Yeah, We're Watching

Oddly enough I find myself rooting for the Japanese team & not caring about the US, except the snowboarder who has the same name as my cousin - Jeremy Bloom. I can't root against almost-family like that.

There's much ado over here about the Japanese teams zero medals so far. Serioulsy, the leading story on the news every night: STILL NO MEDALS. It's kind of hard to explain, but Japanese nationalism makes American patriotism look completely bush league - horrible pun i know. There is a complex web of patriotism here in which every good/bad thing done by a prominent Japanese person or entity affects everything else. Hence: Honda motors has a great quarter = we rule! Japanese team wins no Olympic medals = what the hell is wrong with us? Very strange.

Of course most people we know laugh that thinking off & just go about their business, but for every one of them, there are like 20 guys in Tokyo drinking themselves silly due to the lack of gold. It's crazy. I don't care about any of that though. I just want to watch Half-pipe Snowboarding and Women's Curling for the rest of my life.

-Mike