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J.C.: Olympic Judges are Terrible!!

By Jenn Cloutier on August 19, 2008 11:50 PM | | Comments (2) | | | |
Thumbnail image for Jenn Cloutier.jpgI have totally been watching these Chinese Olympics.  I usually just love the Olympics with their story lines and their rivalries and stuff!  (Phelps is sooooo cute and tall!  Who cares if he has ADHD!?!?)  I usually focus on swimming, gymnastics, track & field and curling.

I was watching the gymnastics, though, and they are just painful because the judges are horrible!  Yuck!

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JLF: The Only Idea Bush Has is That Invading Iraq Was Right

By Johnny Lead Foot on August 13, 2008 11:55 PM | | Comments (1) | | | |
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Johnny Lead Foot here, and I'm pissed...

The Olympics have been jam packed with highlights.  I mean, the swimming has been fantastic, but I take that with a grain of salt because I have webbed toes and a 5,400 RPM tail.  I can cruise at 30 knots from Staten Island to Hilton Head.

One of the most outstanding thing I've seen this Olympics is Bob Costas interview of President Bush.  It was just under ten minutes and it was the first live interview I've seen of Bush, and it was amazing.  Fantastic.  Given the short amount of time, Costas covered a healthy amount of topics.  Now, a lot of people were criticizing that Costas shouldn't have brought politics into the Olympic celebrations, but Costas strapped on his balls and shot out questions that probably had Bush's handlers shivering in the corner.  Don't believe me?  Watch for yourself.  Watch how Costas shows up all reporters covering the political scene.

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Olympic Building: The Water Cube

By John de Guzman on August 11, 2008 8:00 AM | | Comments (11) | | | |
08-08-08.  The Olympics are going to hit Beijing like a political sledgehammer.  One thing the world can agree on, though, is that Beijing's Olympic buildings are stunning.  The Bird's Nest and the Water Cube?  They have no precedent.  They are totally ground-breaking.  You'll see.

The Water Cube

Img214242716.jpgFrom what I remember, Olympic swimming competitions are held in a giant box with no discernible sassiness.  Sydney changed things up a little in 2000 with a roofless stadium, if I remember correctly, and the camera's aperture had to keep compensating for the insane bright sun and resulting shadows.  What I'm trying to say is that nothing has made a mark on the ol' architecture meter.  China, though, for this 2008 Olympics, is whopping you over the head with a creation they are calling the Water Cube.

But that looks like a bunch of bubbles, you say!  Wha?  Well.... it actually is a bunch of bubbles.  This is the most complicated design I've ever seen.  Take my hand, we'll take a look inside.

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Olympic Building: The Bird's Nest

By John de Guzman on August 6, 2008 11:00 AM | | Comments (1) | | | |
08-08-08.  The Olympics are going to hit Beijing like a political sledgehammer.  One thing the world can agree on, though, is that Beijing's Olympic buildings are stunning.  The Bird's Nest and the Water Cube?  They have no precedent.  They are totally ground-breaking.  You'll see.

The Bird's Nest

Img214260925.jpgIt's a bit difficult to digest all that's there with a single shot, so take my hand and I'll lead you through it.  There's a stadium in there.  A 91,000-seat Olympic stadium.  It's surrounded by steel, so much steel that it is officially the largest steel structure in the world.  How much steel?  Well, 36 kilometers of it (over 22 miles).  Even more odd, that steel is a separate building from the stadium inside.  Let's take a look.

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