End of Days Notes:
Brazil’s men’s soccer team earning right to remain alive: A
Drug controversies: C-
Peeing in a cup: D
Peeing near a gas station: D
Angering security guard: D
Lying about it: F
Angering entire country because you lied about it: F+ (but kind of epic, in a way)
Caster Semenya controversy: B
Caster Semenya: A
Being forced to take drugs to suppress natural advantage: F
As a guidebook for sports and government: F
Kurt Vonnegut: A
National Basketball Association players in Olympics: F
Only US team your humble editor wanted to see lose: US Men’s basketball team.
NBA refusing to do business in North Carolina over gender classification of water closets: push
NBA players participating in event with teams divided only as “men” and “women”: F
Selective outrage: F
Closing Ceremony Notes
Official Score: Automatic F
Flower chicken dancers making landmarks: C-
Complete with moving cable car: C
Almost forming Touchdown Jesus: A
Jesus: A
Couple playing with balls: C-
Jokes that write themselves: A
Not hitting the easy ones: B-
Easy ones: A
Image mapping Brazil’s flag on glowing kids: B
Carmen Miranda dancer: A-
France’s casual cool: A
France’s Olympic uniforms in general: A
US medal ceremony uniforms: A- (hampered only by the day-glo shoes)
Canada’s closing ceremony uniforms: B
Cap bills properly curved: A
All others: F
Wearing mittens at the Summer Olympics: A
Australia: B+
Australian athlete carrying a beer: A
Beer: B+
Japan’s uniforms:
Women: A
Men: B
Return of oiled, mostly naked Pita Taufatofua: A
Topless men: B+
Almost topless women: C-
Unfair gender bias in lack of clothing: F
Shameless exploitation: B+
Sexy samba dancers: A
Being a sexy samba dancer in the Tokyo region:
Last two weeks: A+
After today: D
Your humble editor doing sexy samba:
Self image: B+
Reality: Grandpa’s having a seizure.
Great Britain’s closing ceremony uniforms: B
Great Britain Uniforms in general: A-
British athletes not having umbrellas: C-
Wearing raincoats during the parade: C-
Shoes with built-in flashing lights:
On toddlers: A
On grown ups: C
The communist jerk that invented squeaky shoes for kids: burn in hell
Portugal’s Jean Jackets: B-
US closing ceremony uniforms: A- (blue shirt only; Red B; White C+)
Ukraine’s migraine aura jackets: D
Migraines: F
A mass of “Unity” that makes it hard to see team uniforms: F
Blaming others for own journalistic failures: D-
Showing dancers instead of athletes: F
Robot doll bug-eyed dancers with fake hair: D for creepy and terrifying
Tokyo’s part of the show: A-
Yuriko Koike: A
Prime Minister Super Mario Abe: C
Sour-faced Mario: C
Money spent sending Abe and Koike to Brazil: C
Hours spent playing Super Mario: no comment
Travelling with assist from Doraemon: A
Boring hole through center of Earth: C-
Subsequent volcanoes and destruction of both Rio and Tokyo: A (for excellent movie)
The Core: F
Journey to the Center of the Earth: B-
Having a speech just when everything seems over: D
The speech going on unmercifully long: F
The speech going beyond unmerciful: F-
The speech continuing after that: <expletive deleted>
Content of speech: peace, love, unity, nature, environment, brotherhood, sisterhood, blah, blah, blah, blah blah: D for cliché.
Your humble editor’s reaction to speech: Shut the <expletive deleted> up already!
Chance your humble editor’s youngest daughter has learned a new expletive laden phrase: push
Having a second speech after first: sigh
Giving up: C
Artistic barf after speeches: C-
Mariene de Castro: A
Song: B-
Putting out Olympic flame with fake rain on a rainy day: push
Whirlygig thing behind Olympic flame: C+
Rio Olympics in General: A-
Well, with no more Olympics to analyze, that’s the end of this little invasion. Your humble editor hopes you enjoyed these updates (and have noticed the donate button around here somewhere).
Hope to see you in 2018 for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.