Weird Moment of the Day

We were walking along the street heading from The Flamingo over to Planet Hollywood and passed Bill's Gambling Hall and Saloon, the home of Obese Elvis (actually, they call him Big Elvis, pictured at left), an incredibly rotund Elvis impersonator who is one of their lounge acts. Apparently Big was on stage as we went by and his show was being broadcast over speakers along the sidewalk. To my surprise I heard him singing "He Touched Me", a gospel song written by Bill Gaither and performed by Deceased Elvis.

I wasn't sure if he was doing a tribute to Elvis or to Michael Jackson. The song could fit either one.

There are lots of tributes, and lots of people nauseated by tributes, to the Deceased King of Pop. Don Surber tells us how congress has been handling it:

The Congressional Black Caucus pushed for a moment of silence that honored the one-man freak show.

I know I declared this a Michael Jackson-free zone, but politics has reared its ugly, er, pre-plastic surgery head.

First, there was the moment of silence for Jackson. This “almost nauseated” Democratic Congressman John Yarmuth. The audio.

Then there was Republican Congressman Pete King blasting the over-coverage of this death: “There’s nothing good to say about this guy.”

The video.

Finally, there is the resolution by Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee, which has been referred to the House Foreign Affairs Committee for consideration. Well, that committee is used to dealing with aliens. The story.

The resolution.

May I suggest that he was simply a guy who conquered the entertainment world and then had too much money and too much baggage from a monster of a father? Sad story. Let’s not wallow in it.

Tomorrow is gonna be a real circus.

And if that isn't enough, a woman in Stockton thinks Michael Jackson has appeared in her tree stump.