As an aside, I learned about Jackson’s death, like many, through Twitter, which was no doubt suffering from gossip overload. Maybe it’s the limited number of tweets I follow, but my twitter experienced ranged from witnessing the shocked:
To the bizarre:
To the down-right stupefying:
That, of course, was tweets from Barenaked Ladies’ Steven Page, Stephen Colbert, and, for some reason, what appears to be a giant comatose whale being carried by birds.
Ah, I remember my first Failwhale.
I haven’t jumped on the Twitter bandwagon yet, in part because I have kind of an objection on principle to any website on which the action taken is referred to as “tweeting”. Also, it reminds me of Bambi… remember when all the animals were twitterpated?