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I’d call it the opening monologue but since Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin took the stage together I’d prefer to call it a “biologue”.  The better word is dialogue but I figured I’d come up with a new one for you.  Was it me or did it sound way too practiced?  We know that they are reading off Teleprompters but they couldn’t seem to have done a worse job at “acting” as if it was rolling off the top of their heads.  Maybe it was planned to be so.  Probably it wasn’t.  It was funny nonetheless although it could have been better.

I read a report that during the opening “biologue” George Clooney was playing stoned-faced.  He seemed more peeved off than anything, don’t you think?  Maybe he just doesn’t like being the center or attention even though he inevitably is.
So what did you think of the Oscars?  What was your favorite moment.  Email me at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you have thoughts you’d like to share.

It only takes one golden moment!

Canadians are proud everywhere.  After yesterday’s performances we should be.  We now stand, as of this writing, tied with the USA and Germany for the most gold medals at the games…  It just so happens it’s a Canadian record Golds. 

Maybe Own the Podium really works.  Just not as expected.  We won’t end up with the most medals at these Olympics.  The United States has won that battle – Good for them.  It’s a record for the States at Winter Olympics from my understanding.  They owned the alpine sports like they’ve never done before.  But what Canada has been doing is uniting the country. 

Even before we began to really rack up medals, Canada was behind our athletes 100 percent, no matter what the results.

Yesterday was an extraordinary day for us.  4 medals including 2 speed skating and 2 bobsleigh medals.  A gold, 2 silver and a bronze for our flag carrier Clara Hughes.  On top of that, our Canadians destroyed Russia in a 7 to 3 win to eliminate them from men’s hockey medal contention.  And our Canadian men performed admirably during the 500 meter short track heats putting them into medal contention going into tomorrow’s quarter-finals, semi-finals and then finals.

Tonight we face at least one more medal in women’s hockey taking on the USA and a few other possibilities including medal opportunities in men’s aerials and a chance at a medal for Canadian Joannie Rochette in Figure Skating.

Go Canada Go!

Have you enjoyed any Canadian medal performances yet?  If not you could always hit up the internet to see replays of our Canadians achieve their dreams but I warn you, your heart might start to race, especially if you watch both our Canadians win medals in the snowboard cross.

Snowboard cross requires you to qualify as a single runner down a course of curves, humps and jumps.  If you qualify, you're moved into a series of quarterfinals where you race 3 other racers down the same track.  Only 2 out of 4 continue into the semi-finals.  Then you do the same in the semis and finally in the finals for the medals.  Mike Robertson pulled out a silver medal performance 2 days ago while holding the lead through most of the race and being passed in the final section.  And then yesterday Maële Ricker picked up a gold medal with a great run in Cypress down the same track that one Mike Robertson his silver.  But, there's a bigger story if you watched her qualification.  She fell in her first qualifying run and had to come up big in her second run.  She did just that finishing with the third best qualifying time overall.

Tonight, she'll be presented with her gold medal.  And, once again the Canadian National Anthem will thunder through BC Place.  It's something we never get tired of hearing!