The Beijing Olympic Prism

[awong]

I have a very fragmented attitude toward the current Olympics. I’ve also heard lots of different views (especially in the past few days as the Opening Ceremony approaches…the new reports basically run the gamut of biases). So here’s a non-PC, attempt to characters the different viewpoints that I can think of. Note, though I don’t really take any

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[htang]

As for the theme song...don’t even get me started on the souless, artless, inane-but-uniquitous piece of design-by-committee crap they want to call “music”. It sounds like a 1st year music theory homework assignment (arrange this theme and chrous for N parts with M variations. Make it X minutes long). When that stops playing I think we will have taken a large step towards world peace.

I love this statement. I can't tell if I should respond with a "LOL, I totally agree!" or a link to this.

In any case: this post is pure genius. The best you've written so far. Long live the fuglies**!

( ** which, if you’re the bean-counting sort, contain the most symbolism ever packed into 5 cartoon characters in the history of mankind! Here’s an incomplete list )

[htang]

Ooh! Interesting article on how the designer for the Fuwa has disowned his creation