Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Wow, aurelia. Will you get paid? What happened?
Escalators are death machines. I hateses them. When I worked at JC Penney some children were horsing around and got a finger stuck, and it was a bloodbath. Also an employee got her skirt stuck, and that was a scary couple of seconds, but she ripped her skirt out.
I was wrong. Wikipedia lists several others. A bunch of them came out publicly years after they'd retired from skating, and they'd never been hugely famous to begin with (like, Olympic bronze or something pretty cool like that, but not really a media favorite so didn't get much attention), so it wasn't really big headlines when they came out. [link]
Out of all those people, I only recognize Randy Gardner, Brian Boitano, and Johnny Weir.
So I'm designing this show; spent 10 hours on Mon hanging and focusing; spent the last two days in tech (all outside of the day job) and a couple of hours ago I got a call telling me that the show is cancelled. I have to go strike everything today.
Oof, that sucks. I'm sorry.
Yikes, aurelia. That sucks for all involved.
Both of my officemates have left for the year! Party at my place!!
...OK, maybe not.
Out of all those people, I only recognize Randy Gardner, Brian Boitano, and Johnny Weir.
The only other ones that I'd expect people who aren't skating geeks to maybe recognize are John Curry (1976 Olympic champion) and Brian Orser (the other half of the Battle of the Brians.)
With one exception, everyone on the list is American, Canadian, or British. The one exception is Ondrej Nepala, and it seems like he never really spoke about being gay publicly, but Toller Cranston revealed it in his autobiography.
Wow, aurelia. Will you get paid? What happened?
That was my first question. Yes I'll be paid.
I watched a documentary about escalators getting built and they didn't show the installation of the monster but I'm still pretty sure.
It's a monster. It shies from the limelight.
Boitano said for years that it was nobody's business and had nothing to do with skating.
Seeing as how I was miffed when a person I work with got overly questioning about whether I was married, ever been married or had kids, I kinda understand how it's shouldn't be a question you *have* to answer because of your job.
But I am glad he's stated it publicly given Sochi.
Out of all those people, I only recognize Randy Gardner, Brian Boitano, and Johnny Weir.
Do we have to keep Johnny Weir?
Rudy Galindo was a perpetual almost-but-not-quite-medalist from about 1988 to 1996. He was always just a fun skater to watch. Then, in case anyone had any doubt about his sexuality, started doing this routine to a Village People medley in pro tours. [link]