Watching: Winter Olympics

I gotta say, I'm more than a little annoyed that I'm watching a three-hour tape delay when I'm in the same time zone as Vancouver. I was all ready to enjoy some live tweeting of the Olympics, but while everyone on Twitter is going "Look at the tap-dancing fiddlers!" I've got Tom Brokaw yammering on about the trade relations between Canada and the US. No offense to Mr. Brokaw, as he's very good at what he does, but he is not a tap-dancing fiddler. Or a fiddling tap-dancer. Boo. Hiss.

At any rate, I did enjoy the Opening Ceremonies. These things always have an element of weird. (Nothing beats the walking snow globes in Albertville.) But Vancouver seemed like the Canadians looked at all the other recent ceremonies and went, "You want weird? We got weird. Check this out!" There's was an element of fun there, as they were - of course it's the Olympics - taking things seriously, but they're not really taking it too seriously.