i'm not all olympics all the time, it just looks that way
oh my flist i am so bad at this. >.< in my (slight) defense i had a conference at work a couple days after my last post and that was three days and exhausting - but it went well! - and then i had to help my sister unpack (she moved that wednesday) and also stand around as moral support - our mom came up from florida to help too, so it wasn't just me - and last week was, uh, well, i have no excuse. i didn't even watch a lot of olympics. i've been trying to make up for that tho.
i mean, i watched gabby thomas win the women's 200m (and julien albert get the silver after getting gold in the 100m, giving st lucia its first olympic medals ever) and noah lyles win the men's 100m by a clavicle and cole hocker come out of nowhere to win gold in the men's 1500m and i saw a lot of track and field qualifying races and the last routine for the us in artistic swimming (and we got silver, our first medal in twenty years) and some of the men's skateboard and some of the women's beach volleyball and some table tennis and i didn't see any of the gymnastics (men or women) after the qualifiers except for jade carey's vault but i'm super excited for kaylia namour and her gold in the uneven bars which makes it the first gymnastics medal not just for algeria but for any african nation. which is pretty cool.
i always cheer for the us because, well, obviously, and i always cheer for the host country but my favorite medals are the ones that go to athletes from countries that have never won one, or haven't won one in a long time, or just haven't won one in a particular sport. the random countries that don't necessarily have a lot of well funded programs for olympic hopefuls and don't send massive teams of athletes.
this afternoon i took a break just in time to read that the us men's basketball team was behind serbia by eleven points at the half. i don't know how the game turned out but that made me snicker.
last weekend i saw deadpool & wolverine and let me tell you it was a ride. there was a lot going on but fortunately i'd seen a list of movies you should watch first so i was pretty prepared. (the only thing i either hadn't seen or didn't remember and yet wanted to see was logan. i was unprepared for the feels.) there was some temporal stuff i was entirely unclear about but i enjoyed all the cameos and the easter eggs that i caught (liefeld's just feet!) and while i think i like the first one the best i did like this one. the previews were almost all sequels - smile 2, gladiator ii, beetlejuice beetlejuice, the third venom, the fourth captain america, red one (in which santa is kidnapped and lucy liu hires chris evans to find him), and a complete unknown (in which timothee chalamet who has the hair for it plays a young bob dylan).
also also i watched the season finale of the lazarus project and pretty much all i can say is whut.
in us news, tim walz! who was my first choice for veep (altho i would've been fine with kelly or shapiro altho shapiro would've brought the antisemites and anti-zionists out in DROVES) and genuinely seems like a decent guy who got shit done in his home state and can help get shit done from the, uh, where's the vice president's office? so, yay.
and i know this was a week ago but evan gershkovich and paul whelan are finally home after a prisoner swap that included a bunch of other people. whelan had been in russian prison since 2018. yikes. but also, yay.
let's have some links! pretend they're not all old. :D
first, if you're reading about the olympics and aren't sure how to pronounce the athletes' names, listen to the athletes introduce themselves. (that will take you to women's gymnastics because i was trying to get an idea of how to say all the brazilian names.)
i'm guessing you've all seen this photo of surfer gabriel medina and if you haven't let me just say holy shit. it looks photoshopped.
don't forget the muffin man. :D or the pole vaulter with the disruptive bulge.
early in the games a bunch of skateboarders were stranded when the bus they were on got stuck in the street. so they did what skateboarders do to get to practice.
i'm never going to get over the italian gymnast who was sponsored by giant wheels of parm.
katie ledecky has a VERY EXCITED little fangirl. seriously, this little kid is so cute. also katie is SO FAST. O.O and has more medals than any american female olympian ever. yowza.
ilona maher's sisters came to the olympics and wore shirts with her face on them. which is both very cute and very weird. the maher family looks like a legitimately fun group of people. ooh, can we get a hand for women's rugby? the first olympic medal for american rugby sevens. (a bronze. no one's complaining.)
watch some medal winners and their parents.
check out some of the olympians' nails, featuring sha'carri richardson's fabulous and frankly terrifying manicure. flo-jo would be proud.
i totally missed the women's floor exercises - i wanted to watch jordan chiles since i saw her qualifying routine - but i love this picture.
