Life In the OC (That’s Oneida County)

Don’t you love it when sports writers hype up an athlete or an event? Nine times out of ten, it fails to deliver. Take a look at… oh say, nine of the last ten Super Bowls.

NBC, sports writers, Nike, all of them put their stock behind the magical, mystical, amazing Bode Miller.

Bode never had a podium finish.

I don’t know for sure, but I believe Bode never had a top five finish.

Bode Miller is indeed useless.

Then, there’s the other obvious observation. Ratings for the Olympics are down. But, look at the big picture. I mean the BIG picture. All TV ratings are down. Whose fault is it? Overexposure? Simon Cowell? Liberal hippies who hate competition in any way shape or form (I’m referring to my crazy neighbor).

Me? I’m blaming it on the fact that it’s the Winter Olympics. As Americans, we don’t generally care how fast a person can ski down a hill (although, personally, I love the Biathlon. I guess I’m Biathlon-curious).

But…. I guess I’m a sports nut at heart. I really enjoyed watching the Olympics this year. Except that god damn figure skating. *shakes fist* Damn you, figure skating!

Another prime example: I sat down to watch the first Hockey game of the Olympics this year. The crowd was pumped up, and the commentators were pumped up. I went from curious to pumped up when the commentators were telling me that they’re expecting the gold medal match to be between the US and Canada for both men’s and women’s hockey. I said to myself, “Wow! I bet they’ll be great matches!” I never got to see them, because neither the US, nor Canada qualified for hockey medal matches. Again, thanks for nothing NBC.

Besides that, the NHL season was interrupted so our athletes could go to Italy and lose to amateurs. Nothing against amateurs. I just think we should go back to sending our own amateurs.

The one good thing that came out of the Olympics this year. My curiosity from my childhood: Curling!

But first, a cute little story.

I remember when the cable network CNBC started up. It was the Consumer News and Business Channel. After maybe five years or so, GE/NBC/Universal/The Undying Soul of Dick Fuckin’ Clark Incorporated took notice that the last three letters were NBC. They snatched it up. Surprisingly, very little was changed. Plus, it gave NBC another channel to run Olympic programming on every other year.

Well, for this year’s Olympics, CNBC was used primarily to run tape delayed curling. Surprisingly, people ate it up. In fact, the ratings for Olympic curling on CNBC beat what was usually running on CNBC at that time. I’m just wondering if the Consumer News and Business Channel is going to become the Curling National Broadcasting Company.

Yeah. Somfin wrong big time. I’m sitting here at 11 at night watching the Olympics. I’m watching freakin’ ice dancing. Put something decent on, dammit!

…Like curling.

So last week, I was hanging out with my sister. We decided to get dinner at Pizza Hut. Just something different, y’know? So we walked in and sat down. Across the way, there was an elderly couple. With them was their granddaughter. The granddaughter gets up from the table and walks over to our table. She just sorta’ stares at us. My sister says, “Hi! How are you?!”

The little girl just continues to stare at us. After a couple seconds, she says something. I heard what she said. My sister thinks she heard what she said. My sister says, “What did you say?”

The girl says, “Jesus died on the cross.”

The grandmother says, “What did she say!? Get back over here!”

The family left. I spent the rest of the dinner saying to my sister, “Jesus died on the cross.”

You know, I wanted to be a wise ass, but that little girl was so innocent. I was gonna’ tell her that “Our God is an awesome God“.

But, I’m too nice.

I’m gonna’ try to get back into the writing habbit. It’s been a while. I think I’m gonna’ aim for five entries a week. That’s managable. Let’s see if I can make it.

I really spend too much time watching TV. It’s not news to me. It’s just something I felt I should point out. I really really noticed it when I was working on my myspace.

…I hate myspace…

But anyway, if you wanna’ check it out, it’s here. Not much there… but, I wouldn’t really expect there to be, seeing as I hate it.

By the way, I agree with my girlfriend. Boobs are indeed filled with music. It’s a cute story. If I ever meet any of my readers, I’d love to tell it. ;-)

That’s all for now. I’ll try to come of with a theme to follow for the next week or so!