Feeling Old

It seems that Michael Jackson passed away over night. Farah Fawcett died yesterday. I, however, did not gain this info until late this afternoon.

While most people watch the news before bed or put it on when they get up in the morning, apparently, I am not owned by most people. No, The Girl was blissfully unaware of the Michael Jackson news until this morning when she was riding up the elevator to work with several coworkers. They were joking that they'd have Michael Jackson music playing on the 19th floor if she wanted to come up and moonwalk with them . She laughed along with them and just wrote it off as general Friday goofiness (which tends to get more so in the summer, so I'm told), or to the fact that she might not have looked exactly awake yet (some mornings I wonder how she ever gets me to the train at all). Then when she turned on her computer, she saw the news.

Now, I'm not the hugest fan of Michael Jackson's. Oh, I enjoy his stuff when it comes on the radio, but I don't think The Girl has even one of his albums. So I'm not as familiar with his music as say the Mustang sitting next to me on the train parking lot. So perhaps the correct phrasing is that I'm just not the biggest expert on his music, whether I'm the hugest fan remains to be seen. But isn't it trendy to get really big posthumously? I mean even The Girl's brother didn't get into Nirvana until Kurt Cobain's death, and then that was all that was coming out of his bedroom and the garage when he had friends over and parties.

But I digress... The Girl has been thinking quite a bit about growing older and how she fits into the whole scheme of things. Actually, I've been thinking that myself. A friend sent her this article about Gen Xers and Michael Jackson/Farah Fawcett http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation_world/20090626_ap_2losticonsforgenerationxareallybadday.html

It’s interesting how people are now writing how that generation didn’t really have a purpose. (I’ve been feeling this way without putting a word/concept to it for a while now) Their parents had the Sixties, the Summer of Love, Vietnam. The current generation has Sept 11, War on Terror (and all that encompasses) Environmentalism (think green!), Even their Grandparents had Hitler and WWII, but what did they have? Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett? **Sigh**