The L.A. Times reports: O.J. Stars at Horror Confab:

It was hard to miss the irony: There sat O.J. Simpson, waiting to sign autographs at a horror-themed collectibles convention just days before the 10th anniversary of his acquittal on charges that he had killed his ex-wife and her friend.

His spot in the Northridge strip mall had him practically rubbing elbows with a promotional display for a splatter movie, a haunted house and such decorations as severed heads and limbs.

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Some marveled at the spectacle of the Heisman Trophy winner among followers of the occult and the macabre. “I thought it was kind of weird, kind of ironic,” said Michele Sing, who was hawking theatrical contact lenses with such names as “Fury” and “Lone Wolf.”

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Promoter Thomas Riccio, who brought Simpson to Northridge for what was billed as his first public appearance in California since the trial, dismissed the idea that Simpson’s presence at a horror convention was peculiar.

“I don’t think it’s odd because everything here is odd,” he said.

Yup. Nothing odd at all. Just like there’s nothing odd about THIS:

[Cue the “Psycho” theme]