Miscellany

[capri0mni]

Hmmm... someone new has played with my Johari window, and that person has recognized my silly side, which is of the good. But that person has not given a name I recognize, which is of the puzzling -- it looks like a phone number. I am ever so slightly unsettled. I am more curious...

I was also bored today, so I jumped on the The Underwater Menace icon bandwagon ... sort of, as you can see. I hope I am not too late. I was going to caption it with "WTF?" but that seemed too uncivilized for the gentle and misused fish people... I think it is a good icon in response to the first part of this post. So it is un-gippish. Really. :::Nods:::

Is there something wrong with me, that I have absolutely no interest in the Olympics, whatsoever? If you gave me the sentance "I care less about the Olympics than I do _________," I would have a hard time coming up with something boring enough to put in the blank to convey the bordom I feel trying to watch the Olympics. Dustbunnies are so obviously more interesting that they wouldn't fit in the blank... maybe "working as a telemarketer," would fit. Maybe. My boredom with the Olympics embarrasses me, but just a little.

Yes. I know I'm babbling. I will stop, here.

Comments

[gordon-r-d.livejournal.com]

That would've been me, I'm usually reluctant to fill out those sort of meme tings, so I kind of did it anonymously for a couple of people. *nods*

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Okay ... whew! It's just that seven numbers, like that, is the same format for U.S. phone numbers, so that's just a (potentially) creepy coincidence.

(I figured, since whoever-it-was Picked "Silly," that could possibly be a reader of the Hoedowns ;-), and I don't know who, if anyone other than the writers is readitng that...)

[ravenevermore.livejournal.com]

The only Olympics i really have any interest in is the Figure skating/Ice Dancing... And that I blame on my mom. I dunno. Ice Skating is something I wish I could do, and I love some of the choices of music...

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I like those best, too. They're just as much theater as sport, really. And I love theater.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

I couldn't give a rat's arse about the Olympics, especially winter ones since those are traditionally good for the Finns and everybody keeps talking about them. Meh.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

:::Nods::: And Our Dear Dubya (eyeroll) has spoiled the last few drops of patriot blood running through my veins.

Maybe I'll like the Olympics a little bit more when I can actually be proud of what my country is doing.

I couldn't give a rat's arse about the Olympics

...And rats, everywhere, breathe a sigh of relief... ;-)

[samantha2074.livejournal.com]

I hate NBC's carefully prepackaged presentation of the Olympics. You lose all sense of the competition when there are commercials every five minutes, you switch between sports, and half or more of the competitors aren't even shown. Supposedly this is some of the best coverage we've ever had of the Winter Games, hours-wise, but it feels unsatisfactory. I just can't get sucked into the competition the way it's presented, especially when it's time-delayed and if you're not careful, you can be spoiled for the results by the news.

That being said, I love figure skating, and use a combination of Russian and Chinese online feeds in order to watch it live or close to live. The Chinese skipped the first three teams in the Pairs long program yesterday, but they showed the rest in order, which is a hell of a lot more than NBC apparently did, and I had the excitement of seeing it live. I was crying like a baby during the last team's program (Zhang and Zhang). Watching them pull through after a horrible fall was amazing and awe-inspiring and seeing it live, not knowing what was happening, made the experience so much more intense.

Really, I don't blame you for not watching the Olympics. I didn't see any of the Athens Olympics as I'm not an avid follower of any of the summer sports. I think the poor coverage doesn't help.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

And I just want to dopeslap the announcers on NBS for never shutting up!

I was talking with Dad about it, last night, and we also came to the conclusion that it's just too much competition, in general, on TV, so the Olympics don't stand out, anymore.

When I was younger, and they held the events every 4 years, instead of every 2, the Olympics were a rare and special occasion, when you got to see new things and new people.

Now, they show extreme winter sports every weekend from early November through March (and summer extreme sports the rest of the year), plus pro sports, plus college -- even the Little League world series, for crying out loud. And then, there's the regular programing in primetime, which is increasingly "reality tv," which is all competition, too.

So these days, watching the Olympics is like following a polar bear through a blizzard -- she may be biggest single thing in the landscape, but she still doesn't stand out.