I felt like writing a meditation on the Olympics this week since it’s been taking up most of my free time the last couple of weeks. While I tend to watch the men’s and women’s events about equal, I admit freely I tend to have more interest in women’s beach volleyball than men’s. But, that’s just because Misty and Kerri are fucking awesome, and I’m fascinated by a team that basically has never, ever lost. Why it is I prefer women’s non-beach volleyball to men’s regular volleyball I couldn’t tell you. What I can tell you is, I find water pollo to be frickin’ boring no matter what gender they are!
On Watching the Olympics
“You NEVER watch sports. Why is it you feel like watching EVERY minute of games you never even knew existed all of the sudden?”
“Two weeks out of every four years is a special occasion in which representatives of the world can come together for a few brief minutes without murdering each other, and argue over nothing in a friendly manner. Plus I love having the illusion that somehow I’m a better person because other representatives of the same large section of rock that I was born on have a tendency of winning a lot of the games. Plus there’s all that human drama that usually I just don’t have time to spend an entire season after season after season watching; I mean, it’s hard enough for me to carve out a life for myself as it is without devoting myself to the sports that come more often than once every four years . . .”
“Am I the only one who notices that you tend to watch the women play sports more than the men? I mean, I know you’d like to think you’re better than a guy watching women for their body’s sake, but you do tend like to watch the women’s events more than the men’s . . .”
“Not when it come to running!”
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