In recent years, the villains have included developers and politicians. Let’s see if you can guess who got pilloried in 2010. I give no clues, although I will show dirty pictures.
Eeeew! Sullied skin and scales; sticky besmirching gunk!
A polluted sea on the sidewalk,
such beauty begrimed,
a beached fowl befilthed by a fouling foam,
a pestiferous plague on pickup and passengers, and
all drawing out righteous indignation.
Face it . . . many of us are traumatized . . . and what can we do?
In the Gulf of Mexico and many other places our consumption has brewed a cruddy, nasty, soiled, nasty, stinky concoction that
chokes when brought to the mouth.
The sea . .. and the land and the shoreline are
yours and ours. But how do we claim what is ours?
What must we all do to save beauty from beastliness?
Click here to see Rick (old salt’s) post with a great clip of the becrowning of Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed. Here’s Lou Reed’s “coney island baby.” From frogma, musica!
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Some related pieces: a Frank Rich essay from Sunday’s NYTimes that I like, oil spills we don’t hear about, a cautionary tale from Nigeria where oil has issued forth since 1958, info and pix about the momentous 1969 oil spill off Santa Barbara, and an article about life of the crew of vessel known as OCS-G 32306 integral to efforts at end this nightmare.
So who was the villain here?
My gratitude to all the performers for their theatre of grief.
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June 21, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Buck
A sober tale, well told.
June 21, 2010 at 8:56 pm
Mage Bailey
The Mermaids need to besmirch the BP chair next time he enters their realm on his boat to start. I’ll think of more later.
June 21, 2010 at 8:58 pm
bowsprite
“many of us are traumatized . . . and what can we do?”
well, ditch the car under the float, maybe, for one.
June 22, 2010 at 9:20 am
Tim Sklyarov
sick photos
June 29, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Anita Wagner
I was there in the judging stands and it was my first mermaid parade, totally awesome! And so much creative expression about the oil in the gulf.