freakin’ Mays? Those two REALLY blindsided me. I was on the beach when I saw a few tweets about Billy Mays, and I was definitely floored.
This all reminds me of the late 90′s, when it seems like a bunch of celebrities died one right after another. Remember that? Chris Farley, Princess Diana, Sonny Bono, etc.
But it just goes to show you, nobody is invincible from death. All of the fame and money and diamond rings in the world won’t save you from dying. In the end, the playing field is evened out, because we all die.
Ed McMahon died the day before Farrah and Michael.
That is true. It really can open your eyes. Very sad.
The only ones that were not shocking to me were Ed McMahon and Farrah Fawcett. David Carradine was getting up there in age, but nothing was ever in the news about him having any medical problems, so it wasn’t really expected either. I just hope they find out what really happened to him.
And yeah, it’s really been a bad time to be a celebrity lately. It just shows that we are all human…
Wow… I knew Billy Mays, Michael J. Jackson, Fawcett. But not David, wow. Me and my mom thought Billy was stupid the way he did the commercials and mocked him about it. Now I just feel guilty, that and the fact of calling M.J. gay, even though he MIGHT be a bi’. Fawcett, David, wow. My Grandfather died two days before Jenn’s birthday. Wow. :-*(