The Fly on the Wall flits about, ostensibly looking for food tidbits, perhaps some fine poop. As he sits still on a doughnut, he hears all transpiring in the room. Then he reports back to The Wise I.
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"Mama, get me a another beer, would you?"
Tito's mother stopped in mid-stride, turned around and fetched a beer from the fridge as her son instructed. It was nice to have the whole family together again. Too bad Michael was still feeling so poorly.
Mrs. Jackson set the beer down in front of Tito and assumed a chair next to her husband.
"How is he?" La Toya whispered.
Tito took a long swill of beer and shrugged.
"He's been looking better. We're still giving him that high protein drink the doctor suggested. All he does is watch "Nick at Night" TV re-runs and stare out the window."
Another Jackson brother reached across the table, pulled the pizza box close, opened the box and pulled out a slice of the now cold pizza. A fly had landed on the pizza and the Jackson brother shooed it away with annoyance.
"Well if he doesn't start coming around he certainly isn't going to be able to go on no Victory Tour," the Jackson brother said, then chomped down on the pizza. The fly that had been shooed off from its pizza feast flew over to a sideboard and sat quietly, rubbing its antennae and cleaning its wings in the warmth of a sunbeam.
"Tito do you really think the idea of a victory tour is such a good ...,"
"Damn it, Mama," Papa Jackson shouted, banging his fist on the table to startle everyone. Even the fly on the sideboard jumped from the noise.
"We've been over this time and time again," Papa Jackson said, this time his voice a bit calmer. His wife, having been interrupted from once again expressing her concern over the family's plans to rebuild Michael's future. And his career.
"Mama," Tito said softly, then leaned across the table and took his mother's hand in his. "The fans love Michael. They won't be insulted. They're happy he was found not guilty. If we don't spring on a "Not Guilty Victory Tour" now they're won't be another chance."
Article comments
1 - Eric Olsen
very nice Pat, thanks!
2 - p
Pure and utter Trash. There are so many things wrong with that story I don't even feel like pointing them all out. I hope the people that make up this shit burn in Hell. These are REAL lives these people are stomping all over.
And to the Blog writer, I've never seen you ONCE post a story that was positive about Michael Jackson. What's up with that?
3 - Eric Olsen
p, if you're referring to me, then you haven't been reading much. I've written several very positive examinations of his career.
Oh, and this is satire - note the top of the page.
4 - Bennett
Nicely written Patfish. Sad and entertaining.
5 - claire
Excellent writing!
I loved it. Slightly disturbing but wouldnt surprise me if family did accept his ways (assuming he was guilty and found innocent) that joe jackson serously freaks me out!
6 - Brenna
Excellent writing, infinitely believable. I'm glad to see that someone else shares me and my sister's theory that Michael Jackson's Neverland guests are "specially selected" by overall percentage of looniness. I personally hope that Michael and all his zealotic followers are locked up tight.
7 - nick
And here is another one with complete disrespect for the idea of justice !
The Land of the Free they call it, what a JOKE !
8 - DrPat
People are entitled to their opinions, nick, such as mine that you'd claim any dispute about Jacko's godhood as proof that there is no justice in America.
Let's agree to disgree, okay? You go on believing Michael Jackson's sh*t is perfume, and I'll go on believing you are one deluded individual...
9 - nick
Alright DrPat but if we agreed to disagree then there would be no point in this blog or in debating in the first place ! As far as I am concerned I don't have any problem in participating in such a debate.
If you don't like it then MOVE ON !
10 - DrPat
Ever see the Monty Python episode that includes the Paid Argument skit, nick? When people with diametrically-opposed ideas of what constitutes a satisfying debate try to engage in one, they are both doomed to be disappointed.
There is also the old canard my mother used to chant:
11 - nick
I get your point. So why do you bother participating then ? I am not trying to convince anybody of anything, I am trying to show the inconsistencies of your stance...
12 - Robyn Baylor
You may think that this is a nice piece of fiction disguised as truth... but what is it really? Shit... just what the fly was searching to land on...