Various & Sundry for the Weekend

August 16, 2008 in Media, Missoula, Various & Sundry

by jhwygirl

Imagine this as your Saturday morning wake-up. Thank goodness for shotguns and rifles, no?

Performing arts center financial shortfall porn. 5-stars, baby..5-stars.

If you missed the news yesterday – it was everywhere – Bigfoot was found. The details, though, appear to be lacking. The discoverers claim to have found a whole den of them.

Michael Phelps eeked out (by .01 seconds last night) his 7th Olympic gold medal. He’s now tied Mark Spitz’s record for medals in a single Olympics. The pressure’s on for tonight’s 100m team relay, Phelps’ final race for this Olympics. If my time calculation is correct, that’s scheduled for sometime between 8-9 p.m., MST (10 – 11:20 Bejing).

The U.S. Women’s Gymnastics Team is blowing away China, amid charges that several on China’s ‘women’s’ team are kids. You have to be at least 16 to compete at the Olympics. One of them, I swear, can’t be more than 10.

The U.S., BTW, leads in overall gold medals, besting China by 7 right now.

It seems every couple years someone finds a big ol’ whopping diamond down there in Arkansas. Consider this one of those years. 4.2 carats, 30 minutes – not bad, huh?

Waterboarding as entertainment. Sort of.