Fuck it, I'll pull a Bodie.

I hate to waste precious bandwidth, not to mention cognitive capacity on that piece of shit skier Bodie Miller, but his grand 0-5 in the Torino Olympics is too tempting to keep me from commenting. First of all, why all the attention paid to this clown? I guess a scruffy beard and tales of drunkeness sell magazines. However, it isn't so much what Bodie said as how his words served as a perfect excuse for a lack of talent or lack of self-confidence. Anyone heard of self-handicapping? Here it goes: you know you have a big exam tomorrow, so you go out and drink yourself into a stupor so that if you fail the exam the next day, you have a perfect excuse--I got trashed last night. Guess what Bodie, you're transparent. You're all hype and you behave in ways that dovetail nicely with your lack of talent. Oh, and by the way, the self-handicapping bullshit only lasts so long. I can't remember the last time I got trashed so that I could have an excuse as to why I fucked up a conference presentation, or a lecture, or something far more important than downhill skiing.