DO SEA MONSTERS STILL EXIST OR NOT
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Consuming and purging a millennial oeuvre.
Feb 13
Dec 02
NYT, Landowners, Idiots
In classic libtard fashion, NYT ran a front page story about natural gas with picture of a boy and the word “peril” in the headline. Winning formula. Problem is, that boy’s dad is an idiot.
“After Scott Ely and his father talked with salesmen from an energy company about signing the lease allowing gas drilling on their land in northeastern Pennsylvania, he said he felt certain it required the company to leave the property as good as new.”
This guy “felt certain.” Great. Maybe you should clear that up before you allow an energy company to DRILL FOR NATURAL GAS on your land.
The tenor of this piece is that the landowners have been screwed over by energy companies (how novel), but NYT’s own “reporting” proves how ridiculous this is. In an attempt at flexing it’s reporting muscles, NYT PDF’d a bunch of leases. But the leases show in clear terms what these people are getting themselves into.
“Energy company officials say that standard leases include language that protects landowners. But a review of more than 111,000 leases, addenda and related documents by The New York Times suggests otherwise:”
Um, can I please get a quote from an “energy company official” please? Because I dont believe you, NYT. An example of the supposedly dubious practices is:
“Most leases are for three or five years, but at least two-thirds of those reviewed by The Times allow extensions without additional approval from landowners. If landowners have second thoughts about drilling on their land or want to negotiate for more money, they may be out of luck.”
But if you read the leases that they PDF, this language is in the fucking lease! What’s the story here? “Morons don’t read lease, are surprised when a company DRILLING FOR FUCKING NATURAL GAS fucks up their land.” Good god.
From one of the leases attached to the article: “EXTENSION OF PRIMARY TERM: Lessee has the option to extend the primary term..”
I can hear the argument being made that these poor folks were preyed on by big evil gas companies. Don’t you remember subprime mortgages, you ask. But there’s much more room for confusion and deception when dealing with unfixed interest rates than there is in a lease that says the company can do whatever it wants to your land while DRILLING FOR NATURAL GAS, including: “installing roads, electric power and telephone facilities.”
I do have to give NYT credit though. If their new formula for finding stories is: stupid person thinks something, is wrong, they’re going to have a ton of content.
if you must: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/us/drilling-down-fighting-over-oil-and-gas-well-leases.html?hp
Dec 21
things im no longer tolerating
when the new decade comes in a couple days, here’s some things im not going to allow into my consciousness anymore:
1. I am no longer tolerating people who claim that six inch subs ‘fill them up.’
No they don’t.
a six inch sub is going to be one of those things im not going to acknowledge as real when my children ask me about it, later in life.
it is masochistic to order a 6inch, even if u add Doritos(bc Doritos are not fucking real). Also Playing up the volume of a sandwich is a mistake. If people make volume in a sandwich, thats disgusting. those poeple are most likely obese. sandwiches cannot be enjoyed properly if they are stuffed to the brim.
you cannot even eat them.
why in the heck would you pack a sandwich higher than the size that your mouth comfortably opens.
discussing this kind of thing is like sending me a jpeg of a dolphin. it just really pisses me off. Bc its like the same kind of ‘yeah right’ concept. ‘oh a 6 inch/8inch sandwich fills me up’…’dolphins are so cute’…theres no way. I don’t believe u. u are just worshipping societal norms.
Whichwich is the worst of all. it didn’t even offer the option of something larger than an 8inch sandwich. I also am not tolerating people who claim that an 8inch sandwich fills them up. No fucking way.
2. tech journalists. what percentage of the ppl who write for wired and gizmodo have degrees in engineering or computer science or even a basic science? and what percentage are just super opinionated world of warcraft fanatics? quit whisking away the hours and years of hard work of nasa scientists and wireless communications specialists with a ‘review’ or a ‘column’. and also stop blaming your general shittiness on something other than yourself.
3. Boing Boing, because its pointless.
4. Jared from Subway, bc w/ the 5 dollar footlong promotion, he is pointless.
5. Vests, tell me what the point of a vest is. I guess the vest just evolved from when we were just wearing huge chunks of metal around. a few hundred years later, we are wearing cloth shaped like armor. and everyone is going ‘wow this change happened so gradually i didn’t even notice.’
Better than nothing. via Ezra
Dec 18
Well, Washington is supposed to get like 400 inches of snow, so I thought it appropriate to post one of my favorite winter paintings. You can see it @ the national gallery.
In 1775, Gilbert Stuart set sail for London where Benjamin West welcomed the destitute young man into his home. The Skater marks the end of his five-year apprenticeship to West. Stuart’s first effort at full-length portraiture, its originality brought the artist so much notice at the 1782 Royal Academy exhibition that he soon set up his own studio.
The unorthodox motif of skating — indeed, any presentation of vigorous movement at all — had absolutely no precedent in Britain’s “Grand Manner” tradition of life-size society portraiture. The painter recalled that when William Grant, from Congalton near Edinburgh, arrived to have his picture painted, the Scottish sitter remarked that, “on account of the excessive coldness of the weather … the day was better suited for skating than sitting for one’s portrait.” Thus artist and sitter went off to skate on the Serpentine River in Hyde Park. When he returned to West’s studio with Grant, Stuart conceived the idea of portraying his subject on ice skates in a winter landscape, with the twin towers of Westminster Abbey far in the distance.
In this innovative design, Grant glides effortlessly forward with arms crossed over his chest in typical eighteenth-century skating form. Except for his folded arms, the figure’s stance derives from an ancient Roman statue, the Apollo Belvedere, a cast of which stood in the corner of West’s studio.
Dec 15
cannonball adderley, jive samba
Dec 14
» whatever nytimes, youre just jealous that your city is still run by old white rich male assholes
PukeI says congrats to Houston’s new mayor, who happens to also be a lesbian (which is entirely unrelated to her career in public service, New York media).
u go girl.
Cant w8 til u turn down carbon caps, girl.
Dec 11
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also, have a good weekend.
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