"BLUE" JIMMY: ISSA CERTIFIED FITNESS TRAINER
BLIND DOG OZZY: NEUROTIC CHIHUAHUA
"BLUE" JIMMY: The opening ceremonies to the 2012 London Olympic Games on Friday night were as spectacular and moving as I expected. However, I can't help thinking that in these troubled times where war and a failing economy are in the headlines, some people may have sneered and wondered what all the fuss was about for groups of people playing sports and games that you might play in your leisure time on a Saturday afternoon.
BD OZZY: For the last few centuries, humans have been developing technology that strives to allow people to use their bodies less and less, supposedly to improve the quality of our lives.
"BLUE" JIMMY: If a horrific, squid-like creature from another universe straight out of an H.P. Lovecraft story came across a human carcass, he would assume right away that he was looking at some sort of motion device -- the human body was designed to move, baby!
BD OZZY: Since technology has taken over much of our bodily movement, we have had to concoct sports and games to force our bodies to move in the ways the Good Lord intended.
"BLUE" JIMMY: And Lord Almighty, can these Olympians move! What I like about watching the Olympic Games is that they show us exactly what the human machine is capable of with proper discipline and training. They also show us how far we have come as a physical species. What athletes routinely do in these Olympics would have been considered completely impossible in the era of Jim Thorpe or Jesse Owens. Damn! now I want to go out an' move.
BD OZZY: Turn off that goddamned video game and go do something, people! Check out my video -- I can swim!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Sake's Alive!
BD OZZY: Wow! Wow!
