Greetings all, Steve here. Hmm, I think I feel a cynical moment coming on. My grade 10 history teacher, back in the post-Kurt Cobain/pre-Al Quaeda period that we’re now told we shold feel mildly nostalgic about, told us that, much as the Romans had used vicious, unbelievably violent spectacles and games in the Collesiums to […]
Greetings, Steve here. Well, I’ve been thinking about the Olympics a lot lately, because I have absolutely no choice. Not only are the Turino Winter Games almost totally ubiquitous, they run almost all the time in my apartment these days, since my girlfriend is out of her mind.
That’s unfair. Meghan’s not crazy, but she is […]
Well, the Olympics are here again. I normally don’t get too involved in televised sports, but I must admit that I was, only moments ago, overcome by a wave of intense patriotism as they played the Canadian Anthem for the short-track speed skating bronze medalist. My enthusiasm, however, was cruelly shot down by Meghan who, […]
Greetings. This will be the first in a series of reports I’ll be writing on the upcoming Torino Olympic games. Now, I know we’re two..three, four….four or five months away, something like that…uh, 150 days to go, but I have a mission to accmplish with these Olympics and I need to start early. I want […]