Friday, June 26, 2009

Waking up to the news...

MJ has died. He may have been many things, but the most important of all was his iconic status as a brilliant musician. Sad, sad, sad. I had a ticket to see him in July, which unfortunately won't be happening now. But alas, so goes a superstar.


We are going out in Cotonou tonight for a MJ celebration, at the local karaoke bar. I don't even know if MJ will be a song option, but here's hoping. I have tomorrow in Cotonou, and depart at 11pm for Kigali, Rwanda, where the work begins.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What a bummer, eh? I hope you busted out the moonwalk. I'm glad you didn't go for the child molester joke - lots of people have, and I find them to be in poor taste; if I find something to be in poor taste then Lord knows it's in poor taste.

Use the money you saved from the MJ tickets to do something spectacular in Rwanda...or even better, in Egypt!

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” - Maya Angelou