Saturday, February 13, 2010
Open Forum
I'm going to have to say a few words about the opening ceremonies for the Olympics. Admittedly, I watched most of them on fast forward, but they still seemed like kind of a snooze. Of course, the part where all the athletes walk around while Bob Costas intones factoids about their national birds and the design of their track pants is always pretty boring, but I was kind of hoping the "artistic" segment would be a spectacular laser show set to the works of Celine Dion or something. Instead we got Sarah McLachlan dressed like a drag queen and people dancing in a fake forest. Even the part with the aboriginal dancers was kind of slow -- couldn't they engage in some human sacrifice or something? Oh wait, I forgot, they're Canadian.
Today they showed mainly speed skating, which led to lots of hilarious hype on Apolo (Anton) Ohno. It's hard to believe that a guy with chin pubes is in fact the greatest athlete of all time, but I guess in a sense he does literally walk on water. There was also a segment of moguls, wherein people ski over what seem to be unnecessarily bumpy patches of snow and occasionally toss themselves into the air. I liked that, but it seemed to have rather a high potential for fatalities. Also, again, lots of track pants.
And what the hell was the deal with the giant bear? Is mauling an event this time around?
I'm going to have to say a few words about the opening ceremonies for the Olympics. Admittedly, I watched most of them on fast forward, but they still seemed like kind of a snooze. Of course, the part where all the athletes walk around while Bob Costas intones factoids about their national birds and the design of their track pants is always pretty boring, but I was kind of hoping the "artistic" segment would be a spectacular laser show set to the works of Celine Dion or something. Instead we got Sarah McLachlan dressed like a drag queen and people dancing in a fake forest. Even the part with the aboriginal dancers was kind of slow -- couldn't they engage in some human sacrifice or something? Oh wait, I forgot, they're Canadian.
Today they showed mainly speed skating, which led to lots of hilarious hype on Apolo (Anton) Ohno. It's hard to believe that a guy with chin pubes is in fact the greatest athlete of all time, but I guess in a sense he does literally walk on water. There was also a segment of moguls, wherein people ski over what seem to be unnecessarily bumpy patches of snow and occasionally toss themselves into the air. I liked that, but it seemed to have rather a high potential for fatalities. Also, again, lots of track pants.
And what the hell was the deal with the giant bear? Is mauling an event this time around?
