Thrill the World

Evidently some of you don't know about "Thrill the World," the world-wide tribute to Michael Jackson every year since 2006, I think.  The idea is that groups all over the world dress up as zombies and dance to the music of Thriller on the same designated day and the exact same time (see below), always near Halloween.

A friend of Jan Quarton's, Elliot Joachim, started the local dances here in Ajijic a few years ago and it's become very popular among both expats and Mexicans. And I think the money raised goes to International Red Cross.  Not sure about that.  Actually, I think each local event may choose its own charity. Wiki

Interesting maybe to some of you, Eugene, OR had the second highest number of participants in 2016, and apparently high numbers every year.  Hmmm.  Does that say anything about the people who live in Eugene?????

Also, we met more neighbors a couple of weeks ago, Cortlandt Jones and Brent (don't know his last name).  They live directly across the street from us, but they've been gone since the first of April, and we hadn't met them until a party last week.  They have a house in Asheville and just bought a condo in West Palm Beach and they also keep the rental here full time.  They're both super nice, and it turns out that Cortlandt is a professional dancer, mostly retired now.  He's also a personal fitness trainer when he's in Asheville. His career was mostly in LA in television, doing variety shows and in Vegas and other places--14 years in Ann-Marget's chorus.  But, what's relevant here is that he was one of the 12 core dancers in MJ's Thriller video.  It's hard to tell which one he is though because they're all in zombie make-up.  I'll ask him where his position was. This year he's choreographing the Thriller event in Ajijic.  He's the one in the yellow t-shirt.

Anyway, we do meet the most interesting people here. The four of us are going out to dinner next week. And, no, we're not dancing in Thriller, but we will be there to watch and take pictures.

Thrill Times

This year we will have two thrill times–everyone can participate in just one or both–October 28, 2017 at 10 AM GMT and 10 PM GMT.

Trying to get everyone around the world to get out of their graves at the same time is very difficult.  Some little kids just can’t do it and many adults have a very rough time.  We want as many people as possible to participate so this is how it can be done this year. Then we will all reconsider how it worked and decide what to do next year.

You can have your event at your choice of either time or you can participate at both times.