It has been a long couple of weeks, during which I have discovered that I am ostensibly enough of an adult that people want to do things like grant me a home loan and hire me for paid work, despite the fact that my hair is three different colors on my driver’s license, my passport, and… Continue reading Slightly Unhinged Notes from the World Team Trophy Men’s Short Program
Category: Recaps
4 Things I Learned from the 2017 World Figure Skating Championships
Now that I’ve had some time to sober up and do all the work I set aside so I could wake up at 2:00 AM and watch people fall on their twizzles, I have some thoughts on Worlds. Too much happened for a play-by-play, and two weeks after the fact, it makes more sense to look… Continue reading 4 Things I Learned from the 2017 World Figure Skating Championships
2017 Junior Worlds Men’s Recap: Pretty Sure I Dreamed This
If anyone was hoping I would live tweet the World Junior Championships men’s event, I’m sorry to have abandoned Twitter. But none of the men’s competition occurred at a reasonable hour, and I was already tired from full days of work before and after. To avoid publicly airing any inappropriate remarks about 16-year-old boys (or… Continue reading 2017 Junior Worlds Men’s Recap: Pretty Sure I Dreamed This
2017 Asian Winter Games Recap: Triumph of the Improv Quad
It is lovely to finally have time to write about figure skating. In terms of relevant blogging, I missed the window on the European and Four Continents Championships, although I watched both and had very strong opinions at the time, most of which have been swept out of my memory in a mixture of mounting… Continue reading 2017 Asian Winter Games Recap: Triumph of the Improv Quad
6 More Things I Learned from the 2017 US National Figure Skating Championships
What’s a blogger to do when she wants to say everything about Nationals? Someone with more restraint – or an editor – might just skip stuff, but skating fans hate it when you skip stuff. As it does almost every year, NBC blacked out the live performances of a number of ladies and ice dancers in the… Continue reading 6 More Things I Learned from the 2017 US National Figure Skating Championships
5 Things I Learned from the 2017 US National Figure Skating Championships
Another U.S. Nationals is in the books, and as usual, I have a lot of opinions. So many opinions, in fact, that this is going to be a multi-part post. It’s not the only Nationals I have strong feelings about – I got out several thousand words on the Russian men a few weeks ago –… Continue reading 5 Things I Learned from the 2017 US National Figure Skating Championships
Russian Nationals Men’s Recap: The Great Chelyabinsk Splatfest of 2016
The men were a hot mess at Russian Nationals, which makes for fun viewing in the moment but lingering worry in the long run.