August 2012
On NBC's Olympics Coverage:
A) If they’re pretending all this primetime stuff is in “real time,” get all your affiliates in line. The NY NBC channel is reporting all the results before the primetime coverage. As in, if you turn on your TV 5 minutes early you’ll see everything. I don’t care about being spoiled, but I know some people do.
B) Show it as live. For example, in gymnastics we should see everything the American team does and then highlights and lowlights from other teams. Last night with the men, I don’t think we saw a single man, US or otherwise, on the rings. Just because we weren’t going to medal doesn’t mean we don’t want to live the highs and lows along with the team. That’s what makes the Olympics fun.
C) DEAR GOD STOP WITH THE BACKGROUND/STORYBOOKING. Just fucking show the events with some (non-inane) commentary. Backstory is for when it’s live and there’s time to kill. Especially when the preproduced stories are so DUMB.
July 2012
Arrest warrant issued for Cuba Gooding Jr. - CNN.com →
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I see this headline and think, “What happened to Cuba Gooding, Jr?”
Then I see this:
AHHH. WHAT HAPPENED TO CUBA GOODING, JR?!?
Little toes break all the time. It's not a big deal.
Did Michael Phelps just admit to checking the scoreboard as he turned at the halfway point and then deciding he had to actually try in this heat?
That’s pretty fucking badass.
Oh. So I guess I'm going to go see that random bike messenger movie.
Hadn’t planned on that, but, reasons.
Are Bob Costas and Bela Karoly drinking scotch?
Lochte saying "this is not my event" after losing the relay was NOT a classy move.
Another strike in the douchbag column.
“If we lose to Montenegro in Water Polo I WILL KILL MYSELF.”
—Matt is really getting into the Olympics.
Harrison Bergeron →
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Obviously at 5am I became obsessed with rereading this story, which proved slightly difficult as I remembered neither the title nor the author.
It’s Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut. It’s maybe 2 pages long and it’s brilliant. Take a few seconds and click over to read it.
“If God hadn’t wanted people to have sex He’d have made everybody amoebas.”
—Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life as We Knew It
Can't we just call them Good Korea and Bad Korea?
Directions confuse me.
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’”
—Kurt Vonnegut
This is the first time that all participating countries have sent female athletes to the Olympics.
