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Cynthetiq · 06-10-2010, 07:47 AM

YouTube - BP Spills Coffee

Quote:

BP Tries To Clean Up Coffee Spill

What would happen if BP spilled a bunch of coffee on their conference room table? Pretty much the same thing if they spilled a whole bunch of oil in the Gulf of Mexico. This Upright Citizen's Brigade theater sketch spoof explores the delicate mapping between the two scenarios, and the delightful comedy that ensues. Kevin Costner's voice, or a reasonable facsimile, guest stars. NSFW for one naughty word.

BP Spills Coffee [UCBComedy]

what a hoot!

Jetée · 06-10-2010, 08:00 AM

First of all, I'm not all up-to-date exactly on what and why the 'Gulf Oil Spill' seems to want to corrall (sp?) the masses to place the blame squarely on either BP or Obama, other than those two are the 'head-honchos' of the operation, and failure to secure the damage means that they might as well started the mess in the first place (this is just what I think others are thinking). My point is that I don't know how responsible BP really is for what could have been just a manufactural/extraction accident, if not actually something that might also have been naturally-related(responsible) as well.

Anyways, while I don't know if BP is "evil" or not, I suppose I can contribute a few illustrations here, even if I do so reluctantly.

See Mike Draw

Lucifer · 06-10-2010, 08:02 AM

Right On! They are fucked!

Jetée · 06-10-2010, 08:17 AM

Watched the short just now, and gotta say, it was funny (if only because I don't know the history of it).
Though, I am now thinking what the net cost of a solution of actually setting the surface spillage on fire would accomplish (other than outrage).

- - -

Portrait of a BP executive by ~MikePMitchell

BadNick · 06-10-2010, 12:21 PM

I just watched it with a few office mates looking over my shoulder, the one with the large breasts kept poking the back of my head, dammit!, and we all thought the concept was good, potentially funny, but in the end the execution of the comedy let us down.

I wanted the cleaning lady or person to walk in and just mop it up.

Ourcrazymodern? · 06-10-2010, 01:28 PM

I thought it was hilarious, Cynthetic. Thanks

Shauk · 06-10-2010, 05:52 PM

Kevin Costner: You are all fucked.

Jove · 06-11-2010, 05:00 AM

Funny short video.

Jetée · 06-19-2010, 06:00 PM

Pollution
Source: l'homme d'aujourd'hui
(Éditions Hachette-1971)
Illustrateur: inconnu

-- courtesy of Mondorama 2000.

Jetée · 06-20-2010, 01:38 PM

Is This The End of Aquaman?

Jetée · 06-22-2010, 02:29 PM

BP is Burning Sea Turtles Alive [VIDEO]

excerpt:
Mike Ellis is a boat captain who's been rescuing the endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtles near Deepwater Horizon.
He's got some pretty horrifying news to share: BP is burning turtles caught in the oil spill and turning away rescue
workers who want to save them.

Jetée · 06-23-2010, 11:18 AM

The 10 worst BP gaffes in Gulf oil spill. [Yahoo News]

Quote:

1. Who’s in charge? On Friday, BP board Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg presented the news that many Americans had long been waiting for. Hayward was being shunted out of his lead role in the Gulf oil spill crisis, to be replaced by BP Managing Director Bob Dudley. On Saturday, BP media relations personnel said the chairman of the board was wrong. They said Mr. Svanberg was suggesting that BP was merely beginning a long-planned and gradual transition of authority to Mr. Dudley “over a period of time.”

2. The ‘small people’ It was not the first time Svanberg misspoke. After meeting with President Obama, Svanberg said he shared Mr. Obama’s compassion for the “small people” in the Gulf. Needless to say, the comment did not go over well. Spoken by a man who owns a yacht in Thailand, the phrase “small people” smelled of rank class condescension. Swedes, however, note that the word “småfolket” in Svanberg’s native Swedish has a positive connotation with undertones of egalitarianism.

3. ‘I want my life back’ Six weeks after the Deepwater Horizon blowout, Hayward uttered these words: “We’re sorry for the massive disruption it’s caused their lives. There’s no one who wants this over more than I do. I’d like my life back.” To those shrimpers and fishermen who have essentially lost an entire year’s wages – not to mention the families of the 11 men killed in the blowout – this seemed an inordinately insensitive comment.

4. ‘Very, very modest’ impact On May 18 – a month after the blowout – Hayward told the BBC: “I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.” Four days earlier, he told the British newspaper, the Guardian: “The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.”

5. ‘A trickle’ On June 8, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said that the spill “should be down to a relative trickle by Monday or Tuesday.” According to the best scientific estimates, between 10,000 and 35,000 barrels of oil (420,000 to 1.5 million gallons) are still leaking into the Gulf daily.

