Tumbling Down

I stumbled across this bit of art and it called to me for whatever reason. "Voices In My Head", artist unknown.

Streetscapes

Waiting to pick up Mari after work.

The Scene

Two pieces on the Titans.

Dune

At the promptings of Brent, and I believe Matt back in the day, I have finally gotten around to reading Sci-Fi's supreme masterpiece Dune. I know it's a supreme masterpiece because it says so right on the cover.

French Surrender Gold

We aren't really big swimming fans, but Mari and I both really got into the Freestyle Relay race tonight, it was the epitome of what makes the Olympics great. Not even knowing much about the sport and being that drawn into it. The French were heavily favored and had even told the press they would "destroy the Americans". And they were winning until Jason Lezak, the oldest mens swimmer, swam the race of his life and overcame what should have been an impossible French lead to win by the length of his fingertips.

More Olympics

We had plans to get a lot done today, but thanks to my foot flaring up, Mari tweaking her back, and Mystic managing to poke herself in the eye on something unknown bad enough we had to take her to the vet, we decided it best to just get groceries and stay home watching more of the Olympics. The highlight was Mr. Bush hanging out with the women's beach volleyball team. One of them turned to have him give the traditional pat on the butt, and he kind of awkwardly patted her on the back and stood there looking stupid. So no different than usual.

Olympics

 

The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China opened today. What I saw of the ceremonies was pretty impressive, looks like they're going all out. I have mixed feelings. On the one hand China is still rife with all kinds of problems, on the other hand the Olympics was always supposed be above politics and about the world coming together.