Taking Michael’s Head
Up on 205th there is this Catholic cemetery. At one end where its wall meets an intersection to one of those fancy condo communities someone painted a mural. The mural is of a bunch of kids sitting, each representing a racial archetype and all happily holding flowers.
I am not sure it was intentional, but one of the kids just happened to look exactly like Michael Jackson...and I don't mean kind of, or sort of, but such an exact caricature of a post multiple operation Michael that often the passengers in my car as I would drive by this masterpiece would comment on it. "Why do they have a mural of Michael Jackson sitting with a bunch of kids?" usually followed by "That's kinds of creepy."
Well I guess bad press can affect a lot of things and word must have reached who ever is in charge of murals on that block. Because Michael's head has been replaced with someone’s idea of a less offending face. How good of them to care…
I am not sure it was intentional, but one of the kids just happened to look exactly like Michael Jackson...and I don't mean kind of, or sort of, but such an exact caricature of a post multiple operation Michael that often the passengers in my car as I would drive by this masterpiece would comment on it. "Why do they have a mural of Michael Jackson sitting with a bunch of kids?" usually followed by "That's kinds of creepy."
Well I guess bad press can affect a lot of things and word must have reached who ever is in charge of murals on that block. Because Michael's head has been replaced with someone’s idea of a less offending face. How good of them to care…