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A brief look at my train of thought this evening (not so much derailed as ‘got a bit turned around in a swampy morass of links and wikipedia links’).

1. I should write something. Maybe incorporating Fast & Furious. That would mean Brazil.

2. Brazil has an Olympics coming up! (2016, first Olympics to be held in South America and first in a Portuguese-speaking country.) Man, that logo is weird.

3. I thought Brazil was 2014. No, that’s Sochi. Sorry, IOC, I can’t agree with this assessment of the 2014 logo: “It’s very appealing. It’s very creative, innovative. I think it will appeal especially to the young population.”

4. Hey, doesn’t London have a weird/controversial logo? (Turns out it’s mostly just controversially weird.)

5. Though a quick logo search also revealed a more recent development: “London unveils creepy-looking mascots for 2012 Olympics”. (The video is truly something else. I don’t know *what*, exactly, but something.)

6. Well, what about Sochi’s mascots? Maybe they did better? Turns out they’re still undecided, with choices ranging from a Santa look-alike to a sun with pigtails. Yeah. For real.

7. *Someone* must have had a cool logo and mascots. Nagano 1998 had an awesome logo, and their mascots were four owls, which were… wait, found a picture. No, those are still pretty odd.

8. And… back to London. It’s like I can’t look away. Interpretations of the mascots ranges from ‘parasitic tapeworms’ to ‘Illuminati plot to take over the world.’

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