Off-script at the Olympiccorp Repertory Theatre
August 1, 2012 § 8 Comments
My life is run by corporations. They pick my government, which writes my laws, enacts the agencies that regulate my behavior, and tells the local, state, and national paramilitary police when to arrest me for fucking up. They tell me what to think (I generally comply), what to read (I’m a dutiful consumer of Google News), and what to say. Two out of three isn’t bad.
Every four years Globalcorp, through its athletic subsidiary Olympiccorp, puts on a multi-day performance of the Olympiccorp Repertory Theatre. As Dr. Trolliam Stone likes to say, “It’s a douchefest of watery-eyed American mothers weeping over their sons’ and daughters’ gold medals. Thank goodness we don’t have to watch on NBC those events where Mitt Romney’s culturally inferior nations stomp us into a bloody fucking mess of bone, blood, snot, and matted hair.”
Despite its flawless planning, its authoritarian repression of dissent, and Olympiccorp’s pageantry to criminal regimes like Red China, every once in a while the players get off script.
Honor among thieves
Whoever said that there’s honor among thieves has never spent time in prison, or among thieves, or in the middle of a bike race. As a recent women’s Cat 3 crit debutante recently announced, “In bike racing, I don’t trust anybody.”
That’s what you’d expect from a newbie. Give her a few more seasons and she’ll be experienced enough to leave off the “In bike racing” part of the sentence.
Olympiccorp puts on its show the way its parent company, Globalcorp, runs its business. The venue is given to the country with the most outlandish bribes. The Olympiccorp committee is composed of thieves, skulduggerers, and cronies of the wartiest sort. Globalcorp branches such as CocaPepsi, MacVomit, and VisaBK are rewarded for their participation in the advertising spectacle by giving away expensive comp tickets to wealthy patrons who never use them. The specter of major contests held in gymnasiums that look like they’ve been hit with the plague speaks to both the scale of the corruption and to the fact that the only viewers who matter are the ones on the other end of the TV cameras.
The only thing that the nation-states who bribe Olympiccorp ask in exchange for the billions in tax dollars that they lavish on strangers even as their own citizens live under the grinding wheel of poverty and want, is that Olympiccorp’s theatrical performance include at least one major show that will make the host country’s citizenry feel the pride of patriotism.
You know, patriotism: that falsehood fanned by nations to encourage mothers and fathers to send their only begotten sons and daughters off to slaughter in foreign lands.
That patriotism.
The script
Olympiccorp’s top dude, Jacques Rogge, got together with Queen Elizabeth to plot out the proper theme for the men’s road race.
Jacques: What is your wish for this event, Your Majesty?
Liz: Eh?
Jacques: The Olympiccorp men’s road race. It’s in London this year, Your Majesty.
Liz: Eh? What’s in London?
Jacques: Olympiccorp ’12, Your Highness.
Liz: Right. Of course it is. Where else would it be?
Jacques: Well, four years ago it was in Beijing.
Liz: Eh?
Jacques: Beijing, Your Majesty. China.
Liz: What was in China?
Jacques: The last Olympiccorp Repertory Theatre, Your Majesty.
Liz: That’s ridiculous. China and India are still part of the Empire, aren’t they? Why should they have it?
Jacques: Exactly, Your Majesty. That’s why it’s now in London, where it belongs.
Liz: Well, it’s about bloody time. Which ones are we going to win?
Jacques: We were thinking that after the Tour de France and world championship victories of Mr. Bradley Wiggins and Mr. Mark Cavendish, it would be appropriate for Britain to achieve gold in the men’s cycling road race.
Liz: Eh? Who?
Jacques: Wiggins, Bradley. He just won the Tour de France, Your Majesty.
Liz: But we’re in England now, and I don’t give two Catholics for whatever they’re doing in France.
Jacques: Yes, of course, Your Highness. But it was quite an achievement. He’s the first British citizen to win the world’s most famous cycling event.
Liz: I thought you said it was in France.
Jacques: I did, Your Majesty.
Liz (huffily): Well make up your bloody mind. It’s either the world’s most famous event or it’s in France. You can’t have both.
Jacques: Well, Mr. Wiggins…
Liz: And what kind of name is “Wiggins.” Doesn’t sound English to me. Sounds Australian, or American. Ugh.
Jacques: Actually, his father was Australian.
Liz: I knew it. So ‘e’s not really even English. Where was he born, then? Liverpool? Next you’ll tell me I have to go knighting another Liverpudlian, as if that fellow McCartney wasn’t enough, or some gay singer like that John fellow.
Jacques: Mr. Wiggins was born in Ghent, in fact.
Liz: Oh, there now! I told you he wasn’t English! Prison convict for a father and born amongst Catholics. This will never do. Let’s pick another event to win. This won’t do at all. I could no more shake his dirty hand than wash his underpants.
Jacques: There’s Mark Cavendish, Your Majesty. He stands a good chance at gold if we “let the troops know” that’s how it should play out.
Liz: So he’s good, then?
Jacques: When we can keep him off the donuts and beer, he’s the best, Your Majesty.
Liz: And you say he’s handsome?
Jacques: I’d not go quite that far, Your Highness.
Liz: Well, I suppose if that’s the best we can do, we might as well have that one. All right then, put me down for a gold medallion in the bicycle chase.
The doper who didn’t get the memo
With all of Formerly Great Britain primed and excited for the win, and with the stupid fans of Wiggins and Cavendish primed to watch the best of Britain deliver Horseface to the finish line, the stage was set to perfection.
Unfortunately, the unrepentant doper, recalcitrant road warrior, and scheming son of Borat otherwise known as “Vino” didn’t get the memo. With an entire career built on lies, deceit, doping, and some of the most colorfully tactical road riding in the last twenty years, Vino charred the British fish and poured salt in their beer with a stylish, gutsy, aggressive win that confounded the brainless automatons who have learned to dominate through earpieces and overwhelming team strength, and who will never know how to race on smarts, strategy, courage, and a suitcase full of drugs.
Despite having their own career team cheater in the form of David Millar, the British faithful were outraged at this off-script victory, snatched out from beneath their paunches by an aging ex-Communist doping villain.
But what, in truth, could be more fitting for this tainted sport than the most tainted and decorated rider still in the peloton stealing an impressive win at the tainted Olympiccorp Theatre of the Absurd? The only thing we missed was his sobbing mother.
Cycling in the South Bay 
No-one will be able to say it better !
…because he sold his mother for the dope, dopes!
Vino has no sobbing mother. He was cooked up in a Soviet sports lab in the early ’70’s.
.
The only rider who, in comparison, could make Jan Ullrich look human and non-robotic.
Glorious!
Drool, Brittania!!
Brilliant! Still giggling from what was, arguably, the best Queen E interview ever! Also love the snarky mention of David Pillar.
Who knew she washed men’s underwear, or had ever even seen them??