I’m pretty sure the first movie I remember seeing was a James Bond flick. The first “adult” book that I read was an Ian Fleming 007 novel. So it’s no great mystery that I am a James Bond fan. Our dad was a spy of sorts. He served in the Army Intelligence Corps, Military Intelligence, so his work was shrouded in mystery as we were growing up.<\/p>\n
He never wore an Army uniform; he always went to work dressed in a black suit and tie. He was a pistol marksman, a martial artist and possessed skills like lock-picking and safe-cracking, all of which we didn’t really know about until after he passed away. Somehow, some of those qualities rubbed off on me, and the closest role model I had was Bond, James Bond.<\/p>\n
Of course, real life has a way of squashing those secret agent fantasies, so my life as an MI-6 rogue agent had to be lived through the movies. And I followed them all, starting with Dr. No <\/I>through Quantum of Solace. <\/I>My wait for the latest 007 movie, Skyfall, <\/I>seems to have been months long. So when the movie previews started to hit the Internet, I was all over it.<\/p>\n
I knew the local theater chains would each have a midnight showing, so I made plans to be there and not even Odd Job from Goldfinger <\/I>could stop me. Since it was at midnight on a Thursday, I would be making the mission solo, as my wife thought I was crazy since the movie is nearly two-and-a-half hours long, meaning I wouldn’t be home until after 3 a.m.<\/p>\n
So the long-awaited Thursday arrived, and I followed my usual daily routine at home and work. There is nothing normal about being in the newspaper business, and by the end of the day, I was run pretty ragged. Still, I managed to make it home and prepare for the midnight movie. I still had a few hours to kill before even leaving for the theater, so I decided to take a nap. The next thing I knew, I was being awakened by Pussy Galore, who turned out to be my wife. She said, “Ron, come to bed. It’s 4 a.m. Sorry honey, but I fell asleep and didn’t wake you for your midnight adventure.”<\/p>\n
“Oh well,” I told her, “on my way to see M and Q, I guess I had to get some Zs.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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