Been watching stuff here and there for fun. It still is.
Will be watching the Paralympics Opening Ceremony.
Things I learned:
Dual Moguls is my fucking jam. Goddamn, that is my fucking SPORT. Pure, unhinged insanity on the slopes. Love it!
The captions continue to be enlightening. During the Medal Ceremony for Women’s Freeski Big Air, when Eileen Gu was standing on the podium, the captions helpfully provided me with info about an upcoming event called “Frisky Big Air”. Obviously, this would not be in this Olympics, so I’m assuming it will be featured in 2030. Man, I can’t WAIT for that! Not sure what it is, but with a name like “Frisky Big Air”, I might be interested enough to buy a ticket and see it in person!
I have chosen my own name for the Blade Angels, A.K.A. the Team USA Skating Squadron. I shall henceforth and forevermore refer to them as “The Skatelets”. Ask me not why, or for what reason; for I shall not tell thee. It is a secret. And secrets are uh, secret-ive.
I missed the John Williams Theme. The Fanfare one. Google tells me it was written for the LA Olympics in 1984. Now- I swear to fucking God that if this tune is not used during the 2028 LA games I will personally be cracking some fucking heads over at some committee or whatever, whomever it is that organizes the music for these things. For reals. You already have the greatest tune EVER WRITTEN for the subject at hand- USE IT. Put it in the Opening Ceremony, seriously! Don’t fuck this up, people! NBC- are you listening?
Reddit tells me the IOC is considering dropping Snowboard Parallel Slalom, I suppose in response to my post. See, THIS is why I hesitate to post, sometimes. I remarked something about the ages of the athletes as being a bit older than would be expected, and, if Reddit is correct (and, who knows, it’s fucking Reddit, lol), the IOC is considering dropping it. Alright, let’s google, see if I can find something.
Ok, I’m back. It seems the rumors about IOC dropping it date back to last year, but still, this would be terrible, I mean Who TF cares? It looks very fun and not at all dangerous, which might be the reason for the extreme longevity for the athletes, let’s be honest. I say keep it. I mean there are plenty of curlers in their 40s and nobody cares about that, lots of equestrians in their 40s, nobody cares, so… yeah, just keep it.
In non-sports news I’m not going to comment on the war in the Middle East nonsense. THAT I know is in response to this blog and all of this stuff; there is no way it isn’t. Trump is constantly trying to ride my energetic wave, which is part of the reason why I try to remain so measured here. It’s unfortunate, but there you go.
Regardless, not going to comment on the nonsense coming out of the Middle East. That entire area, American presence and all, just appears at times to be a giant children’s playground. It would be absurd if it weren’t so depressing.
Back to sports- This time around, I am going to make it a point to try to watch “Other” sports, meaning, likely, Non-Olympic Games Olympic sports. I do not believe it will be humanly possible for me to follow on a regular basis stuff anything remotely like the NFL. Regardless of the merits of the sport, that league is a Goddamn religion, it’s a fucking way of life, with a Sunday mass and all sorts of other ludicrous bullshit. I’ve described my problems with the NFL before on this blog, I’m not going to detail them yet again. But holy shit, the way that league consumes peoples’ lives is just horrifying. And I have similar sentiments regarding the rest of the ‘Murican sports.
People these days talk about the evils about social media and how it has consumed the attention spans and time of people, about streaming services and video games and other similar things, but I’ve seen very few talk about the problems stemming from sports fandom addiction, and that is I believe a problem that predates all of the things I just listed. I mean it can hardly not.
Well, I am going WAY off topic here. I guess I needed to get a few things off my chest before the Paralympics begin in a few days.
So… See you in Milano Cortina!