n e u f n e u f: the mortally depressing world

20 June 2010

the mortally depressing world

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It's as though if only someone will write it, it will be so. I really don't find it the least surprising that some of us are petitioning transdimensional beings for help in sealing the Gulf blowout. I'm about ready to petition them too... almost certainly gonna be more effective than petitioning anyone else.

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Honestly, I was off after something on the fun side... maybe some levity... maybe something pretty... maybe something intriguing... but, no, it was all dark, frighteningly vapid or too stupid to be borne. Then I thought I had the moxie to watch ONE little snippet of PBS reportage on the blowout, thinking possibly my assessment may have been too harsh and they might be presenting some worthy information and expertise... some daffodil was showing a graphic of the Gulf Stream and earnestly asking if this scenario might actually play out... that we slime the whole right coast, Iceland, Greenland, Europe... this was downplayed as remotely feasible. She asked about the likelihood of success with efforts to attach a big hose to the crippled apparatus while waiting for the relief wells and was told that while this has never been done at this depth before, there was every reason to expect it would work at least a little. At this point, I committed suicide and so am not likely to try that again.

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5 comments:

Bluebear26/21/10, 7:22 AM
I lasted about 10 minutes in that PBS thing - turned it off.
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wimpy6/21/10, 1:16 PM
You are vastly more patient than I. I only made it about nine before I killed myself.
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Bluebear26/21/10, 4:11 PM
I figured nothing would be gained by killing myself so I went out and worked on daughter's car.

Replacing all the old rotted vacuum hoses so hopefully it will pass the smog check.
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wimpy6/21/10, 4:20 PM
See? Yer a frickin' SAINT! Only takes ME nine minutes before I'm past caring about gain or loss and just BOOM blow my brains out.
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Bluebear26/21/10, 7:33 PM
Ouch!
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