Thanks in no small part to my blog entry last week the O.J. Simpson book and television special have been canceled. Chalk this up as another win for me, I'm influencing your lives daily!
The only thing I want to hear from O.J. Simpson for the rest of my life is when he announces he's willing to waive his double jeopardy risk and agree to be tried again for the crimes he committed allegedly committed.
For the full story on the book and TV show cancellation, go to the news site of your choice. If you can't think of one, or are too lazy to type, then just click here.
I'd already heard that O.J. Simpson was writing a book about how he "hypothetically would have" killed his ex-wife and her friend, maybe you had too. But the story blew up today with the announcement that there will also be a television interview airing on FOX as publicity for the book.
Let me understand this. He's going to explain how he "would have" committed the murders IF it were he who did it? This is insane! Imagine if Scott Peterson had been found innocent, and the next day he said, "I didn't do it, but here's how I WOULD HAVE done it"? It's ridiculous! More to the point, can you imagine an innocent man who loved his wife very much, whose wife was murdered, and the husband had absolutely nothing to do with it, come out and say "here's how I WOULD HAVE done it." Such a thought never crosses the mind of an innocent man.
I think it's beyond debate at this point that he murdered two people, got away with it, and is now profiting monetarily from it. All I can ask is that nobody buy his book or watch the TV interview. I don't care how badly you want to know the "truth" (which we already know anyway). I don't care how badly you want to hear him admit it. Don't watch the damn show, and don't buy the damn book!
It's time for us to blame ourselves for this nonsense. To blame our culture for letting it go on so long. For still being interested. For laughing at the jokes on late-night television. It's all on us. If we had paid no attention to this in the first place, it wouldn't be the phenomenon that it is.
So, anywho ... any word on finding the "real killers" yet? I don't mean to be trite. I seriously would like to know if ANY person at ANY time has EVER been seriously considered as a possible suspect. No? Not one person, you say? Ever? Shocker.
NBC has been employing a new technique with their show Las Vegas. At the halfway point of an episode, they recap what happened in the first 30 minutes. Presumably to encourage viewers to stick around who may have flipped over after watching a 30-minute show somewhere else.
I think it's a good strategy. Except for when the recap reveals things that did not happen yet! Which is exactly what happened on the 11/10/06 episode. The recap showed things that were coming up in the second half of the show, but presented them as if they had already happened. Rookie move.
I don't know if NBC is using this same recap segment on other shows besides Las Vegas, but if they are, I can only hope they're getting it right on those shows instead of proving themselves to be three monkeys fucking a football.
According to this report a very rare stamp, known as the "Inverted jenny", may have been received on the envelope of a Florida voting ballot, and is currently held in a box that can't be opened for 22 months by law. This smells like such an obvious hoax. Conveniently, nobody will know the truth for almost 2 years. And no one will remember or care by then, most of all me. As a co-worker put it: "Oh my god, I found this rare stamp, let me shove the envelope into this box that can't be opened for months!"
Good for you, Broward County Commissioner John Rodstrom. You got your name in the paper. You're probably semi-famous in your county. And you get to ride that celebrity for the next two years, at which point the stamp will have been forgotten, or the ballot box will be opened and it will be discovered that, whoops! It's not the stamp you thought you saw, after all. Nice work! As they say, there's a sucker born every minute.
I won't be the first or the last person to post this today. Apparently Faith Hill believes she is a far superior vocalist to Carrie Underwood, and displays her disgust in this video.
The best part is the way she raises her arms right after the name is called, but just before she realizes it wasn't her. Soooo egomaniacal, she was just sooo sure she was the winner. I love this.
Oh boy, and today's spin is good too. Apparently, Faith was just joking. Just joking? Please! We've seen the video, does she really expect us to believe that was a joke? What gives her away is that she holds her arms up in victory before it dawns on her that her name was not called, and the look of recognition which crosses her face. That was no joke, that was her genuine reaction. It was so beautifully genuine, it's an insult for her to claim it as a joke.
"The country music superstar says she was just joking when cameras showed her screaming 'WHAT?' in apparent anger when she lost the female vocalist of the year award to newcomer Carrie Underwood"
