When even Rupert Murdoch thinks it's a bad idea . . .

you know it's time to throw it in! thank goodness th OJ book has been cancelled along with the televised 'conversation with his american publisher (Source: Cnn.com). according to an LJ contact of mine one of the bigest bookselling chaians in the US was planning to sell the book without advertising and then donate all of their proceeds to DV charities and foundations set up by the Brown and Goldman familes.

i still don't know what to make of Judith Reagan, the publisher who says she saw it as his confession and that she was publishing it to give satisfaction to the other abused women out there. what satisfaction is there is seeing someone make loads of cash off his hypothetical admission of guilt? i hope all OJ has gotten out of this is some short lived free publicity and none of the rumoured advance.

i wonder about Nicole and OJ's daughter whenever this case comes back to light. she would be a teenager now right, or is she older? she must look like a younger version of her mother. i wonder if she believes that her father did it, and if so i wonder how she handles it, looking so much like her mother and living with the man who killed her? if he killed her, mind. what a messed up life both of those kids have had. i've got nothing deep or important to add to that. i just hope they've managed to have okay lives after being through such a shitstorm in their early years.



back in 1995 i was the editor of my high school newspaper, the Lighthouse. i had a strong rule that i finally broke towards the end of the school year. i refused to allow any mention of with OJ Simpson or Nancy Kerrigan in 'my paper' i was adamant about this and finally a couple of the reporters had an internvention and talked me down off my high horse. and here i am 11 years later. i don't know what's going on with big teeth kerrigan though, i imagine she still has more money than tanya harding, that queen of the shopping mall ice rink.