Monthly Archives: May 2010

Twas me, and you, our thirst, indelicate

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 31, 2010

A sonnet by Sarah Gilbert and Mara Collins Sarah Gilbert (“mama, military wife, writer, cooker of inconvenient food, photographer of life, finance geek, keeper of chickens, beginning farmer”) posted a poem called oil leak: a sonnet. The final couplet: ‘Twas me, and you, our thirst, indelicate gulping, our leak, our spill, our oil-stained foot. It’s [...]

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The tweeting of BPGlobalPR

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 29, 2010

We regretfully admit that something has happened off of the Gulf Coast. More to come. With that laconic tweet, on May 19th BPGlobalPR emerged on twitter. Today, ten days later, the account has 83,000 followers and has posted about 130 tweets. The humor in these tweets ranges from bitterly ironic to sophomoric, but the picture [...]

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A big chill

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 27, 2010

It’s hard to put a dollar value on a dead sea turtle. Impossible, actually. Estimates of royalties owed to the US taxpayer for the lost oil amount to around $35 million. Chump change. Lurking somewhere offstage is the specter of a liability cap. Seventy-five million dollars per oil spill? Still chump change. The Deepwater Horizon [...]

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Blog, blog, blog

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 25, 2010

I can’t write here, I can’t write there. I’m stuck in some kind of Seussian tech-warp. Lacking motivation, time, energy and talent, still I soldier on. If I can’t keep this blog current, the reasoning goes, then perhaps I shoule build another blog that will be better, fresher, more engaging. For instance, Class War is [...]

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Awwww….

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 20, 2010
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Facebook, environmental disaster, and the unending war

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 14, 2010

There has been quite a bit of energy given to the matter of Facebook privacy and customer relations lately. Some friends are pulling down accounts. Bill Meloney drew the curtain on his Facebook account on May 1. A few others are quietly disentangling themselves and may make public announcements later. I have spent way too [...]

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Orrefors or Kohler

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 11, 2010

I’ve been on a binge. I found out that I’m powerless over Facebook and Twitter, easily addicted to Cyber-socializing in general. I know that there are only about eight people who read this blog with any frequency. This is a big improvement over 2001 when I had zero readers and only a vague clue about [...]

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Writing is like riding a bicycle

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 11, 2010

No matter how long since the last time you did it, you better wear a damn helmet because you’re likely to start out a little wobbly before you crash and smash your skull on the pavement.

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