A new Bond movie you say? I was there. Newest installment of the Bond franchise is called 'Skyfall' and it was amusing. Was it worth every penny? May be not. But hey its all relative.
What I found particularly amusing is that most Bond flicks these days are titled incoherent. Like the only connection (not a spoiler) I could find to the title was this old house in the English country. What?
Getting back to why I think the sky is falling though has to do with the preponderence of stuff that mankind is churning out and the manufacturers having a hard time making you buy theirs. Its getting too crowded out there. Customers are confused and marketers are trying very hard to get their attention by announcing its their Last Chance to get IT or Else! If our Thanksgiving sales are an indication people go out there every year as if this is their final opportunity to experience what shopping and spending borrowed money would look like.
So marketing experts use gimmicks like product placement through any and all avaiable channels. From the tray tables in an airplane to the loo you are bombarded with an advert or a suggestion to try or buy a ware or service.
Same with Skyfall. It is getting to be two hours of advert time for large multinationals for which customers actually pay to watch (and sometimes not even know they did) ... this is beautiful. From wrist watches to computers to cars to clothing and oh a lifestyle if you chose to its all on sale and all in your face - in full 7.1 (pointless) surround sound and high resolution!
Sky is the limit.
This autumn the weather gods cooperated as we took a family trip in the northeast to see six states that qualify or makeup what is known colloquially in America as New England. Mass, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island (tiniest state in the union). The outing helped tally up the states we either lived in, visited or have worked in to 47. Guess which three have eluded this intrepid traveling family. Any rate the drive was all in about 1,800 miles and included some memorable geographic wonders or points of interest. Easternmost part of state of Massachusetts being one. Furthest drivable road east in Mass being another. Visit to all Ivy League schools (term harkens to a collegiate athletics conference and generally regarded as elite academic institutes of some repute worldwide) is another random bucket list item of which this trip afforded the chance to knock two more of the list. Dartmouth in Hanover, NH and Brown (and its sister institute the RISD - school f
This is probably what chief Vitalstatistix of Asterix fame was scared of..the sky falling on his head.
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