This One’s For You, Tony

To add to the Christopher Cross Theme

A once in your life disaster
Something that runs your firm aground
And next thing you know they’re closing down the Gulf
Wake up and it’s still on you
Even though you left it way across the pond
Wondering to yourself, “Hey, what’ve I found?”

When you get caught between the Gulf and Racing Yacht Bob
I know it’s crazy, but it’s true
If you get caught between the Gulf and Racing Yacht Bob
The best that you can do ……
The best that you can do is fuck it up

Tony he does as he pleases
All of his life, he’s managed rigs
Deep in his heart, he’s just, he’s just a douche
Living his life one day at a time
And showing himself a really good time
Laughing while Gulf waters turn oily brown

When you get caught between the Gulf and Racing Yacht Bob
I know it’s crazy, but it’s true
If you get caught between the Gulf and Racing Yacht Bob
The best that you can do ……
The best that you can do is fuck it up

@ManchuCandidate: You came up with that in… 23 minutes. OUTFUCKINGSTANDING.

Incidentally, Barry & Plugz went golfing on Saturday, according to same linked wire article. A little less upper-crust than yachting, to be fair ….

Hold it right there. I used to race J24s – buy ’em trashed for 4 or 5 grand as long as the hull was decent, put 3 or 4 thousand worth of go-fast stuff on, and get racing sails that someone was ready to throw away.Golfers probably spend more in greens fees in a year. Raced w/ a crew of 4 or 5. Upper crust sailing is when you have to put your cup of ale down to make a sail change. On a J24 there was barely time to pee.

@blogenfreude: Why do you hate America?

You never need a good reason for Yacht Rock.

@Benedick: Dude = I love America – guy from Rhode Island gave us the very same J Boat – best pocket racers out there. Scroll down and you will see a J105 – I used to race on those as well. Less action, so you could drink a beer, unless you were at the helm.

@blogenfreude: This does not make it OK for Tony Hayward to recreate himself in some snooty bankers’ race of the Isle of Wight when he should be on his knees scooping oil. Obviously his boat is different. It is the snooty, Limey version. Not the healthy beer-loving, outdoorsy US model.

@Benedick: As a Descended Wightian, I don’t know what to think.

@Benedick: I’m not angry at Hayward for taking a break – everyone needs one, even greedy oil executives. What angers me is the years the company (led by Hayward) spent dumbing down regulations, lobbying to accomplish this, and acting like they were prepared if something like this happened. There is likely no one on the planet with sufficient experience and knowhow to fix this. It’ll be a happy accident if it’s fixed anytime soon, and I am betting this thing does enough environmental and economic damage to put the world into a depression. It’ll make the 30s look like a little hiccup. Glass half-empty? Yeah, you betcha.

Hey Lefty, Brazil has a player named “Kaka” who got a red card. Seems fitting, no?

@blogenfreude: All kidding aside, you know how much I value and admire your work on this. I trust your opinion and am grateful to be able to read your input here on noje’s big hard shiny thing. It’s not unlike reading Mark Danner in NYRB before we drove down the dark road to hell. And I thank you.

@Benedick: I call ’em as I see ’em … in this case, we are in way over our heads. This was not Taleb’s black swan – it was entirely predictable. If a hurricane hits, or a second rig nearby goes down, there’s your black swan. And then we’re all screwed.

@blogenfreude: BP estimated 100K barrels per day from a wide-open well: http://globalwarming.house.gov/files/WEB/flowrateBP.pdf. File this under “Lying Sack Of Shit.”