Seriously? KD Lang? Really? Was Every Other Singer from Canada busy? The Hip? Alanis? Avril? Michael? The Arrogant Worms, for heaven's sake?
I'm pretty sure the point of the Olympic opening ceremony was to showcase the country, and in spite of the oopsie at the end, the staging was awesome, with the projections and the big pieces of fabric and the flying people and whatnot, but content-wise? Zoikes.
According to VanOC, we want the world to know we're tattoed, fiddleplaying aboriginals, walking in wheatfields singing mournfully and reciting poetry about how while we might be overly polite, we're fabulous.
hmmm. I'm not sure I get it.
During the technical hiccup just before the flame was lit, I'm pretty sure that was sheer panic on the face of Steve Nash. Wayne Gretzky looked like he somehow thought it was all beneath him. (But I'm biased; I haven't forgiven the hit on Gilmour in '93.)
And then we took him to the waterfront in pickup truck?! Now, that's something I can get behind, because no matter whether you're in the 97 percent of Canadians who are not aboriginal, who have never seen a wheatfield or who have never played a fiddle, haven't we all had some fun in the back of a pickup?
Go Canada!
Curling starts Tuesday.
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