I Drew This

The closing ceremony of the Olympics has just started and I’m tempted to liveblog the whole thing. I’m tempted; I should do it just for the exercise. But there are reasons for not doing it. In no particular order:

• I’ll have to put the sheets on the bed at some point
• It would be like a tree falling in an empty forest (that’s right: I only have four readers and you’re probably all doing something way more interesting right now) and without people following it live it sort of defeats the whole purpose.
  It’s probably a good idea that if you’re going to do something like liveblog the closing ceremony, it’s something you may want to give people a bit of notice about so that they may set a reminder in their smartphones and log in at the appropriate time
• It goes for a long time and would seem too much like work. If it only went for 20 minutes, I’d reconsider.
  Though I will just say that there are four guys hanging from the ceiling right now banging on what appear to be giant babybel cheeses, which seems rather incongruous
• Also, I’d never  be able to keep up with Bruce Macavaney’s mentions of the word special and just blogging Sandy Roberts’s misuses of the language would take at least a week.

So if you did want to hear me do it, just read one of the following descriptions as appropriate

• There are lots of dancers on the arena right now, doing something traditionally Chinese yet very modern. My, look at the colours! And how clever is that apparatus they’re using.
• There are performers hanging from some sort of wire, doing intersting aerial feats which may or may not involve music (possibly a very large babybel cheese)
• So many of China’s youth are involved in this particular part of the ceremony. I marvel at their clockwork timing and precision.
• Bruce just said the word special
• There are now some fireworks. Gosh, those Chinese do amazing things with fireworks. They invented them, you know
• Sandy Roberts has just described something exactly as it appears on screen, for those of you looking at the screen but unable to comprehend what it is you’re seeing
• That music is so moving/uplifting/amazing/special
• Listen to the crowd go wild!
• This bit is about how the Olympics will be in London in four years’ time.
• There are all the atheletes! What fun they’re having!

Goodnight. Time to put the sheets on.

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22.25 Wow, there’s an excellent documentary on ABC1 about the hats worn by Orthodox Jews. (I’m actually not being sarcastic. It’s fascinating!)