{"id":8457,"date":"2012-08-29T03:02:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T07:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=8457"},"modified":"2012-08-29T03:02:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T07:02:48","slug":"sportskarens-musings-one-final-final-olympics-musing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/sportskarens-musings-one-final-final-olympics-musing\/","title":{"rendered":"SPORTS\/KAREN'S MUSINGS: ONE FINAL FINAL OLYMPICS MUSING"},"content":{"rendered":"

ONE FINAL <\/em>FINAL OLYMPICS MUSING<\/h1>\n

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Okay, I lied when I used the word \u201cfinal\u201d in the title of what I thought last week was my last column on this summer’s Olympics. But by accident, not on purpose. I really thought that I had written my last thought on the topic.<\/p>\n

But one more thing occurred to me, (especially with my mind on even more sports now because of the US Open,) and I just had to share it.<\/p>\n

I considered sneaking it into that former<\/em> \u201cfinal\u201d column about the Olympics, but it was already published and I felt that that would somehow be cheating. (You can read that last one here if you missed it: www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/2012\/08\/20\/sportskarens-rants-final-thoughts-on-the-2012-olympics<\/a>) Whom it would be cheating I’m not sure, but perhaps the readers who already read that last rant before I would have entered this new information.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So, here it is, my final<\/em> final thought on this years’ Olympics. It’s on the inane closing ceremony. Ready?:<\/p>\n

It was so bad, (how bad, you ask?,) that I was actually thrilled to see Russell Brand arrive! Seriously. That’s a feeling I had never before experienced. (And now Katy Perry feels like I always do.)<\/p>\n

The producers of the closing show kept having non-stars show up to perform the hits of other people. (Like some red-headed dude singing The Who’s songs.) So, when I heard the first strains of Pure Imagination<\/em>, from my beloved Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory<\/em>, I was wondering why they would have American Gene Wilder in the show. And, I knew it wasn’t Gene’s heartwarming voice.<\/p>\n

So, we assumed it was yet another anonymous booking. I jokingly said to Mr. X, \u201cIt’s Russell Brand,\u201d because we always say that someone is someone famous when they look a little like them. (It’s a better routine in person than in print, I promise.) And then, lo and behold, it was Russell Brand! And our waning interest slightly picked-up.<\/p>\n

So, there you have it; nothing earth-shattering, and definitely not a note worthy of it’s own column. But I just had to get this thought in somehow, or it would have bothered me in perpetuity.<\/p>\n

The End.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ONE FINAL FINAL OLYMPICS MUSING   Okay, I lied when I used the word \u201cfinal\u201d in the title of what I thought last week was my last column on this summer’s Olympics. But by accident, not on purpose. I really thought that I had written my last thought on the topic. But one more thing<\/p>\n

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