Screw Spimes
“‘It’s officially against corporate policy for us to hand out oil barrels,’ the 37-year-old Mitchell frets. ‘We really don’t know what to do about all this.’
For many of the world’s estimated 35,000 panmen, the sweetest-sounding music comes from the 55-gallon, 20-gauge red steel oil barrels made in Shell’s lubricant mixing plant on Barracones Bay in Trinidad.”
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finally got around to reading this. so amazing. don’t let anyone say the Royal Dutch Corporation is completely evil anymore.
In general, a sealer will use a hakapik or club if at all possible. That’s because with these weapons, it’s much easier to aim a blow directly at the seal pup’s head. One swing from a hakapik will usually kill a pup right away. By law, you have to keep clubbing the seal in the forehead until you know for sure that it’s dead. Sealers are supposed to “palpate” a pup’s skull after they’ve clubbed it, to feel the caved-in bone beneath the skin and blubber. Or they can perform the “blink reflex” test, which consists of touching the seal’s eyeball—if it blinks, you’ve got to club it again. (Few sealers actually perform these tests, though; some say they can feel the skull collapse as they make contact with their clubs.)
this looks like a proof of concept costume design for a Terry Gilliam movie.
I suppose if novels were true to life, they’d all end with the characters dying, but if they did, we wouldn’t want to read them, would we?
I just wanted to record this quote, which I had seen and forgotten a month or two ago and then could not find again.
What did you do to our precious directory of wonderful things?!~?!?!