I'm a joker, I'm a smoker, I'm a midnight suicide at the Olympics

Still awaiting Canadian authorities to provide details on the autopsy, but it’s official. More tragedy and heartache at the Winter games.

Another former Joker; Andrew Koening, like Heath Ledger before him, discovered dead.

One was a suicide contemplated while ‘sitting on a park bench’ (sorry, another Aqualung reference) in Stanley Park in Vancouver. Andy was sitting in the city garden a little after midnight waiting for the sun, when his emotions overtook him. In the case of that other joker; Heath Ledger, it was an ill-timed overdose. Wasn’t exactly executed in true rock star or Hollywood fashion, didn’t involve a sex worker, but it was a ‘masseuse’ that discovered his body the next morning nevertheless. 

This was hopefully the last tragedy in Vancouver, which began with a Luger's broken back, on a mountain of sorrow.

Livening up the macabre mood a bit. The Canadian woman’s hockey team stirred up a bit of conversation with their on ice celebration after winning the gold. Captain Hayley Wickenheiser dismissed the underage drinking of 18-year old Marie-Philip Poulin, the center who scored both goals, in the 2-0 defeat of the United States.

‘Trust me, there's a lot worse things that go on at the Olympics than this. Everybody just take a deep breath and just chill out. It's not a big deal."


Champagne, cigars, and under-age drinkin’, what’s not to like?

Still, the fallout continues. The last time I remember anyone getting this riled up over woman’s sports was when Brandi Chastain stripped off her jersey at the 1996 Olympics in celebration. In doing so, she revealed a black sports bra that had everyone talking about the US Soccer team for months to follow, albeit for all of the wrong reasons.

Both sports had been going through their own respective ‘Growing Pains’ at the time of these incidents. Who knows, maybe there will be a renewed enthusiasm for woman’s hockey as a result? Wonder what Boner would have had to say? Maybe we can get a some celestial guidance, or at least a statement from Chekov? 

Expert, textpert, choking smokers,
Don’t you think the joker laughs at you?

See how they smile like pigs in sty,
See how they snide.

The Americen woman lost...
...and I’m crying