Now I’m going to watch for sure….The Queen ‘parachutes’ into the opening ceremony from Bond’s chopper.
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I’ll be watching the Giants pimp-slap the Dodgers.
the Giants are devil worshipers, myiq2xu. Also, be a guest on the radio show.
What’s wrong with devil worshipers?
you prove my point myiq2xu, thanks. If you are also a Notre Dame fan then there is no hope for you.
I already devote my Sundays in the fall to the NFL. If I watched student body sports too I would never get anything done on weekends.
Hmmm . . . celebrating the british NHS during the Olympics opening ceremony with dancing doctors, nurses and glow-in-the-dark sick kids in hospital beds? I like the idea of national health care, but honestly, are we supposed to all be in awe of BNHS – which by the by is broke as they are in the midst of a double-dip recession in the UK? Wonder what the Canadians, Scandinavians, Germans, etc. think of that? It’s a little surreal frankly, but maybe that’s because I’m watching at a bar with the sound off.
Yeah, that NHS tribute was just plain weird, at least from an American point of view. No one here would do something similar with social security or public education, even though most Americans support these things. We just don’t think of social programs as part of our country’s great accomplishments.
Ok – I know I’m not drunk yet, but that big weird baby thing at the end made me feel like I might be stoned . . . Is this the weirdest opening ceremony ever?!
I missed lots of the opening ceremony – I was watching the White Sox beat the Texas Rangers! Much more entertaining.
Maybe it would have been better for you to be stoned.?
LOL.
Hmmm, clearly the write ups of the Queen’s entrance were better than what happened. Though she’s a sport nonetheless. Yes, I’m watching this opening “ceremony” and it can credibly called a….ridiculous mess. Whatever one thinks of the NHS, why in God’s name did it rank a 10 minute freaky dance segment? Maybe the Obama campaign will put out a Food Stamp ballet now…I mean I like some of the welfare state, but an interpretive dance about it at the olympics? Weird. And everything before the industrial revolution in the mother country was pleasant village folk and sheep? WTF? Even the 4 country songs were run thru as if they were an annoyance. I’ve never been put off by a danny boy in my life. Before tonight.
the director needs a basic history class. The Romans, The Norman conquest, the Magna Carta? Nah? Didn’t happen. Shakespeare, who as you know I believe created us with words, ranked exactly one wildly out of context speech about nosies on a desert island. Randomly opening any of the history plays would have produced a better choice for that moment. Darwin and Newton got banners, which is something. Dickens, who, FYI, invented what we think of as Christmas, was he even mentioned? Elizabeth 1 -who, in effect, ensured that english was the world language, not spanish- she was not bothered with, though there were 6000 Mary Poppins and a giant freaky baby-And the industrial revolution all happened to forge 5 rings. Oh, and the invention of the Web? It was all so a teenager could find her phone and get a kiss.
The planet is largely run today on what of what the brits gave us…from law, to culture, to the Westminster system… (there is a reason why countries want to get IN to the Commonwealth, not out of it…) but after this ceremony that may change. We now know the Brits really only gave us James Bond and giant inflatable babies.
I don’t like sports to the point of disdain — except the REALLY PRETTY ones like gymnastics — so I tuned in tonight expecting a big spectacle. What I got was a big spectacle. Not disappointed. Apparently if I’d seen the opening of the Beijing Olympics I’d be singing a different tune. I thought the forging and ascent of the rings was theatrical perfection. Loved that part. And a flock of Poppins descending from the sky to scare away boogeymen? Hell yeah!
Though the bit about their nationalized healthcare was flat, I LOVED that they were kind of rubbing it in our faces because I’m a pinko commie bastard about healthcare.
Agree with everything you wrote, John. “Ridiculous mess” was exactly how I felt – and what a disappointment after all the “talking up” of the show in advance.
Having listened to the commenters announcing what was about to happen: “Now just watch this. Aww it’s so wonderful. Look, it’s James Bond! Really! And he’s at the actual Buckingham Palace! Now just wait … see it really is the queen herself [gasp, shock, aw]. She’s playing herself! Is this magnificient or what!” on and on – the actual “skit” fell flat. As – in my humble opinion – did most of the show, sorry to say.
Besides, from what I’ve heard the producers/ directors of the show where not allowed to also be in charge of the transmission. I believe that too was a mistake.