In Philadelphia, we’ve seen a tremendous cottage (cheeze) industry of KoP memorial-abilia; lots of buttons and lots of t-shirts. Philebrity documented the local, entrepreneurial spirit over a week ago, and, with yesterday’s media circus heartfelt goodbye the demand is as strong as ever.
But whatever might be happening in my hometown at the street level is nothing compared to the big numbers that MJ’s untimely end is raking up. Dorothy nails it down over at Forbes.com. now all we need is for Staples to start selling the one sequined glove.
I am so cynical that when I first heard the news of MJ’s death, I assumed it was some kind of elaborate publicity stunt…perhaps devised to help get him out from under the 400 million debt. Now I am starting to wonder if my first reaction wasn’t accurate…