That's how ElvisNews.com reports the Jackson death. Judging by the angle and the resulting reader comments, the Elvis community at large is no fan of the late King of Pop. Why? There are the Jackson abuse allegations, for sure, but with a massive dose of musical rivalry. If you want odder reactions to the death, Elvis fans are good place to start. (Sincerely, an Elvis fan but apparently not as big a one as I could be.)

Have liked the radio turning me onto some great Jackson deep cuts.

So many people have tweeted and updated about hearing Michael on the radio last night. The best thing to me about the moment was how far across the radio you could hear him. In Washington, the adult R&B station, Majic 102.3, was the best place to listen, and I got chills when they announced the death and went into Never Can Say Goodbye. But the tributes continued across the city's two hip-hop stations, the Top 40 station, the rock station, the contemporary hits station, and the easy listening station. Even the DJ-less "fresh" station threw various Jackson into the robot playlist. On each of the formats, his songs fit.

Couple other thoughts: Last night reminds us how wrong the Justin-as-the-next-Michael notions are. Justin makes good music, but he is not off the wall, bad nor dangerous. Also, I think the L.A. Times wins the obit lede competition. Hard to beat this on greatness/oddness:

Michael Jackson was fascinated by celebrity tragedy. He had a statue of Marilyn Monroe in his home and studied the sad Hollywood exile of Charlie Chaplin. He married the daughter of Elvis Presley.

Jackson met his own untimely death Thursday at age 50, and more than any of those past icons, he left a complicated legacy. As a child star, he was so talented he seemed lit from within; as a middle-aged man, he was viewed as something akin to a visiting alien who, like Tinkerbell, would cease to exist if the applause ever stopped.

It was impossible in the early 1980s to imagine the surreal final chapters of Jackson's life. In that decade, he became the world's most popular entertainer thanks to a series of hit records – "Beat It," "Billie Jean," "Thriller" …

Emily's latest column has hit the streets. This month she discusses the Michael Jackson controversy and its effect on his music's legacy.

The column gets me thinking. I'm pretty sure I learned how to moonwalk from a friend at the Candy Cane City Playground. Thank you, Abby Ross.

Any song with Jamie Foxx singing should be treated with the same concern as any movie with Britney Spears acting. But now playing on MTV, the only redemptive value of the mindless, name-dropping Slow Jamz, by Twista and featuring Foxx and Kanye West, is the song's lone joke. To enjoy amid the thug-Xeroxed R&B:

"She got a light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson

Got a dark-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson."

On the way to the supermarket recently, I was flipping through the radio presets and came across Michael Jackson's "Black or White." Normally I continue past any post-"Bad" Michael, but this time I let the song ride it out.

Because leaving the house that afternoon, I had noticed a neighbor's trash across the street. There were two bins of recycling by the curb and a microphone stand behind them. With a microphone and an amp, someone could have stood on that curb and rocked the whole block.

It is a quiet block, lined with quiet houses. Not many people drive down the street, and there's a tall and leafy tree cover. But put Michael Jackson curbside in front of that microphone stand. Imagine him with a microphone and an amp too. I bet Jackson, for all his faults, could dance and sing right there until the suburb shook.

You can't rip anyone all the way down and still be right.

Leading up to their coverage of the Traficant expulsion vote last night, C-SPAN studio analysts discussed what might happen. The wording below is as best as can be remembered; the gist is accurate.

Analyst one: "He has said he might do the moonwalk on the House floor."

Anaylst two: "The moonwalk? What's that?"

Analyst one: "We think it's some sort of Michael Jackson thing."