Media sure loves Obama...

Why do I think that if the media saw a picture of Obama strolling on a frozen lake that the headlines would say....

"OBAMA WALKS ON WATER!!!!!"

Just wondering aloud, thass all.......

London calling....

(EDIT) This is a long one so just scroll down to the end for the punch line if you saw the closing ceremonies of Beijing games

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So I finally get around to watching the closing ceremonies of Beijings 2008 Olympic games..

After watching amazing choreographed numbers, stunning visuals and amazing fireworks. We are treated to London's invite to their invite to the 2012 London games....

On the big screen we see the worst ever Olympic logo ever designed and then it proceeds to show us a virtual double decker red bus going thru a TRON like version of London....

In the Beijing stadium, appears a real doubledecker rd bus diving around spastic caricatures of Londoners doing their best imitations of a bad Monty Python dance number.(Anybody remember the Fat Boy Slim "Praise You" music video with the bad dance troup in front of a movie theater....kinda reminded me of that but they were being serious....)

When the bus finally stops, the dancers all rush to the door like it's the last lifeboat on the Titanic only to be pushed away when the door opened. In the door there is a pretty young girl.

She walks out and then meets up with her Chinese alter ego from which she receives the gift of a football.

She then proceeds literally to walk on the backs of people on there knees back to the bus. Then embarks back on.

Then from the top of the bus emerges Leona Lewis and Jimmy Page ( LED ZEP!!!) to welcome the people of the world to London with a song. They sing....

"Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zep. Yep. "Whole Lotta love". One of the most carnal, sexually charged song about f***ing in rock and roll history. Err. And this they find an appropriate song of love to the world.

"You need coolin, baby, Im not foolin,
Im gonna send you back to schoolin,
Way down inside honey, you need it,
Im gonna give you my love,
Im gonna give you my love."

What? Seriously! Frankie*s "RELAX", The Beatles "Do it in the road" or Donna Summers "Love to love you baby" were to tame and demure?

And just to make sure that this lame excuse of a presentation ends with confused whimper and not a roar, Beckham appears from the top of the bus. What does he do? He kicks a football (soccer ball) into the crowd. The end. No boom. No bang. Just a ball kicked in a crowd....

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SO!

This is the message the London Olympic 2012 Committee sent the world.

Come to London in 2012! We'll walk all over you, we'll f**k you and we'll kick you in the balls.

WHo the hell did this stupid concept.....

Bloody wankers has my school buddy Paul would say.....

"Tired of all this rain this summer? Then buy a SUNbrella! Why be glum when you can be in the sun! Works on 4 AA bateries and last for days!"

This goes out to all my friends who have had ine of the rainiest summers in 50 years........hope this makes you laugh a bit!

Broken and fixed a year later

August 13th 2007.

One year ago today. One year ago I broke my right ankle.

Three bones. Clean breaks! The two big ones and the smaller connecting one.

Two weeks in the hospital. Operations. 4 big screws and one metal pin with 3 tiny screws attached to it. 3 months in various casts. 6 months of physio once the cast was removed....

I'm physically okay now. A slight limp when I'm tired and it swells a little when it rains. The funny thing is that I tend to drift to the right when I walk. I guess I need an wheel alignment.....but otherwise good physically.

And today I start my next school semester again. Man I think August the 13th is out to get me!
But I got a new teacher so this should be good....

Onwards and forwards......

CATFIGHT!!!!!

Really.

There are definitely better ways of waking up in the morning that the sound of my cat battling his archenemy underneath the kitchen table at 6 am.....

Short version.

We let the cat out early in the morning and sometimes we leave the kitchen door open so he can come in and out when he wants (and we get some sleep).

Well when Morgan was out patrolling, his arch nemesis came in. So I wake to hissing and loud meowling. I thought it was outside but no, it was IN the kitchen...Morgan blocking the escape route and his ennemy under table.

CRAP!

Suffice to say that I have never seen a REAL full fledged catfight up close. Well now I've seen to two within a 5 minute span less that ten feet away.

Lots of hissing, flying fur fluffs and some blood ( small scratch on my wife's hand when she tried to grap her cat.... not her best pre morning coffee moment)and Morgan vanquishes his enemy out the door!

Not bad for a dumb 12 year old tabby!

Roadtrip!

Went on the last road trip of the summer this last weekend....

It rained the whole time, which is bad when the reason to go see an outdoor concert. We saw Jose Gonzalez and Laleh at Dalhalla in Dalarna. Amazing concert except for the rain....

Visited Carl Larssen's Museaum and Anders Zorn also and bought some cute ceramics....because it was raining......

And took a lot of lousy pictures of soggy landscapes.....

Did I mention the rain?....

Vittorio Fiorucci 1932-2008

Vittorio Fiorucci died yesterday in Montreal.

Vittorio was an amazing world renowned poster artist,graphic designer,cartoonist and cavalier bon vivant hedonist with a lust for life like few I have known.

For those who know of the Juste For Laughs Comedy festival in Montreal, he is the creator of there Little green imp mascot with the big red tongue.

Like Robert Lapalme, he was one of my design and illustration idols. I was lucky enough to have him a guest teacher a few times in university and a chance to have a beer with him. He would shake my hand and have a few seconds to chat with me whenever we met on the street. A nicer satyr you would never could meet.....

Some of his work can be seen here...
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Peace