February 13, 2010

Yesterday was the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. NBC Television broadcasted the event from 7:30 pm through past midnight.

Subsequently, all shows were canceled and there was nothing noteworthy on the other channels either.

I love to watch the Olympics. I like the activity, the international composition and just like it because it has to do with winter sports. I even like the opening ceremonies of all the olympic games because there are always something very unique being presented.

We decided to watch the entire show since there was nothing else anyway.

With the exceptions of the nations coming into the stadium the entire show was tremendously boring.

It was like an ugly baby where people say the baby has a face only a mother could love.

Whatever the meaning of this show was it totally escaped me. The meaning was so deeply buried in the spectacle that only the producers understood it.

I was watching the native Indians while they were jumping around. Most of the young women looked like showgirls. Nicely made up, tall, slim young women. Not at all looking like ethnic, native Canadians.

Why is it that whenever there is live broadcast from any event the announcers have to explain what is it we are looking at? Do they assume the public is so stupid they wouldn't understand unless they explain it?

That's what happened yesterday. Bob Costas and Matt Lauer didn't shut up during the show at all. OK, they explained he countries as they came in but why did they have to explain everything during the rest of the show?

Now speaking of the countries. The American team's uniforms were designed by Ralph Lauren.

Most of the countries came in dressed in nice winter clothing without any logo or advertisement on them except their nationality.

Ralph Lauren decided to put that huge horse logo on the front left side of all the jackets. This man's ego bigger than that horse's behind he is using. Why was it necessary to advertise that these are his designs?

I was looking at their uniforms as they marched in and found this totally distasteful.

That poor Georgian athlete died yesterday while training. It was a shame and such a waste.

Before the Georgian athletes came in several countries' athletes were wearing black armbands which I found very moving. But after Georgia nobody was wearing it anymore. I found it peculiar that the Russian contingent came in and were not wearing any.

Their hate for Georgia didn't have to be this obvious. This supposed to be sport and not politics.

I can't wait for the games to begin, mainly the curling!