and in non olympics links, there's a videogame in which you play a house looking for love. yes, really. you can romance tents and houseboats and a windmill. (the windmill is flirty.)
and since i mentioned olympian manicures, nail tattoos are apparently a thing. like, people are tattooing their fingernails. it's not permanent.
i mean, i watched gabby thomas win the women's 200m (and julien albert get the silver after getting gold in the 100m, giving st lucia its first olympic medals ever) and noah lyles win the men's 100m by a clavicle and cole hocker come out of nowhere to win gold in the men's 1500m and i saw a lot of track and field qualifying races and the last routine for the us in artistic swimming (and we got silver, our first medal in twenty years) and some of the men's skateboard and some of the women's beach volleyball and some table tennis and i didn't see any of the gymnastics (men or women) after the qualifiers except for jade carey's vault but i'm super excited for kaylia namour and her gold in the uneven bars which makes it the first gymnastics medal not just for algeria but for any african nation. which is pretty cool.
i always cheer for the us because, well, obviously, and i always cheer for the host country but my favorite medals are the ones that go to athletes from countries that have never won one, or haven't won one in a long time, or just haven't won one in a particular sport. the random countries that don't necessarily have a lot of well funded programs for olympic hopefuls and don't send massive teams of athletes.
this afternoon i took a break just in time to read that the us men's basketball team was behind serbia by eleven points at the half. i don't know how the game turned out but that made me snicker.
last weekend i saw deadpool & wolverine and let me tell you it was a ride. there was a lot going on but fortunately i'd seen a list of movies you should watch first so i was pretty prepared. (the only thing i either hadn't seen or didn't remember and yet wanted to see was logan. i was unprepared for the feels.) there was some temporal stuff i was entirely unclear about but i enjoyed all the cameos and the easter eggs that i caught (liefeld's just feet!) and while i think i like the first one the best i did like this one. the previews were almost all sequels - smile 2, gladiator ii, beetlejuice beetlejuice, the third venom, the fourth captain america, red one (in which santa is kidnapped and lucy liu hires chris evans to find him), and a complete unknown (in which timothee chalamet who has the hair for it plays a young bob dylan).
also also i watched the season finale of the lazarus project and pretty much all i can say is whut.
in us news, tim walz! who was my first choice for veep (altho i would've been fine with kelly or shapiro altho shapiro would've brought the antisemites and anti-zionists out in DROVES) and genuinely seems like a decent guy who got shit done in his home state and can help get shit done from the, uh, where's the vice president's office? so, yay.
and i know this was a week ago but evan gershkovich and paul whelan are finally home after a prisoner swap that included a bunch of other people. whelan had been in russian prison since 2018. yikes. but also, yay.
let's have some links! pretend they're not all old. :D
first, if you're reading about the olympics and aren't sure how to pronounce the athletes' names, listen to the athletes introduce themselves. (that will take you to women's gymnastics because i was trying to get an idea of how to say all the brazilian names.)
i'm guessing you've all seen this photo of surfer gabriel medina and if you haven't let me just say holy shit. it looks photoshopped.
don't forget the muffin man. :D or the pole vaulter with the disruptive bulge.
early in the games a bunch of skateboarders were stranded when the bus they were on got stuck in the street. so they did what skateboarders do to get to practice.
i'm never going to get over the italian gymnast who was sponsored by giant wheels of parm.
katie ledecky has a VERY EXCITED little fangirl. seriously, this little kid is so cute. also katie is SO FAST. O.O and has more medals than any american female olympian ever. yowza.
ilona maher's sisters came to the olympics and wore shirts with her face on them. which is both very cute and very weird. the maher family looks like a legitimately fun group of people. ooh, can we get a hand for women's rugby? the first olympic medal for american rugby sevens. (a bronze. no one's complaining.)
watch some medal winners and their parents.
check out some of the olympians' nails, featuring sha'carri richardson's fabulous and frankly terrifying manicure. flo-jo would be proud.
i totally missed the women's floor exercises - i wanted to watch jordan chiles since i saw her qualifying routine - but i love this picture.
and in non olympics links, there's a videogame in which you play a house looking for love. yes, really. you can romance tents and houseboats and a windmill. (the windmill is flirty.)
and since i mentioned olympian manicures, nail tattoos are apparently a thing. like, people are tattooing their fingernails. it's not permanent.