Rocky-Xmas 2021: American Dateline

A wily-tale of a NYC-Xmas season involving a real-life 'James Bond' man, holiday-season sentimentalities, and diamond-distances.

An homage to good-old fashioned American storytelling, inspired loosely by Jingle All the Way (Arnold Schwarzenegger). 

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We love New York, and in this 20th-anniversary commemoration year of 9/11, we're thinking of the transcendence of the great Coronavirus tribulation, and how the city seems a 'tad' more bright for the Christmas season!

Americans in NYC are enjoying a rescreening of the iconic Western anti-terrorism petroleum-globalism film Syriana (Stephen Gaghan) and wondering what kinds of 'social engineering' will see new 'forms' of socialized distancing.

The Rockefeller Center iconic-symbolic Christmas-tree and ice-skating rink is the key place where great 2021 thoughts are celebrated regarding American homeland securities and socialized distancing reliefs and the joys of holiday-season shopping as well as general global thinking.

At the nearby Rocky-U science research offices, scholars/students are busy understanding key relations between socialized economic behaviors and psychological trends in tribulation-times regarding plasticity-rewiring and event-transcendence!

SCIENTIST: We're busy studying the nature of human brain-cell development/function linking to macro-social biases.

Crowds flock to the NYC subway train to get to the shopping-center 'on-time' to get their kids the toys/gifts they want and for themselves too, wearing distance-protecting Coronavirus masks, especially for those who aren't yet fully vaccinated from COVID-19 in America.

Amlan Satan (code-name: Storm-Shadow) is a blood-diamond infiltrations-agent of guerrilla-intelligence with Interpol-relations working towards gem-piracy highways stretching between North America (British Columbia) and the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) and is currently stationed in NYC to study some gem-smuggling activity during Christmas time.

STORM-SHADOW: I'm at the Rocky-Center ice-skating during the Xmas-season with my wife Kristen (a professor of language).

While in NYC, Storm-Shadow (Amlan Satan) runs into his old New York high-school sweetheart Gisele who's a Romanian and is celebrating Xmas in the Rocky-Center area and purchasing a gem-collection for herself and her son Damian (who is Amlan's son too). They rekindle their flame, and Satan promises Gisele that he'll find a way to unite his personal married life with his current wife Kristen. Gisele has to wonder if this 'polygamy-promise' curtails some Mormon-ritual conversion action!

AMLAN: Let's go shopping in this toy-store, my dears.

KRISTEN: I get a funny feeling you're nosing for toys for your two sons, Jacob (mine) and Damian (Gisele's).

GISELE: Do you have a 'James Bond' intention here, Satan?

STORM-SHADOW: Kristen/Gisele have no clue I have to orchestrate a ruby-heist from a New York bank tied to an evil baron.

On heist-day in glorious NYC, Storm-Shadow marches into the bank costumed as a maudlin-thespian claiming he needs media photos of the safe-box area belonging to Baron Goldfinger and is wielding a toy water-gun (filled with acid!).

BANK MANAGER: Business that day at our fine New York institution was normal/customary and didn't expect bizarro-deeds!

When Storm-Shadow's escorted to the safe-box area by the single-guardsman (Leo), he reveals his toy theater prop water-gun toy is filled with acid and he's on an Interpol-relations mission to perform a media-stunt involving a prepaid commentary-operation (newspapers!) linked to Baron Goldfinger and instructs the guardsman (Leo) to dance in front of the security-camera while he burns a hole into the Goldfinger safe-box and swaps his famed pirate-ruby for a fake while the bank traffic remains unaware.

STORM-SHADOW: I walked out the bank with Goldfinger's 'beryl-gem' and told the media, "The baron must hide Xmas."

NEW YORK POST: We don't know Goldfinger's ties to the pirate-ruby but we're certain Xmas-Interpol queries bring securities!

Storm-Shadow sends Baron Goldfinger an anonymous mock-doodle of a Rocky-Xmas 'evil elf' claiming he's to work closely with Interpol-relations in North America to disclose various piracy-gem highway stretches linking to modern terrorism!

Meanwhile, the more 'romantic' Amlan Satan makes a doodle-girlfriend comic book pairing of Batman and Talia for his two new Rocky-Xmas dears (Kristen/Gisele) and claims he's in love with both of them!

This real-life James Bond wouldn't be able to perform this Rocky-heroics without the aid of the wondrous NYC amenities and traffic securities like NYPD-Blue or the subway-system facilitating his Interpol-relations gem-exchange activity for media-release. This is what makes America so much more...distant.

DAMIAN: Looks like 'dad' got us both copies of a cool Richie Rich comic.

JACOB: Let's hope he's got something cool for both our moms too, eh?

STORM-SHADOW: I'm also getting Damian/Jacob copies of the awesome Turbo-Man doll (action-figure) to take to Rocky!

KRISTEN: I wonder who this bagel is really for, sweetie.

GISELE: Satan's promised to marry both of us, hmmm.

DAMIAN: I wonder if my dad's James Bond or a man of greater mortal dangers during this trying time in the world.

So Rocky-Xmas 2021 might work out nicely for Amlan Satan ('Storm-Shadow') who's trying to forge a newfound sense of living life amidst great world-intrigue all the while secretly hoping his Turbo-Man gift for his two sons yields 'extra' dreams.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)