Introducing Power, the new fragrance by 50 Cent. All it takes is one super-sized bottle and you’ll soon be ruling your own secret state where you can flagrantly conduct nuclear tests and missile launches!

Phew, what a day it’s been! First Farrah and then someone who we’d thought would be captivating the tabloids for many more years to come. If you’re in a mind to rush out and stock up on some memorabilia, here’s a little something from the Tragic Music Star spring/summer collection.

Well, as it happens I’m out of Absinthe (which I loathe anyway except in a Sazerac and that one very good and made by a very handsome man) but I do have tonic and with sufficient Bombay Sapphire I feel we will get through the present Celebrity-Industrial Crisis okay.

Well, maybe not:

The bitchiest Michael Jackson obituary you are going to read ever (raincoaster)

And its opposite (PopOnThePop)

RIP Farrah Fawcett (Websters)

Celebrities were MJ fans, too (ASL)

Farrah Fawcett at 23 (SeriouslyOMG)

Michael Jackson, Rest in Peace 1958-2009 (PopBytes)

Michael Jackson memorial slideshow (PopSugar)

Jeff Goldblum is still alive (PerezHilton)

More celebs speak on their loss (JustJared)

The MJ Timeline (INO)

Celebrity Tweetbituaries for MJ (GabbyBabble)

The publicist speaks (EvilBeet)

Farrah’s friends speak (DListed)

Michael Jackson: the music (FourFour)

Perez Hilton thinks MJ pulled an Elvis (Gawker)

Madonna does Billie Jean (BusyBeeBlogger)

So why, exactly, is MJ gone? (CelebuWreck)

Who Farrah was, and what we’ve lost (CeleBitchy)

Music moguls respond to MJ’s death (AmyGrindhouse)

Thriller (YouTube)

But seriously, folks (AgentBedhead)

In case you were taking your Lamborghini for a spin around the racetrack and needed some guidance on dressing appropriately for high performance driving. If you don’t like having too many accessories though, ditch the helmet and keep the bag.

The Summer has officially begun, raincoaster is ensconced (enthroned?) in the torpid climes of the wine country, and a frosty Pink Hound is by my side (we don’t know about you, but we will drink no wine before its time, and it’s not dinner time yet). Life (as we know it, Jim) is good.

Chris Brown, cur (Websters)

Alice in Her Cups (TenGossip)

RPattz hangs with a total animal (ASL)

Old Dogs, new tricks? (SeriouslyOMG)

Bradley Cooper bags a cougar (PopBytes)

The greatest dog-walking video of all time (HolyMoly)

Wolverine? Or chickenhawk? (JustJared)

Michelle Pfieffer is no cougar (INO)

JoRyMy is an animal! (GabbyBabble)

Karl is not a Cat Fancier (FakeKarl)

Perez hates the Pink (FourFour)

Cameron Diaz is a dog? (CelebuWreck)

Courtney Love is not human (CelebritySmack)

Foals named! (AmyGrindhouse)

A dog or a viper? (AgentBedhead)

Here are the answers to Monday’s puzzle corner:
1. Sam Mendes/Kate Winslet
2. Frances McDormand/Joel Coen
3. Helen Mirren/Taylor Hackford
4. Tim Burton/Helena Bonham Carter
5. Robert Rodriguez/Rose McGowan
6. Kate Beckinsale/Len Wiseman
7. Julianne Moore/Bart Freundlich
8. Spike Jonze/Michelle Williams
9. Rachel Weisz/Darren Aronofsky
10. Leslie Mann/Judd Apatow

Congratulations to the superteam of minky, Patricia, dessessopsid, SusanG and leene for a combined total of 9 out of 10! As your reward you may imagine yourself being Marg Helgenberger surrendering to the libidinous jaws of Emmy co-presenter Quentin Tarantino.

It WAS a big bash: so big I can’t remember what-all was bought for me, except I ate and drank it all and could really use a nap right now.

John Malkovich better watch his back view (AgentBedhead)

This is why the world loves Kelly Clarkson (AmyGrindhouse)

That old “My ring finger is itchy” never works (BBB)

SJP and MB’s mail order just came in (CelebritySmack)

RIP Ed McMahon (CelebuWreck)

Jon and Kate + ad nauseum (DailyStab)

Z5 and a meat man fall down (DListed)

Celebrity Scientology Star Chart (Cracked)

The incredible vanishing governor (Gawker)

Homeless woman attacks paparazzi (EvilBeet)

Even Fergie’s mom is tougher than Perez (GabbyBabble)

Jude Law loves tennis (UKPopSugar)

Buzz Aldrin, rapper (SeriouslyOMG)

Smells like a fish (Websters)