Recently, Good Me and Evil Me sat down for a discussion about the Olympics and America’s Golden Girl (TM) Lindsey Vonn. Here is a transcript of that discussion.
Lindsey Vonn, a fireplace, and Lindsey Vonn's ego.
GOOD ME: So, the Olympics! A lovely thing, the Olympics! I’ll never forget Shaun White making the birds jealous with his flights over Vancouver snow, or the Canadian figure skater who captured both the bronze medal and our hearts after the tragic death of her mother.
EVIL ME: For me, the Olympics were a lot of meh. Also, I’m curious. You say you’ll never forget, and yet you do not name the Canadian figure skater.
(awkward pause)
EVIL ME: Do you know her name?
GOOD ME: Of course! It’s Le-umm-uh-*cough* Roachette?
EVIL ME: Yeah, that’s what I thought. At least I know the name of the athlete who stuck out in MY mind – Lindsey With-An-E Vonn.
GOOD ME: Are you still on that?
EVIL ME: After she cost Mancuso a medal? Damn skippy!
GOOD ME: By crashing! You’re well named, Evil Me.
EVIL ME: Don’t wear it out. But you know my issue isn’t so much her costing Mancuso the medal as it is that I hate her. Like, a lot.
GOOD ME: *sigh* Please don’t use the word “hate.” It is an ugly word and you do not actually hate Lindsey Vonn. You DISLIKE her because NBC promo’d the holy heck out of her, and I ask you, is Lindsey Vonn in charge of NBC programming? I’ll answer on your behalf – no, she is not. It is not Lindsey Vonn’s fault that NBC decided to make her America’s Golden Girl (TM) and shoved her down our collective throats.
EVIL ME: Let me ask you this, Good Me, did you get the sense Lindsey minded too terribly much?
GOOD ME: How would I know what’s in her head?
EVIL ME: Your evasiveness shows nothing so much as agreement. Besides, I think we all know where Lindsey Vonn’s head’s at ever since the prom thing.
GOOD ME: You and the prom thing.
EVIL ME: She said TWICE, WHILE CRYING, that she’d missed out on so much and the only specific thing she could name was her PROM. HER PROM, DUDE. I mean, c’mon. Could I give up my prom in exchange for becoming the champion of the universe downhill skier? BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE AWESOME.
GOOD ME: I can’t talk to you when you get all cappy and ragey like this.
EVIL ME: And even you, Good Me, must accede the point that the crying was ridiculous. Her own husband/trainer/guy had to say to her, STOP CRYING. In all caps, on national television, he had to say to her, STOP CRYING. I wish Simon Cowell had been there to call her performance, “indulgent.”
GOOD ME: She just won a gold medal! Emotion is to be expected!
EVIL ME: But let us not forget that the immortal Heidi Klum had the last word on crying: “Maybe at night, alone, into your pillow.” Just because the Germans made a good faith effort at genocide doesn’t mean we can’t acknowledge their rightness on the topics of beer, pastries, and crying.
GOOD ME: Oh come on! The poor girl gets injured, she has so much pressure on her as the huge favorite, OF COURSE she’s going to cry, from sheer relief if nothing else.
EVIL ME: Yeah, but she CRIED and CRIED and CRIED… it went on FOREVER. Also, a bruised shin? I’ve played through worse.
GOOD ME: We’re not even going there, Evil Me. On another note altogether, do you not concede that the woman is a phenomenal athlete?
EVIL ME: I won’t argue the point.
GOOD ME: And you love dominant, powerful female athletes!
EVIL ME: This is true.
GOOD ME: So what’s your deal? Lindsey Vonn is the most dominant US female downhill skier ever. You should love that.
EVIL ME: I think it’s just the fact everybody keeps insisting she’s so beautiful.
GOOD ME: Are you going to try to tell me she’s not attractive?
EVIL ME: Eh. She’s fit, she has beautiful hair, and a reasonably symmetrical face. Ergo, the world reads her as attractive. But give her five years on a couch eating chips and put her in Cameron Diaz’s wig from Being John Malkovich and then get back to me.
GOOD ME: Wow.
EVIL ME: I’m just saying, I think the locus of her beauty is her hair. If Julie Mancuso snuck into her Olympic dorm room in the middle of the night and shaved her head, it’d be Britney 2.0. And you know my theory about true beauty.
GOOD ME: (quoting) “A beautiful woman is beautiful even if she’s bald. See, Portman, Natalie.”
EVIL ME: Awww! You do listen to me sometimes!
GOOD ME: It’s impossible to avoid.
Love the Good Me / Evil Me Socratic Dialogue. Similar to the chatter I often have running through my head, except mine is Smart Me / Dumb Me, unfortunately.
I’m with Evil Carrie. I didn’t go to my prom and 20 years later I still have no regrets. And who gives a crap whether or not Olympic athletes are beautiful? I think NBC hyped her up so much so it would look like Jay Leno had a great lineup his first week back. He has such amazing talent as Matthew McConaughey his first week. Wow. And what has he done lately? Besides wearing a shirt which is big news for him. People need to stop idolizing celebrities. It’s lame.