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Watched the Opening Ceremonies last night. They were long. I was glad the athletes got to sit down. The commercials made me cry (like eight times!).

But the reward for getting through to the end was a very pretty music video montage (prepared by NBC, I assume, it wasn’t actually part of the ceremony). And it was set to the song Nothing More, by The Alternate Routes. I liked it!

“Heroes don’t look they used to, they look like you do.”

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Since tonight is the official Opening Ceremonies for the 2012 London Olympic Games, it must be time to revisit Olympics mascots!

I’ll be ignoring the official 2012 mascots in favor of a few more adorable choices. (All snatched from this 2010 article on wordpress.)

My perennial favorite:

Art by Woodrow Phoenix.

Super close second, and would make an adorable plushy:

Art by Danny Ihns.

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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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