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A touchdown for advertising?  So … evidently there's a football
game on Sunday. We're not entirely sure who's playing, because
we sort of lost even cursory interest after the Patriots were
eliminated. Our only tinge of regret at skipping it entirely to
go see Miles Walser perform for the Poets' Asylum that night is
that we might miss some of the commercials … which … is kind of
a disturbing thought, when you get right down to it. Seriously.
Why feel any sort of remorse for going to see a talented touring
artist who might not be around this way again for a while, at
the cost of not being sold stuff? Our culture, it is weird.
Thankfully, though, it's become the custom for all the ads to be
released online early, so we can skip the game in good
conscience.  Of particular interest this year are the
commercials for upcoming movies, including a 14-second tease of
“Iron Man 3.”  There's n