The Michael Jackson Memorial Circus

By Amelie Gillette | July 7, 2009 | 4:17pm

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And so it's come to this: Liveblogging a funeral. When you live in public, you are mourned by circus. That's what Walt Whitman said, anyway—-or he would have if he had seen this.

Join me, Josh Modell, Sean O'Neal, and other AV Clubbers in reacting to the Michael Jackson Memorial Service. You can watch on basically any TV channel, on CNN.com, MTV.com, and in the reflection of the teary eyes of people everywhere mourning the loss of an icon who has come to represent their childhood.