Why No USA House?

Posted by Cynical Sarah on February 19, 2010

On my adventure downtown today to check out some more of the Olympic craziness, I made a point to note where the USA House was supposed to be. I’d already heard it isn’t open to the public but that they had a retail store area that was, so I thought I’d go check out my home country’s goods.

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Tags: 2010 Olympics, usa house

Big Bite of Media Reality

Posted by Cynical Sarah on February 18, 2010

Watching the story of Kevin Smith being “too fat to fly” this week has brought me back to why I can never go back to being a “journalist.”

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Tags: celebrities

Heavyweight Action Online Between Silent Bob, SWA

Posted by Cynical Sarah on February 15, 2010

Behold the power of the Internet. (And anyone out there heading up a company/corporation/business of any kind may want to take note of just how powerful it is.) In a matter of two days, Kevin Smith has used Twitter, his blog and Smodcast to vilify Southwest Airlines, and it’s getting him some results.

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Tags: celebrities, odd news

Golden Moment for Canada

Posted by Cynical Sarah on February 14, 2010

Canadians have been waiting a long time to have an Olympic gold medal that was one on home soil. The nation has hosted the Olympic games twice before – Calgary in 1988 and Montreal in 1976 – but was unable to pull out a gold medal win at either of those.

It took two days of competition here in Vancouver for Canadians to finally get that taste of gold at home. Alexandre Bilodeau found his place at the top of the medal stands in the Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Moguls this evening.

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Tags: 2010 Olympics

My Opening Ceremony Experience

Posted by Cynical Sarah on February 13, 2010

This week as the 2010 Olympic Opening Ceremony approached, there was much media talk about how it would compare to what China did for the Beijing Summer Olympics two years ago. Could it compare? How could Canada top what China did?

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Tags: 2010 Olympics, Olympics, opening ceremony

Torch Lights It Up At City Hall

Posted by Cynical Sarah on February 11, 2010

The Olympic flame is spending a couple days winding it’s way around Vancouver. I missed seeing it in my own neighborhood this morning because I had plans to go to lunch with a friend. As it turns out though, the route later in the day was going near where we had lunch.

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Tags: 2010 Olympics, torch run

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