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With Glowing Hearts
Feb. 28th, 2010 11:16 pmI love that the girl whose torch arm malfunctioned got to come and light the thing after all. That was really nice.
And then she sinks into the floor and disappears :)
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What a great Olympics! The east coast papers keep trying to foment discontent*, for what reason I'm not a clue (unless it's just general yankee pissiness), but from what I can see, apart from the accident on the luge track, it's been well run.
*Friend Dog posted a perfect example from the 'New Yorker', where the writer was whining that he had to stand outside to watch the skiing, and there was (the horror) weather!
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The Canadians decisively put paid to their 'gold medal at home' thing. At the men's curling medal ceremony, you could tell the mounties were having a hard time not to smile.
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I'm old enough that it still amazes me to see the Russian eagle on their bobsleds.
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If Apollo Ohno had wrecked that guy a half-lap earlier in the 500m, he'd have been the only racer to finish, and then would have been DQed, which would have been sort of cool, in a fucked-up way.
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I went curling today with my friend Adam from work. It's more physical than it looks, although my being out of shape doesn't help either. We had an hour-long class on fundamentals, then played a three end game. I did fairly decently, actually - I scored one of our team's two points (we won 2-0), and got to play skip for the last end, nor did I actually fall down.
It's *loud* - that doesn't really come across on TV, but the stones make this rumbling sound, kind of like a bowling ball. And of course there's that gratifying *bonk* when they hit. It sounds like giant billiard balls in person.
Ohio News network was there too, so I may be on TV yet again. Marshall McLuhan had my number.
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As the Canadian athletes come out, one of them is looking backwards at the audience, and runs into the TV camera :)
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Those're kind of sorry-looking medals, really. They look like they got run over and mangled. The Winter Olympics always seem to go for weird medals.
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The Russians are using their old national anthem again. I hadn't realized. That song gives me shivers. That song's all bound up with memories of the Space Race and the Cold War.
Oh, yes! The Russians put on a great show. They've got cosmonauts, and plenty of Soviet symbols in their multimedia show!
To some extent, getting to see a nice Russian Olympics will make up for that dumbass Carter cheating us out of the 1980 games.
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And now the Olympics are over.
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Bob Costas should be punished for talking while Neil Young sings. He should also be punished for being silent while William Shatner tells jokes.
And then she sinks into the floor and disappears :)
*****
What a great Olympics! The east coast papers keep trying to foment discontent*, for what reason I'm not a clue (unless it's just general yankee pissiness), but from what I can see, apart from the accident on the luge track, it's been well run.
*Friend Dog posted a perfect example from the 'New Yorker', where the writer was whining that he had to stand outside to watch the skiing, and there was (the horror) weather!
*****
The Canadians decisively put paid to their 'gold medal at home' thing. At the men's curling medal ceremony, you could tell the mounties were having a hard time not to smile.
*****
I'm old enough that it still amazes me to see the Russian eagle on their bobsleds.
*****
If Apollo Ohno had wrecked that guy a half-lap earlier in the 500m, he'd have been the only racer to finish, and then would have been DQed, which would have been sort of cool, in a fucked-up way.
*****
I went curling today with my friend Adam from work. It's more physical than it looks, although my being out of shape doesn't help either. We had an hour-long class on fundamentals, then played a three end game. I did fairly decently, actually - I scored one of our team's two points (we won 2-0), and got to play skip for the last end, nor did I actually fall down.
It's *loud* - that doesn't really come across on TV, but the stones make this rumbling sound, kind of like a bowling ball. And of course there's that gratifying *bonk* when they hit. It sounds like giant billiard balls in person.
Ohio News network was there too, so I may be on TV yet again. Marshall McLuhan had my number.
******
As the Canadian athletes come out, one of them is looking backwards at the audience, and runs into the TV camera :)
*****
Those're kind of sorry-looking medals, really. They look like they got run over and mangled. The Winter Olympics always seem to go for weird medals.
*****
The Russians are using their old national anthem again. I hadn't realized. That song gives me shivers. That song's all bound up with memories of the Space Race and the Cold War.
Oh, yes! The Russians put on a great show. They've got cosmonauts, and plenty of Soviet symbols in their multimedia show!
To some extent, getting to see a nice Russian Olympics will make up for that dumbass Carter cheating us out of the 1980 games.
*****
And now the Olympics are over.
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Bob Costas should be punished for talking while Neil Young sings. He should also be punished for being silent while William Shatner tells jokes.
