Michael Jackson, Dancing to his Grave.

MICHAEL JACKSON: Dancing to his Grave

1) Dr. Arnold Klein says he saw Jackson three days before the King of Pop died at age 50.

"He was not in terrible pain," says Klein, "He danced in the office. He danced for my patients. He was very muscular and he was very, very happy and dancing."

Klein, Jackson's longtime doctor, made his comments in an interview that aired Wednesday, July 1st, on ABC's 'Good Morning America.'

2) In the words of his 11 year old daughter during the memorial yesterday, that Jackson was "the best father you could ever imagine."

3) Photos Mr. Jackson have become the de facto image on all the gossip/scandal/'infotainment' mags on the shelves of our local supermarket.

Item three above is perhaps the best thing to come out of Jackson's death, because his shots have completely chased Jon & Kate from the rag-mag scene -- if I was Christian, I'd raise hosannas to the heavens.

The Cult of Celebrity in this country, second only to the Victim Cult in power and influence, has spawned an industry in order to feed the public's feeding frenzy over thoroughly self-absorbed, imperviously egotistical people, That industry has grown to massive proportions and delivers its product on such closely-spaced intervals that the need for new material is both intense and neverending -- they HAVE to have the next edition ready, ASAP, at any cost.

Hense the appearance of Jon & Kate type articles; wholly untalented people, put into the spotlight because more interesting people weren't available, a couple living lives that evince all the qualities of a trailer park soap opera, and almost literally possessing nothing else to recommend them to us.

In the final analysis, Jon & Kate type figures are just filler material, place-savers for when more 'important' persons do something more interesting, like get married, get divorced, get arrested, or die.

Both Jackson and Jon & Kate fall under the 'thoroughly self-absorbed, imperviously egotistical people' catagory, although Mr. Jackson actually earned his place in the spotlight through his exceptional abilities and natural sense of showmanship -- Jon & Kate? Not so much.

In truth, Jon & Kate should more properly be lumped under the "accidently famous' catagory, say with Paris Hilton, and Prince Charles, people whose fame comes entirely from who they are related to, and not for anything they have done in this life.

Then again, Jon & Kate are there solely because someone in desperate need of a show to air on TV decided to take a chance that we'd tune in on them in sufficient numbers (and, sure enough, we did!),

Hopefully, this interruption has broken the spell the Jon & Kate spectacle has inexplicably held over the scandal media, that their fame-cycle has run its course and we won't be subjected to any more breathlessly described details of their world -- yes, that would be nice.

However, there is talk that a show revolving around the life of the Octo-mom in in pre-production.

And my wife says I'm wasting my time when I play 'Oblivion' on my Xbox 360? Mmmmm.