Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Telecommies

As you know the Olympic Games will be here in Beijing in August of next year.  Olympic fever is beginning to grip the city.  Everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE, are the official mascots of the games.

I mean, come on.  These things make the Teletubbies look like Chuck Norris.  The Chinese (indeed, pretty much all Asian counties) love these sort of characters.  Think of Pokemon or Hello Kitty.  There was a guy on the street today selling little hand-painted lanterns made out of gourds with these characters on them.  I actually thought they were kind of neat.  If I see him on the street again I might ask how much a set is, it couldn’t possibly be more than a few dollars.  (I tell you one thing, Christmas shopping this year isn’t going to cost me jack shit.  Except for the DHL fees to get it back to America.  It’ll cost five times the purchase price to get it back to the US.)

But when it comes to Olympic mascots, nothing beats Springy, the Springfield Spring.