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I've been thinking a lot about this business and have done some writing, but it isn't quite there. In the meantime, I would like to thank the editors of Time for selecting a photo that captured him at the height of his powers, and where he should have checked out and gone to live in France like an old jazz expatriate. Before it got too weird and Naomi Campbell discovered cell phones. The moonwalk is one thing, but I've always liked the silhouette work in the final minute of this. The guy just had double the normal points of articulation in a human leg. That's the only explanation I can offer.
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