So, two things to cover here, actually three. First off my blogging patterns I'm really really going to make an effort to work on changing them. I've found thru the work of this website and also just writing papers for college that writing is something that I actually enjoy to a point. I like taking thoughts and rationalizing them into a paper form. While performance and movement and media are a more direct medium for me, writing is the most accessible.
So what does this mean? Well I'll be posting new content here on a somewhat regular basis. I'm going to set the goal at once weekly you can expect some fresh content. I initially thought to go for more than that but even I knew that's being a *bit* too ambitious. Also for those of you readers of the past it's not going to be the same old thing, of me talking about what I've been up to. Granted that now most of us have departed from college it's a bit more interesting to read something like that to keep up, but at the same token it gets old. So I'm going to treat it more like an editorial of sorts. I think about a lot of things, and I sometimes write them down. Well here's to doing more of that.

Now on to blog bits!
So the latest news about the SF bay is rather depressing. Surprisingly this hasn't been HUGE news even tho those of us who live here. So a 810 foot container ship was leaving the bay and it ran into one of the piers of the bay bridge. Well clearly we build good bridges cuz it basically took a chunk out of the ship. This resulted in 58,000 gallons of heavy duty bunker fuel oil (really crude diesel basically) being dumped into the San Francisco Bay. What this means is the entire northern end of the bay area smells like oil, all beaches are closed and many of them have contaminated sand with oil, birds are being covered with the oil which will kill them if rescue help doesn't get to them fast, among other things. Take a look on SFGate.com for the bay area news. Here's a link directly to today's article

It's really sad. As a friend of mine observed, we're all so environmental and careful around here, and then something like this happens. And it's so fucking frustrating because you're doing everything you can to protect the environment where you live and all it takes is one careless mistake and it totally fucks it up for everyone in that area. The shipping company ultimately isn't going to care more than the cost of the lost fuel and the damaged ship and ultimately the delay to the cargo. To hell with our bay. Fuck them. However we are California, hell the Bay Area, you don't fuck with us.

"We'll be doing everything to make sure that those who are responsible are held accountable and that the costs borne by this will be borne by the appropriate agency or agencies... or individuals or companies that are responsible," says San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom.
It's nice to know that your government is actually sticking up for you (unlike the feds. *groan*) But even though we know that the responsible parties (I bet money on the Chinese shipping company) will be held responsible that still doesn't ever really compensate us for the damage that has been done. As I'm sure everyone feels and as Newsom has said, we are ultimately the ones who suffer from this. It will probably be at least a year, probably longer before we see this spill cleaned up.