What Were You Doing When Rio Was Selected?

Is it possible that, at some future time, everyone over a certain age will remember what they were doing on October 2nd 2009? When Obama and Chicago were given the finger by the rest of the world? Will people wonder whatever happened to So-and-So, and to their chagrin discover that he died on or around 1-2 October 2009. I wonder if people in Chicago and Washington DC and perhaps other places too will remember things that way.

The picture, above left, comes from March 1960 in Appleton Wisconsin before this couple had ascended to the throne.

For years I wondered whatever happened to C.S. Lewis. Finally, it dawned on me when I happened to read his obituary some years later. He died November 22, 1963. Of course, he suffered the inglorious fate of those who happen to die or do something else noteworthy when Super-Celebrities do the same thing. Royal Figures like John Kennedy or Princess Diana or Michael Jackson simply dominate our media and thus our minds.