Least Shocking Revelation Ever

Just read in this week's Entertainment Weekly (article not yet available online) an explanation as to why it is apt that the documentary drawing from Jackson's rehearsals for his planned tour will come out around Halloween:

"Halloween was Michael's favorite holiday."

Really?!? A holiday when young children just show up at the doorstep dressed in costumes was Michael Jackson's favorite holiday? I, for one, am shocked.

(Too soon?)

South Africa Diary #2

My second installment of my South African diary is now up at the Foreign Policy Association Africa Blog. In it I discuss today's Springbok-British and Irish Lions rugby match and the South African response to Michael Jackson's death.