Recent content by Former Lurve Goddess

According to her Instagram, investigative reporter Robyn Doolittle (a former figure skater) is going to be covering the figure skating and speed skating events in Milan for the Globe and Mail. In that Doolittle wrote a book about how the Canadian police (mis)handle sexual assault cases, it would...

"Skate Canada continuously redirects questions to Skate-Safe, while Skate-Safe defers responsibility back to Skate Canada." Ah, the good old Catch-22.:(

There are some screenshots being shared on various platforms of Geary and Reiner in a scene from an early episode of All in the Family.

Toronto arts journalist Sue Carter who has a romcom blog has a nice piece about one of Reiner's most iconic films. Rob and Nora and Harry and Sally Mourning loss while celebrating the birth of a rom-com masterpiece.

I wish the media articles about dance judging focused on the issues with the how the dance rules are written and how problematic they are in terms of what kinds of skills they prioritize, rather than focus on which big named teams are apparently being "robbed." The fact that an ID team can earn...

Receipts? They brought the quarterly balance sheets.:D

What seems to happen when it comes to ice dancers and speaking out is that it’s often done in self serving and not at all constructive ways. Plus skaters and their coaches often believe in all kinds of ridiculous conspiracy theories when it comes to judging. Some of this is the ISU’s fault for...

Pasha and her aunt! ETA: I'm not looking forward to the bad/inaccurate media reporting that's going to arise in advance of the Olympic dance event. Because usually the media just doesn't know enough about the sport and how it's judged to properly discuss possible issues around levels, GOEs, etc.

Ugh, I think it's fine and worthwhile for the ice dancers to speak up about problematic rules and inconsistent judging/technical calling in general. But making it personal with the "we wuz robbed" and the other teams sucks" and "so & so has :bribe: the judges" is bad sportsmanship and...

Well, we’re almost up to 1,500 posts so opportunity is knocking.:)

Zach would make an awesome Michael Corleone! This. Also, dump "a sliding element" or "a character step sequence" as possible choreo element choices.

Seems to me that there are a whole pile of different things happening in ID at the same time: crap rules that favour vibes and crowd pleasing but not necessarily difficult elements, RDs without patterns or actual rhythms, several top teams who may have stayed in the game a couple of years past...

I wondered if one or both of them was sick/injured.

FYI - I'm 99.99% confident you can say "cunniliftus" on your own show. ;)

It seems to me that it doesn't make sense to review the Finlandia judging/calling without comparing the data from the other 5 grand prix events. But the ISU rarely makes sense, so...