August 3, 2012
One more week before Mercury stations direct. Hang in there! Though maybe not quite like London mayor, Boris Johnson, here.
Lots of Olympics replays in more ways than one, ranging from lost keys to retroactive disqualification to a Twitter fracas.
Outside of the Games, Lynn Hayes sums up other events here.
Image: Harold Lloyd in Safety Last! (1923)
July 27, 2012
Among the other issues that have plagued the London Olympics organisers in the past weeks, this whimsical incident takes place: during the women’s football (soccer) match in Glasgow between North Korea and Colombia, some official mistakenly displays the South Korean flag on the big screen instead. Perhaps not so whimsical to the people on the wrong end of it, I acknowledge, and especially since the two Koreas are still officially at war.
And then US Presidential election candidate, Mitt Romney, walks right into it on his visit to London with several high profile gaffes, which London mayor Boris Johnson manages to capitalise on in front of a crowd of 60,000.
It would be funny (and nice) if London were actually galvanised to pull off the event flawlessly, though with this clanger, and a few more hours to go, I’m still holding my breath!
Mercury Retrograde 