Two things worth reading

A little off-topic (we know you'll allow this, occasionally), but I recommend to readers two pieces of recent writing:First, Cintra Wilson has reprinted on her blog a chapter on Michael Jackson from her first book A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-examined as a Grotesque, Crippling Disease (2000. A Massive Swelling was (and is) a headlong and vastly entertaining rant about celebrity in our times