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Drop us a line! Head on over to The Rockwood Mailbag at any time to leave us a message! It's easy!

Consider it an experiment in web interactivity. Or, consider it a way to artificially inflate our hit count. Either way, just write in!

 
June 30, 2009,

Brian!

You will never believe how I saw the Thriller wedding video for the first time? Don't laugh, a Duran Duran message board. I think someone from the UK posted the video 2 years ago and I was very surprised to recognize you. I saw the video again this week after watching the new Filipino inmate video.

Hope you are doing well.

Later,

--Lora T

 
Who would have thought a Duran Duran message board would somehow lead to us, Lora? Of course, who would have thought that a little dance intended to get people on the dance floor at our wedding would turn into a phenomenon? The internet is a weird place.

 
July 1, 2009,

Brian Lundmark,

I have to give you props admist Michael's untimely passing away.

As a Black man who grew up listening to Michael Jackson's music,and will always remember that 11 y o kid who was forced to play in strip clubs, supporting his entire family financially.

I would sincerely like to thank you for honoring Michael in a graceful, positive way. Michael loved you and your "Thriller" rendition. Carefully wrapped in a bond of loving marriage with your soul mate, your wife.

You ROCKED IT on YOU TUBE, dude!!!!!

always a fan of yours

--Sears Barnett

 
Strip clubs? Really? Well, that sort of checks out. In any case, we don't think we need to spend time tearing Michael down. There are plenty of other people out there doing that. And whether or not the allegations against him are true, we know for certain that he had an effect on our lives. We're happy to just leave it at that.

 
July 2, 2009,

Hate to be so nitpicky (is that a word?) but shouldn't your daily announcement page or whatever you call it say "Guess who 'used' to count us as one of his favorites"? Not that I'm an engineer or anything. My sister calls my orientation to detail "linear."

--Jim Rockwood

 
It would be "used to," Jim, if MJ were really dead, but Team Rockwood theorizes that the whole death thing is really just a coverup for Michael Jackson's Escape Into Obscurity™. Here's how it works:

First, when MJ "died," he was already being attended to by a physician. This was his cover for when the EMTs showed up. After being transferred to the hospital, he was unseen until pronounced "dead," whereupon a body double was shipped to the L.A. County coroner's office while MJ received reconstructive surgery for his nose, restoring it to its "Off The Wall" dimensions.

After paying hush money to the appropriate people, Michael will now be able to live a stress-free life as a Michael Jackson tribute artist, performing all of his songs for the adoration of fans without getting mobbed everywhere he goes. It's the perfect solution!

What? Like that's any less plausible than anything the Truthers say?

 
July 3, 2009,

Hi there, me and my partner are doing the thriller dance at our reception, however we want to do it to the video version and the audio version is different is there a way we can get the video version to audio?

--sonal

 
Lucky for you, sonal, we just answered this very question last week, when we said:

We got it straight off the video, Jerry, and just cut it down a little so it wouldn't have so much dead space in it. Our recommendation is to get a copy of Michael Jackson's videos on DVD and get to work!

Hurry, sonal! You're going to have to beat Jerry to the punch!

 
July 5, 2009,

OMG! Oh my GOD!!!! Over 9 million hits and me and my hubby Steve have already watched it more than a dozen times!!!!! You are superb - absolutely brilliant, we love it!
What did the pregnant lady at the back have, a boy or a girl? We are in England and your video is over here too. Oklahoma is a better place for the two of you in it!

All the best,

--Tracy & Steve

 
Sharp eyes, Tracy and Steve! There was indeed a pregnant woman dancing in the wedding party, and she later had a boy. Thankfully, it didn't happen during the dancing. That would have been an entirely different Michael Jackson song. Oh, it was a boy, by the way.

 
Julu 6, 2009,

What happen? Did you win the 'lottery'?

--Steve

 
Impossible, Steve! We don't play the lottery. As Penn Jillette says, "Las Vegas was built for people who are really bad at math," and as far as we're concerned, the lottery is just a little bit of Vegas sponsored by your state. No, our strip was missing on Monday because we got back late from our Independence Day weekend trip. It'll be on time the rest of the week.