The Lee Word Side

I have throughly been enjoying this year’s US Open. Some outstanding tennis has been played and all of my favorites are still in the tournament; Rafa Nadal, Roger Federer, and Andy Roddick. Also doing well are my favorite twins, the Bryan Brothers. However, I’m disappointed because CBS has yet to show any of their matches on TV. Doubles tennis has never held the same stature as singles tennis has, but most people who play tennis (non professionally), play doubles and it would be nice to see a few doubles matches on TV. Come on CBS!

Rafa Nadal is on fire. He has yet to loose a set. He just over-powers his opponents and he can run down a ball better than anyone I’ve ever seen. He fights for each point like it was match point. He’s been wearing this redish/orangish colored outfit this year and he looks HOT! Hands-down the best ass in tennis.

Roger Federer, now the number two ranked player in the world, still plays like he’s number one. Although Federer came into the Open seeded number two, he’s won the Men’s Singles Title at the US Open for the last four years and he can’t be ignored as an honest contender. Roger plays some of the most solid tennis in the game.

Andy Roddick is still fighting for each point, but he’s beginning to look like the Andy who won the US Open in 2003. He’s playing strong, and his serve is as fast as ever. He’s had a couple of rough matches so far, but he’s hung in there and he’s ready to go all the way. Go Andy!

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You can add Olympic Gold Medal to the list of trophies that Rafael Nadal has won. Nadal won the gold in the men’s singles with a 6-3, 7-6(2), 6-3 victory over Fernando Gonzalez of Chile at the Olympic Green Tennis Centre in Beijing. This win only supports the legitimacy of his rise to the number one ranked player in the world. Nadal will be replacing Roger Federer of Switzerland who held the number one position for an unprecedented 237 weeks.
Nadal’s win has given Spain her first ever Olympic Medal in Tennis.

Venus and Serena Williams took the Gold Medal in Women’s Doubles, adding one more to the Gold Medal they won in Sydney eight years ago. Their enthusiasm over their winning the Gold Medal was truly infectious.
Coming up next, beginning August 25th, the US Open begins in New York. I’m sure looking forward to seeing more top notch tennis (Go Andy). I only wish I could be there.

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Never intending to get hooked into watching the Beijing Summer Olympics I none the less succumbed to their promise of greatness and watched the Opening Ceremonies. If the games acquire any amount of the grandeur that the Opening Ceremonies gave us then this Olympics should be a tremendous success. Because there will be over 3,600 hours of televised coverage of the Olympics–NBC added two new cable channels that will be dedicated solely to the Olympics, I won’t be able to see it all, but I have set my TIVO to record all the Tennis matches, and the Marathon. That should be more than enough Olympics for me.

This is one of the many pictures that were taken during the Opening Ceremonies. I thought this picture was one of the exceptional ones. Don’t you agree? Who can tell me which country this beautiful man represents? Does anyone know?

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Regardless of what the relative temperature is outside, as long as model/DJ Micky Friedmann is in the house it’s going to be HOT!

While summer has never been the best time for television, with all the reruns and such, this summer has seen it hit a new low. It’s the Television doldrums. The one program that I’ve looked forward to, and religiously watched is Big Brother. But it has managed to put out a program this season that is actually worse than last season’s. I managed to get through two episodes this time before I deleted it from my TIVO to-do-list. If the producers would get people on there that I could care about, someone that I wanted to watch, then I might consider watching it again. However, I seriously doubt that’s going to happen. They seem hellbent on having vapid, ignorant, emotionally immature, and mean spirited kids as house-guests. Season six was the last Big Brother that I liked. I think CBS needs to get Arnold Shapiro back as producer. Moving on to BRAVO and Project Runway. This is another program that I’ve loved and never fail to watch. However, since Project Runway’s announcement that it’s leaving BRAVO and moving to Lifetime TV next season, it seems that BRAVO is treating it like the ugly stepsister. They’re not promoting the show as much as they have in the past, and there is a feeling of “whatever, they’re gone anyway,” floating in the air. I had hoped that the program would get a proper send off from BRAVO, but there is too much bitterness and animosity for that to happen. I wish Project Runway well in their move to Lifetime. I haven’t decided if I’ll follow them. I’ve never cared for the kind of programing that Lifetime provides. Depressing and self-loathing shows that drive me batty and make me want to kill myself. Not a fun place.
So what does that leave to watch this summer. Not much, but I’m taking advantage of that and doing a lot of reading. “And that,” as Martha Stewart would say, “is a good thing.”

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Here it is, the third week in July, the summer is half over and my skin is still as white as a freshly laundered sheet. I’m afraid to wear shorts out of fear that my bare legs will blind people, not to mention the roar of laughter they would bring. For a million different reasons I just haven’t had the time to get outside and enjoy the sunshine. I may have to resort to using a tanning salon because I’ve been invited to go to Ocean City (Maryland) next weekend and I don’t think there’s enough time to get a little color naturally. If I don’t have some degree of a tan before I hit the beach I’m going to be in big trouble. Talk about a lobster, I’ll burn faster than you can say “SPF-50.” Besides, red isn’t a good color on me. I guess an alternative to the tanning salon and all that sun cancer mess would be to cover every inch of skin with clothing. A burka would do nicely, not a black one though, a bit too warm. Do they come in white? Better yet, a rainbow colored one would really stand out.

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Woke up this morning, forgot I was gay. That was until I found this picture in an email. I can’t tell you how glad I am that that’s all cleared up..phew!

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Day three and I’m still resisting the new iPhone. I’m doing quite well actually. I’m not twitching as much, and the headaches have almost stopped. I may be able to pull this off. What really helped was hearing about the meltdown that happened on Friday when AT&T ran out of phones, and both Apple and AT&T’s server couldn’t keep up with all the activations. I can just imagine Steve Jobs cursing the day he partnered with AT&T. So unlike Apple to have a product release event that goes so fucking bad. It will be interesting to see how they clean this mess up.
If I can make it through next week I think I’ll be okay.

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With the new iPhone coming out tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. I’ll be facing a tough question. Do I replace my first generation iPhone with the new 3G iPhone, or do I keep the old reliable one? Funny how I was in this same dilemma last year at this time when the iPhones were first introduced - do I get it, do I not? Not a lot has changed. If the reasons to get the new 3G iPhone were compelling enough I wouldn’t be having these doubts, but from everything I have read the big selling point is the upgrade from AT&T’s old Edge network to their 3G network. It’s faster, but is it $10.00 a month more faster? The old iPhones will get the 2.0 upgraded software and will also be able to load-up on all the new third-party applications that are now available. So why am I even entertaining the idea of getting a new iPhone? The old one is still good. Maybe it’s because its a new toy and I do love new toys.

What will tomorrow bring?

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