You know how sometimes you can get a completely inappropriate song stuck in your head? Well, I keep humming Devendra Banhart’s “Chinese Children as we watch the opening ceremonies in Beijing and there’s probably something vaguely racist about that song in this particular context.

Oh, good some Chinese opera, that’ll get rid of Devendra.

My impression of the opening ceremonies so far – very red, far too much singing but technologically fantastic.

One other tip for the Chinese Olympic Committee, if you want don’t want to be thought of as authoritarian, probably best to keep the goose stepping soldiers to a minimum. Dr. O’C and I are having an argument as to whether or not China’s government is Communist, Fascist, or something else entirely. She argues for fascism, but I stand by the assertion that fascism died with World War II and thus at most, China would be neo-fascist. Which they aren’t.

Don’t you wish you could hang out with us?

“Now if I lived in Russia, I’d have some Chinese children
If I lived in Prussia, I’d have some Chinese children
Well if I lived in India, they’d still be Chinese children uh huh
And out my toes my little blue baby grows
And that’s another fact…”

I’m warning you, don’t push play…

 
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