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Despite the fact there are 7 trillion blogs out there worth reading, I usually don't have the time to follow any blogs regularly. I do read MonkeyFilter fairly religiously, but that's more of a group thing rather than one person's blog.

Well, a couple weeks back I found a blog worth reading--but it's got an expiration date. It's a Winter Olympics weblog by Dan Steinberg of The Washington Post. It won't be around much longer, so I'm enjoying it while it lasts.

Steinberg is a sportswriter for The Washington Post and he's been assigned to Turin/Torino to write about the Olympics in Italy. Now you'd think an Olympic blog would be slightly on the dull side, but Steinberg has been blogging about cheese, fellow sportswriter Mike Wise, chef Roberto Donna, Italian bus service, lack of proper hygiene, George Washington University basketball, and occasionally actual sporting events--namely curling.

Curling, you say? Yeah, curling. Much like Steinberg, I don't quite understand the sport, but I'm kinda hooked on it (at least for the next week until it disappears off the radar until 2010). I even got Beth to watch a bit of it, although I think that was because she didn't want to watch women's hockey.

Anyhow, the blog is quite the entertaining read and I highly recommend checking it out before it goes poof into the blogosphere. Good stuff.

(Oh: Steinberg has been holding these daily trivia contest in which he gives away assorted Olympic crap souvenirs to the first person who has the right answer. So I emailed him the answer and a little bit of Useless Information to go along with it--and he mentioned me on the blog. Here is his post about the trivia contest and here is where he quotes my email. Yeah, I'm a dork.)