The XXI Winter Olympic Games Vancouver, British Colombia Canada are now open ...yea!

The Olympics are now going on in Vancouver British Columbia.
The opening ceremonies were ok, I enjoyed them for the most part but did think they lacked joining flow and did leave me wondering what was the thing that tied it all together.

In pieces thought I think things were rather good. I know that the opening ceremonies have been getting a lot of bad press and the games have started out on a somber note with the death of the Georgian luger, Nodar Kumaritashvili.

I think with live performances we gotten to accustomed to the MEGA BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE stuff and are overly critical of live performances because they don’t measure up to the cinema. I enjoyed the solitary person emerging from the light into the supposed tundra. And the creation of the northern lights. Then the floor of the arena turning into an ocean and then the orca swimming across the floor. I was truly impressed. Now I wonder what this effect was like in the real stadium. The transition to the fiddler in the moon was nice then it sort of got long in this area and I wasn’t sure how the rest of the performance tied together.

Over all I will give it a B minus, which is probably a lot higher than other people. Why so high. I was entertained. I liked most of the images and ideas expressed when they were clear. Now I have seen much better opening ceremonies for the winter games and I remember rather lack luster ones from when I was a kid.

The malfunction at the end with the indoor torch was not noticeable as a malfunction until it was announced by the broadcasters and simple fix with the people to adjust and move but regardless it worked and the torch was lit and then the other one outside was lit.

The death of the Nodar Kumaritashvili Georgian luger was indeed tragic and I think it was very respectful to have the moment to honor him in the ceremony. It would have been nice to have had his nations flag brought to the center stage for that recognition with an Olympic flag. Just a hindsight comment.

The bigger thing I have to ask is why are we even showing this young mans death over and over on video? If he were a loved one, a friend, someone you knew, would you want to see this again and again. I think there is informing the public and then there is just taking advantage of a situation for ratings. Celebrate his life but respect his passing.

We are too morbidly curious and our news doesn’t need to be a faces of death film.


In other news…

I love the Olympics and I hope these games are as great as the others have been. I love these games because these are sport performed mainly by people who love their sport and most participate in their sport because they love it, they find peace in the training, in the competition to do your best with others who are at their best. I say most because there is always an exception.


That’s all for now other stuff tomorrow, have a great day and play nice in the neighborhood.

Ciao,

...8...9...10. Ready or not here I come.

While reading a human interest news story, fluff as it would be called in the biz, about a girl who hid so well during a game of hide and seek that the parents called in professional help. I’m not posting a link to the story because the child was found after over an hours worth of searching. Now do we throw the widen net and call these people bad parents for loosing track of their child? I’ve done that, albeit not for that long and on the opposite end of the scale this child has siblings who probably cheat like the dickens at hide and seek. So when the child is being looked for she was probably thinking the heck with you I’m not coming out when you are calling all in, all in, all in free. And it’s not ollie, ollie, oxen free… That makes not a bit of sense. Not that hide and seek is all that sensible of a game, other than life skills development of how far you actually have to go to find … oh say your keys if you don’t have an elephant. I have an elephant. The elephant doesn’t lose things. So if you don’t have an elephant I suggest you get one, because keys can hide in a lot of places. A lot of places. Yup they’ve been there too... No, not there that would be silly. Anyway point being you look and look until you find them in as the saying goes, it’s always the last place you look. Yup a true pearl of wisdom that one.

However, Like this kid I was hiding and hiding and hiding, and finally fell asleep in my hiding spot. If it’s that good a spot you don’t fess it up you keep it quiet because the only way you keep a secret between three people is if two of them are dead, or so said Mr. C-note Franklin. I wandered home afterwards because unlike the kid in the news story not too many people actually realized I was missing, as a matter of fact no one noticed. Which leads me to believe I was invisible long before even I realized it.

So kid was found, who wasn’t lost, I found myself but I wasn’t lost either. Well that’s different story and has nothing to do with hide and seek. Most likely this kid’s parents will be outcasts in their community and people will whisper behind their backs … they’re the really bad parents who lost their kid. Yeah I heard about that one she was missing for days. Hey in a few years watch it will be huge. Wolves and bats and gummy bears… oh me. I doubt anyone’s said that one before… mine. Yeah , nee ner.

Sadly this two year old has been banned from playing hide and seek now...FOREVER! Now, she’ll never find her keys, some one get her an elephant. Please for crying out loud. How can we expect this kid to be normal now.

Hey I get worked up about the fluff pieces. That is where all the real people live, you know under the plastic wrap. Oh, it’s raining. Yup, yup and my head hurts. Well’s it hurts for two reasons, wait three, four, oh a bunch… Imma take a shower maybe that will make it go away. You just have to love the new English that text messaging is creating. Imma means, “ I am going to” do what ever follows. Hey it saves over half the letters, who cares that the written word is dying in the thumb thumping grasp of our teenagers.

Imma shwr nw cya l8r


Have a great day and play nice in the neighborhood.

Ciao,




PS. So I gave benji his due respect in text and the elephant thing is biological public domain about them not forgetting where water is even after years of not going to the same place. I mean like a smart bomb right to the spot, pretty cool if you ask me but you didn’t but I told you anyway.

Peace

Patience

Patience

Patience, which is I think the word of the day, week, month and really the next year or so. Patience and perseverance.

I think it is outstanding that so many have hope and want to see change. However, do we in typical American fashion become disillusioned when that change does not happen over night. Some how we have forgotten that it takes dedication and a willingness to work hard at times to get the things we want.

I’ve forgotten that myself.

So remain hopeful, but just don’t hope for change, do something too.

Don’t expect someone else to fix it, pick it up, or correct the problem.

We have a new leader be ready to be lead.

To quote another great leader who inspired many, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what can you do for your country”

Not since the days of JFK has the nation been so hopeful about a new leadership. So ask not what President Obama can do for you, what you can do for President Obama to help him succeed, and in turn help the country to succeed.

In other news…

Stunt-boy is not feeling well today. I am swamped and hopeful too.

Ciao,

Invisible don