Wow...

Well, Michelle Kwan still rocks -- no gold, as she wished, but truly one of the great figure skaters of all time. Sara Hughes truly did give a tremendous performance -- graceful, athletic, flawless -- much as Tara "I won and now I'm done" Lipinksi did four years ago at the Nagano games. We can only wonder how the results might have differed, in terms of how competitors Kwan, Sasha Cohen (USA, Cal.) and Irina Slutskaya (RUS) would have approached their performances, mentally, had the judges given Sarah a few 6.0's, right up front. Interesting that Tara didn't get any 6's either, though she did receive a slew of 5.9's.

Separately, we're pretty annoyed at the media's handling of the USA Womens Hockey Team's loss to Canada. Yes, they lost, but it was just one game -- granted, the Olympic competition -- but this hardly is reason for all the dissing. They're still a killer team. And so is Canada. Can't we celebrate both of them? Well, this guy can't -- read this -- seems someone always has to get fixated on some whining-angle. After you've finished reading, The Band encourages you to amuse yourselves by writing to the columnist and advising him to get down off his soapbobsleigh. In the best spirit of the games, of course.

One of The Band's standing dreams is to someday actually attend the games. Until then, though, we've been enjoying the Olympics courtesy of NBC. If you are too, then you've stumbled upon yet another passive means of watching way too much TV, and should check out Bernard McGrane's article, "The Zen TV Experiment" -- very interesting.

RTI -- Remember those?

[ Short for "real-time interruption" -- Ed.]

Separately, we're waiting RT for our seester to have her first baby. Niece? Or nephew??.......