A Grave Act

The foul stench was very strange, the funk of fifty years and change, a grizzly ghoul inside his tomb, all closed up to seal his doom . . ..

Yeah, they finally buried Michael Jackson. I don't understand what the heck took so long, I didn't think the autopsy could have been all that complicated.

Anyway, Jackson was interred in a vault in a mausoleum in Forest Lawn Memorial Cemetery, which includes the remains of several other deceased entertainers. Access to this mausoleum is severely restricted, meaning that fans won't get to leave any mementos.

Incidentally, anyone notice that Ted Kennedy died two months to the day after Jackson, yet he was interred before Jackson was?

I know that it's not cool to make fun of the way Jackson's interment was handled, but his survivors didn't do anyone - least of all Jackson himself - any favors by begging to be lampooned.