Comments on: When we played tag in grade school

By: Becca

Becca — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:09:30 +0000

I think you hit on something there, day. All the time passing in Michael’s eventful life really does make you realize how long it’s been. Feels like just a few years ago…

By: day

day — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:30:09 +0000

So well said Becca! I, too, cannot turn away (well at this point it’s been over 2 weeks, I guess I can now) from the coverage. I can’t say that I’ve been an avid MJ fan all this time (I checked out of his music sometime after Bad), but the retrospectives brought back so many good memories for me. Thriller was the soundtrack to my middle school years. My own daughter is the age I was when I was grooving to Thriller on my record player. It makes me realize how much time has passed; how much life has been lived since then. Not just my life, but Michael’s bizzare and sad life as well.

By: Becca

Becca — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:42:52 +0000

Thanks, Kara. Rockin’ Robin was one of my favorites! My brother and I used to play the 45 on our little plastic-covered turntable.

By: Kara Anderson

Kara Anderson — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:31:10 +0000

The piece on Michael Jackson was beautifully written. I can so vividly remember “Rockin Robben” being the very first 45 I bought at the long gone record shop around the corner from my home. God, I loved that store and going there with my mother on Saturdays was one of the best memories of my childhood and I didn’t have many with Mom.

I still have my ABC album up in the attic. I plan to watch the Motown special over the weekend because Michael performing in it was another memory that still gives me chills.

I understand how you feel is what I’m trying to say not very well.

By: KP

KP — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:18:42 +0000

Exactly Bec. Everything is so transient that my kids can barely remember what they enjoyed yesterday

On a somewhat related note, I apparently remember and can still perform the entire Beat It dance as well as Thriller. I may have a new career ahead of me.

By: Becca

Becca — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:47:17 +0000

Thanks, guys, and thanks for sharing those memories. It’s really amazing what will bring you back and it’s so precious to be able to get there. I find myself looking at kids lately and thinking, “what will you remember about now? What will make you remember?”

By: Irishcardinal

Irishcardinal — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:01:08 +0000

Beautiful piece of work, Becca. The fan, the fan. That is always so evocative of peaceful summer days and hot summer nights from my childhood. A breeze from a fan with a curtain blowing in the background, while reading on a bed brings me immediately back to my younger days. There’s some phenomenon of physics having to do with sounds, where you may think you hear the phone ringing while you are in the shower, but it’s not really ringing. We had the same thing going with the fan late at night–we would swear we heard Jack Buck calling a Cardinals game on radio, long after the game was over, in the sounds from the fan. That’s summer and childhood to me.

By: KP

KP — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:11:04 +0000

I hear you Bec. It seemed like each song I heard this past week brought me back to a different me: the little kid watching The Jacksons cartoon with my brother while eating big bowls of Apple Jacks, the pre teen roller skating to Shake Your Body Down and Don’t Stop Til You get Enough, the teenager doing the Thriller dance with my soon to be sister in law every time that video went on ( which was pretty much hourly).

I always felt sorry for and fascinated by him, because it was easy for me to understand what it was like to grow up fast and to wish you were someone else.

Great piece of writing Bec. I’ve missed this place.