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The Beginning of an Endless Consumption, PG
Don't know why. Stuff just comes out of me like that sometimes, usually when I least need it.
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Tbranch ficlet
Snapelike Minerva
Bring Back The Porn stubbornness
Trading Places Kel Eyeroll
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So I didn't comment much on the Olympics like I thought I would. I even made a new Olympic icon and never used it (looky now! *points up or over*).
The blessing and the curse turned out to be the TiVo and my curiosity about
everything. Most of you probably didn't know this, but from about 2 am - 1 pm
every day, the USA network covered various sports. MSNBC also showed various sports from 5 am - 2 pm. NBC would have 3-4 hours of coverage in the day in addition to the 4 - 5 hours at night, plus the two hours of late-night. Oxygen had a 2-hour broadcast with equestrian/synchronized swimming/gymnastics every weekday. Thank goodness I'm not interested in boxing, or I'd have thrown in CNBC as well.
All-told there was well over 24 hours of Olympic programming per day, and I was getting most of it on the Tivo. The first week, I watched the NBC night-time broadcast in real time for the excitement of "live" TV, and then I'd spend the next two hours going through what we'd recorded since I last went to bed. Oh yeah, there was a lot of fast-forwarding and skipping around. Sometimes, I'd have to record 7 hours of basketball/soccer/badminton/whatever to get at a half-hour of fencing or archery. From what I can tell, I still missed entire sports, even though I know they had to have been shown sometime in the week. But it only took not deleting immediately for one day to fill the TiVo, so at some points we had to get tough and dest stuff.
OK, so I got a little
focused. *cheesy grin* You have to understand that I didn't get to see
any Olympics until I was about 26, largely due to the fact that my mother and father, who controlled our two TVs growing up, weren't interested in them.
I became a little less focused in the second week because of several factors:
1. Bob Costas rubbed off on the (questionable) Jim Lampley: "Great Britain have won 40% of their medals in cycling. If only there was snooker, darts and a dog show."
2. I find the track athletes less compelling than the swimmers.
3. The overall US vs. China tone. Seriously, other countries were
at the Olympics, right?
Still, if you missed Rhythmic gymnastics, you
missed a thing of beauty, and you missed some serious crack watching the Synchronized swimmers with their
plastered-on smiles. You missed the
sheer masculinity of
Canoe and the
cheetah cries of
wired fencers.
There are pictures of sailing events, but why bother showing them when not one of them made the 24-7 broadcasts? *scowl*
For some reason, I saw a lot of marathon and marathon-like events, including both pentathlons, both new swimming marathons, the cycling road races, both regular marathons and even the damn walking marathons. Now what was the universe trying to tell me....
Anyway, I don't recommend trying to see
all of the Olympics, but I do recommend a TiVo if you want to see some of it. Oh, and other countries, to boot. See you in Vancouver!
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