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cleolindaMom and I sat up and watched the Olympics last night--I hadn't even turned on the TV once so far, but I'd read so much about the skaters on various journals that I kind of knew what was going on and I thought, well, I'll hang around to see Plushenko and Weir. In no way did I expect to totally fall in love with Snowboard Cross (I hear the women's tonight is going to be totally awesome. NO SPOILERS PLEASE) and/or Seth Wescott. (He's building a cabin in Maine from scratch, you know. He's raised all the timber from sapling trees and chewed them all down with his bare teeth.) Maddeningly, of course, NBC felt compelled to switch back and forth between snowboarding and skating, to the point where my mother would get antsy and flip back to Dancing with the Stars to see if "the blonde" was dancing (we'd already missed her), and we'd be sitting there watching commercials ON THE WRONG CHANNEL while I would be muttering over on the couch, "Snowboard? Snowboard! SNOWBOARD!"
And then I got sucked into the skating, too, and have pretty much decided to marry Evan Lysacek. My sister declared that he sucks because he "just gave up" after a bad fall on an earlier short program I didn't see: "You don't give up! YOU NEVER GIVE UP!" Of course, I'm kind of giving her a sidelong look, trying not to say anything about the fact that she dropped out of high school and got her GED instead and has threatened to drop out of cooking school umpteen times, but I find that if you bite your tongue hard enough, you can control the blurty urge. Anyhoo, by the time Lysacek entered my consciousness, it was to do nothing but pwn. Plushenko's long program was pretty limp in comparison, but you feel bad rooting against the guy after they show you the Heartwarming Back Story segment, in which the poor guy's like [subtitled from Russian]: "My parents gave up everything to send me to St. Petersburg to skate. Sometimes we dug in the trash for old shoes to boil into soup. My skates were made of tin cans and dead rats. Only my overlong bangs kept me from freezing to death when we couldn't afford coal. I LOVE YOU MOM AND DAD!" You end up feeling pretty bad that you have everything you have and you didn't cure cancer today. Hell, you feel pretty bad that you're sitting in a warm house watching this on a large TV, quite frankly.
And then there is... Johnny Weir. I had heard he was fey, flamboyant, feminine--all those things. I was not, however, prepared for his wit and wisdom:
"I like nice things, and beautiful things, so if that is the only way people are determining that I swing one way or the other, then to me, that's sad. You can't judge a book by it's cover, ever. . . . I am who I am, and I don't need to justify anything to anyone."And then, Johnny goes shopping:"I was causing a stir because...I was wearing a chinchilla scarf that someone thought was a boa. First of all, boas are so out. Secondly, I would never wear a boa to a press conference."
"Honey, I've got all day."From one princess to another: Shine on, Johnny Weir. Shine on.
I played along and said, "You're such a diva!" Honest truth.
He giggled and said, "I am a princess."
RSS feeds: I finally got it into my head that I should look into this whole "RSS" and "news aggregator" thing, because the upshot would probably be that I could create a sort of friends list out of non-LJ blogs, and thereby stop forgetting to read half of them. (I'm going with the Google Reader at the moment because it's there and it looks easy.) I did discover, however, that you can aggregate Livejournals as well, so if anyone reading this who isn't so much into the LJ thing (and yes, I have talked to people who come from outside LJ), you can get a feed for any single user or community on LJ. Mine is http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/data/rss.
German Girl Rescued After Dropping Notes.
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sexion8: Unfortunate Star Wars Costumes. (Sample: "I can see why someone might convince themselves if would be funny to dress up as Indiana Jones and raid a Star Wars costume contest, I guess. What I don't get at all is why the Phantom of the Opera is there.")Salon takes on the creepy Tom Fordified issue of Vanity Fair.
Oh, and today at
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dailydigestnews: Sean Bean to do American TV? Plus the new Bond girl and a film version of Love in the Time of Cholera. (Feed: http://community.livejournal.com/dailydigestnews/data/rss.)
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Date: 2006-02-17 11:11 pm (UTC)Cleolinda, how I wish you had live-blogged the opening ceremonies.
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Date: 2006-02-17 11:14 pm (UTC)And I too love Johnny Weir and Evan Lysacek. Johnny's a character, for sure, and I ached for poor Evan. I wanted him to medal so bad, his free skate was friggin' awesome. I mean, the dude was on IVs the day before! His VEINS COLLAPSED.
Dammit. This means I'm going to have to start watching figure skating all the time again, doesn't it? Sigh.
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Date: 2006-02-17 11:18 pm (UTC)Man...and I had heard toenail clippers.
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Date: 2006-02-17 11:19 pm (UTC)2.
