Sunday, August 11, 2013

Breaking Bad

For several months, the attentive reader could easily have correlated our number of published daily posts to the weather. For any 10 degrees F under 50 F, you'd get roughly one additional post a day at the K-Landnews.

Mindless routines don't do well here, though, which means you get lots of posts today despite gorgeous summer weather.

We just saw an article on the Guardian about the tourism boom spurned by the TV show Breaking Bad in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The latest American cable news fad of adding a totally uncalled for political slant to anything from a dog food commercial to a royal birth is the only reason for this quote from the article:

"Walt's five-season arc charting his fall from likable antihero into the monstrous depths of his villainous alter-ego, Heisenberg."

[Start of dig]
Looks like Mr. Obama, just minus the chemistry skills.
[End of dig]


"Breaking Bad" had some excellent acting, cool plots and landscape shots we would imagine seeing on a big screen instead of a paltry 19 inch monitor. We will be appropriately sad to see it end but very happy to see it end before the story devolves into empty plot lines.

We hope the city of Albuquerque will have the additional legal income of tourism from the series for years to come as German television viewers get one final opportunity to look up the real Heisenberg and his contribution to our modern view of the world.

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