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Commercial Real Estate = shit + fan(-t)

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Is fucked.

A picture is worth a thousand words, so I want to end this post with no less than 2000 words.

Now think about how you haven’t heard anyone sounding any alarm bells about this. Think back to the residential mortgage crises. Note that where the chart says 160,000,000 – that’s in thousands, so it’s really 160 billion. Notice how much of the second chart is in “nonaccrual status” – i.e. they’s stopped payin that shit. A good $100 billion of the $140 billion total. And this is before anyone’s heard about it. Do you remember when hearing about the subprime implosion, how big those numbers started out when they were first reported.

These charts are the business equivalent of a bucket of shit heading straight for an industrial 10,000 RPM turbofan. And remember, when they get on TV and assure us that the mess is “contained,” the last mess that they assured us was contained.

Just following the instructions

Friday, February 26th, 2010



, originally uploaded by 9 0 0 0.

Exactly as specified.

Volcano lighting?

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

I mean, does it get any cooler than that? There are more. MEK CLICK! Thanks Pink Tentacle! Lighting plus volcano is tying two forces of nature together, like a velociraptor ninja.

Cousing of the Great Pacific Garbage Gyre – Altantic Gyre

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Holy shit. We are turning our oceans into toxic stew. Forget climate change, this shit’s gonna get us first.

Open your eyes, I see… your eyes are open

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Erasure? Always!

Adult Swim has this pretty fun browser game called Robot Unicorn Attack – and this track is the theme song for the video game (well, the new 2009 mix of this track anyway). The best part is probably the death sequence.

And just for completeness: Erasure? meh, Sometimes.

But halfway through that you’re gonna scream ERASURE, STOP! (Sometimes was bad enough not gonna link this one but if you’re brave it’s there waiting for you.) This one, You Surround Me is worth 30 seconds just to see that awful outfit he’s wearing. You’ll be like, “Thank science they decided to get all normal for the Always video.”