Thursday 29 January 2009

Hockey and TV

Yesterday evening, we went to a hockey match.
Ice hockey.
The Vancouver Canucks played like shit, and that's the official opinion, not just mine. But I was totally impressed by the efficient way a huge sea of people were moved from the stadium onto the skytrain station and then onwards. I was also impressed by how good-humoured the fans were. Me, I was cranky, prickly, tired and had a pain in my stomach - well, to be fair, I had eaten too much during the game.

Today was the first of the winter programmes at work. As the class arrived, a dad was on one knee with a professional-looking camera taking pics of everything - and he carried on doing the same. So neither of us noticed when the camera got bigger and had a light on it...and in fact we didn't notice that it wasn't the same chap at all, and in fact, that the camera was a TV camera.
So, elbow-deep in small children and plaster animal footprints, with our most manic smiles, we could be on TV next week, fortunately on a channel no-one watches.

Oh, and the funniest item on the morning news today was this, apparently already going viral on YouTube.

3 comments:

Sleepy said...

You? Watching some sort of sport?
It does not compute!
You are obviously possessed by an ironic demon!

Schneewittchen said...

I know! But fear not, my eyes were (barely) open, but my brain wasn't engaged.
Also, North American sports aren't really like sport as you know it, they only play for a few minutes and then some alternative entertainment happens, (fortunately, not cheerleading), I do wonder whether North American audiences could even cope with a whole football match.

Sleepy said...

Just seen first episode of new Boston Legal!
Splendid!