Michael Jackson Has Died at 50

the village voice has got all archived MJ articles up too - pretty cool. lots of good tributes: check out radios on sirius (you have to subscribe but can hear some interview snippets) and goomradio.com (free).

CNN BREAKING NEWS: Autopsy reveals Jackson died of "Acute Pedophilia"

CNN BREAKING NEWS: Autopsy reveals Jackson died of "Acute Pedophilia"

Long live Captain Eo!!!

Who's Á La?

So sad. He really was a genius.

I Love that museum! My grandmother took my brother and I there when we were about 12 and 13. She knew it was EXACTLY what we wanted. I especially love the glass eyeballs featuring awful ocular diseases. Those are really spectacular.

His funeral is going to be such a freak parade. Old Liz, Diana Ross, Macualay Culkin, the two coreys, Bubbles, a giraffe, his family...

I hope they televize it. When a Jackson says, "we want privacy" what it really means is "it will be on tv."

He'll probably have some totally freaky over the top service, too, with the mormon tabernacle choir covering Man in the Mirror and he'll probably have his body preserved like Lenin only standing up and decorated with Hawaiian leis or something really unsettling like that.

I believe it's been decided that Procol Harum will be singing "A Whiter Shade of Pale".

And the Harlem Globetrotters will do a half time show just before communion.

Communion? He was a Jehovah's Witness, they don't do communion

They'll be singing "All Along the Watchtower"?

Ha! Good show!

Imagine his disappointment when he meets St. Peter...

Imagine his disappointment when he meets St. Peter...

Sharpton should be along soon screaming that the white doctors didn't do enough to save Michael.

ehhh...it's Obama's fault..somehow

Breaking news: the second Resurrection has occurred! Michael Jackson has risen from the dead!

Fish need water, vampires need blood. Without a steady supply of young boys, it was only a matter of time.

The Post naaah

The Daily News in the mid 90's had the story...

Every other day they followed every tiny detail of the strange goings on of

"Wacko Jacko"

The Sun is reporting he may have injected himself with Demerol just before this happened. His breathing got slower and slower until it stopped.

Is there a hot package on the loose?

The SUN? I thought I read some other possibilities might have occurred, but if the SUN said it, it has to be the truth.

Kind of like seeing it on Larry King, Fox 5 News, or reading it in the POST.

The shit show sources might be shoddy about 90% of what they publish, but their celebrity trash is usually dead on.

Who broke the story that he was dead an hour before anyone else confirmed it? The sleaziest operation of them all, TMZ.

Elvis died when he was 42. MJ died at 50. Elvis was the king. MJ was a follower.

Elvis must be pissing in his pants and laughing his ass off.

What about Joe "King Carasco"?

Or King Crimson?

Larry King Live just put out a photo of a comatose Michael Jackson with a breathing bag over his face. Stay classy, Larry King.

People.com (owned by the same corporate overlords as Larry) was already running that photo. SYNERGY!

I believe that Elvis put a spell on him after he "the gloved one" did a no no on his daughter in 1994.

I think Mark Sanford's staff poisoned him to distract everyone from the train wreck in South Carolina.

Mj never touched her except for the mtv kiss, pr stunt.

Too bad he didn't put the same spell on Nicholas Cage.

I dunno, a curse may be the only explanation for his career as of late

it's sad to say but his death might allow farrah to be laid to rest with some dignity given that all the paparazzi scum will be swarming over him.

next up, all the enablers that worked for him over the years coming out of the woodwork like cockroaches selling their stories.

i hate this fucking society.

I agree. This society can suck sometimes. I can't believe MJ died when he wasn't even that old. I never even thought about picking him. Now this means that Bob just took the lead in our death pool. I only need Elton John or Sting to kick the bucket and I will regain the lead.

a "giver" as in the pitcher, and not the catcher...

ima pee on that.

Listen, I don't want to downplay his death here, but didn't anything happen in Iran today?

The Iranian gov't is the biggest winner in this story. The news will cover MJ for at least 48 hours straight and bury the Iranian story while the rulers over there butcher their citizens to get order. By the time the world refocuses on Iran the Ayatollah will have "cleaned" things up.

Then it's agreed. The MJ-Iran Contra Conspiracy is in full swing. This concludes this week's meeting of the Builderberg Group. Please join us again next week for the Obama assassination.

WTF. You must be insane or just plain crazy. This has nothing to do with the Contras.

Well, it's hard to know exactly what's fact and what is disinformation at this point. I would agree that Contra involvement is unlikely, except for the you fact that you brought it up. So I see we meet again, Rupert Murdock! I must say Dead Himmler is poetic if not the best cover identity.

Yeah, probably not the best two words to attach your name to.

I know..."Builderberg Group"

Hmm, may want to tidy your apartment for when the Secret Service knocks on your door.

They played a Lord of the Rings marathon on Iranian TV in an effort to get protesters to stay home. Seriously.

Yes indeed: the Basij were out in force once more and just about to crack young Marfak Haloumi's skull when news of Michael Jackson's death crackled over their radios. They briefly went back into the mosque to await further instruction from their bosses at the Ayatollahs Local 646. They then emerged and proceeded to beat young Marfak Haloumi senseless.

