"there was also no escape"

"Horses brought a revolution.  Not since the spread of corn across the continent had Native Americans experienced such an increase in power.  Equestrian nomads could do almost everything -- move, hunt, trade, fight, kill, evade, and protect themselves -- faster and more efficiently.  There was the time before horses, and there was the time after them.  The Blackfoot became more mobile, more powerful, more ambitious, and, potentially, more vulnerable: a single mounted attack could exact far more damage than the on-foot war parties of old.  Native peoples had entered a new technological age from which they benefited, but from which there was also no escape."

-- Indigenous Continent, Pekka Hamalainen

RIP Tina Turner

 

Tina Turner, "Proud Mary" live

I like 80's Tina just fine but damn, for me it'll always be about the late 60's / early 70's girl-group on speed rendition of "Proud Mary" here.  So much talent.  And I realize this was a pretty awful time in her life but man, it never shows.

“Pain is nature’s way of telling us that something is wrong. Patiently, pain goes on telling us this, long after we’ve got the message.”

RIP Martin Amis.

I loved Money and The Information.  I bounced hard off of London Fields, twice.  Go figure.

Experience is also tremendous.

The Lioness Sleeps Tonight

 

Princess Mandu never seems to get enough sleep.

Is It Gilead Yet?

With my move to Maryland and my basic disgust with all things political these days, I haven't had a lot to say about the extremism of our current right-wing Catholic Supreme Court.  But at least, let's dispense with the myth that outlawing abortion is about "protecting the unborn" and not, in fact, controlling women's bodies and punishing them when they practice bodily autonomy:

"A 26-year-old woman from Texas was shot and killed by her boyfriend after getting an abortion in another state, Dallas police said."

Women are going to start being sent to jail for miscarriages sooner, not later. 

Fell's Point, Hon

Spent a day in lovely Baltimore in Fell's Point.  With a new job in place, I guess I'm back in Maryland for now.

Job

Jimmy McGriff, "Blue Juice"

I played this a ton driving across the country.  Close-to-perfect track.

I got offered a job yesterday, and a pretty good one at that.  I'm pursuing both education opportunities but also dispatching.  I tested, interviewed, and was offered one of the latter in the span of about four hours.

So it's good news, and I have enough time to wait and hear back from some of my admittedly longer-shot applications.

S'good.

Work

I'm looking for a job.  It might seem strange from the outside, but I'm applying to a mix of education related positions (I mean, I did teach English in South Korea for over a decade) and dispatching, which is what I was doing in Bellingham part-time with the Humane Society.  I see a clear link between the two with regards to communication skills and problem solving buy hey, that's how I'm wired.

It's never easy to be told you aren't good enough for any position.  But then again, it's only been a little over a week and I've got at least one interview lined up.

We shall see.