not that i would have cared anyways, but i am too young to have any recollection of oj as a football player. rather, i knew oj as nordberg. this is an aspect of the trial that i don't remember being explored much.

http://movieclips.com/oQBjK-the-naked-gun-from-the-files-of-police-squad-movie-nordbergs-bad-luck/

what i'm getting at is that, for a lot of people, i'm guessing, or at least me, the whole circus around the trial made it seem like a literal extension of the naked gun series. there is even a narrative level of continuity.

i mean, i realize it's sort of bleak and insensitive, but the way the trial unfolded really stripped away any pretension to existing in reality. i mean, people got killed, sure. but that wasn't what the trial was about. maybe that's what the trial *ought* to have been about, but it's not what it actually *was* about.

the thought came up when i became cognizant of how the naked gun was probably my first exposure to geopolitics. i don't have any clear memory, it's just the first thing i can recall. and i'm exploring my favourite topic of the surreal, again.

but the nordberg thing is an under-reported angle that was probably more widespread than people realize.