Facebook Spam

One of my friends (a real friend) on LJ has drunk some kind of weird Kool-Aid--he changed his "middle name" to read "Rising Sign" and every single update contains some reference to either astrology, some astrology book he's promoting, or some astrology website he's promoting. This has been happening for weeks now--I finally just clicked "Hide" and now I won't be shown any of his updates. I suppose in a few months I'll check to see if he's still doing this and maybe revert the setting. It's a shame, he's a nice guy but I don't go to Facebook for the ads and I really don't care about "helping [you] get to 100 people!" on your website, or whatever it is you're doing.

Paris Jackson

I got a pedicure last night and as I was sitting there in the chair, the TV was of course broadcasting "news" about MJ's funeral. Okay, fine--I'm not interested but a lot of people are, and whatever. But they kept playing over and over that little girl's words to her father. I read an interesting article the other day that put that incident in some perspective although I don't agree with all the author's conclusions. For instance I don't think her aunts' support was staged, and I don't think her address was staged--I think she HAD to say something, she had to put her feelings out there. And that's entirely appropriate--she and her brothers are the ones who are suffering the most from this. But it really bothers me that WE all heard this, that now this little one's heartfelt words of farewell to her father now belong to the ages. That's just too private. They kept replaying it last night--I must have heard it at least three times. I don't want to have that kind of intimate knowledge about that poor little kid, it just feels like it's adding to the damage. It's none of my business, and I guess I wish the family had said "why don't you say this at the private service, honey?"

I have to say, the little girl and her older brother are GORGEOUS, weird names and all.