He had the flu. And was wearing a matador outfit. Dude, I'd give up, too.
3. It's sad that you missed the short programs on Tuesday because Johnny Weir? Was dressed as a swan. God, he's amazing. He looked like the Enchantment Under the Sea dance last night. I kept expecting Marty McFly to run across his shoulders waving a photo.
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Date: 2006-02-18 09:27 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-02-17 11:27 pm (UTC)Aside from that, I really want to party with him. Or go clubbing. Same thing.
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Date: 2006-02-17 11:29 pm (UTC)re: RSS feeds: There's a good chance that the blog already has an LJ account. Most blog places like blogspot or whatnot have RSS feed info on the page. You can copy/paste that url into http://www.livejournal.com/syn and create a new account or find the already existing one. It's great.
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Date: 2006-02-17 11:29 pm (UTC)plus, as far as the other athletes went, I had my eyes pretty much settled on Jeffrey Buttle (http://www.torino2006.org/ENG/IDF/ATH/600101.html)... on a purely sport/artistic point of view, of course!
and those Wier's quotes... *snickers* ooooh-kay. his free program was sloppy and tame, though. that's the reason he didn't win. other than the ice being scratchy under his feet and the 'feeling black inside' grip of course. *snickers some more*
okay, I'll shut up. sorry. :p
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Date: 2006-02-17 11:33 pm (UTC)In conclusions: feeds are good.
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Date: 2006-02-17 11:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-17 11:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-02-17 11:38 pm (UTC)Johnny Weir is one of my new favorite people ever. He named his costume Camille! OMG! Best ever!
I cannot have positive feelings for Plushenko after seeing him like this (http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fs01109303ss.jpg).
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Date: 2006-02-17 11:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-02-17 11:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-02-17 11:40 pm (UTC)Did you see that lost-media.com got hacked?
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Date: 2006-02-17 11:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-02-18 12:00 am (UTC)I do thoroughly enjoy Weir - I was really disappointed in his free skate. *sigh* I was so happy for Jeffery Buttle, though! There was another skater from Canada as well - Shawn something, who was incredible. I can't wait to see him over the next few years. I have *never* seen a man that flexible in my life. The line on his spirals...omg. Just beautiful.
I'm trying to figure out how much money I can blow when the Skating World Championships come to town next month. Plus they're putting Browning in the Hall of Fame! I have to go...
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Date: 2006-02-18 12:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-18 12:24 am (UTC)ANYWHO, what I was going to say was that I'm going to marry Evan Lysacek. We'll have to fight it out. Heh. I totally fell in love with him at the US Nationals. (along with Matt Savoie) I felt so bad for Evan though. He had the stomach flu while doing the short program. He spent the day after that having IVs to put fluids in him after he had been puking so much. My poor baby.
Also, Pleshenko is terifying. I think he's a Russian ninja. He could cut your heart out with his skates and you wouldn't even know it. I think part of his scariness comes from his hair. Which is just... weird... but not as weird as it used to be. I think he's trying to blend in more and keep his status as Russian ninja/asassain under wraps.
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Date: 2006-02-18 12:17 am (UTC)Joey Cheek is still my Olympic MAP (Most Adorable Player) but Lysacek is right up there. When he was crying with his head on his mom's shoulder...!?!!
I get way too emotionally invested in the Olympics.
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Date: 2006-02-18 01:14 am (UTC)I'm glad you mentioned him because he won me over by just being so darn nice.
Seth Wescott will read your Squeeee!
Date: 2006-02-18 12:47 am (UTC)We are all soooooooo excited that he won!
Re: Seth Wescott will read your Squeeee!
Date: 2006-02-18 01:10 am (UTC)(Please make sure he understands that the house-building crack was directed at the breathless tone of NBC's athlete segments, not at him or his house. But then, after what I said about Plushenko's segment, maybe that's self-evident.)
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Date: 2006-02-18 01:06 am (UTC)I was sorta fond of the French skater. His hair was rather fluffy, but he wasn't hard on the eyes...his skating I mean. Yeah.
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Date: 2006-02-18 03:20 am (UTC)Isn't he just beautiful??
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:50 am (UTC)My pets glare at you, Johnny Weir. O_o
Also - Boy I'm Dating told me yesterday about Snowboard Cross and made me very, very sad I haven't been watching the Olympics. It sounds AWESOME.
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Date: 2006-02-18 07:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-18 07:54 am (UTC)NO MINE ALL MINE.
I mean, um.. *runs away*
*runs back*
Tell your sister that his long program is not that of a person who "just gave up." And that during his short, he was sick. His veins were collapsing from dehydration.
What? I'm not crazy.