So, we’re at the tail end of the MJpalooza that has flooded our 24 hour news cycles over the past two and half weeks. Aside from the fact that California is broke and the city of Los Angeles spent over $1.4M on a celebrity’s funeral, including $50,000 on box lunches for thousands of cops who were there to control the expected tens of thousands of people anticipated to be there. Well, they never materialized. What happened? Hey, it’s broadcast all over the news! Why leave the comfort of your own home?

I also think MJ is a very partisan topic. People either revere him or loathe him for being an accused child molester. Whatever the case, he crafted some killer tunes and like other wacko celebs like David Hasselhoff and Jerry Lewis, MJ is still considered a god outside the States. Foreign cultures are not hampered by lame Puritan values. Heck, they’ve got bigger fish to fry, like say, tyrannical regimes, fatwahs, abject poverty, earthquakes, tsunamis, famines, and the usual third world bullshit. So, I think sensational trials, sleeping in a gas chamber, marrying Elvis’ daughter, Daddy issues, and vitiligo are the least of most people’s problems, where they live in slums or massive dumps and don’t have running water. Sometimes they just need to kick back and dance.

Therefore, I wanted to point out a couple of very cool tributes that happened this week. Firstly, there’s the Swedes, who did a clever tribute in Segels Torg and Central Station in Stockholm:

How Euro!!! And remember those Pinoy inmates who re-enacted the Thriller video with a toothless tranny as the object of affection? Well, them incarcerated Filipinos are back! Within 10 hours of MJ’s passing, they came up with this somewhat touching, somewhat cheesy (in that Filipino way) dance number/tribute.

I think the Filipino government should recruit a team to compete in the next America’s Best Dance Crew. At the very least, they can have their way with himbo emeritus Mario Lopez.