Olympic Flame[war]

I thought, wow the Olympic torch will be in town and only 3 blocks from where I work! Why don’t I take a long lunch and check it out. Well the long lunch turned into 2 1/2 hours and the Flame never passed us by. Instead they chucked the original plan and took a ferry around us and some alternate convoluted route thru the city. All the while a huge militarized police presence, complete with helicopters & bomb squad adequately announced the size of our fair cities collective cock. I’m disappointed. Not because we didn’t see some senior citizen hobble by with the Olympic flame, but because we cant stop treating each other with fear & disdain. Because they had thousands of police on the streets and couldn’t let a few hundred kids announce their anger over Chinas sad human rights record, (justifiably so) and a few thousand more cheer the spirit of the Olympic Flame. SF has the 2^nd biggest Chinese population outside of China; I heard the disappointment on the street. Yeah yeah Life goes on; it’s not that big a deal. But that was my huge waggling tax dollars treating my neighbors like a biohazard threat out there today; I’m allowed to be disappointed.

Yelling Free Tibet!! , China China !! Coming from across the street. I guess a baseball park was the appropriate place for this.

Hum, we should probably look like we have a plan.

Eye in the Sky.
Actually, there were so many Copters in the sky, it reminded me of Brave New World. In the future everyone has a personal helicopter. All at once fantastic and frightening.

I plan on taking this way too seriously. Really it was like he was meditating, not once did he look up to the crowd. What did he overcome to be selected as part of the relay? Agoraphobia?

Uh China, If you're listening, would you mind?

Free & Friends . . Someday