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Tuesday
October 14, 2008 The Road Warrior: Good News in the WastelandFiled under: General ok, i gotta admit: “Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior” is one of my all-time favorite flicks not just because of the non-stop, edge-of-your-seat action and bloody violence or that it stars a young, tough mel gibson before he turned into a cheeseball and started churning out chick flicks and pointless sequels. sure, those are definitely admirable traits in a film, but the real reason the movie resonates with me is that it paints such a grim picture of an energy-deprived, post-apocalyptic wasteland created by war that it’s always served as a close commentary on the real world. as the markets crashed last week and the doom and gloom set in, for one fleeting second i was reminded of the countless hours in my youth spent watching mad max rockatansky fend off psychotic bike gangs in a scorched- and petrol-starved australian outback and wondered: could it really happen? a confluence of circumstances — a crashing global economy coupled with a crippling terrorist attack, perhaps? — and i’m not so sure it couldn’t.
according to the news broadcast, there are three bright spots starting to take shape: 1. lower gas prices 2. rising dollar 3. easing inflation watch today’s news report here on how these three factors can help the ad specialty market. if you’re not convinced and think that one day we will all be living like max rockatansky, post a comment. i’d love to hear your story (you’ve heard mine!). or just comment for the hell of it. why not? – “mad” vin diesel
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