Faster, higher, stronger

The Beijing Olympiad of 2008 is now open and unlike some of you I'm all in on this baby. I'll cop to being a total "ring head," that's Olympic fan to those of you not in "the know." I don't buy the argument that we should boycott the games because of China's horrible human rights record, after all the USA has a horrible human rights record just ask any innocent person we've detained in Iraq and tossed into a prison and tortured. And as long as they help us occupy Iraq and Afghanistan, Canada and Great Britain share the shame of being in league with a country that tortures and their human rights record suffers like our does. Yes, China does horrible shit to it's citizens, so do we, and western corporations who do big business over there help prop up the human rights abusers more than anyone who watches the Olympics does.

The opening ceremony was quite a spectacle. In fact I'll go so far to say it was an astonishing sight. As I watched it and marveled at the technology and the pageantry of it, one thought came to my mind and it was, "I bet the London 2012 organizers are sitting there watching this and thinking, 'Oh shit, how are we going to top that?'" One word London organizers, "Tardis." Or maybe "Liz Hurley." Oh, oh, even better "Archie Panjabi." Think about it, my adopted actor is British but she's also ethnic Hindi so she'll draw a huge cross section of admirers. She's also a knock out who's got more talent in her little finger than most of us have in our whole bodies. yeah, that's it. Make Archie the new Dr. Who, it's about time the Doctor became a woman, and have her come down in the Tardis and let her lead your opening ceremony in London in 2012.

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I love the parade of nations part of the opening ceremony and this year's parade was something to behold. As usual some of the African countries in native dress and head gear were kind of cool. The worst looking in the parade were the Hungarian women, the pattern on those dresses were a crime against fashion and against my eyesight. The Spanish team looked smashing in their yellow and red outfits and the Italians looked oh so classic in their summery outfits. The women of the Polish team were atunningly hot. I loved the Estonian team's different colored uniforms, they were classically understated. The US team looked, and I'm being generous here, okay. I'm not a huge Jenny Finch fan, she's all teeth and gums to me, nor am I a fan of the pampered NBA players, and that's about all who NBC decided to show us, so I wasn't impressed. I'll also admit to cheering the Canadian team, all my blog buds from Canada have gotten me out of the habit of jeering at our neighbor to the north's team, although their outfits for the opening ceremony looked nothing short of fugly.

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I'll be glued to the games for the next few weeks, well as much as I can be while we look for a new to us house, it turns out we didn't want the house we thought we wanted because it would have required too much money to remodel that basement. Anyway, I'll be watching the games for the next few weeks and of course I'll be writing about them as well, so if you hate the Olympics, check back in a couple of week's when they pass the torch to Vancouver for the 2010 winter games.