Happy Spring fellow bloggers and faithful readers! I only know its spring because my allergies are driving me wild...we wouldn't really know it was spring here from the weather as we've had a very slow warm up here in the Northeast! Weather aside, I know it's been a while since I last posted and alot has happend...a new job, condo purchase, car accident. Basically 2008 went out with a bang and 2009 came in kickin my ass up and down the street.
One thing I've come to realize lately is all of those "futuristic" movies that Arnold "Governator" Schwarzenager did back in the late 80's/early 90's really were not that far off from the truth. I was watching TV a few weeks ago and "The Running Man" was on....the opening scene of the movie simply states this quote:
"By 2017 the world economy has collapsed. Food, natural resources & oil are in short supply"
If they only knew how close they were to predicting the future! It was late 2008 when the economy really started to get flushed down the tubes with the stockmarket and here in 2009, the same conditions still exist. Companies are laying people off left and right, your job is now the job of 3 other people and you're still making the same salary. Gas prices (thankfully) took a dip, but are now back on the rise due to OPEC getting the grand idea that if we're not demanding as much oil, they're going to cut back gas production to get prices to go up again. Don't they realize that if the prices go back up, we're going to cut our use on gas again? But even with the dip in fuel prices, the price of food is still skyhigh and although most energy prices have come down, electricity continues to soar. My bill has a different rate almost every single month....it's criminal I tell ya!!! CL-P should be ashamed of themselves. The irony in all of this is that back in '87 when the Governator was the Terminator he was making some pretty prophetic movies. Who ever thought that could happen? Something tells me Arnie should get out of office in "Cali-for-neeya" as he says it and get back infront of the camera making some more futuristic movies...only make these ones about a booming economy where gas is back down to $.99/gal (remember those days??), cigarettes are back to 3 bucks a pack and you don't have to worry if you'll have a job day after day!
I bring this up only because of my last p0st in regards to Taco Bell and Demolition Man (another futuristic flick). I remember my mother telling me she used to watch movies when she was younger that would be set in the year 2000 + and how there would be flying cars and the such and she thought it was funny that that was the vision of the future back in the 60's. And 20 odd years later, the futurisitic movies about the years 2000+ seem pretty spot on in some aspects. Taco Bell will undoubtedly survive any chain war because of their unbeatable prices, the world economy is in the crapper...now if only someone would tell me how to use the 3 seashells!!
I'm doing weird things with my banana.
4 years ago
