Hello Free Rangers,
Back in my Seattle days, I wrote for the Rocket, the greatest rock paper in the lauded history of the great pacific northwest. I could never get the Stranger to return my calls (e-mails, or snail mail). They were the more general interest indy-ish paper, like a weird upstart cover band of the Village Voice (for whom I desperately longed to byline). Our local friend here at the shop, Kristy, used to write for the Stranger, and could never get the Rocket to return her calls. You can’t always get what you want, as a fella once said. Although given how long ago the Rocket died, and that Kristy seems not as eld as I, this story may have some holes in it…. Regardless, thanks to Joe Ehrbar and Nina Pearlman for helping to launch the career that I spent the next decade or so driving into the ground. I used to get fired a lot. During that time, one of my many many unpublished items was a series of New Years essays- for whom I thought I was writing them I don’t rightly recall, but at the bottom of this note you’ll find the millennium edition. Have a gander, if you like. If I can get the ancient file to open. Pages no likey… holy crow, that’s a not great app.
Now, for our own reset sanity, and in solidarity with those doing Dry Schmanuary, our in-store tasting program starts back up in early February. Stay tuned! And for those experiencing/enduring a soggier Schmanuary, welcome to ‘Roll Back the Clock’ pricing Part 3! Of course, if the temptation isn’t too great, dry month folks are certainly welcome to take advantage of the deal now, and not pop the cap ’til 2/1. The latest installment of our Roll Back the Clock pricing series is in fact the with the classic- dare we say, most requested Bourbon of all-time- Blanton’s Single Barrel Bourbon! Here’s how it works:
Buy any bottle from the page linked below to get 1 bottle of Blanton’s Single Barrel Bourbon 750ml @ $89 (usually $149).
* limit 1 per customer
Many on the list are already lowest price around, and several are further discounted still. Take a look here:
(!) Click here for Blanton’s deal page (!)
New Year’s Day 2000 – (Unpublished in Seattle)
Unspectacular, uninspiring, dull. No explosions, no major terrorist activity, no new great red menace- well China is well on its way, but not for today. No power outages, no burning, no looting. E-mail servers 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 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.
Cheers,
Jack
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