That joke isn’t funny anymore – bad timing on a Michael Jackson reference

I often make comments about being a jinx on sporting events and such, but what happened today is kind of eerie.

I wrote a blog entry about how Brian Bruney is using a hyperbaric chamber on his elbow. That device, of course, is remembered by many, including myself, as being used by Michael Jackson. So I put a photo of the King of Pop in the blog. And not just any photo, but one of him in the hyperbaric chamber. And I made all sorts of awful puns about Wacko Jacko’s music.

A few hours later, I’m reading our comments section, and read Uncle Mike’s note that Michael had a heart attack and might be dead. It’s such an eerie coincidence, I’m kind of shuddering even looking at the photo of Jackson in the hyperbaric chamber (come to think of it, it looks like he’s in a coffin. Yikes!)

It’s not like Michael Jackson is a big topic of mine; I hadn’t thought about him since his 50th birthday last year. And now he’s apparently dead. Rest in peace, Michael.