Olympics
I seem to be the only person watching the olympics this year. When I was kid, I didn't care about them at all and it seemed like everyone else watched every single second of the coverage. Now, I guess with so many other highbrow choices like American Idol and the home shopping network, the Olympics have fallen out of favor.
Which is a shame, because now I can actually converse about the various Olympians. The speed skaters are hilarious. Chad Hedrick has teeth like a white picket fence and the cutest lil ol' Texas drawl you ever heard! But he DOES NOT like his teammate, Shani Davis, who was the first African American to win an individual gold in the winter olympics (don't think that won't ever come up as a jeopardy question!!!) I watched an interview with Shani after he won his gold. It went something like this:
Interviewer: Shani, how does it feel to win the gold?
Shani: Good
I: Is this a dream come true
S: Yes
I: What were you thinking as you finished the race
S: That it was almost over
I: Did you win this for your mother?
S: Yeah
I: Are you angry?
S: No (in a monotone) I'm very happy
It was a very strange interview for someone who just made olympic history. You would have thought he would have planted an Adrian Brody kind of kiss on the interviewer, but he just didn't have a whole lot to say.
The Italian Ice Dancers were hysterical. He dropped her during the Original Dance right at the end. She did not speak to him at all until after the long program. They showed them backstage, stomping around, ignoring each other, glaring at each other, etc. After it was over, they made up and then he cried. And they lost anyway.
Tonight is the women's skating and I can hardly wait, not that anything can ever top Tonya Harding whacking Nancy Kerrigan in the knee.
So tune in tonight and watch.
The preceding remarks were paid for by NBC.
