There are four events that I can remember where I was, who I was with, and what I was wearing. Only my wife knows exactly what I was wearing the other days of my life. In order of memory burn-in intensity, these are:
1. 9/11
2. Princess Diana's car crash
3. O.J.'s run from the law
4. O.J.'s verdict
Someday I'll be eating my breakfast through a straw, wetting myself, and mumbling about Dodi Al Fayed. I can joke about this because I have the get-out-of-offending-people's-sensitivity card; Alzheimers runs in my family. I'll have a blog December 17th on Alzheimers.
He can run, but he can't hide. O.J., after all, occupies two of my top four memory slots. He's back in the news again. This time on "trumped up charges" of kidnapping, brandishing a gun, and stealing his own sports memorabilia. I didn't validate these charges on the Internet fact checking thingy so don't drop them into water cooler conversations yet.
When I think of O.J. two visions stream through my head like "All Night Long (All Night)" by Lionel Richie after my high school senior year prom. The first, of course, is O.J. jumping over the railing in the Hertz commercial and the second is the O.J. in Naked Gun 33 1/3 when his character, Norbert, has a 70's flashback complete with an extra large afro restricting passage through the door. Why do I bring this up? I want the old O.J. back: sports superstar, bad actor, and all around nice guy to play golf with. BTW, the Naked Gun series is on my list of all-time best movies for Middle Age Guys.
Was O.J. any of these things? It's hard to argue about the sports superstar and bad actor, but would he be fun to play golf with? I bet any person who steals satellite t.v., sports memorabilia (allegedly), and killed his ex wife (civil case) cheats a ton at golf. My dad once golfed with a potential business partner but decided against it when he noticed the man cheating at golf. Can someone's character allow for cheating at golf and not infiltrate other aspects of their life? I think character is like an eggshell, once cracked the whole egg weakens. These days MAG can only dream of real eggs, cholesterol's a little high lately.
My dear friend Conan O’Brien sums it up nicely: "Earlier today, O.J. Simpson was charged with 11 criminal counts, including kidnapping, robbery and assault. Afterwards, O.J. said, 'Wow. Now I really have done it all.'"
4 Comments from MAG Readers:
What's this, you start a blog and you don't even mention it? What am I? Dog meat??
I love the egg analogy, I need to go read more, mister MAG.
I prefer the term Dr. MAG, ;)
I thought I sent you an e-mail last week to your .edu address. Is that e-mail dead?
Do you really not remember being in our sophomore year at Marquette when the Challenger blew up?
pjrorange: My smarta** answer: I don't remember too much from college.
Challenger - big, terrible ordeal especially for us science types. In fact, Susan Ridel my digital design prof. at the time was in line to be onboard that ship. In my top ten, but I wasn't watching it live and it didn't have any famous people on board. If we only new, we could have launched a certain ex-football star and saved the lives and time of millions...
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