| Hey Free Rangers, Time is stupid. Today is today. Yesterday was the last one. Tomorrow is the other thing. Wait, what was the question? Just as the events of the period known as “the ‘60s” mostly took place during 1966 through 1974, I don’t believe 2020 to really be over until January 20th 2021, 12:00pm, the constitutionally mandated end of the current presidential term. Until then seems a slow, low-simmer purgatory. Welcome to 2021. Cheers. Back in my Seattle days (1997-2001), I used to write an annual new year’s essay, for the Rocket. They never published one, though they were kind enough to pay me for words regularly (and a couple of times for photographs), and printed them on physical paper, where other people might also read them. It was an exciting time. Because so many of you seem to deliberately read these digital thingies now (genuinely one of my few positive takeaways from 2020), I thought I’d pilfer a few of my own unpublished words, from a vintage old enough to drink itself. We now take you back to Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA, in the earliest days of the year 2000: nye 2000 Unspectacular, uninspiring, dull. No explosions, no major terrorist activity, no new great red menace- well China is well on it’s way, but not for today. No power outages, no burning, no looting. My e-mail didn’t even crash. No planes fell from the sky, no hell fire came, and none of the millennialist crazies showed up to support the self-fulfilling prophecy of Armageddon that I had predicted for our new year. I sure choked on that one; thanks fellas. In yet another dead-wrong move by Mayor Paul Schell, the Seattle City Center fell quiet at 6:00pm, only six hours prior to the non-apocalypse. And in the closing hours before 2000, nary a soul even bothered to party like… I can’t even say it. It’s just too depressing. I spent much of the first few days of 2000 flipping the TV remote as news reports discussed the statistics of money wasted on Y2K preparation. As they reported all of the details of the disasters that weren’t, they too seemed disappointed. The great anti-climax was, however, a fitting end to a century of hype; a great crescendo of nothing- a black hole of expectation. – JC, Seattle, 2000Can you believe they didn’t print that?! … I’d kill for some good old fashioned complacent disappointment right about now, like Pelosi being elected Speaker of the House again (which occurred while I was drafting this- be careful what you wish for). We’ll likely talk about the “new year” some more after 1/20. Good luck to us all. Still in a bit of shellshock from the last couple of weeks, months, and that last year, and also in the midst of a huge inventory and storage project. So rather than come up with a new e-mail deal, how ‘bout we reactivate a handful of coupon codes from a few of our greatest hits from the last few months? (!) Click here to access the hidden sale page. (!) sale: retail: Brittan Estate Pinot Noir 2017 $27 $ Free Range Roknar Rye Cask Strength $49 $ St George Single Malt The Baller $75 $ ** This week only, as supplies last! ** * No other discounts apply.* Cheers, Jack Proprietor Free Range Wine & Spirits P.S. Free Range E-mail Archive |
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