they blog so we don’t have to
I had this idea that I would live-blog the Olympics every once in a while, but I hadn’t committed to it.
Now I don’t have to bother. A colleague pointed me to this wonderful Slate blog called How To Watch the Winter Olympics. Basically, it’s emails written back and forth between two witty slate staffers. They discuss such things as the role of the woman in pairs figure skating vs. the luge competitor and the coverage of the women’s halfpipe competition:
The TV broadcast had zero human interest cutaways that I saw. This was the one time I found myself begging NBC to bring the action to a screeching halt and cue up a few pop-music-inflected video segments about the athletes’ lives beyond the halfpipe.
It’s much funnier than what I could have come up with. Now I can waste my time doing other things. Woohoo!
pop culture, television, workplace | sighclub February 14, 2006