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That feeling of oppression, smog, and soy sauce in the air can only mean one thing; the Beijing Olympics are underway.

Last night we made up for our dumb-assedness last week and caught episode 2 of Douglas Coupland's , and damn if that weren't a strange beast. Coupland's surreal, self-referential, novelistic discourse on globalism has been transformed into an odd-ball, dry-humored, dramedy miniseries that's strangely addictive.

So, we were total boneheads: the TV debut we've been awaiting for months rolls around, and what are we doing at 9 pm Monday night? Having an evening constitutional. My God, what have we become?

Admission: We don't know shit about graphic novels (we were more baseball cards than comic books in our day)

SPORTS OBSESSION: Any longtime Seattlest reader knows that we can't get enough of curling, whether it's watching on the CBC or playing ourselves at Seattle's Granite Curling Club, the only dedicated curling facility on the West Coast. Our obsession is often met with odd looks, but a curling open house is honestly one of the best ways going to spend your time/money.

If you're watching the Olympics we sincerely hope you're at least tuning in to the CBC and not NBC. We accidentally saw some of the men's halfpipe competition on the Costas chanel and it was, like, so rad. The camera angles were so funky fresh that it was impossible to get any sense of how a competitor was actually riding. Ok, most people don't know what a good ice dancing routine looks like either, but you don't film them with an under-ice cam do you? We're willing to bet more viewers are knowledgable about the finer points of snowboarding than they are about ice dancing. It's the Olympics, not a bunch of bras hitting a kicker in the back country and filming each other puking and bouncing off rocks. Please, NBC, leave the camera theatrics to the videos. Alternately, please do something, anything, to make ice dancing watchable. If you have to show entire routines via so-and-so's skate-cam, we're down.

What draws Seattlest to the sport of curling? Maybe its that movie we once saw on the CBC where Leslie Neilson plays a psilocybin-munching curling guru. Maybe it's the similarity to the shuffleboard we enjoy so much at the Eastlake Zoo Tavern (if we can wrestle the table away from the frat-set). Perhaps it's the mysterious fume de Canada that surrounds it? Who knows? Who cares? We just love it, despite the fact that we've never played it.

The NHL season has been scrapped, nearly saved and scrapped again and four of Seattle's five hockey fans haven't even noticed because the Thunderbirds have been playing on schedule. That last fan, though, has been having a rough go of it. How many times is he going to flip the televison to CBC in hopes of catching any hockey at all? And how many times will he be confronted with the curling Tournament of Hearts on CBC?

Once upon a time lumberjacks and timber money ruled Seattle. Today a flannel paired with an axe or saw are likely to get you chased down the street under a steady rain of mochas and biscotti.