Sure our holiday plans got cancelled, but I've still got TIME OFF and I can feel my whole body slowly decompressing. Whatever shall I do with all this time??? We haven't made any plans yet, and going anywhere will be expensive (ETA: Sitting on the sofa for 2 weeks & watching the Olympics is of course an option), but I'm thinking I might try to actually sort out my novel. I have a draft but it needs work...
Anyway. Since this is the last post I figure I could throw LOTS the links at you, since I've been collecting them for a good while. (Well some of them.)
ETA: A really good thread:
THREAD:
— Brooke Harrington (@EBHarrington) July 22, 2021
As news stories drop about COVID+ pandemic deniers & anti-vaxxers ranting defiantly from ICU beds, let's review what fraud research suggests abt the responsibility we should attribute to them for their condition & the ms they send.
Are they victims we should pity? 1/x pic.twitter.com/jrmo6zQ7BL
( In Plague News )
( Greetings from TERF island )
( Miscellaneous )
( LotR stuff )
OLYMPICS
Yay Olympics! Nothing will ever be as good as 2012 (sigh) (yes I'm biased, we got tickets for the Paralympics and it was MAGICAL and the UK wasn't the absolute dystopian nightmare it is now, my GOD it's so depressing to remember how wonderful things were?), but since I was at work today I couldn't watch the opening ceremony live (will catch up tonight). Darcy & the girls however watched the whole thing, and the girls apparently brought out the globe and had a lot of fun trying to find all the different nations as they paraded in. How's that for edutainment? ;)
ETA: OK watched all the 'good bits' (i.e. skipped the athletes walking in & the speeches). I had seen comments about THE DRONES, and they were not wrong. The drones were utterly amazing. The girls' favourite part was the pictograms (which were also completely brilliant, although in a very different way), and then I got all choked up when it got to the torch & the lighting of the cauldron. It's good to remember hope and optimism. (Then we went back & watched the lighting of 'our' cauldron in 2012 and wallowed in nostaliga.)
Anyway, here is Mary Carillo's Brilliant Badminton Rant from 2004. Enjoy.
ETA2: Sure there is a feeling of fiddling while
Daily Dimash: Olimpico
I've been keeping this song in reserve because it's one of THE songs, and then I realised that the Olympics were actually happening and everything converged perfectly. THIS SONG. Just the power and the beauty of it, I canNOT. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Olimpico (also known as Ogni Pietra) is the first work that Igor Krutoy (music) and Liliya Vinogradova (lyrics) created specifically for Dimash. It's an opera-style piece (the lyrics are in Italian) and was written for the Opening ceremony of the 2nd European Games in Minsk in 2019. It's one of those 'only Dimash could sing this' songs, since it's written for baritone and soprano. Lyrics here, they're very inspirational.
Dimash Kudaibergen & Igor Krutoy - Olimpico (Arnau concert)
Dimash - Olympico ~ WorldSkills Kazan 2019 (the staging of this is incredible)
( More under cut, because I love it )
Well, this has taken me 2 1/2 hours to put together (although I was interrupted) so I reckon I should probably post it. 494 days in a row, I think that's pretty neat. Thank you all. I'll be back, don't worry. <3
*curtsies & exits stage left*
