Billy Mays: BUT WAIT--THERE'S MORE!

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I don't know what this says about me, but the news this morning that pitchman Billy Mays has died is hitting me harder than any of the other big-name celebrity deaths. I loved Michel Jackson's music (but his private life intruded on my enjoyment of his music); Farah was the Britney Spears of her day (I was always more of a Jamie Lee Curtis or Adrienne Barbeau geek...); etc.

I guess it's all about how much we get "know" someone that affects how much their deaths affect us. I'm still not over the deaths of the Challenger astronauts or, particularly, Steve Irwin. I saw a lot of Billy Mays: waking up in front of the TV at 3am to find him SO ENTHUSIASTIC about some household appliance-- there was just something about his excitement that was contagious. I've seen enough of him off-commercial (Discovery Channel's "Pitchman" for instance) that I've come to be fond of him, shill that me might have been. He was a conundrum: fake, yet genuine.

Rest in peace, Billy!

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To be honest, his commercials always annoyed me..but you know..I would never wish him such an untimely end :/. Rest in peace. I was also never huge on MJ..and I think though I consider myself level headed and not to buy into media distortion or hype, I still did. His private life became a circus for the media..and really at the end of it all...it should have never been made our business. This 'private' life..he had none. At least Billy Mays did..one would hope anyway. May they both rest in peace.