Wednesday August 25, 2004

The Only Way to Lose is to Play

I love DFL (i.e. “Dead Fucking Last”) — a blog dedicated to tracking last places finishes at the Olympics — for so many reasons. There’s its obsessiveness, its philosophy and, of course, its exclusive ranking of last place finishes by country. (China is, um, winning?) It’s a good corrective to all the kvetching about unstuck landings that follow triple somersaults with one and a half twists. I’m lucky if I stick the landing getting out of bed in the morning. As blogger Jonathan Crowe says of his gallery of so-called losers: “Most of us couldn’t even come close to doing what they just did.”

(via New Yorkish.)