First things first. If you are looking for updates on the Vancouver 2010 games, turn on the TV.
I'm here to give you the down-low on the "underside" of the games--the oft disgruntled peasants who have been flattened by the 2010 stampede.
Saturday, Feb 6th was a glimpse into the near future. The torch procession arrived in Whistler at 6:30pm. Thousands upon teeming thousands crowded Gondola Square. And this was just for the torch ceremony.....
Also flooding the village are VANOC workers, police officers, security personnel, transit authority workers, athletes, and Olympic volunteers. The latter are as numerous as New York rats, and rate about the same. Their bright blue suits have earned them the not-so-endearing nickname of the "Smurfs," though my favorite is "the Na'vi." Either way, they bobble about the village doing absolutely nothing but being blue, so far as anyone can tell.
Slowly but surely the village continues its "Olympicafication." On-site TV broadcast studios, tents full of exorbitantly expensive technical equimpent (and requisite 5-man security detail), and nightly ski-jump exhibitions involving fire have begun to change the colors.
Friday is gonna be very, very interesting.
I'm here to give you the down-low on the "underside" of the games--the oft disgruntled peasants who have been flattened by the 2010 stampede.
Saturday, Feb 6th was a glimpse into the near future. The torch procession arrived in Whistler at 6:30pm. Thousands upon teeming thousands crowded Gondola Square. And this was just for the torch ceremony.....
Also flooding the village are VANOC workers, police officers, security personnel, transit authority workers, athletes, and Olympic volunteers. The latter are as numerous as New York rats, and rate about the same. Their bright blue suits have earned them the not-so-endearing nickname of the "Smurfs," though my favorite is "the Na'vi." Either way, they bobble about the village doing absolutely nothing but being blue, so far as anyone can tell.
Slowly but surely the village continues its "Olympicafication." On-site TV broadcast studios, tents full of exorbitantly expensive technical equimpent (and requisite 5-man security detail), and nightly ski-jump exhibitions involving fire have begun to change the colors.
Friday is gonna be very, very interesting.
1 comment:
Andrew... since I have no TV, I'm counting on you being my eyes and ears...
I'm avidly following your story.
Marla
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