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Friday, June 18, 2010

Oh, the manatee!

Graffiti at the end of the block, where I'm housesitting.

"Oh, the humanity!"

I overheard this conversation at the back of the city bus:

Man 1: You hear about the oil spill in the Gulf?

Man 2: I haven't had a TV for 6 months.

Man 3: Man, everything DYING! It killing all the animals* and plants and crawfish and everything.

Man 1: Don't listen to the TV, they just tell you what they want you to hear. Listen to the radio--AM 950 [Air America]. They'll tell you. This oil, it's all over everything! And it's just greed caused it. Greed!

Man 2: Why don't they clean it up?

Man 1: [pause] You ever try cleaning up a chicken dinner in cold water?

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*Even the manatee?

Yes. Possibly even the manatee.