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rosie o'donnell strikes a blow for racist lesbian visibility

celebrity satan justly goes off on rosie o'donnell's racist slander of the chinese language (and therefore chinese people) here and here.  and for the record, even if what she said were funny, and it's so not, that wouldn't make it okay.  personally, i don't think celebrities are being any more racially slanderous than certain one's always have been.  it's just people are standing up to it more, and it's ending up on video.

though in the case of racist slander against chinese people, celebrity satan makes the accurate point that it doesn't get a fair level of coverage even when people do stand up to it.  why is this reminding me of the anti chinese-american headline when u.s. skater tara lipinski won the gold to u.s. skater michelle kwan's silver at the 1998 olympics - "american beats kwan".

aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!

i just wanna fuckin' dance.  which is true because if i don't take dancing lessons again (it's been years) i will burst.  i knew i watched dancing with the stars for a reason besides being jealous of stacy keibler's legs, if i were a girl that is, which maybe i am. i really have no idea. anyway, i'm going to take beginning ballet because among jazz, modern and ballet, all of which i've taken a bit of, ballet was my favorite. except for the moment in modern where the instructor told us to dance our names. so it's beginning ballet for me. i mean fuckin' beginning ballet.

#13 and #6 are my favorites.

so if sandra bernhard died in ghana i guess she'd be buried in a custom made ghanian coffin shaped like either irony or love.

oh, and aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! go sasha, kimmie and now emily i guess. i'll get over it and be cheering when it's time for them to go on. for now, i feel like tonya harding nailed me with a hubcap to the neck and got acquitted by reason of the jury was afraid of her.

michelle kwan and al parker - together in a blog post for the very first time (probably)

i can stop holding my breath because michelle kwan has been named to the u.s olympic team. after being unable to compete in nationals due to injury, she had to perform her short and long programs for a special panel (as had nancy kerrigan in '94) and they thankfully determined she's olympics ready. so now the olympics can officially happen, because i don't know what we were going to do without her. after all, she's already in all the promos. that said, i hate the nationalism of the olympics. i seriously root for everyone to do their best and i hate the "go usa!" coverage. isn't it supposed to be a way for nations to gather in a peaceful (albeit competitive) community spirit? instead nbc fills the airwaves with profiles of u.s. athletes instead of showing non-u.s. athlete's performances and acts like it's all about medal count. oh and i just remembered my two most hated words every olympics - bob costas. his sincerity makes me sick. i say get kathy griffin to host everything. 2 hours 55 minutes a night of clay "gaiken" jokes with 5 minutes of "so and so won...so and so won...now back to gaiken!"

wherefore art thou michelle kwan?

i'm still reeling from the news that michelle kwan has withdrawn from the national figure skating championships due to a nagging injury. though she's petitioning for one of the 3 spots on the olympic team as is her right, even if she gets selected she still would only be able to compete if she were healthy. it's not about her winning gold, though i know she thrives on competition. she's a 9 time u.s. champion, 5 time world champion and 2 time olympic medalist (silver and bronze). she doesn't need any more metal and ribbon. she does need competition to help bring out her best.

it's about her sheer artistry transcending the crass commercialism of the games. her beauty and power and line superseding the infuriating soft focus music video featurettes and incessant breaks in the action that are nbc's unfortunate olympic calling cards. and making irrelevant the generally annoying skating commentators. her daring performance of bolero at last year's nationals showcased her artistic bravado. i have never seen anyone do a solo performance to bolero. it's already sacred in the ice skating world thanks to torville and dean's 6.0 tour de force ice dance gold medal winning performance in '84, but to do it again and do it as a solo - incredible. her bolero was choreographed by christopher dean so it was an important moment for him as well.