Are You Ready For Some...Olympics?

 Mere days away from the big games. The Tokyo Olympics is set to start, or not, in about three weeks. Or something close to that. By way of disclaimer, I don't bother with Olympics anything. Way back in the day the Olympics were for amateur athletes and the competitions were fun to watch. Then NBC got hold of the franchise, those "amateur athletes" became paid performers, the IOC started adding any number of bullshit competitions that aren't even close to 'sport' and that ended that. Kayaking is now an Olympic sport. Kayaking is not a sport. Oh yes and skateboarding. Judas Priest... The Olympics have become a money albatross to ANY city that might want to host the Games. The 'Host City' will be required by the IOC to pony up and up front, gigantic piles of money that the 'Host City' may or may not recoup. Billions and I mean billions of dollars, on account of I believe the IOC requires their money in U.S. dollars. I don't think that the IOC will accept a Euro. The IOC will however, take Swiss Francs. Best dang money that money can buy anywhere on Planet Earth. The Swiss Franc and not a U.S. dollar. Anyway, NBC is advertising the jumping bejesus out of the 'Games' and even the local NBC affiliate is using their news reporting to advertise the "OLYMPICS - GAMES OF THE GODS!" That local affiliate would be KSL channel 5 and KSL is the "official" local media concern of the Mormon Church. Yeah, the Mormons. Hell, the Mormons own all manner of non binary and non religious shit. They's in it for the money and damn if the Mormons haven't got about a gigantic pile of bucks. The Mormons even have a slush fund of several billion and I do mean billions of dollars in cold hard cash that they stashed somewhere on Temple Square. The Mormons could have stashed all that cash in the granite caves of storage that just so happens to be at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon. You know, the road what takes the idiot skiers up to Brighton Ski Resort? That Big Cottonwood Canyon. Oh whoopsies, I digress. The Olympics right. So the 'Games' are almost here and if NBC is anything at all, NBC is about turning crap into cash. Well so would be the IOC. Amateur athletics my sorry if not really white old ass. I'm an old white guy and I can say that. So mark your calendars or not as here come THE SUMMER GAMES OF THE TOKYO OLYMPICS! Broadcast to you live... or on Memorex to be shown sometime later on. Or not. Machine art for a Monday is up next but first we shall pause for a 'few' messages from our sponsor. Not really. I'm just making shit up as I keyboard along. HAH! Is that about funny or what.

please note that today's CGI is almost entirely in black & white. Switcheroo to be certain. :]

needle points -

hanging tree from a way back when OR today's version of Georgia the U.S. state and not the country over by Albania or whatever -

Gosh you know what? You could certainly use that hanging tree to string up any of the trump klan. Hmmm...