‘Dirty Bloods’

Old Year’s Eve Observations in Portland, 1/5/25

[Over cards, Dog Soldier discussed what we saw at the New Year’s Eve NARA Sobriety Powwow a few days earlier. The game is cribbage, the music in the background country, the whiskey cheap cinnamon and the 120-pound black lab/pit at our feet as dumb as the day is long. I will decline to note the ethnographic and human trafficking subtexts and assign this …