I really enjoyed this year's Olympics. It's weird that it ends today. I just watched the U.S. superstar basketball team win the gold medal, a game with Spain that was within 2 points in the 4th quarter. The winners were so happy, it was nice to see. These multimillionnaire superstars, Kobe Bryant & Co., smiling so big, jumping around like kids, calling it the highlight of their lives.

The one event I though was the worst was boxing. I saw a Chinese boxer against a Cuban, and the judges kept awarding the Chinese boxer points and ignoring everything the Cuban did. It was gross cheating. The Cuban scored such a clean shot to the face early in the fight and it was just ignored because the match was very close, maybe 1-0 at the time. Soon the Chinese fighter was ahead 8-0. If the Cuban had scored so cleanly at that point, maybe the judges would have made it 8-1, but they weren't taking any chances when it was close. It was just a really stupid and fixed exhibition.

I liked the women's high diving. Sometimes I could tell which dives were good and which weren't. I just watched how vertical they were when they entered the water. I'd be afraid to fall from such a great height so in order for me to do high diving I'd have to learn it gradually, starting from a very low dive and then raising it just a bit, just a bit more, until I was comfortable at a greater height.

I don't know what it is, but I can watch Olympic basketball or ice hockey in winter and get really into it, but I can't watch those sports in the NBA or NHL, they bore the shit out of me.

I watched a few foot races, a few boat races. I watched horses prancing around a bit, with one balking and refusing to compete. I watched some water polo, which I couldn't relate to at all. You are so hampered, having to be in water up to your neck, and then you have to throw a ball into a net like in hockey. It just seems like a lot of trouble.

I didn't get to see any judo. I probably would have liked that. I see that a Japanese heavyweight won the gold, named Ishi or something. Watch for him in MMA. There's an easy transition from Olympic judo to MMA. There's also an easy transition from Greco Roman wrestling to MMA. I didn't see any of that either.

I liked beach volleyball and regular volleyball. I took it in college. Someone suggested that next summer Olympics will include MMA but I don't believe it. MMA is too violent for the Olympics. They pussify boxing with the headgear and the stupid points system, so you can imagine what they would have to do to MMA to make it palatable for the Olympics. They'd have to castrate it first.

I watched the marathon. Don't remember what else. Sometimes the sports seemed too boring to watch, sometimes they grabbed me. People I spoke to at work trashed the Olympics. They said it is a lot of boring sports and they put down the U.S. basketball team, like they ruin the Olympics because it is supposed to be amateur. I don't think the Olympics should be amateur. I think it should be the best in the world. Fuck amateur. Who wants to watch amateur? I don't. I don't even watch college football because they all suck compared to what I'm used to, the NFL. The best college football teams suck compared to pros, and it's obvious, and I don't know why I'm watching these Minor Leaguers, and I turn it off.

Four hundred years ago when I was a teenager in summer camp, my camp held an Olympics, things like running around the bases of the baseball field, throwing a softball as far as you could, running around the whole baseball field, I forgot what else. I won every single gold medal. That was fun. Best athlete in the camp. But I wasn't good enough to play on a college team or anything. The camp was just a bunch of kids, cross section of kids, no big deal.