Being a reporter in July
Nothing much happens in the summer. It is a time when journalists go mad, the silly season and so forth. Friday two weeks ago was no exception. A day spent typing up all sorts of rubbish in a frantic bid to look busy.
I got a text from a friend at about 4pm saying she heard Michael Jackson was in Cork. Cork is a mid size town in Ireland..not quite Hicksville but we aren't talking New York here. So it seemed too outlandish -- just way too bizarre. I didn't take too much notice.
However, it emerged that the troubled singer had indeed landed in Cork on a regular Aer Lingus flight from Paris. Oh how the mighty have fallen. No private jets but just a regular commerical carrier without even a VIP section.
Imagine being a passenger on that flight. What would you make of a man wearing a baseball cap, mask and hood on his head? Let's face it -- it is either a terrorist who plans to blow the plane up or it is Michael Jackson. What was really freaky was that his poor unfortunate children had Halloween type masks on their faces.
So Jackson gets off his plane and in to a limo. Not quite. Let's try again. Michael Jackson, the man behind "Thriller" the self proclaimed King of Pop is picked up at the airport in a MINI VAN with tinted windows. Now I don't know what a mini van is in America but lets say what ever your image of it is in Ireland it is even smaller! Ok, it did have tinted windows but it was a minivan.
Jackson and the three children were whisked away to an undisclosed location in North Cork. We did a bit of checking and the rumour was that he was staying in a "castle" in a tiny town outside the city. But the owner was denying it because it wasn't a five star castle if that makes any sense. More of a three star job.
He has been in Ireland a week now and nobody has seen him. Which means that those unfortunate children have been behind closed doors for seven days. If he was from Alabama those children would have been taken from him by now. But Prince Michael I, II (!) and Paris are continuing to be damaged on a daily basis by a man who seems to have lost all sense of reality.
On one level I feel sorry for him. How did his life end up like this when his contemporaries such as Donny Osmond and co came out of child stardom relatively untouched? But then you look at the pictures of his children and you think the madness has to stop somewhere.
The suggestion is that he plans to buy a house in Ireland. Auctioneers have joked that with his financial woes he will be looking more at a semi detached house in one of the less salubrious suburbs than a mansion!!! So we will see. Michael Jackson in Cork. Next week Madonna and Prince set up shop in the house down the road with their love child.
One of the freelancers in our neighbouring county Anne told me that George Clooney was in her area for a few days. Typical...Co Kerry gets the prime specimen that is Mr Clooney.. we are stuck with Jackson! I rest my case.
I got a text from a friend at about 4pm saying she heard Michael Jackson was in Cork. Cork is a mid size town in Ireland..not quite Hicksville but we aren't talking New York here. So it seemed too outlandish -- just way too bizarre. I didn't take too much notice.
However, it emerged that the troubled singer had indeed landed in Cork on a regular Aer Lingus flight from Paris. Oh how the mighty have fallen. No private jets but just a regular commerical carrier without even a VIP section.
Imagine being a passenger on that flight. What would you make of a man wearing a baseball cap, mask and hood on his head? Let's face it -- it is either a terrorist who plans to blow the plane up or it is Michael Jackson. What was really freaky was that his poor unfortunate children had Halloween type masks on their faces.
So Jackson gets off his plane and in to a limo. Not quite. Let's try again. Michael Jackson, the man behind "Thriller" the self proclaimed King of Pop is picked up at the airport in a MINI VAN with tinted windows. Now I don't know what a mini van is in America but lets say what ever your image of it is in Ireland it is even smaller! Ok, it did have tinted windows but it was a minivan.
Jackson and the three children were whisked away to an undisclosed location in North Cork. We did a bit of checking and the rumour was that he was staying in a "castle" in a tiny town outside the city. But the owner was denying it because it wasn't a five star castle if that makes any sense. More of a three star job.
He has been in Ireland a week now and nobody has seen him. Which means that those unfortunate children have been behind closed doors for seven days. If he was from Alabama those children would have been taken from him by now. But Prince Michael I, II (!) and Paris are continuing to be damaged on a daily basis by a man who seems to have lost all sense of reality.
On one level I feel sorry for him. How did his life end up like this when his contemporaries such as Donny Osmond and co came out of child stardom relatively untouched? But then you look at the pictures of his children and you think the madness has to stop somewhere.
The suggestion is that he plans to buy a house in Ireland. Auctioneers have joked that with his financial woes he will be looking more at a semi detached house in one of the less salubrious suburbs than a mansion!!! So we will see. Michael Jackson in Cork. Next week Madonna and Prince set up shop in the house down the road with their love child.
One of the freelancers in our neighbouring county Anne told me that George Clooney was in her area for a few days. Typical...Co Kerry gets the prime specimen that is Mr Clooney.. we are stuck with Jackson! I rest my case.
posted by cara at 11:20 AM
2 Comments:
We once had the cousin of a girl that was once on American Idol drive past our town. ;)
Believe me nothing much happens in Cork most of the time. It is not exactly LA!
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