The Post has a funny picture of gold, silver and bronze pastries being sold in shops in Tokyo. Sales have skyrocketed since the Japanese figure skater brought home Japan’s one and only medal, a gold. 2-2 now in hockey. Come on Finaland!]]>
Mike Wise finally gets around to writing about the Olympic spirit of Norway’s cross country coach who handed a pole to a Canadian skiier who broke her pole. I wrote about this the other day and having been sending it around to all my friends. I guess I’m still a bit of an idealist when it comes to the Olympics, which is probably why I’m so annoyed with so many of this year’s team members. I think the Post’s writers were also caught up in the Jerry Springer aspects of this year’s team that they missed this story of simple sportsmanship. I do wonder if we are getting too jaded about things in generaly. In other news, it is 2-1 to Sweden in the second. I’m kind of rooting for Finaland because they haven’t won before, but seein a bunch of drunk Swedish girls celebrataing in the streets of Stockholm might make a Swedish victory more palatable.]]>
This year’s Olympians have a bunch of jerks in their midst according to just about any person you meet on the street. It seems that the USOC is acutally cognizant of this fact, and according to the Post is preparing to address some of the jerk issues that have been present. “This team has taken a little bit of a hit in terms of its comportment in Italy,” Scherr said. “We would hope a few incidents would not overshadow the fact that this entire delegation has represented us very well. Understatement…]]>
The Post’s Blogger is writing about cheese again, but this time it concerns a tip I sent about the Swiss bobsledder who is part time athlete, part time cheesemaker. ANNEN Martin is a professional cheese maker from Switzerland who drives Swiss 1. He’s actually got a chance at a medal I think as he was bronze in the two-man in Switzerland. Kind of neat to find that there are guys who actually have a day job instead of just the Olympics. Of course it is as a cheese maker, but we can’t all work Home Deport.]]>
The Philipines are under martial law tonight more or less as the military reports an attempted coup has been squashed. Details are sketchy…]]>
These are the cities that are competing for the 2014 Olympics in case you are looking to get a cheap airfare. Almaty, Kazakhstan; Borjomi, Georgia; Jaca, Spain; PyeongChang, South Korea; Salzburg, Austria; Sochi, Russia; Sofia, Bulgaria. ]]>
I was reviewing the musical acts for the medal ceremony and was kind of surprised to find, in this — the year and the country of ‘anti-doping ‘– tonight’s performer is Lou Reed. Ummm…a bit of a mixed message don’t you think?]]>
The Sun is writing about the Podcast site, but once again it is about sex and only sex in podcasting. You know, there is an Adult Podcast Site they could write about instead of sending all that worthless porn traffic to PodcastDirectory.com. I guess I have to clean out the adult stuff from Podcast Directory (which is hard because there are so many sick people out there searching for stuff). You should see some of the requests that come in–I didn’t even know people did half this stuff, let alone podcasted about it. It’s a strange world.]]>