November 16, 2007
Stating the Painfully Obvious
I know I’m not the first to note this, but I pass by it every day on the newsstand in my building.
Oxymorons are way funnier when they are unintentional.
And on the cover of magazines.
And printed a bazillion times.
And clearly visible all over the world.
Witness Michael Jackson, cover boy for this month’s Ebony Magazine, looking as white as the driven snow.
ebony |ˈebənē| noun: heavy blackish or very dark brown timber from a mainly tropical tree.
His face is decomposing, so kudos to the retoucher on this job. No one expected you to make him look masculine or African-American, but I’ll give you props for a picture that looks much less cadaverous than it should have.
Isn’t he bankrupt?
Didn’t they foreclose on Neverland?
Aren’t his kids in therapy yet?
Isn’t that Prince in Bahrain he moved in with suing him?
Why doesn’t he live on the moon?
Filed by Chelsea at 10:41 am under Pop Culture, The Media
Aw, pretty. I seem to remember a statement by Tina Fey to the effect of Michael Jackson completing his lifelong goal of becoming a noseless white woman.