Beyond Pollution...
It’s been a Tupac kind of evening, where he just makes so much sense. June is almost over, and it feels like everything has turned topsy turvy this month… from all the epic excitement of the World Cup to too much sad news and so much gloom on top of the heady feeling of hope, celebration and enthusiasm. Bitter sweet stuff indeed.
I have been meaning to write about the BP spill, but it is just too heartbreaking and too catastrophic to put into words. These huge companies are slowly but surely wrecking our planet, and there doesn’t seem much we can do at all. Sue the fuckers, what difference will that make to all the birds and sea animals that have paid the real price for another fuck up?! One of the only things keeping this in any way sane is following BP Public Relations on Twitter. Taken with a bucket of salt, at least they are doing something!
On Tuesday I heard that someone who was an integral part of the old city passed away. He had been fighting his demons for a long time, and it was so much of a shock as just a feeling of sadness that society and the universe could slowly break him down. He wasn’t a close friend, but at the same time he represented a lot of what I always loved about this city… and with Lola’s changed, and so much else slowly changing, his passing was just another reminder that change is just something that happens, whether we like it or not.
It is Friday at least, and even if I’m till feeling wide awake at least when I do get to sleep, I can wake up knowing that it’s Friday for realz, and not wake up thinking for a moment that it is Friday when it is not. Hate that.
I don’t know, this week has exhausted me and with a massive deadline hanging over my head, I have a feeling that my old friends stress and exhaustion are not going to be strangers over these next few days. I need Patron, and I need boots and I need a nice dress. And a massage, but that will have to wait til after payday.
In other news, I have found a tiny glimmer of hope on the inspiration front. I’m hanging on to it, even if I lose it again.
I saw that picture of the wave on the news the other night, really puts things in perspective for those of us who are far away from it all. I also listened to a show on CNN, where they were speaking to a Mayor of the area, quite interesting to see what his take was and how they plan on helping the citizens, etc.
That picture is just upsetting and disgusting.
It’s one of the most upsetting and powerful images I’ve ever seen – think it really brings into relief just how much of a major fuck up this spill has been… there is just no way that BP can spin this, they have managed to make one of the WORST friggin environmental stuff-ups ever.
And it’s not like they have a rosy history as it is – the burning of sea turtles and whatnot as part of their attempt to rectify this just says everything about how much their actually really care!
It upsets me too much to do a proper post, and that is saying a lot. I will manage to find a way to post about it, but it just really makes me unhappy and other than a total BP ban across the world, not sure how us little folk can do anything.
Tragic and just disgusting!