6. 5,000 barrels a day. Part of the reason for the continued leak is that BP low-balled the flow rate from the well and then refused to try to amend it. For a short time after the blowout, BP estimated that the well beneath the Deepwater Horizon was spewing 1,000 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf. That was swiftly changed to 5,000 barrels daily. Last week, scientists suggested that the real number could be as much as 60,000 barrels a day and no less than 35,000.

7. ‘Top kill’: 70 percent chance. The underestimation of the flow rate mirrors the repeated overestimation by BP of its own capabilities. Hayward said that the failed “top kill” procedure, which would have stopped the oil, had a 60 to 70 percent chance of working. It failed.

8. ‘We have turned the corner.’ Earlier, on May 17, BP stuck a siphon into the ruined riser pipe – collecting 1,000 barrels a day – leading Hayward to say: “I do feel that we have, for the first time, turned the corner in this challenge.” That siphoning effort was later abandoned.

9. What spill? When BP share prices recently plummeted, BP intended to convey the idea that it could handle the costs of the Gulf oil spill. Its statement, however, was obtuse to the point of absurdity: “The company is not aware of any reason which justifies this share price movement.”

10. Waste of money? Six weeks after the spill began, BP started a $50 million TV ad campaign, promising to restore the Gulf. Obama said the money would have been better spent on relief efforts and damage claims.

-- courtesy of American Apologies

Jetée · 06-23-2010, 03:08 PM

Could Kevin Costner's Machine Work on the Oil Spill? : Discovery News

excerpt:
Over the last couple of [weeks], I've seen a number of stories about the actor Kevin Costner promoting an oil-separating machine that could be used to help clean up the oil in the Gulf of Mexico. It works by sucking oily water up a hose, sending it into a spinning chamber, where centrifugal forces separate the oil from the water. According to this NY Times piece, the machine could remove 210,000 gallons of oil from water a day, at 200 gallons a minute.

Jetée · 06-23-2010, 04:59 PM

a view by / from NASA:
On Saturday, June 19, 2010, oil spread northeast from the leaking
Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil appears as a
maze of silvery-gray ribbons in this photo-like image from the
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on
NASA’s Terra satellite.

[DaMn.]

Jetée · 06-23-2010, 07:12 PM

(Let's see if this works - :.:test image:.: ... testing. click to zoom.)

Delicate patterns in the sea breaking on Orange Beach, Alabama, more than 90 miles from the
BP oil spill, cannot distract from the mess four to six inches deep on parts of the shore.
-- (Dave Martin/AP)

[Guardian.]

Jetée · 06-24-2010, 09:39 AM

'Oil Spill' ; as seen in Chicago

Jetée · 06-24-2010, 04:35 PM

Petro Lio
'Via del Mare 58'
Messico
DISPERSO

[simonerea.]

Jetée · 06-25-2010, 11:07 AM

Oil and oil sheen are seen off an island in the waters of Chandeleur Sound, La.,
on Wednesday, May 5, 2010. [Entire 62-photo gallery can be seen in the source link below.]
-- (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

[DenverPost.]

Jetée · 06-25-2010, 08:43 PM

Disney, Pixar, and BP present "Finding Nemo 2: Escape from Oilglobs" - Boing Boing

Ourcrazymodern? · 06-26-2010, 02:31 PM

ummm, Jetee? I don't know how to tell you this: this thread started as an appreciation of making light of a difficult situation, &!:

"...somebody dropped a spanner, dropped it in the hole." -?

Jetée · 06-26-2010, 02:56 PM

I'm not making light of this? Save for a few half-dozen posts, none of these illustrations are really serious (or to be taken as so, it is just a visual compendium, and conextual awareness of the situation).

Plus, I think people stopped visiting this thread after the first week, so I thought what harm could come of this trans-morphing into the "let's bash on BP" commons.

Ourcrazymodern? · 06-26-2010, 03:32 PM

Ah...

No harm intended.
I'm just gaining the knowledge
you leave your light off.

Jetée · 06-28-2010, 03:46 PM

[captain-planet-returns]

Jetée · 06-29-2010, 03:53 PM

Next week's cover for The New Yorker, illustrated by Bob Staake.

*context

[NewYorker.]

Jetée · 06-29-2010, 07:54 PM

A brown pelican covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon is seen on the beach
at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3, 2010.
-- (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Jetée · 06-30-2010, 12:00 PM

There Will Be Oil

"Come in crude. Go home refined."

