• InevitableSwing [none/use name]
    hexagon
    hexbear
    21
    2 months ago

    A 1994 interview with Willam Gibson

    "We have these moments spontaneously - I think of them as CNN moments. The last one I had, probably most people had, was watching that weirdly Ballardian slow-motion freeway pursuit (of O.J. Simpson). Which was on every channel. That's as strange as it gets."

    http://www.wordyard.com/dmz/digicult/gibson-8-4-94.html

    • utopologist [any]
      hexbear
      39
      2 months ago

      On NBC they were doing picture-in-picture so you could also watch basketball at the same time

      Show

      • Wakmrow [he/him]
        hexbear
        9
        2 months ago

        Didn't that have something to do with it being Jordan's last season?

      • spectre [he/him]
        hexbear
        7
        2 months ago

        As it turns out, OJ wanted to go slow because he wanted to hear the end of the Finals game on the radio, although this wasn't publically known till decades later.

      • @robinn_IV
        hexbear
        6
        2 months ago

        Before we had Minecraft parkour gameplay under Family Guy clips, we had this. 90s brainrot weighs like a nightmare on the minds of new generations.