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Assistant Editor / Co-moderator: Terence Nuzum
Established A.D. 2000, March 19. Now in our eleventh calendar year!
Number 535 (Vol. 11, No. 26). This edition is for the week of June 21--27, 2010.
Then What And yet I feel a certain sadness on this day, one year after his death at age 50 (inadvertant homicide by his attending doctor) that he never found the satisfaction in life he so desperately sought. Oh sure, he loved his fans, but he could never seemingly earn his father's affection or respect. His obsession with his looks suggested Jackson might not've been especially happy with his race or gender, electing to continuously blur the lines of both with non-stop plastic surgery, so he would be neither black nor white nor male nor female.
I suppose one could argue it was a runaway artistic goal of some kind, but one unique in our history. I'm not even going to go into his marriages and offspring, the origins of which are all still clouded in mystery. That said, it was obvious he worshipped his children.
He was a great entertainer and made some good music and some very memorable videos. Even a casual fan like myself can say he is missed.
You may have noticed that I posted on Monday of this week (See "Oh...F**king Great" below), which normally I never do. Traditionally, this is because the previous weeks' issue of PCR is Archived on Tuesdays and I was reluctant to post anything that would only be on the homepage for a day.
As part of a slow transition to our newer set-up, the "Weekend Video" (see PCR #534 for details on that) will be archived on Monday and anything I post on the homepage Monday will be "held over" to the new issue, more or less blog-style. This should help further smooth the transition between issues (which at this writing I think I'm still going to keep as weekly). The staff writers' nav-bar will still show "Please check back!" between their weekly columns for a little longer until I have time to reconfigure their templates.
Then what? PCR will be a 7-day-a-week operation, which up to now has only applied to the Message Board and Readers' Comments. And Readers' Comments won't be around much longer anyway, at least not in the form it's in.
As if things weren't already hard enough. A recent news item went out on several news sites over the weekend that the websites most likely to carry malicious downloads are....get ready....pop culture sites!!
AOL's page listed the top ten most dangerous ones, but none of the URL's listed seemed likely to warrant a visit from our circle--although one had "Tim Burton" in the title. HOWEVER....they were all configured to respond to typical search engine inquiries, like searches for famous movie celebrities and pop stars.
One of our Readers Comments posters noted that after last Friday, even after this page downloads, something else keeps downloading for quite a while afterwards that caused him/her to distrust us. There is no reason for concern.
Friday afternoon, the new episode of RadioActive Television was posted here causing a lengthy "buffering" time that kept modems hopping long after the homepage was viewable, whether the movie was started or not. That's because the video continues to download even after it's started playing. It stops when the video is completely downloaded into your browser. I'm working on a different configuration to prevent this.
Please know that I hand-code this site entirely and there is nothing sneaky or malicious going into your computer that I myself included or intended.
Michael Jackson Deathiversary
Then What
Oh...F**king Great
Readers' Comments
MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD ONE YEAR TODAY
POSTED BY NOLAN B. CANOVA, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 2010
Michael Jackson was by all accounts one of the strangest individuals on the planet, but his success as an entertainer is beyond doubt. I myself was only a casual fan. To me, he stood as a prime example of how limitless wealth and fame could not bring one happiness. He was one of the most miserable people on Earth.
As submitted by PCR writers, compiled by Chris Woods
GROWING UP FANBOY: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HORROR MOVIES
From 2009, Chris Woods' article on The Encyclopedia of Horror Movies book, which gives a history of horror in the cinema going back to the 1890's and up until the mid-1980's.
THEN WHAT
POSTED BY NOLAN B. CANOVA, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2010
OH...F**KING GREAT
POSTED BY NOLAN B. CANOVA, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 2010
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