November 16, 2006
"But of course, for that ending to work you would have to ignore all the Simpson DNA evidence. And that would be downright nutty."
Posted by pete at November 16, 2006 5:42 PMAll jokes about O.J. Simpson writing a book and conducting an interview on how he would've committed the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman - and there are a metric fuckton, believe me - withered on the vine for me when I saw the cover of the book in question. If this is a gag, my hat's off to whoever pulled it off. If it isn't, well, words fail me:
I mean...you just...it can't...
The Wife and I were discussing the current events of the day and, when we reflected upon it, O.J.'s decision makes a certain amount of sense. The guy's obviously a legitimate sociopath, but worse, he's an egomaniac. He hasn't been on the front page in ten years, and since (I imagine) the character of Nordberg will be conspicuously absent from any future installments in the Naked Gun series, this is his last, best shot at capturing the nation's attention.
Until he finally tracks down the "real killers," of course.
It is gross. Reminds me of John Allen Muhammed briefly representing himself in court, where on cross examination of family members of those he killed he had this fake pathos about him and it became clear quite rapidly he was just tormenting them further by gloating while faking sympathy. Thankfully eventually he got an attorney. I wonder if he wrote the intro to OJ's book.
This reminds me of the book that came out about Ted Bundy, The Only Living Witness, where, in interviews with the author, Bundy basically gave insight into the mindset and methods of the killer, but purely from a hypothetical standpoint. Please. After the OJ trial I fully suspected some attention-hungry loser would kill OJ. Is it too late to hope? This is just gross.