Commercial Run

Before putting together long-winded notes about spring races, etc., we thought it would be funny to link to Bacardi’s ‘sort-of homage to the New York City Marathon’ commercial from last year. We’re not sure what it all means, salmon running upstream and such.

But we were in the commercial (Satan in one of his more inspired ‘extra’ work jobs), actually, along with about two hundred extras pretending to be runners and sprinting through Manhattan. Take, after take, after take, over three days in areas of the city that the marathon doesn’t even think about. Many of the runner/actors in the commercial go by too fast to recognize (including yours truly), except for an unpaid cat in a window.

Oh well, it was a very expensive commercial with a vague idea about what the marathon is all about. Then again, what does liquor have to do with running a marathon? Don’t answer that!

(Bacardi & Salmon)