Blogging will be light until the Games are over, because your humble hostess is too busy obsessing about them and trying to do nerd work at the same time! (Get your London 2012 app yet?) The NBC coverage during primetime has been mostly - let's be honest - bad when it's not silly and crammed with some of the most idiotic "commentary" I've heard. How bad is it? Sometimes even the logo placement elicits guffaws from the audience, and this unfortunate placement of the graphic makes the entire scene seems a lot naughtier than it really is. The daytime live coverage is less awful, at least - I suspect because of the conspicuous absence of annoying people like Ryan Seacrest. Really, NBC, the snarky satirists at the Onion are doing a better job of "covering" the Games. I mostly watch NBC with the sound turned off. I'm not kidding.
If you're watching the primetime coverage, do have actor Samuel L. Jackson's Twitter feed available too, because he's a sports addict who is utterly laugh-out-loud funny in his no-holds-barred running real-time commentary. (Language warning, obviously.)
For other awesome perspectives on the Games, you can always follow some of the athletes' Twitter feeds (like Michael Phelps' or Lolo Jones's ... and Lolo is hilarious) or maybe watch the BBC's streaming coverage.
As for the Games, they're full of stories of all types, which brings me to the dirtbag du jour, Olympic edition. Nope, that's too depressing. Let's focus instead on Phelps making glorious history by winning his 19th medal, shall we? Congratulations, sir!
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