Well, my first blog in this venue was to be, in regard to the luffa or loofah (more on the luffa at the end).
However, the recent death of Michael Jackson has drawn me to give my opinion on himself, his infamy and his passing.
First, allow me to give my condolences to the Jackson family. Also to all his fans myself included, who loved and adored him. I feel a deep and unquellable sense of loss at his passing. When I first heard about his death as after I heard the coroners preliminary report it’s my opinion Michael Jackson will forever be the Greatest Entertainer that ever lived, he is not a child molester and he died more from trying than from anything else.
Competing with the sales of Michael Jackson records, even before digital technology and P2P networks was made an impossible task over 20 years ago. The combined sales of Thriller (1982) the world's best-selling record of all time, Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991) and HIStory (1995) has sold copies in the 100’s of millions. No one can ever reach so deeply the musical soul of so many peoples in so little time. I remember one year, laughably, MC Hammer came out and said he was challenging Michael Jackson, live on radio, as the Greatest Entertainer; that was the last year he sold and album.
Michael Jackson is not a child molester, he’s a nut who never learned his lesson about how to act in the presence of children.
As to his death, Michael Jackson died of being a 50 year old man in a 50 year old body that hadn’t worked out thoroughly before bringing Titanic energy to a poorly supervised studio rehearsal based on poorly kept laurels. Everyone whose owned a cathode ray tube in the past quarter century knows Michael Jackson brings a frenic energy akin to the creation of electricity, when on stage or in front of an audience. His moves grace and precision combined with speed and perfection is only rivaled with the greatest of athletes and ingenious of engineering marvels. Attempting to recreate the kind of phenomenal physical abilities is can only be compared with Daedalus flying twice.
At least that’s my opinion.
We’ll get back to luffas, you know; the fruit of L. aegyptiaca may be allowed to mature and used as a bath or kitchen sponge after being processed to remove everything but the network of xylem. This version is called lifah in Arabic, bholor jaal in Assamese, dhundul in Bengali, ghiya tori or nerua in Hindi. A luffa or loofah sponge is used like a body scrub. Both the coarse textured sponge and the soft textured sponge are called luffas or loofahs. The latter soft textured luffa sponges aren't in fact derived from the luffa fruit, but are manufactured by folding in several layers of soft mesh-like fabric into a cloud-like shape; commonly used in tandem with shower gels/lotions. Its juice is used as an effective natural remedy for jaundice. The juice is obtained by pounding the bitter luffa and squeezing it through a cloth. Bitter luffa seeds and dry crusts are also available and can be used for the same purpose. (courtesy Wikipedia)
More on loofah's later.
Friday, June 26, 2009
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