​We're in Totally Random mode around here today, preparing to embark tonight for the All Points West festivities, and I thus feel emboldened to revisit, apropos of absolutely nothing, the mighty Achewood's unforgettable Grateful Dead cartoon, i.e. the best piece of music criticism in the last decade. I just feel you should know it exists, if you do not.

And while we're at it, here's the definitive word on the Obama/Gates/racist cop beer-at-the-White-House thing.

I'm torn today between relief that most blogs 'n' such are largely focusing on other, less weighty concerns to alleviate absolute MJ overload, and sadness that his death is in that way just another meme, another trope we will eventually tire of. (Here we have another way to put it.) Nonetheless, a brief nod to ever-fantastic web comic Achewood, who dealt with the trauma first in the voice of the strip's resident hedonistic playboy thong-wearing cat, and now offers a both sweet and bone-chilling strip proper, featuring the above sequence, wherein a morose teddy bear performs the Moonwalk for a young, awestruck otter, as an even more morose (and occasionally hedonistic) cat looks on. This gets at MJ's power as well as anything, and why not.