ten years already?
Yea, I was watching it. I kept thinking OJ was going to kill himself in the Bronco. Then I was imagining scenarios that would make the chase more exciting. Like a plague of frogs trying to cross the freeway or rabid gophers popping out of the roadway or a renegade cop running down the people cheering OJ on.
Then I thought about Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman, turned off the tv, contemplated life and death for a few minutes and played Legend of Zelda on the NES for four hours.
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I was at the Charlotte Heroes Con comic convention with some friends, in the sports bar area of our hotel. We watched it on the TV over the pool table. Jim Lee and some of the Image Comics guys were playing pool as we watched.
Posted by: Kevin Parrott | June 17, 2004 08:15 PM
Screaming at the TV because the Rockets were in the NBA Finals, but the slow-speed car chase was on instead of the game.
Screaming at the TV didn't do any good. Neither did screaming at the overloaded switchboards at the local affiliate and the network.
Remember, OJ didn't get away with murder. He got away with TWO murders.
Posted by: Laurence Simon | June 17, 2004 08:19 PM
You certainly have a good memory.
Posted by: Cathy | June 17, 2004 09:01 PM
I was at work at the State Capitol, and it was EXACTLY as it was portrayed on TV: all of the white people watching shook their heads and all of the black people watching cheered.
Very sad that we are that far apart.
Posted by: BJK | June 17, 2004 09:27 PM
I'm currently trying to get rid of Ganondorf, again, in Ocarina of Time.
I thought I was doing pretty well until he started pulling lightning from the corners of the f***ing ROOM, the bastard. He's killed me twice already goddam it!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU LAUGHING AT, GANON?! YOU WANT SOME? HUH?!
And now I'm going to dream about OJ chasing Link around the Spirit Temple in a white Bronco, and when you beat the Bronco he's going to come after the poor little halfling with the Giant's Knife. Cruel Fate!
Posted by: David Ross | June 17, 2004 10:16 PM
Great! Now I have that totally addictive NES LoZ theme totally stuck in my head.
Must think of more catchy song to get rid of this one.
"Ring ring ring ring, Banana Phone..."
Ugh... didnt work.
"Where can you see lions? Only in Kenya. Come to Kenya we've got lions!"
Better.
Posted by: Zoloft | June 18, 2004 09:41 AM
I was in my car, on my way to see the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Project perform "Othello" (black celebrity kills his white wife). No lie.
Posted by: Don Myers | June 21, 2004 04:39 PM