— So what’s a Michael Jackson post doing in a furry blog? Well, don’t forget that he did a rather good were in his Thriller video!
I think it’s important to separate Michael Jackson the artist from Michael Jackson the Sideshow, which occupied most of the public and press attention for the past 20 plus years or so. Michael was a great performer with a variety of gifts, the megastar of the 1980’s. In addition to the music, Michael was a dazzling dancer whose moves at times couldn’t be believed even when seen; he radiated vibrant youth and kinetic energy at his prime. Thriller was as good a concept piece as has ever been done, the video inspired by Jackson’s enjoyment of American Werewolf in London. The dancing zombies of Thriller continue to awe me even today.
It’s unfortunate that Michael’s personal idiosyncrasies diminished his popularity and earned him the “Wacko Jacko” label; he didn’t need all those plastic surgeries, and at times conveyed an edge of creepiness. Michael needed better handlers to save him from himself. In middle age, Jackson struggled to recapture his earlier fame and fan base, following the destructive downward spiral that Elvis and other great performers have traveled, apparently and sadly not omitting the drug component. As with Elvis, death is likely to provide Michael with a post-mortem career boost and solidify his reputation; the soaring accolades have already begun. One wonders where all of his well-wishers were when Jackson stood almost alone on abuse charges, and when he was in crying need of interventions for apparent prescription drug addictions.
Immensely talented, tormented, and twisted, both child-like and complex, Michael Jackson was one of a kind. Adored by some, demonized by others, he was always intriguing…rest in peace, Michael, and thank you for sharing your uniqueness and great performance gifts with us.
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— Warehouse 13 debuts on the Sci Fi channel July 7th, the story of an underground government storage facility hid away in the Badlands of South Dakota that houses every conceivable kind of strange and harmful device both modern and ancient. Featured are two secret service agents with totally different styles of investigation…
— Featured on UFO Hunters, the Starchild Skull is an unusually elongated and flat skull further distinguished by extremely shallow eye sockets and a total lack of front sinuses, morphology which cannot be accounted for by any known combination of deformities. The skull appears similar to what one might anticipate from the “Greys,” the classic alien stereotype. UFO afficionados speculate that the skull may be that of a Grey alien/human hybrid.
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— I was able to catch a Deadliest Warrior marathon, a show I secretly enjoy as kind of an ultimate fighting thing with more cognitive functioning thrown in. I’ve never seen so many pig corpses slashed with a variety of weapons; just wait until they get their revenge! 
– – Heh, you gotta love MonsterQuest for its theatrical episode titles, and this one sounds like a B-movie out of the 50’s! Anyhow, the Monkster is described as up to 8′ tall but nimble; he’d be a great b-ball player. Monkey 
– – Experts originally thought that the Egyptians were the first to domesticate the cat about 3,600 years ago, but recent genetic and archaeological discoveries indicate that cats were being tamed nearly 10,000 years ago in the Mediterranean.
– – Crop circles have long appeared in a variety of designs, mostly geometric. A recent one to appear in England is most unusual in that it has the shape of a jellyfish, and is the only known jellyfish crop circle to have been seen in the world.
– – Do pterosaurs still exist in the 21st century?- -Perhaps in Papua, New Guinea, suggests MonsterQuest. Called the Demon Flyer or Ropens by natives, stories exist concerning the creatures going back to the 16th century. The creature is said to have killed men and scavenged graves, and may boast wingspans of over 30 feet. It is largely nocturnal, and most strangely is in some accounts said to be bioluminescent.
FOXSYLVANIA 
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