i was at a local sandwich shop with a girl i was dating in 2009 when the pop radio station announced that Michael Jackson died in his home, and then we heard a lot of Michael Jackson while we ate¹
Today at 10:31 am i sent a text to my partner joking that i felt like i would probably crack open a beer if the Queen died. four minutes later, I got the messages back:
well baby
start cracking
i am now finishing my Guinness at 11:40 and thinking that i'll be able to look back on this exact moment 13 years from now in the same way that I can today with MJ
- Billy Mays of OxyClean infomercial fame ("HI! BILLY MAYS HERE") died three days after MJ, and as a young 19-year-old memelord I was like "the moonwalk guy and Billy Mays? this is the most fucked up week ever"


I was never really in the LP bubble but, yeah, Chester's passing makes a lot of sense 