New swag: can you top this?
After a long fallow period, the
swag front has picked up lately. The recent trend is for studio publicists to mail out something
that is totally incomprehensible. Like a couple of weeks ago I got this metal, top-like,
dreidl thing; turns out, of course, that
it's a replica of the key mnemnonic device in "Inception." And then yesterday I got a brown-stained
funnel in a plastic evidence bag with nothing else to indicate what the hell it's supposed to
be.
Then I see this on the Movieviral.com website. Clever, effective, disgusting, and inexpensive,
but I still miss the good old days when, for example, the "Ravenous" (1999) people sent out a four pound sirloin
steak. Delicious. And then other people have sent ice cream and a pie and
luggage and electronics equipment. I'm not greedy -- even a T-shirt would be
welcome.