I admit, I couldn’t get the enthusiasm to set my alarm for 6am, like I did for the opening ceremonies but I did watch some of the highlights. In short, Jackie Chan, fireworks and David Beckham. British singer Leona Lewis and Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page performed “Whole Lotta Love.” With a few changes: “Way, […]
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Arts vs medals
Way to kill my Olympic buzz. I was just about to blog about how much I enjoy BMX racing (and that awesome three-way spill last night) and this was sent to me. According to today’s Globe, “More than $40-million in savings the federal government will reap from controversial cuts to arts and culture funding will […]
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Poor Adam Vancouverdan
I’ve never heard a sadder quote than Adam van Koeverden’s this morning on CBC, seconds after choking. “All I have is an apology. I’m sorry. And I hate watching people apologize after bad performance, but now I know why they do it, because there was a lot of pressure on me.van Koeverden floundered eighth of […]
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The GREATEST Olympics music mix EVER, Vol. 1
Assmbled by the staff at The Coast after 13 days of solid Olympic viewing. Most of the songs are on this fancy audio player, so you can listen to them. I know this list is very nearly perfect, but did we miss anything? Like what? Let us know. Olympics Opening ceremonies The New Seekers, “I’d […]
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Ladies beach volleyball final
1:06 am Right now the Chinese Beach Volleyball team is giving American beach volleyball juggernauts Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor a tit for tat, neck and neck gold medal game. This final is a semiotic mess. What does it mean? Tanned US teammates Kerri and Misty define this sport. They are as American as Pamela […]
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What’s that you say?
Now that you’re done watching the 800m runners FLY over the ground, there’s some hard-hitting dialogue coming from the sidelines:CBC commentator: “Gary, you said yesterday after you ran that it was a stupid race.”Canadian Gary Reed: “You know, I was mad at myself for a minute, but I just got ready for this race, and […]
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Women’s Diving
I’d like to whine that it’s not fair, or that there was some judging bias, or something like that.But Canada got second because the Chinese women are good divers. They’re small, and they’re shaped like they’ve been flattened out with a planer. And they have good control, good rotation and they fit between the molecules […]
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Christie Blatchford almost out of words!
Christie Blatchford writes today in the Globe on how blogging and web 2.0 and comments are destroying journalism. Or Blatchy’s brand of journalism. Oh, H,F,B, are you really twisting the knife?
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Dan Savage
Q: You usually get mail about the sex lives of your readers, being a sex-advice columnist and all, but I have a problem that has nothing to do with sex. I have a parenting problem and given that you are a fellow parent, I’m hoping you have some insight. My brother is a social conservative; […]
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condolences to Ron MacLean
typical Olympics–you’re sitting there laughing at Martin Short’s synchronized swimming, and then CBC sports hunk Ron MacLean comes on to explain that his mother just died about two hours ago. She’s been sick with pancreatic cancer for a long time but she broke her hip about 14 days ago, so his wife went home early […]
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Synchro scares
This is why people are scared of synchronized swimming. There should be some kind of kids warning on it. Better watch this instead: Find more videos like this on www.truveo.com.
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Powerful update
So unfortunately, Halifax’s Adrienne Power didn’t qualify for today’s 200-metre sprint semi-finals. She ran 23.51 seconds in the second round of women’s 200-metre sprint, finishing sixth in her heat, according to the Chronicle Herald, although the CBC reports her in seventh place. hmmm. Power’s personal best is 22.86 seconds, which is nothing to sneeze at…No […]
