The Vanilla Thrillah -- Covered in Ivy!

A Yale conference (now going on) for the ages: "Regarding Michael Jackson: Performing Racial, Gender and Sexual Difference Center Stage." Some papers being presented: "Feeling Like a Woman, Looking Like a Man: Michael Jackson, Grace Jones, and the Transgendered Erotics of Voice"; "Call Me Kiki: Little Ricky Martin, Menudo, and the Legacies of Little MichaelJackson, 1983-1989"; "Michael Jackson the King of Melodrama: Innocent until proven Guilty."

Innocent until proven guilty -- a good rule of thumb for academic theories, too.