Andy Murdoch

So as Manzbo has been repeating over and over, these ceremonies celebrate the four great things the Chinese have invented: gunpower, paper, the compass and printing. We created butter tarts and the canoe. Okay, it’s humbling. But just wait until we meet on the playing field. We Coasters can watch TV better than anyone.

So this giant scroll unravels. Then some dancers dance on it. The dancers paint a picture with their bodies, but we don’t know this until the scroll rises into the air. I am totally captivated. Also – I didn’t know Ron MacLean knew so much about the Tang Dynasty but he is really showing off […]

I really like this drum show. They have glow stick – drum sticks so when the lights turn off you see 4016 sticks flashing. They have flashy Las Vegas style silver suits, but these amazing olde style drums. It’s like a communist Vegas, though – individually they look corny, but all together, moving in unison, […]

So far, these fireworks are better than this year’s Natal Day fireworks.

Okay, if I post this, promise to come back now, hear? medal counts by country going back all the way to 1896. I was working on something similar, but didn’t have time to finish it for the opening day. My animated collage of Olympic mascots: past and present will be posted sometime before the end […]

8 – 8:30am Cue majestic, pomp-tastic music. Fancy graphics. Wide aerial pans across Beijing. The Bird’s Nest. 29th Olympiad begins. We’re viewing the CBC right now. Lots of stuff about how great we are. And some old footage of Peter Mansbridge with hair – a clip given to Ron McLean by George Stroumboulopoulos. Ouch! What […]

It seems no one in Halifax wants to watch these Olympics together – in public, in a bar, in front of inevitable plates of hot wings and potato skins, as all sporting events should traditionally be viewed. The will to play host is lacking. None of the sports bars in town – not Bubba Ray’s, […]