MJ

As we all have heard by now The King of Pop passed away a few days ago. London is mourning his loss along with the rest of the world. The media coverage of his death by the UK press has been extensive to say the least. We caught wind of a Michael Jackson tribute party at Club Koko in the hipster laden London neighborhood of Camden. We hopped on the Tube at the Tottenham stop and zoomed to the Mornington Cresent stop. This was my first Tube excursion and I loved it. Something about the curve of the walls and the trains themselves, the mosaics and the cool breeze created by the trains had a calming effect on me. We hopped off the tube and frantically darted across the still imposing London traffic we came to a stop in front of Club Koko. There were a few people milling about outside all of which were smartly dressed. We looked around and then at each other and noted that all of us Americans were horribly under dressed. Nate approached a bouncer and ascertained that indeed we were in the right place however there was a cover charge of over 16 GBP! None of us were interested in paying for entrance so we found another pub down the street and had a couple of rounds of drinks. It was a great time.

The next day Michele, Nate, and I stumbled across this shrine to Michael Jackson in front of one of the West End theaters that's running a live production of Thriller.