The opening ceremony is a fashion show. It's fun to judge all the teams' costumes. Hard to do that when they're shoulder to shoulder, leaning on the rails of a distant barge, seen through a rain-soaked lens.

And then there was a concurrent runway show to distract from the athletes, which was more of the same featureless body positive chaff they've been bombarding us with for the last decade. It just looked like an American commercial.

When are we going to hand the keys to North Korea and let them show us how it's done?

Same, it seemed cool to me and my kids.

> Was it a disaster? My wife and I thought it was lovely and pretty cool.

On television perhaps. For anyone that was actually there…

* https://blog.jeffcable.com/2024/07/the-opening-ceremony-of-p...