2024.04.12
And Ron Goldman.
And Norm McDonald.
Weirdest OJ Simpson cameo is a namedrop in the Buck Rogers episode "Planet of the Slave Girls" (yikes):
Capt. William "Buck" Rogers : Come on, Duke, it's me.I mean to be fair canonically Buck got frozen in 1987 which was even before the Naked Gun stuff but still.
Major Duke Danton : If it's you Rogers, who's the juice?
Dr. Theopolis : The what?
Capt. William "Buck" Rogers : O.J. Simpson. I told you all about him out in the desert. Running back out of USC. He played for the Buffalo Bills.
Thinking of the U shaped curve where middle age tends to be kind of a low point. 40 for women, 50 for men.
Sort of feeling it. But it feels, like, drive by circumstances rather than existential concerns? Like if I was rich - or even had a job I felt secure and productive in - I think I could get over the other stuff and be my usual chipper self. Which sort of sucks, I'd like to think that my cheerful existential outlook is independent of circumstances but its definitely gotten a boost from tech being a good career for most of the decades of my adult life, but stinking up the joint right now.
