Lotta Nerve

Maybe it was just tired of someone profiting off its enslavement. A killer whale killed a trainer at Seaworld yesterday. The fact that this was international news is interesting. Perhaps the next crisis will be animals rising up against humans a la Avatar. The biggest joke was someone describing the death as "violent". Just like the Haitians are violent right? Or Iraqis are violent? Or Palestinians? Or South Africans? How would these witnesses describe the levelling of whole mountaintops or the tar sands? Oh yeah, economic activity.

But you already know how I feel.

Here are some lyrics from a wonderful Neko Case song that might offer some insight.

People Got a Lotta Nerve

So the saying says
An elephant never forgets
Standing in the concrete cave
Swaying side and sing
They walked over the ocean
And their dreams they dreamed awake
Until the lights grew dim
Until the cop cars came
Everybody tells me this is crazy, yes I know

But I'm a man man man man man man man eater
But still you're surprised
prised prised when I eat ya

You know they call them killer whales
But you seem suprised
When it pinned you down to the bottom of the tank
Where you can't turn around
It took half your leg and both your lungs
And I craved I ate hearts of
sharks, I know you know it

I'm a man man man man, man man man eater
But still you're surprised prised
prised when I eat ya [X2]

It will end again in moonlit song
It will end again in moonlit song.