COMPULSIVE DISORDER

i'm in the process of organizing, photographing and culling my collection of watches that has accumulated with clock-like predictability since age 9, when i was given a beautiful gold Elgin watch by one of my Mother's suitors at the time....the compulsion to collect watches, in particular, seems to come and go; and, I've never been successful at attributing any particular motivations for my compulsiveness....I write about it here, now, because this compulsion is very acute and out of control. It would save a lot of cash if I were just repeatedly flossing or pulling nose hairs.......two compulsions that I actually find distasteful and even more neurotic.....Watches are so organized......they do one thing....very well...and can be aesthetic at the same time......as the minutes pass into oblivion........

Le patinage artistique

i didn't expect Brian Joubert to perform well in vancouver.....nerves, i think....and, unfortunately, he did not.....i'm wondering if he will now retire from skating and become a Calvin underwear model or a French movie star, perhaps.......he's the smolderer.......he's the sex bomb! He had underestimated the talents that would assault his recent lack of discipline and bad-decision making..... He disregarded Didier Gailhaguet's recommendation that he move to the U.S. for superior training, since France is hardly famous for good coaching or training of Men's Single Skaters....He was offered Brian Orser AND Kurt Browning as coaches, but refused them both, because he didn't want to stray far from home......I believe that he would have been the Gold Medalist at this year's Olympics, had he taken the advice of wise counsel.... not to say that his weak transitions and incomplete revolutions of his triple jumps had nothing to do with it!