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 Doors singer Jim Morrison will get a posthumous pardon for an indecent exposure conviction in Florida. Charlie Crist, the state's governor, got a commitment for enough votes from other members of the state's Board of Executive Clemency to approve it. Morrison was appealing the conviction when he was found dead in a Paris bathtub in 1971. The did-he-or-didn't-he debate over what happened at the Miami concert was revived by Crist's interest in the case. The surviving band members say a drunken Morrison teased the crowd, but never exposed himself. "It never actually happened. It was mass hypnosis," said Ray Manzarek, The Doors' keyboard player.Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger said Morrison's behavior was influenced by an acting troupe that disrobed during plays. "He was just doing a mind trip — as they would say — a mind trip on the audience and they totally fell for it," Manzarek said.

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

>There are fans who still swear Morrison exposed himself. "He actually unzipped and pulled his pants down a little bit, enough where you can see everything. I do remember being shocked when that happened, and definitely it happened," said Lee Winer, 56, who now lives north of San Francisco. "I can still picture it like it was yesterday." Others disagree. Helene Davis of Miami said she was an 18-year-old in the front row of the concert with a friend. She said Morrison teased the crowd by pretending he was going to unzip his pants, but never actually exposed himself. "We were watching and waiting because it was obvious that's where he was going with it," Davis said. "I just remembered thinking, 'Yes, it's going to happen! It's going happen! It's going to happen!' And it never did."

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.