No Rock And Roll Fun

WE DON'T HOLD WITH NO BIG CITY WAYS: The reporters waiting for the Michael Jackson trial to kick off are filling time filing reports about people waiting for the trial to begin. Peter Bowes of the BBC must win some sort of award - perhaps a rubber nose - for this reaction from a local resident:

"It's the biggest thing we'll ever see," said Dennis Szczepanski, a local resident. "It'll be a madhouse, it's a frenzy over a trial. Just look at all the people who're coming out - it's like a circus. Our community of 85,000 is a very agricultural type - country type people and you're going to see a lot of unusual people for us. There's going to be a lot of styles of clothing and hair that we just don't see."

Although we do have to raise a quizzical eyebrow at a man who can be alarmed by unusual styles of hair dropping the size of the town's population so casually into conversation...