Doors singer pardoned, still dead

Priorities!

December 9, 2010 at 4:53PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Morrison's first arrest in 1963
Morrison's first arrest in 1963 (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Jim Morrison would have been 67 this year, but that presumes that if he hadn't died of a drug overdose in 71, he wouldn't have died of a drug overdose in '72. Perhaps it's safe to say Jim Morrison would have been 67 this year if he hadn't been Jim Morrison. Anyway, the long story of his indecent exposure conviction is now over. Justice has been done. Yawn:

The "mind trip," as they would say, seems to have worked:

Now Jim can rest easy. Providing he's actually dead, he didn't fake it all so he could run away from the pressures of fame and work on his poetry. Don't think that's true. Towards the end he was so intoxicated he had trouble leaving the apartment, let alone his previous identity.

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