I have a love of the Olympic Games that is on par with my love for Xmas, and for similar reasons. They're both overblown, wildly overcommercialized entities that cause all sorts of uproar, and yet they both have the core of an ideal that I genuinely cherish and that sometimes finds its way out despite all the uproar and commercialism, and I get ( Read more... )

So, I'm watching coverage of Worlds, which is only the second thing in skating I've watched all season.

And right this moment I'm seeing Kevin van der Perren of Belgium, wearing thisYes, that is a glittery skeleton costume. The photo doesn't do it full jaw-dropping justice. It's AMAZING ( Read more... )

Dear Novarro & Bommentre:

You are not Christopher Walken. Thank you.

Also, poor Mirai Nagasu. The marks weren't out of line, but watching her face fall when they came up was heartbreaking.

Also also, NO MORE SAMSON & DELILAH PLEASE.
(edit, later in the day: AAAAAAAAH! We're not even watching skating now, we're watching Top Gear, and there' ( Read more... )

Holy crap, lions ( Read more... )

--Kevin told me last night that he'd shared some of his mocha heart cookies with his co-workers, and they all told him that he'd married well to have a wife of such baking talent, and bemoaned their lot at not having wives who did such baking. I observed that their wives probably have broods to deal with, which makes cookie-baking likely not high ( Read more... )

As everyone who even remotely cares probably already knows, Michelle Kwan withdrew from the Olympics this morning. The official reason is that she strained another groin muscle (not the original injury) during the fall in practice yesterday. This is most likely a bit of fancy footwork on USOC's part, because the IOC rules don't permit alternates ( Read more... )

I love watching opening/closing ceremonies at the Olympics, as much because they're sociologically revealing as for the spectacle and...um...specialness.

The opening ceremonies of the Torino games show that Italians are unbelievably goofy. ( Read more... )

Nothing like a dog with diarrhea to get the day going ( Read more... )

Shylah has been extremely needy, neurotic, and anxious the past couple of weeks--more so than usual. She's continually looking for validation, especially from me, and she's thrown up a couple of times purely due to nerves. We've even determined that she hates it when we're at our computers, not so much because we're not paying attention to her, ( Read more... )

When am I going to learn that I am completely useless as a skating prognosticator? ( Read more... )