olympics 2012

it's been olympics all weekend --- i've always liked the summer olympics (the real olympics) better than the winter ones --- so much to admire

the opening ceremonies were, as they always are, almost too much --- i liked the early references to prehistoric earthworks and glastonbury tor, but then the tree on top of the tor was uprooted and all of these people started pouring out, and the giant smoke stacks rose out of the ground, and it was all a little grim ---

the paean to their socialistic national health service gave the right wingers over here something else for which to hate the olympics ---