I am speechless.  Still in shock.  I can’t wrap my mind around this.  A world without Michael Jackson!?  As a child of the ’80’s I loved this man.  I had countless stickers, posters, buttons, gloves, socks, a Beat It jacket, records, tapes, cds….  There was a summer during which I watched The Making of Thriller every day.  Sometimes twice a day.  I taught myself the dance.  I took break dancing lessons and our recital number was Thriller, and of course I knew the whole thing already.  This is just so sad.  Right now I don’t have anything else to say about it.