Jetée · 06-30-2010, 02:00 PM

A sign marked a beach closed in Grand Isle, La., due to the Deepwater Horizon
oil spill. As BP tried the “top kill” method, President Barack Obama told a news
conference the government is in charge. He suspended planned drilling off the coasts
of Alaska and Virginia and on 33 wells currently being drilled in the Gulf of Mexico.

[WSJ.]

Jetée · 06-30-2010, 04:30 PM

BANKSY Art Print

Jetée · 07-01-2010, 03:09 PM

The Xbox Video Game About The Gulf Oil Spill Isn't Very Fun

Quote:

Seventy days hasn't been enough for BP to find a way to stop the oil spewing into the Gulf, but in today's world, it's plenty of time to create a game based on the disaster.

Super Boise, an independent game development company, has just released "Crisis in the Gulf" for the Xbox 360. It allows players to tackle different difficulties of oil spills using submersibles equipped with lasers, cannons and torpedoes.

The game developers from Super Boise describe their game like this: "The government and oil corporations have failed to stop the oil leak. Clearly they haven't tried tower defense!! Do you have what it takes to cap the leak?"

While you blast away at the oil, a news ticker scrolls across the top with current events. There's even a little zinger at Sarah Palin's "Drill, Baby, Drill" slogan.

[mnn.]

Ourcrazymodern? · 07-01-2010, 03:13 PM

Seriously? I hope they're giving any profits to the clean-up effort.

Jetée · 07-01-2010, 03:54 PM

YouTube - Super Mario: BP Oil Spill Edition

Jetée · 07-02-2010, 01:42 PM

Inappropriate Jazz Hands. BP Edition || by The Searcher

alleged transcripts:

Emergency Response Meeting, BP Field Headquarters, Ritz-Carlton New Orleans. Penthouse suite. click to show

Jetée · 07-02-2010, 11:20 PM

Just dump oil all over everything

Everywhere and get it over with

I lost my baby due to penalty kicks.

Hope has turned to cobalt goo

Change we can believe in the way

We believe in unicorns and Jedis.

It's too hot to be a free agent

Each atom is a poem with its

Own spinning agenda, which demands

[Line of poem drowned out by vuvuzelas].

Let me put my poems inside you with

A spatula and we'll ride across the grammar

To a whistle on the mortgage of a field

Speckled with dusky crickets who have

No regard for human life.

It's not Convex Mirror, it's Houseboat Days

And you're the sunburned, bearded captain

Drifting further out away from the cherry

Chocolate harbor.

I tried to climb the ladders but a gorilla

Was throwing barrels at me.

You'll need guide wires, a harness and a team

of Sherpas just to get through the day.

Here we go

The whale reminds us how much we have failed.

- - -

[theawl.]

Baraka_Guru · 07-03-2010, 06:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jetée

[Line of poem drowned out by vuvuzelas].

This line is fantastic.

Jetée · 07-03-2010, 02:48 PM

Have a (re-)fine weekend.

ring · 07-03-2010, 03:59 PM

Niger Delta, you are not forgotten.

In the oil town of Afiesere, in Warri North district of the Niger Delta, local Urohobo people bake "krokpo-garri", or tapioca in the heat of a gas flare. Since 1961, when Shell Petroleum Development Company first opened this flow station, residents of the local community have worked in this way. Life span is short for these people, as pollutants from the flare cause serious health problems.

photo & caption by Ed Kashi

Jetée · 07-04-2010, 11:07 PM

thom yorke

Ourcrazymodern? · 07-05-2010, 09:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cynthetiq

YouTube - BP Spills Coffee

what a hoot!

//threadjack//

ring · 07-05-2010, 10:40 AM

continuing the hijack:

---------- Post added at 01:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:36 PM ----------

Oil spills are not only funny,
they're sexy too.

Niger Delta

Ourcrazymodern? · 07-05-2010, 11:38 AM

"Priorities, I suppose."
You remember "Ain't we been usin'"
& how we wouldn't go there.

06-10-2010, 08:00 AM	#2 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	First of all, I'm not all up-to-date exactly on what and why the 'Gulf Oil Spill' seems to want to corrall (sp?) the masses to place the blame squarely on either BP or Obama, other than those two are the 'head-honchos' of the operation, and failure to secure the damage means that they might as well started the mess in the first place (this is just what I think others are thinking). My point is that I don't know how responsible BP really is for what could have been just a manufactural/extraction accident, if not actually something that might also have been naturally-related(responsible) as well. Anyways, while I don't know if BP is "evil" or not, I suppose I can contribute a few illustrations here, even if I do so reluctantly. See Mike Draw __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

06-10-2010, 08:02 AM	#3 (permalink)
Lucifer Husband of Seamaiden Location: Nova Scotia	Right On! They are fucked! __________________ I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. - Job 30:29 1123, 6536, 5321 Last edited by Lucifer; 06-10-2010 at 08:07 AM..

