Being a daddy takes you to strange places sometimes. I'm sitting here dealing with the first real cold I've had in two years browsing 4chan and knocking back a super can of Sapporo when my 8 year old daughter comes to see what I'm up to. She glances at my phone to see this pic that she doesn't understand so I start to explain Michael Jackson to her. I'm showing her Michael throughout the years (pic 2) and play the music videos that go with the pictures. I got surprisingly emotional watching them going back in my memories to when they were new, what the pop culture ethos was, and transposing those memories onto my old man perspective of the current events that are a direct result of those cultural trends.

I start with Black or White to explain the hee-hee joke (pic 1) then jump back to Jackson 5 "I want you back" to show that MJ is indeed a boy after being asked if he's a girl after seeing his lithe physique, long hair, and delicate nose. That's when I started working forward to the notable ...