O.J. Hits the Showers...

O.J. Guilty?

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Say it not so! Well, well, it seems justice delayed is not justice denied. Let's hope someone is sharpening his shiv at this very moment. The Juice might spend the rest of his life in prison. Christmas just came a little early this year...

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My position? He was guilty as hell. He murdered his wife. And didn't do it alone, either. And if you think back over it, you'll know just who helped him. My knowledge is heresay, so I can't do anything about it, but I'd bet anything the cops knew, but figured that if they couldn't convince a jury O.J. was guilty, trying to nail his confederate would be pointless. Whom might it have been? Gee, I can't say...

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And by the way, on a completely unrelated matter, have I mentioned that 'In the Night of the Heat" is about a disgraced sports celebrity and movie star accused of murdering his wife? No connection, of course, but if I DID have inside information, a mystery novel would certainly be the place I'd plant it.

Ahem.

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"Ah be done seen about everything, when I seen an elephant fly..."

Bought Dumbo for Jason (above Tananarive's very mild protests) and he loves it. I remember doing my "Disney didn't have a single black person in an animated film in the 20th Century" riff, and someone suggested that the Crows should count. Sigh. Now, I don't blame Disney for what they did, I just like to point out that, if it is true that "every President until about 1960 was a racist the way we measure racism today" that that was the context of the entire country. And if I believe that America is a WONDERFUL country (which I do) then I'm really talking about human nature here, not pointing fingers. But there are a few brown-skinned people in the "Happy Roustabout" sequence...but we only see them from the back, so it's impossible to say what we're looking at. Considering that there are PLENTY of human faces shown in Dumbo (at least 100) it would be odd indeed if someone at Disney decided to show black skin, but not black faces. I'm afraid I'd find that even more offensive, and will stand on my "we ain't there" position. That said, Dumbo is great stuff, a classic that earns its reputation. Disney was on FIRE in those days.

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Took Nicki to see "Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist" yesterday, a romantic flick detailing 24 hours in the lives of (High School? Twenty-Something? I wasn't sure) kids in New York. Very cute...but I couldn't help but think that the male lead wasn't quite good-looking enough for the story. The way people reacted to him just felt more like he should have been perhaps shy but drop-dead gorgeous. Just my thought. A "B". Overall, I enjoyed it, but there was a...

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WARNING: MILD CHINK ALERT

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For a single non-white male character. Asian. And very gay. Thanks, America, glad for the reminder.