<![CDATA[Antagolist: Michael Series]]>https://www.antagolist.com/s/michael-serieshttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rSeZ!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3b4dfbad-715b-4d80-933d-94471bd3be9c_1109x1109.pngAntagolist: Michael Serieshttps://www.antagolist.com/s/michael-seriesSubstackMon, 22 Jun 2026 04:57:27 GMT<![CDATA[Who's Actually Bad Here?]]>https://www.antagolist.com/p/whos-actually-bad-herehttps://www.antagolist.com/p/whos-actually-bad-hereSat, 09 May 2026 20:33:55 GMTI wrote this article on July 2nd, 2009, a week after Michael Jackson died. It was written in the aftermath of the media frenzy surrounding his death, and serves as my firsthand cultural record of the behavior of everyone in his orbit: his family, the media, friends, former accusers, and the emotional climate surrounding one of the biggest cultural moments of our lifetime. You can read the first part of my Michael series, written on the day he died — The Man in My Mirror.

Michael, Part Two

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]]><![CDATA[The Man in My Mirror]]>https://www.antagolist.com/p/the-man-in-my-mirrorhttps://www.antagolist.com/p/the-man-in-my-mirrorThu, 07 May 2026 21:50:51 GMT

This past weekend, a friend asked me to see the Michael movie with him. I have tickets, where do we meet? This is a friend I usually go to the theater with; we don’t ask each other what we want to see, one of us buys the tickets and tells the other where to show up. When I told him I couldn’t go, he casually asked — busy today, what day can you go? No, I can’t see this movie. Ever.

I spent about 45 minutes on the phone explaining to one of my closest friends why I can’t see a Michael Jackson biopic, and probably never will, and he just wasn’t getting it. Miranda, you’ve been obsessed with Michael for 4 decades, what the fuck, let’s go see a fucking movie.

I figured out during that phone call that I’ll never be able to explain why my body physically can’t walk into that theater and watch that movie unless I give you the full picture. And that picture begins on June 25, 2009 — the day Michael Jackson died. I was there, ten minutes from his house. When the news broke, I went to his home. I…

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