Sick, and Amazing

I like to joke that people (namely, my family) on the East Coast think that people (specifically, me) in California are crazy and sometimes the folks of San Francisco play right into their judgemental hands--like the pre-Burning man hoolahoop raves that spontaneous pop up in Dolores Park on summer weekends.

The local response to the oil spill is another such example:

A group of guerrilla volunteers is cleaning oil from San Francisco's beaches using an unorthodox, albeit totally organic, method: human hair and mushrooms. Using mats made of hair, they are absorbing the droplets of oil that have washed ashore since a cargo ship rammed the base of a Bay Bridge tower last week, spilling 58,000 gallons of fuel.

The original article can be found on SFGate.com here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/11/14/MNPQTBLE4.DTL

Of course, I support their efforts completely and if my OCD didn't make those mats seem like the most disgusting things in the world, I would hop in a white hazmat suit, go clean some oil and try to save a few birds.