RIP, MJ, he always loved the children.

He was a giver that way..........

Sorry, but Michael Jackson died sometime during the late 1980s...

You are 100% right. I felt the same way when his father in law died.

RIP MJ

Takes the death of the King of Pop for the assholes to come out of the woodwork on Gothamist.

Ah yes, let the celebrity hero worship begin. Just because someone is famous doesn't make him or her a good person. I don't wish harm on the guy, but at the same time where's the big tragedy? His musical genius is a thing of the past. It's not like he ever was ever going to contribute anything positive to the world in the future.

If you ever listened to one of his songs or watched one of his videos, and if you had the slightest inclination of enjoying it, then his actions made your life a little richer.

Agreed! It's a tough crowd in here tonight, especially with the mutter museum comments. That's just ghoulish. I'm hoping that the family has the viewing at the Apollo, so I can pay my respects in person.

They do that anyway on almost any story. For some, it's so easy to badmouth the newly dead, especially if they never knew him. Forget the fact that Jackson has three children who will now grow up without a father. Vicious sniping is the only thing that matters.

Exactly. It's truly a tragedy.

Little boys everywhere breathe a sigh of relief.

I really hate to be the smart ass observer here, but according to what I've read he was discovered not breathing. Now might I ask how the fuck can you breath when you don't have a real nose?

It may be too early for this, but the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia has made their interest known and would be very appreciative if the Jackson Family could, in their moment of grief, consider the offer.

Nanny. You are the only one other than myself on this forum that knows and appreciates the Mutter Museum.

Unfortunately there are several highly successful (for profit) wax museums that have also thrown some bids out to the family. It's a matter of wait and see at this time.

It's Mütter. Make that at least 3...

Ripley's in Niagara Falls, Ont. reached out...but you really can't do Ripley's can you?

It's a bit far to drive , but yes I can make the annual trip.

Is that the same Ripley's that has the world's largest ball of string?

Personally I mourn Farah's passing more than the "gloved one."

Throw my name into that group, too--grew up just outside Phila.

Thanks--I now have images of what's left of his face suspended in a glass jar. Ew.

Seriously, RIP, but I prefer to remember the MJ from my childhood--a cute kid with a super personality and a voice to match.

this would be relevant to new york because...one of the shows was supposed to be here? otherwise....beat it beat it beat it beat it

A weak reason. The bigger reason is that he is a cultural icon relevant to anyone old enough to remember the 80s.

I remember buying Thriller at The Wiz, now defunct, in Flushing.

I remember buying Thriller at The Wiz, now defunct, in Flushing.

RIP MJ. Tell 'em that it's human nature.

Thank you for sharing your gift to the world.

Sorry to say, but it was inevitable the way he was going in his career.

I'm just glad I wasn't his ticket agent.

WTF is up with all this speculation about how he may have died?

It was REPORTED last year by the tabloids that he was dying of some rare respiratory condition and needed a lung transplant. Doesn't anyone remember that?

This is good news. Let the decent into lunacy end already and allow MJ to be championed as the true musical legend he was.

If only the guy that wrote "You Light Up My Life" had been lucky enough to go at 50.

A very sad day -- and a little shocking with the "rule of three". My bet is that they will find some kind of pill or substance that caused the accident today.

I'm sure the media will milk the deaths for all they are worth.

A very sad day -- and a little shocking with the "rule of three". My bet is that they will find some kind of pill or substance that caused the accident today.

I'm sure the media will milk the deaths for all they are worth.

RIP Michael, Farrah, and Ed...

Good riddance to a sexual predator and child abuser.

Amen-those poor children

"Gothamist is a website about New York."

Between reading NYTimes articles that we could read on our own, and lending Michael Jackson's death more coverage which is badly needs, this blog sometimes seems to beg to be irrelevant.

Blogs are so lame, that's why I read them all the time.

LOL yeah that!

( In my best falsetto: ) "He died of a broken heart."

I think he overstrain himself for his oncoming tour, perhaps drugs involved.

i would speculate suicide.

either way he can finally REST IN PEACE

Now they're saying he's dead :( :( :( :(

LATimes has him dead at 3:15pm Pacific Time.

Not zombie?

Yeah, the Thriller video is so many shades of creepy right now that he's actually the undead.

Nevermind

CNN now reporting he's in a coma. Not dead yet guys.

Zombie?

CNN, the NYT, the LATimes all have him hospitalized and in a coma. You have him dead. I'm not saying that you are wrong, but where are you getting this? Somehow, I have never thought of Gothamist as the scoop type of site, particularly on LA news, still.

What gives?

LA Times just confirmed it. CNN and MSNBC are scooped.

CNN is saying he's been hospitalized and MSNBC is saying he's in a coma... what's the real story?

CNN says he was revived and transferred to UCLA and that they cant report on his condition. But they end the blurb with "He WAS the 7th of 9 children", so he's prob dead.

They prepare these bios/ obits long ahead of time. They probably just ran it and didn't have time to change the tenses.

BBC reporting "unconfirmed" death. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7753036.stm

RIP...

When do the rumors start that he isn't really dead?

Is he really alive?

Maybe he is...

www.ismichaeljacksonalive.com

Wow, Farrah and MJ in one day. That's depressing.