06-10-2010, 08:17 AM	#4 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	Watched the short just now, and gotta say, it was funny (if only because I don't know the history of it). Though, I am now thinking what the net cost of a solution of actually setting the surface spillage on fire would accomplish (other than outrage). - - - Portrait of a BP executive by ~MikePMitchell __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

06-10-2010, 01:28 PM	#6 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	I thought it was hilarious, Cynthetic. Thanks __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

06-19-2010, 06:00 PM	#9 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	Pollution Source: l'homme d'aujourd'hui (Éditions Hachette-1971) Illustrateur: inconnu -- courtesy of Mondorama 2000. __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

06-10-2010, 12:21 PM	#5 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	I just watched it with a few office mates looking over my shoulder, the one with the large breasts kept poking the back of my head, dammit!, and we all thought the concept was good, potentially funny, but in the end the execution of the comedy let us down. I wanted the cleaning lady or person to walk in and just mop it up.

06-10-2010, 05:52 PM	#7 (permalink)
Shauk Confused Adult Location: Spokane, WA	Kevin Costner: You are all fucked.

06-11-2010, 05:00 AM	#8 (permalink)
Jove Groovy Hipster Nerd Location: Michigan	Funny short video.

06-20-2010, 01:38 PM	#10 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	Is This The End of Aquaman? __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

06-22-2010, 02:29 PM	#11 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	BP is Burning Sea Turtles Alive [VIDEO] excerpt: Mike Ellis is a boat captain who's been rescuing the endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtles near Deepwater Horizon. He's got some pretty horrifying news to share: BP is burning turtles caught in the oil spill and turning away rescue workers who want to save them. __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

06-23-2010, 03:08 PM	#13 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	Could Kevin Costner's Machine Work on the Oil Spill? : Discovery News excerpt: Over the last couple of [weeks], I've seen a number of stories about the actor Kevin Costner promoting an oil-separating machine that could be used to help clean up the oil in the Gulf of Mexico. It works by sucking oily water up a hose, sending it into a spinning chamber, where centrifugal forces separate the oil from the water. According to this NY Times piece, the machine could remove 210,000 gallons of oil from water a day, at 200 gallons a minute. __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

06-23-2010, 04:59 PM	#14 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	a view by / from NASA: On Saturday, June 19, 2010, oil spread northeast from the leaking Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil appears as a maze of silvery-gray ribbons in this photo-like image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. [DaMn.] __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

06-23-2010, 07:12 PM	#15 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	Oil Tide is disheartening. (Let's see if this works - :.:test image:.: ... testing. click to zoom.) Delicate patterns in the sea breaking on Orange Beach, Alabama, more than 90 miles from the BP oil spill, cannot distract from the mess four to six inches deep on parts of the shore. -- (Dave Martin/AP) [Guardian.] __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

06-24-2010, 09:39 AM	#16 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	'Oil Spill' ; as seen in Chicago __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

06-24-2010, 04:35 PM	#17 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	Petro Lio 'Via del Mare 58' Messico DISPERSO [simonerea.] __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

06-25-2010, 11:07 AM	#18 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	Captured: The Gulf Oil Spill Oil and oil sheen are seen off an island in the waters of Chandeleur Sound, La., on Wednesday, May 5, 2010. [Entire 62-photo gallery can be seen in the source link below.] -- (AP Photo/Eric Gay) [DenverPost.] __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

06-25-2010, 08:43 PM	#19 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	Disney, Pixar, and BP present "Finding Nemo 2: Escape from Oilglobs" - Boing Boing __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

06-26-2010, 02:31 PM	#20 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	ummm, Jetee? I don't know how to tell you this: this thread started as an appreciation of making light of a difficult situation, &!: "...somebody dropped a spanner, dropped it in the hole." -? __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

06-26-2010, 02:56 PM	#21 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	I'm not making light of this? Save for a few half-dozen posts, none of these illustrations are really serious (or to be taken as so, it is just a visual compendium, and conextual awareness of the situation). Plus, I think people stopped visiting this thread after the first week, so I thought what harm could come of this trans-morphing into the "let's bash on BP" commons. __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

06-26-2010, 03:32 PM	#22 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	Ah... No harm intended. I'm just gaining the knowledge you leave your light off. __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

06-28-2010, 03:46 PM	#23 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	[captain-planet-returns] __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

06-29-2010, 03:53 PM	#24 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	"Sky and Water (II)" Next week's cover for The New Yorker, illustrated by Bob Staake. context [NewYorker.] __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.* —Mohandas K. Gandhi

