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Posted on 02.20.06 by Widge @ 11:44 pm
Okay, I've only caught snatches of the Olympics the past few days, but it seems that what has always been true continues to be true: the commentators the network has on hand are all freaking terrible. Creative people of the world, thusly I implore: fix this. You have two options. 1) Get a bunch of creative, witty, knowledgeable people together to watch the Olympics and record the commentary. These days you can even do it remotely from different locations. Don't feel up to the task? Listen to the people they have on there now…your pet rabbit would be more compelling. Throw the audio together then toss it online as a podcast. When folks grab the Olympics from the TiVo to play later, they simply turn down the audio and listen to you instead. 2) Grab the video from your own TiVo and remix the audio in, then release it via BitTorrent to the rest of the world. Please. Somebody. It's painful to watch. If not before this Olympics passes, you have two years before the next batch. Get on it. Filed under: General BS
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Posted on 02.16.06 by Widge @ 9:29 pm
"I used to have a better life when I was nobody." There's an easy fix for that, boyo. "This pressure is inhumane, born out of an athlete's need to be number one. Sport should be a pleasure, a challenge against one's self. Sport is an act of freedom. On the piste you can push your limits and that is the essence of life." Rrrrrright…that's why you went to the Olympics, because you thought it would be a nice, quiet, intimate sports thing that might get some play on ESPN2 between the Strong Man Competition and a report on sixth-graders who enjoy miniature golf…? If all you wanted was to just be the best in the world, you could break the record on your own time and just know it for yourself. You know, if you're just challenging yourself and all. Sorry, I just get really pissed off when people work really hard to be famous, then whine about the "price of fame" while talking about how they never really wanted it like they have it. All this while there's no doubt tons of folks who would love that kind of problem. So I'm sure there's plenty of skiers who would love it if you became a nobody again and freed up a space in the limelight, Bode. Just a thought. Filed under: General BS
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John Robinson is a writer of prose, poetry and comics who also writes under
the pseudonym of Widgett Walls.
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