When I was doing my research for this post (I know, you are shocked that I do research) I was looking for information about the rights to MJ image. What I found were a couple of interesting news items, I use the term ‘news’ loosely.

The first was a tree stump in Sacramento that suddenly took on the appearance of Michael Jackson. I was going to include a photo but, to be honest it just looks like, well, a tree stump……….

The second was about a fence in the San Francisco Bay area. A family noticed this unusual pattern on their fence this week. Depending on the time of day, they say it looks like a face looking forward or to the side. And that it looks a lot like Michael Jackson. “The strangest thing, is that I was listening to Michael’s music,” says a family member who wants to remain anonymous, “I was thinking about Michael’s life and his death when I saw it. I was feeling his music emotionally. I looked to my side, out the window, and there he was.”

As you can see, there is quite an uncanny resemblance between The King of Pop and these planks of wood….

Mark Lester claimed that he was the father of Michael Jackson’s daughter. Am I the only one who thinks that it is sad that it would seem that the friends that MJ asked to donate were 1) his skin doctor and 2) a childhood star.

What I am getting at is that the dermatologist obviously played a large part in MJ’s sad life while Mark Lester was, like MJ, a child star who found adjusting to adult life difficult.

Whatever his faults, MJ was a sad person with problems and pressures that most of us will not know in our lives.

Oh yes, the image rights. It seems that the Jackson estate (for that read family and assorted lawyers) are going to settle deals about the image rights today. The rumour is that it will be just short of $100,000,000.

Just found another bit about MJ’s image. There is a tattoo site that says that tattoos of MJ are becoming popular, since he died. Before that apparently to display a tattoo of MJ invited attacks along the lines of ‘if you have a MJ tattoo you support pedophiles’.

Now, I hate tattoos. I can not think of anything worse that a young taught body bearing the image of a sex symbol and then seeing the same sagging, sun damaged body at 65.

However, If you have a MJ tattoo you do not necessarily support pedophiles, it just shows two things;

1. You lack foresight.
2. You like crap music.

Talking of which…………