sticky's weekly sting-in-the-eye.
sticky's weekly sting-in-the-eye.
dear spanks,
there are many things, as you know, that leave me swearing and muttering like some of my special bus-friends. i'm going to dedicate a sting-in-the-eye to one of these things once a week. it will keep me better suited for polite society.
my first painful, burning sting-in-the eye will be devoted to the olympics. besides spitting every time i hear the word or muttering "i hate the effing olympics" under my breath while people talk about how much business it's going to bring vancouver i would like to write a little about why the olympics deserve a sting-in-the-eye and a kick in the privates.
i object to the general undeserved hysteria that surrounds the coming-together of different people from different countries to throw heavy objects, swim back and forth, jump over (deliberately-placed) hurdles, act gay on toboggans, and skate around looking like transvestites from the 1970s. hysteria. i mean, it is 3 years away and i hear the word 'olympics' at least three times a week. a clock has been erected downtown counting down the THREE YEARS until the olympics. that does not seem right. in fact, it seems the very opposite of right.
i remember my teacher devoting an entire month to the olympics in grade school. i had to do a big dumb useless project on bobsledding and i had to colour the five rings for the title page. the point of this exercise could only have been to attempt to brainwash a class full of kids into syrupy, sentimental patriotism and blind allegiance to 'the spirit of the games.' months we spent learning about the different sports in the olympics. i hated it then in a vague sort of way - it just smelled fishy to me, like the hand of a politician.
now i hate it in a much more specific way. although it DOES still smell of a reeking politician.
vancouver got the games and this is what that means:
1. OLYMPICS ON STOLEN NATIVE LAND, ECOLOGICAL DESTRUCTION
2. THE PO-PO: 10,000 POLICE, SECURITY PERSONNEL
3. HOMELESSNESS & POVERTY: exacerbated by the destruction of low-income hotels for up-scale acommodations, and social cuts
4. BIG WINNERS! (PROBABLY NOT YOU): the rich and richer are the winners again. you. are. the. loser. any trickle-down money will be hugely off-set by the billions of dollars of public money spent on construction, olympic venues etc. and the environmental degradaton, of course.
"It's (the Olympics) got to to with land swaps, exchanging worthless land for valuable land, wealthy developers and the enrichment of billionaires." --Senator John McCain
there is much more, of course. but that will be all.
a big, sticky sting-in-the-eye to the olympics.
buzz.
sticky bee
dear spanks,
there are many things, as you know, that leave me swearing and muttering like some of my special bus-friends. i'm going to dedicate a sting-in-the-eye to one of these things once a week. it will keep me better suited for polite society.
my first painful, burning sting-in-the eye will be devoted to the olympics. besides spitting every time i hear the word or muttering "i hate the effing olympics" under my breath while people talk about how much business it's going to bring vancouver i would like to write a little about why the olympics deserve a sting-in-the-eye and a kick in the privates.
i object to the general undeserved hysteria that surrounds the coming-together of different people from different countries to throw heavy objects, swim back and forth, jump over (deliberately-placed) hurdles, act gay on toboggans, and skate around looking like transvestites from the 1970s. hysteria. i mean, it is 3 years away and i hear the word 'olympics' at least three times a week. a clock has been erected downtown counting down the THREE YEARS until the olympics. that does not seem right. in fact, it seems the very opposite of right.
i remember my teacher devoting an entire month to the olympics in grade school. i had to do a big dumb useless project on bobsledding and i had to colour the five rings for the title page. the point of this exercise could only have been to attempt to brainwash a class full of kids into syrupy, sentimental patriotism and blind allegiance to 'the spirit of the games.' months we spent learning about the different sports in the olympics. i hated it then in a vague sort of way - it just smelled fishy to me, like the hand of a politician.
now i hate it in a much more specific way. although it DOES still smell of a reeking politician.
vancouver got the games and this is what that means:
1. OLYMPICS ON STOLEN NATIVE LAND, ECOLOGICAL DESTRUCTION
2. THE PO-PO: 10,000 POLICE, SECURITY PERSONNEL
3. HOMELESSNESS & POVERTY: exacerbated by the destruction of low-income hotels for up-scale acommodations, and social cuts
4. BIG WINNERS! (PROBABLY NOT YOU): the rich and richer are the winners again. you. are. the. loser. any trickle-down money will be hugely off-set by the billions of dollars of public money spent on construction, olympic venues etc. and the environmental degradaton, of course.
"It's (the Olympics) got to to with land swaps, exchanging worthless land for valuable land, wealthy developers and the enrichment of billionaires." --Senator John McCain
there is much more, of course. but that will be all.
a big, sticky sting-in-the-eye to the olympics.
buzz.
sticky bee
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