Elvis left Las Vegas...

i'm applying for a job in Chicago... (it's actually a promotion within the company that would take me outside Chicago...)

i've lived in Milwaukee for nearly 16 years. i've never lived outside Wisconsin. i spent a semester in London, which is KINDA like living outside WI, but that was a predetermined amount of time.

i hate moving, but this might be a very good thing. if the job didn't involve moving out of state/town i would want it in a heartbeat, so the moving part is the tough part.

so yeah... this could be interesting...

Hi Ho, yo

a downside to not having cable TV is watching all sorts of movies you really have no interest in, but you watch them any way. Today i watched "Posse", with a mega cast of Mario Van Peebles, Stephen Baldwin, Nipsy Russel, and Ton Loc, to name a few...

took place after the Spanish-American War (1898). group of black army deserters (and Stephen Baldwin) head west after returning from Cuba to avenge the murder of Mario Van Peebles father. But not only are they fighting injustice, they are fighting racism (and in Stephen Baldwin's case, he's just fighting to establish something of a sustainable acting career...)

But like any cowboy movie, there is a good dose of card playin', boozin', whorin', fancy shootin', fancy ridin', you get the idea... ever notice how "gang" activity is portrayed? and when i say "gang" i'm talking cowboys, pirates, vikings, and yes, even modern inner-city gangs in the US. So, with how "romantic" pirates are viewed 250-300 years after their heyday, i wonder if the inner city gangs of the 1980's through today are going to have the same "romantic" appeal in a couple hundred years?

my point has ZERO to do with race; vikings are as white as you can get, and can't imagine that there were many black pirate captains (but i'm sure that there were black crew memebers). But i bet that your average pirate, your average REAL pirate, could scare the bling off any inner-city badass... but yeah, i bet in two hundred years our worst gangs will be viewed with a strange folk hero worship.