olympics gip!

[greenelephant]

Ahem

Comments

[digitalemur]

Most of what I know of curling was gleaned from _Men With Brooms_, the night two of my friends made me watch it. Not that they really made me, as I would watch Paul Gross read a take-out menu.

[digitalemur]

But my point is, yay curling! It's really fascinating! And I'm a Canadaphile! And I'm writing pretty much everything with exclamation points today!

[greenelephant]

Yay curling indeed! And I haven't even seen Men with Brooms! Yay Canada! and yay exclamation points!

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[bossieboots]

I didn't even read your comment before I posted mine. :-)

[the_lady_lily]

I stayed up and watched the night that the British women won the curling championships a couple of years back. It was dead exciting :)

[greenelephant]

Assuming that "dead exciting" is not meant to be ironic, I'm glad to see that others find curling to be enjoyable. I like watching sports that are not fast-paced (baseball, curling, golf), largely because it means that one can multitask while watching. There is a commercial on tv during curling broadcasts here that goes something like this:

They say that football is a game of inches.
(pause. A curling rock travels down the ice in slow motion, passing ever so slightly between two opponent's rocks)
I wish we had inches.

The precision required is admirable.

[the_lady_lily]

I came in very late from being out and, instead of going to bed, sat on a sofa in the common room until about three in the morning. It had to be good to keep me up that long ;)

[bossieboots]

Having seen "Men with Brooms" I now feel that I know more about curling than I did once. Although admittedly I paid more attention to Paul Gross. Sighs happily.

[fauxmiddlechild]

Paul Gross .. Happy thoughts!!

[greenelephant]

He's from my home town. As is Jill Hennessy (ex L&O, now Crossing Jordan). But that's the extent of my Paul Gross knowledge (yes, I know about Due South, but never watched).

[fauxmiddlechild]

Due South is highly amusing, I wish it was available on dvd

[phasma_aphanes]

I enjoyed strange and norell. it does take a bit to get into it, but its good stuff.

[greenelephant]

Yes, I'm beginning to really get sucked in now (around p. 350). Novels of a certain size and heft are always more attractive to me: if I'm going to spend my time and money on a non-academic book, I want the experience to last. As for JS&MN, I really like the narrative disjunctions created by the footnotes. Makes me think.

[phasma_aphanes]

It took her 10 years to write that book. And I think she must be writing a second.

[fauxmiddlechild]

I'm excited for the Olympics, though I wish we had cable .. will just have to take what I can from the bad network coverage

[greenelephant]

This is one occasion where our limited channels actually work in my favour. There will be almost non-stop CBC coverage. From what I remember of NBC's coverage of the US Olympians, the broadcasts were more about showcasing the news anchors/reporters/personalities than showing the events themselves.

Hope you're recovering well! :-)

[fauxmiddlechild]

AND another problem with the coverage, for the first time in history, the other networks are going to be running original programming against the games, and I am PISSED!