Archive for February, 2010

opening ceremonies

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

here is my live blog, made in notepad and posted now:

the CTV “countdown” video : everyone is going to think the salient feature of canada is our abundance of helicopters. wish i could find this on youtube, it was honestly 90% helicopter shots of winter sports

requisite “support our troops” shot of people watching from afghanistan: there are old white ladies and teenagers. i think they mixed up their feeds and that is actually a police station in thunder bay

announcer: “australia! 40 athletes!”
rebecca: “let’s see how many inbred people there are…..….40!!!”

“this is the first olympic games for colombia” this is the first time columbian athletes have survived for 4 years without being murdered by cartels

in the cultural segment: Middle-earth, one athlete: Gandalf

is that bear full of helium? is that how it stays up? are the people in the legs high as heck right now?

re: french-irish fiddle players: in addition to our helicopter abundance, the rest of the world has had their suspicions that all french canadians are evil confirmed

i hope final destination 5 takes place at an olympic opening ceremony. there are just so many ways for things to go horribly wrong