There Will be Blood
Jen and I saw
There Will be Blood last night. Daniel Day Lewis just keeps getting better and better and the rest of the cast was excellent.
It was set in the early California Oil Fields. For an interesting look into life in the earlier Pennsylvania fields, check out these 20 stories from
The Tallini Tales of Destruction. Since the Pennsylvania oil fields were not as porous as the Californian ones, they would sometimes send down nitroglycerin filled 'torpedoes' to break up the rock matrix and stimulate the oil flow. These tales are more misadventures and what happens when Nitro gets set off unexpectedly...
Posted by DaveH at January 28, 2008 1:52 PM