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Like pretty much everyone, there are contradictions in my nature. But two that are helpful to know are these:

1. Despite my preoccupation with the fantastical and speculative, I am a rather hard-headed skeptic when it comes to drawing a firm line between what happens in fiction and what I accept can happen in reality.
   
2. Despite my finely-honed critical faculties (or, at least, frequently-exercised faculties), I can enjoy something like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, because just as I can distinguish between fantasy and reality, I can distinguish between fun and good when the two don't overlap. ;) RotF is NOT good. But it's fun.
   

Starscream, Demolishor, Ironhide, the Fallen. Starscream is pretty impressive.

Over the years, one of the running gags about Jacko has been the weird way he dressed his kids whenever they appeared in public, like a mix between burqas and Carnival costumes. A South Park episode even centered on it. Just another piece of crazy in Michael Jackson's life.

Crazy like a fox! In their Secret Identities, his kids got to hang out with the children of MJ's not-famous friends and have probably the closest thing to a normal childhood that you're going to get when your name is Prince Michael Jackson. That's all over now, sadly, but hopefully the few years he was able to buy them will let the kids weather the media and legal storm that now swirls around them.

Totally missed this first time around, I had to use a knife to pry it up into position.