interactive map here
yesterday those poor sweethearts at BP announced over $17 billion in losses this quarter, after having set aside $32 billion to pay for the spill. article here. as expected, Tony Hayward, BP's CEO, will step aside in October. but don't worry about that sweet little earthfucker. he'll no doubt get a fat severance and his pension is worth $17 million. the well has been capped for 12 days, but the massive underwater plumes will bring sludge to beaches for years...
images of the catastrophe make me think of waterfronts i love, like the bay bridge above. i like to think that humans are so hypnotized by water because we subconsciously connect with knowing that we are from water, that we are water. at the cell level, all life is aquatic. we yearn to return.
today brought the Veterans' association to pick up bags and boxes of discards from the great purge. just noticed that the stuff is gone! the project is nearly complete.
so funny (in that sad, "oh my god, i have become my hoarding grandma" way) to see some of the crap that i had stored -- mounds of VHS and audio tapes, notebooks and handouts from high school classes, a tub full of stuffed animals, oh my. all gone.
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