06-29-2010, 07:54 PM	#25 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	A brown pelican covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon is seen on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3, 2010. -- (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

06-30-2010, 12:00 PM	#26 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	There Will Be Oil "Come in crude. Go home refined." __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

06-30-2010, 02:00 PM	#27 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	A sign marked a beach closed in Grand Isle, La., due to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. As BP tried the “top kill” method, President Barack Obama told a news conference the government is in charge. He suspended planned drilling off the coasts of Alaska and Virginia and on 33 wells currently being drilled in the Gulf of Mexico. [WSJ.] __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

06-30-2010, 04:30 PM	#28 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	BANKSY Art Print __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

07-01-2010, 03:13 PM	#30 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	Seriously? I hope they're giving any profits to the clean-up effort. __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

07-02-2010, 01:42 PM	#32 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	Inappropriate Jazz Hands. BP Edition \|\| by The Searcher alleged transcripts: Emergency Response Meeting, BP Field Headquarters, Ritz-Carlton New Orleans. Penthouse suite. click to show Aide: Mr Hayward, how are we going to convince people that we’re doing all we can? They already know we low-balled the amount of oil leaking by a factor of ten, and beaches and marshlands are covered in oil. Now that we’re responsible for the worst ecological disaster in U.S. history, we have to get out in front of this. Hayward: I think we just need a new tagline. Something catchy. Aide: But sir, there’s more than a million gallons of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico every day. It’s nearly an Exxon Valdez spilled each week. And our booms aren’t working, probably because we didn’t lay them correctly. Hayward: Hmm. Alright, how about “BP. Bringing Oil To America’s Shores.” Aide: It’s not.. sir. We need more than a new logo. The flow of oil can’t be stopped, probably not for months, if ever. There’s 2.5 billion gallons in that reservoir, and it all wants out. we punched a hole in the earth, and we had no plan if it went wrong. Hayward: Well, how about “BP. Unlimited Refills.” Aide: Sir, I really think- Hayward: ”BP. More Oil Than You Will Ever Need.” Aide: Sir. We can’t just fight this with PR. We need a real plan. Or we need to admit this is beyond anyone’s ability to fix or even control. Everyone thinks we’re incompetent. You just told people there aren’t massive plumes of oil hidden under the water, even though many separate groups of scientists have confirmed the opposite. This isn’t Nigeria, sir, where we can spill millions of gallons of oil year after year and no one notices. We can’t sweep this under the rug here. Hayward: Fine then. “BP. You Want Oil? Then You’re Stuck With Us. Suck it.” Aide: … Ok that might work. __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

07-02-2010, 11:20 PM	#33 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	"TWITTER IS OVER CAPACITY": A Poem by Jim Behrle Just dump oil all over everything Everywhere and get it over with I lost my baby due to penalty kicks. Hope has turned to cobalt goo Change we can believe in the way We believe in unicorns and Jedis. It's too hot to be a free agent Each atom is a poem with its Own spinning agenda, which demands [Line of poem drowned out by vuvuzelas]. Let me put my poems inside you with A spatula and we'll ride across the grammar To a whistle on the mortgage of a field Speckled with dusky crickets who have No regard for human life. It's not Convex Mirror, it's Houseboat Days And you're the sunburned, bearded captain Drifting further out away from the cherry Chocolate harbor. I tried to climb the ladders but a gorilla Was throwing barrels at me. You'll need guide wires, a harness and a team of Sherpas just to get through the day. Here we go The whale reminds us how much we have failed. - - - [theawl.] __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

07-03-2010, 02:48 PM	#35 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	Have a (re-)fine weekend. __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

07-03-2010, 03:59 PM	#36 (permalink)
ring ░ Location: ❤	Niger Delta, you are not forgotten. In the oil town of Afiesere, in Warri North district of the Niger Delta, local Urohobo people bake "krokpo-garri", or tapioca in the heat of a gas flare. Since 1961, when Shell Petroleum Development Company first opened this flow station, residents of the local community have worked in this way. Life span is short for these people, as pollutants from the flare cause serious health problems. photo & caption by Ed Kashi

07-04-2010, 11:07 PM	#37 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	thom yorke __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

07-05-2010, 10:40 AM	#39 (permalink)
ring ░ Location: ❤	continuing the hijack: ---------- Post added at 01:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:36 PM ---------- Oil spills are not only funny, they're sexy too. Niger Delta

07-05-2010, 11:38 AM	#40 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	"Priorities, I suppose." You remember "Ain't we been usin'" & how we wouldn't go there. __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT