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28 Jun 2009 13:50

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Culture: Billy Mays’ son, @youngbillymays, broke the news of his dad’s passing

  • My dad didn’t wake up this morning.. I’m sure you’ll all hear about it. It hasn’t yet hit me but it’s about to.
  • Billy Mays III • Who wrote about his dad’s death via Tweet. Mays, who says “All the support from you guys does help,” reported the news of his father’s passing hours before the mainstream media got to it. It’s the nature of the medium. • source
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28 Jun 2009 12:15

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Culture: This is too much for us to take. Reports: Billy Mays is dead :(

  • Holy crap. Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson were bad enough, but word is that Billy Mays, that bearded icon of selling crap, died in his Tampa home this morning. NOOOOOOooooooooo!source
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27 Jun 2009 21:42

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Culture: The scene from Michael Jackson’s hometown, Gary, Indiana

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  • Friend of the site Nicole Bogdas took this photo, along with a bunch of others, on Friday. Here’s what’s going on in this shot: “Gordon Keith, owner of the defucnt Steeltown Records and the Jackson 5’s first manager delivers a wreath to Michael Jackson’s boyhood home in Gary, Ind.” Click the link for more. source
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27 Jun 2009 21:25

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Culture: Jesse Jackson: Michael Jackson’s first autopsy wasn’t good enough

  • Jesse Jackson, speaking for the family, says they want another one. Jesse (no relation) has been in close contact with the family and visited them yesterday. “It’s abnormal,” he said. “We don’t know what happened. Was he injected and with what? All reasonable doubt should be addressed.” Michael, of course, was rumored to be addicted to prescription medications. His body has been released to the family, but there’s no word on whether a second autopsy has taken place yet. source
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27 Jun 2009 15:58

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U.S.: DC Metro GM John Catoe: The driver killed in the crash saved lives

  • On Monday when we had this tragic loss, she was there not just doing her job, she took an act that I believe, in my judgment, ultimately will determine that she saved lives.
  • DC Metro General Manager John Catoe • On Jeanice McMillan, the driver who died in Monday’s deadly Metro crash. Initially pegged as inexperienced, the words came as reaffirmation of support for a woman whose reputation hinged on it. • source
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27 Jun 2009 10:55

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Culture: Michael Jackson’s autopsy: Inconclusive. Wait for toxicology.

  • Another 4-to-6 weeks (at least) of lack of clarity. The autopsy of Michael Jackson, who was reported to have been injected with narcotic painkillers shortly before his death, has proven inconclusive. That means, yes, weeks of speculation of 24-hour news channels await us until we possibly learn the truth about what happened. Unless, you know, the toxicology reports also come up inconclusive. In which case, we’re screwed. source
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26 Jun 2009 17:55

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Culture: Lisa Marie Presley: Michael Jackson thought he’d end up like Elvis

  • At some point he paused, he stared at me very intensely and he stated with an almost calm certainty, ‘I am afraid that I am going to end up like him, the way he did.’
  • Lisa Marie Presley • On her MySpace blog, explaining a conversation between her and her former husband where he revealed his fear of ending up just like her famous dad. She tried to get him away from that thinking but he had accepted it as fact, something that hit her yesterday when an untimely death proved to be true. Presley went further in her post, saying that their marriage was in fact not a sham: “I do believe he loved me as much as he could love anyone and I loved him very much.” • source
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26 Jun 2009 15:39

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Culture: Thanks to a couple of dead icons, Generation X is now old.

  • These people were on our lunchboxes. This is the moment when Generation X realizes they’re grown up.
  • Gary Giovannetti • A manager at HBO who grew up with Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, both of whom obviously died yesterday. Is it accurate? Well, think about this: Kurt Cobain burned out so long ago that the impact of his suicide is starting to fade away, Eddie Vedder, a man in his mid-40s, has long been fading away, nobody talks about “The Real World,” or, heck, MTV anymore, and most Gen-Xers probably have a defaulted mortgage. And now Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died within a few hours of one another. We’d say that Gary’s right. • source
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26 Jun 2009 03:54

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Culture, Tech: The Internet wasn’t ready for Michael Jackson’s death at all

  • Twitter’s traffic doubled in just a short period, and Jackson’s death nearly made Iran a forgotten memory on the site. Facebook had triple the traffic. source
  • The L.A. Times site, which was the first reputable source (sorry TMZ) to confirm his death, had over two million pageviews in just an hour. source
  • But most telling might be the long-running AOL Instant Messenger. They went down 40 minutes, and called the day “a seminal moment in Internet history.” source
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25 Jun 2009 22:41

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Culture: Key quote on Michael Jackson’s death, from Quincy Jones

  • He was the consummate entertainer and his contributions and legacy will be felt upon the world forever.I’ve lost my little brother today, and part of my soul has gone with him.
  • Quincy Jones • The guy who produced “Thriller,” on the death of the superstar pop icon. Jackson, by the way, died of cardiac arrest and died as he lived: In the public eye with the focus completely on him. Dude had that nature about him. • source
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