Christmas In Japan

Olympics And Theatrics

I have a few things on twitter about my reaction, one of them being down on the announcers for making fun of the Vietnamese for only being good a the Math Olympics. I think it was Costus.

Written on the Saturday After(lightly editted):

Friday was an amazing day in sports, entertainment, China, and the Fire Works Industry, the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

The Theatrics at the beginning I Unfortunately missed and had to track it down on the internet, and even then I only got a few Clips of it and a slide show. which is disappointing because NBC decided to Ignore the Fact that us Open Source Hippies also Like choreographed events On an Epic Scale.

Side rant: When you are serving up one of the worlds most popular sporting events, why would you dare choose Silver Light a web platform adopted by no one, when You already have a video service called Hulu. and then ask a lot of questions about where you live, your cable provider, what package you subscribe to, and what your local NBC is. when all I want to do is watch some thing they just showed on TV tape delayed about 12 hours. End rant.

The Parade of Nations, was Pretty much non-Plus, until they got to China and Told the Story of Lin Hao, who freed himself from the Rubble of the Sichuan Earthquake and went back to help find his classmates. I was Touched and Emotional and acted like such a Girly man.

And then They met Gary Vee in India, borrowed his Thunder, and Blew the any future for the OC of the Olympics. London is screwed. For a While they made me laugh with the Peter Pan Antics of the Final Torch Bearer, but then Completely Rocked the 5 Rings and Blew up the Cauldron and Fired every Pyrotech on earth over the National Stadium.

I was later able to watch the beginning on NBC at F*** o'clock in the morning. which sort of killed my enthusiasm, but that being ignored it was well performed and as amazing as I thought it would be after watching the slideshow. Except for the Guys in Green Light suits, that was totally stupid. But I think the Cute Cheerleaders along the Parade make up for it.

But even though my excitement Dwindle at points, I have to admit that this was possible the most elaborate Opening Ceremonies ever and Gives London something to worry about. So since my patience with NBC Died, I can't give this more than 4 out of 5 stars, but if NBC could Run a Panda Express much less a Television Station, this could have been a 5 out of 5.

Hellos and Amazement

Hello and Welcome to the Iron Panda Show, where we will be talking about so many facets of Asian Pop Culture. We're Talking about Movies, Cartoons (I'm not apologizing Hard Otaku), Music, Comic Books, Video Games, and Since I'm a bit of a Soccer Fan, I'll try and work-in some Sports.

We are not airing yet, but I will have some audio up this weekend over how amazing I thought the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics in Beijing were. Sorry, Just couldn't get around to it So instead I'll Post the Notes I wrote saturday morning.

To Steal the Words of Gary Vaynerchuk, "They Seriously Brought the Thunder."

Just a climactic taste for you, the Lighting of the Couldron.