And, what a trip it was! I spent a total of 118 days in Santa Maria camped outside the courthouse, cheering on MJ, or "Little Mikey" as I call him. Surrounded by other fans of the King of Pop, we quickly formed a tight-knit community united by our love for the world's most famous singer. Ah, the memories. I'll be posting full reports and pictures to my MJ blog.

Now that I'm back, I can resume full blog coverage here at Lonewacko. Our first and only coverage of MJ is this column from Robert Hilburn: "Long Before Trial, Hints of a Destructive Obsession".

BTW: Those of you who appreciate fine satire might want to see "The marketeers have invaded Blogdom". That's something I wrote some years ago about Duke, Sun's mascot for Java. If you don't know who Duke is, you probably won't get it, but anyway, I tried to write it in the trademarked Hilburn style.

UPDATE: Just to make it clear, I was never in Santa Maria. I've driven through there a few times, but I don't know if I've ever stopped. And, yes, this is indeed our first, last, and only coverage of the MJ matter. And, yes, it took my continual interest in laughing at Robert Hilburn (or at least his style) to finally get me to post on this matter. Let's never speak of MJ again.