The Gothic afterlife of Michael Jackson continues

As most of the world goes into internet-choking spasms of grief, there's a counternarrative from the Gothic side of culture.  Or, at least, from people who just didn't like the music.

Maybe he's not dead.  No, not undead - he did that already - but has faked death with a doppelganger:

Many devoted fans watching world tour announcement and other recent appearances commented that his hands, face, stature and general demeanour and mannerisms were unfamiliar (beyond any consequences of physical surgery), leading to rumours of a body double.
(hat tip to Jesse Walker)

Or perhaps Jackson' death makes his life look even more necrotic in retrospect?

He existed strictly on image, an anorectic figure nourished by moonbeams of attention, famous for saying that he loved his worshippers when the truth was he merely sucked the life out of them.  In his last years, he even looked a bit like Nosferatu, the personification of the un-dead, and his fascination with ghouls was the basis for his biggest hit way back in the last century.  A zombie nation deserves a zombie mascot.
...America was a fat man jerking off on the sofa watching a vampire of no particular sex vogue deliriously on the boob tube.
(James Kunstler, continuing the economic crisis as Gothic theme)

And there's yet another perspective, from some of the religious.  Satan whacked Jacko, or, as the best headline of the week puts it:

The Ark of the Covenant and the Death of Michael Jackson – A Couple of Interesting Coincidences
(thanks to Jesse for this one, too)

First post on the subject is here.

Comments

[jacob]

Why should anyone care about this fake Ark of the Covenant when a much more important holy relic has already been discovered in Stephan Huller's book, the Real Messiah:

http://www.amazon.com/Real-Messiah-Throne-Origins-Christianity/dp/1906787123/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246539906&sr=8-1

Huller went to Venice and proved that the Throne of St. Mark in the Basilica San Marco dates to the beginning of Christianity. His book proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Christianity started in Egypt and derives its teachings from the worship of Isis, Osiris and the pagan gods of Egypt.

This is a real historical object, i.e. it is not a fake. You can see it with your own two eyes the next time you go to Italy. It is also being made into a TV documentary for a US Cable network.

Again, why waste your time with this 'Ark of the Covenant' nonsense when it is completely fake.

The book costs about $18 but you can get it sometimes for less than that. Maybe if you are still sitting on the fence check out his blog instead at wwww.stephanhuller.blogspot.com.

It's really cool.

Jacob