My Sick Mind

I am a weirdo. Never is it more apparent than when the "whole world" is doing something and I'm doing something else. The Olympics were a case in point. While the rest of the world was watching Lindsey Vonn and her broken pinkie finger, Yoko Ono and his speed skating and the hockey; I was over on MSNBC watching curling. It isn't like you flip this on and watch for a few minutes. Curling matches last 3 hours, and to some are as exciting as watching the clock move. I like the strategy and look of the game. Plus, it isn't like we see curling on TV a lot - which is exactly what I'm getting at here. I was extremely disappointed (and even a little sad) to watch the Canadian women's team lose their gold medal match to Sweden last night. It came down to an extra end and one stone thrown by skip Cheryl Bernard that narrowly missed giving the Canadians the gold in front of 5,600 home country fans that would have probably cracked the ice with their cheers. It...

It looks as though the weather people (the so-called "meteorologists") are going to blow this one. It is 11:41pm, and all I'm hearing is a lot of wind, which is similar to what the weather people have been spouting about the so-called "Snowicane" that we were supposed to get these last couple of days. I have not boarded-up my windows. It's nice when they're correct, and they tell us so. They run ads on the local TV telling us how they are "the weather authority" and they stand around in their suits and ties (the men, anyway - the women are conspicuously absent) looking authoritative and dignified, as though what they said has some bearing on their overall intelligence. It's nice when they say they are right, even if their version of accuracy is made-up. The last couple of storms, they have called for a foot or foot and a half, and we have gotten between 18 and 28 inches. By my calculations, they are about 30% off - if you go by the 28 ...

I've been neglectful of this page for a little while. I've found that it takes great emotional energy to come up with a few hundred words about something over which I am passionate. Plus, after doing it for nearly 4 years it has become more difficult to come up with something I haven't already written about. There is more snow coming. Just as the remaining two feet has disappeared to the point that we are starting to see the ground, another blast is coming from midnight until noon Friday. In case you're keeping score, that's 36 hours of snow. I try not to stress over it, since I am powerless to prevent it. The only thing I can do is deal with it, but as this is storm number 4, it's getting a little (a lot) ridiculous. Having it fall over two consecutive work days is just adding insult to injury. At least now, I have a shovel . We won't re-hash that nastiness. ORLANDO, Fla. – A SeaWorld killer whale snatched a trainer off a poolside platform in its ...

If the USA can't win the women's curling gold (and I suspect they cannot) then I'd find myself rooting for the host Canadians to do it. In fact, there's a pretty good chance that Canada's men's and women's teams will win gold this year. Most of the reason that the Canadian women's team could win rests on Cheryl Bernard , their skip. She's hot in more ways than one, and yes, I'm writing about curling again. Bernard's profession is listed as "curler/author." She co-wrote Between the Sheets: Creating Curling Champions , a curling book with Guy Scholz, currently ranked 14,486 on Amazon.com, seriously behind where the Canadian women's curling team is ranked. I know, it's strange that I'm spending my evenings watching curling matches on TV. What is odd is that there are a lot of sports being shown over these two Olympic weeks, and none of them has captivated me as much as the curling. I'm not a skier, I can't skat...

Contrary to what you read in the newspaper or see on TV, there are a lot of different sports being played at the winter Olympics. It's more than just skiing, speed skating, hockey and figure skating. Those are the sports that get the prime time air, but there are others being broadcast on MSNBC and CNBC during the "off hours" that are kind of cool too. One of them is curling . Yes, curling. The game the Beatles played in "Help" has been an Olympic sport since 1998, and I remember that I enjoyed watching it four years ago and I'm enjoying watching it now. I'll admit to not knowing the nuances and intricacies of the sport, but watching it helps me learn. Strange, but true . The game has come a long way since Foot and Algernon and The Beatles played the game in 1965. It's played on fancy ice sheets with modern brooms and stones now, and almost none of them explode. Although, if they had a chance of an explosion it might get the games in prime time. ...