Olympics!

The Olympics begin tomorrow. The opening ceremonies are tomorrow night. I'm curious to see if I can stay awake until the end. Until a few years ago the ceremony was mostly the parade of athletes and then a display of national pride by the host country followed by the lighting of the torch. Now it's like a long performance art piece, but with the TV people explaining what's going on. If you need TV people to tell you what's going on, it's not very good performance art. Four years ago, any time I heard Bob Costas refer to the "child of hope" or something like that, I'd make involuntary retching noises. I seem to remember there was ice skating involved. Or maybe that was the winter olympics. Man I'm getting old.