I return

[lobelia321]

Holidays: Mixed. Landscape lovely if at times a wee rustic. Nîmes and Montpellier very elegant towns. Weather hot and sunny!!! (England = rain and bloody cold.) Company: problematic.

OLYMPICS!!! Here's an observation from the holidays in Provence: French television is shit. I have had only two days of BBC coverage of the Olympics and it has been as water to a parched desert. I have been lapping it all up, even the boring, last-two-days events, all of it!! The French show only the French of any event, only live coverage during the day, only a one-hour 'highlights' programme in the evening (of the French), and a constant babble-babble of rubbish commentators. They don't take the sports seriously! *weeps*

I wonder how my countrypeople have been covering the Olympiade?

I love the Olympics with an addict's love. I weep every time somebody wins a medal, stands on a podium, doesn't win a medal, comes from a poor country with no facilities, comes from a poor country AND wins a medal, is a cool dude like USAIN BOLT, is a veiled woman from Bahrain!!, is a weeping camp diver from Thydney, holds up a photo of his dead wife during the medal ceremony as a gold-medal weightlifter. Basically, the Olympics is normally one big long weepfest for me. Also: I love seeing the HAPPY PEOPLE! When they've just won something, they just look so phenomenally happy!

I love seeing the whole world's people and all those beautiful, strong bodies, and all those women doing stuff that many could not have done 50 years ago, and in some countries even 10 years ago, and in some countries not even now!

Has there been Olympics slash? A cursory search revealed none but I've not been online a lot; I've been surgically attached to the TV screen!

SGA cancelled? Is that like JKR finishing her last Harry Potter installment? And did Curse of the Hallows (or whatever it's called) kill of the HP fandom??

Lo, at the moment, unbidden, I am back into HP. How... how something. Perhaps it's all that Olympic boxing? It reminded me of my darling's darling.

Comments

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

Welcome back! Since I ditched my TV some months ago, I am without Olympics. I do miss them sorely, but yes, much less weeping!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

But did you listen to them on the radio? Or read about them in the papers???

Or hang around in pubs with flat-screen TV screens???

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

Well, I watched quite a few video clips online, read the paper, and catch about an hour's worth every day on the breakroom tv at work, while lunching with The Boy, of course. :-)

[azewewish.livejournal.com]

olympic_slash - Mostly swimming & gymnastics, but there are other sports. *g*

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

*goggles*

Argh!! THANK YOU!!!!! Wow!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Hm. Am somewhat disappointed in the olympic-slash comm which should be renamed michael_phelps comm.

Hm.

[azewewish.livejournal.com]

That is what happens when you win 8 gold medals & act all slashy with your best friend. *g* People tend to want to write about it.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

But what about that Australian diver who won the gold today and who is totally camp and burst into tears? And what about all those rhythmic gym girlies in their glittery body-revealing outfits? And what about Guo Yue who is a fiend on the table tennis table and in a great love/hate thingy with all her opponents? And what about EVERYONE? They are ALL so slashy. And don't get me started on the KAYAKISTS who all hugged and slapped each other and who slapped each other's boats...!!!! How cute is that?

I missed all the swimming because of being in France. So am quite underphelped.

[grondfic.livejournal.com]

Having come back from Austria halfway through the Olympics, and picked up on the Beeb coverage, I was struck suddenly at how ... comfortable .. Jonathan Edwards and Michael Johnson were with one another. When Michael was joshing the English about their excuses - "mystery viruses or mojos", the subtext was a bit - present.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

*laughs a lot* But, um, who is Jonathan Edwards? A presenter, I assume?

[grondfic.livejournal.com]

Yes - an ex gold-medal long jumper, well-known for being Born-Again and threatening not to compete on a Sunday (sweetly oldfashioned!). Latterly, however, I hear he's become unborn-again-again, and as I've rather carried a pash-of-shame for him, I might just look at that scenario, especially as Michael Johnson is such a vibrant presence and all-round good-egg.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

I've really enjoyed what Olympics I've been able to see by squinting over the sports reporters' shoulders at work. Really rather awe-inspiring! But I seem to have been distracted away from it in the last few days after becoming completely addicted to Battlestar Galactica (fickle? Me?).

Mind you, since Wimbledon I've been all over the tennis slash. Specifically, ahem, Federer/Nadal.

And today I watched an episode of SGA and it was quite harrowing and may have made me cry. Which seemed a bit weird.

Ah, fandom. :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Was this the famed The Shrine episode wot I see pimped all over my flist? I've dl'ed it but have yet to watch.