View the gallery World's have arrived AT LAST! As ever, I apologize for the relative tardiness of this post. I feel like the world figure-skating community could be more respectful of all the things I have going on, frankly! But here we are. As ever, I welcome
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View the gallery SKATING! First, a programming note: For some reason, Getty only had photos of some of these looks from the Grand Prixe Finals, and not Nationals, so I just used those, as the ensembles are the same. But if you happen to spy Japanese signage, that's
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View the gallery My personal confession is that I hardly ever watch the gala skates. Are you BATTLING FOR DOMINANCE? Then I don't care. (Also, I hate skating to music with vocals, which means my life is going to become very difficult, as rumor has it they'
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View the gallery At last! The so-called marquee event of the Olympics, as full of DRAMA and FALLS and TIGHTS MALFUNCTIONS and SUSPICIONS OF RIGGING. Did you want to talk about the pairs? We can do that. Do you have a burning desire to weigh in on the drama
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View the gallery In which you will see both the medalists, and a variety of people that I felt you needed to witness in order to live a full and complete life. We've already covered the pairs, and the men's competition, and all the Americans were
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View the gallery In which I say aloud to the TV, "BRIAN JOUBERT IS STILL ALIVE?!" As I mentioned in my post about the pairs, I got tired of waiting to bring you SKATING SKATING SKATING, so we're breaking this out into a whole bunch of
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View the gallery There is SO much skating to cover, that I just decided to break it into separate posts, and while we traditionally cover all the skating in one giant fell swoop after it's all over, I couldn't wait to get started, and I didn&
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View the gallery First of all, thank you so much for your patience in waiting for this post. We were traveling, and then I got run over by the Globes/Critics Choice Awards/SAGs train BUT I AM BACK and we have a LOT of falling down, illusion netting, and
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View the gallery This might be THE LONGEST POST IN THE WORLD. But the thing is, SO MANY PEOPLE brought it in terms of their wacky/amazing skating get-ups this year, especially -- no surprise -- the ice dancers, and I wanted to bring as many to you as I can.
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View the gallery We have a LOT to talk about with regards to the American chances at Worlds and next year's Olympics, you guys. I'm not too worried about the women or the ice dancers at the moment, but when Evan Lysacek is talking about his
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View the gallery YAY! Time to forget about awards seasons and TV shows for the time being, and focus on what's really important: all the cracked out stuff everyone wore at the US National Figure Skating Championships this weekend. Note: we miss Johnny Weir. We miss him so
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View the gallery Looking for coverage of the ladies and pairs? Find it here! And now, onto the dudes and the ice dancers!
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View the gallery FINALLY all that pesky SAGs coverage is over, and I can focus on figure-skating -- nine of hours of which I had languishing on my DVR for far too long this week. This would normally be the part where I wonder, dramatically and with many many CAPS,
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