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Fri, 10 Feb 2006
Original date: February 10, 2006
I decided yesterday and forgot about it. My friend reminded me about it today and now it has to be an active negation.
I decided that I would try to avoid the winter games completely this year. There are a lot of reasons to avoid it not the least of it being the way it gets covered on television. Anyway tonight was going to be a test of my will.
The fact of the matter is that I love the olympics. I stayed up well into the night for the Nagano & Sydney olympics looking things over on their web sites. I think the Athens olympics did such a bad job with their web content that I started lose my interest.
It's probably the same with television as well. The coverage has changed so much from raw information and events shown the way they happened to glossy productions and presentations. I feel like there is much less emphasis on experiencing the reality of it all and focussing on the telling of it - words, images to emphasize what other people want to emphasize, not what I feel as a direct result of viewing the raw event. How lazy do people think I am that I need to be told what to feel?
I have to admit I did break down at the start - I switched to the channel to the networking carrying what I was avoiding. They decided to help me out by starting out with a long intro of the city and country. It probably was a very interesting intro, if only I was paying full attention. And then they said they were going to spend the next 30 minutes on just 3 athletes before going to the opening ceremonies. That was enough for me.
The other channels helped me out too. You know about my obsession with "That 70s Show"(see My first thoughts...) already. I haven't said too much more about it since then. I started writing something more about that yesterday but couldn't get enough good stuff and let it go. Maybe it'll be revived at some future date. And on Fox, there was "Arrested Development." I've only seen a few episodes of this show and only this year. It's a funny show - not great, but still a nice relief. Thank you very much for pitching in to help me out. Even though he didn't show up today (as far as I noticed in my distracted way while working on this and other such activities), how can a name like "Bob LobLaw" not be funny?
I can just avoid it, at least today.
A quick look at their web site indicates it may only be on par with the Athens one. Oh! Well. At least they do have some good pictures so far and they do have the results. And I'll read the newspaper too, of course.
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