The Long Winters

Until the invention of the LP (or Long-Playing) record (in 1947 ), music was typically released as singles on 78 rpm discs. These, in turn, were collected by placing them in paper sleeves in large binders -- an actual album , like the ones we still use to collect photographs. A record company might ...

Please, enjoy this.

Technology never ceases to delight me.

sean wrote: (if anyone's interested, i'll be singing a zevon song or two with the capillaries tomorrow night at the crocodile, by way of tribute.)

Which songs?

The Thompson gunner's name was Roland, by the way.

"Desperadoes Under the Eaves" is possibly one of his best.

Heartless!

You'd like to have a diner where the coffee tastes like diesel fuel?

The Hope Diamond's a blue one, and it's cursed, isn't it? http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/diamond-hope-smithsonian.gif They placed in the barrow that precious booty, the rounds and the rings they had reft erewhile, hardy heroes, from hoard in cave,— trusting the ground with treasure of ear...

It's definitely the most fascinating place in Los Angeles.

The Washington table is skewed by the fact that the Eastern three-quarters of the state is an arid semi-desert. Only the Coastal areas get much rain. And although Miami gets more rain by volume, it's only because Seattle rain tends to fall in a mist. Grant, see if you can find any statistics on num...

North Georgia's Len Foote Hike Inn.

The Koreshan State Historical Site in southwest Florida.

Cochise's Stronghold, on the border of Arizona and Mexico.

Here, according to this amateur table Washington state gets just over half the rainfall Florida receives. According to some more official data, Seattle averages 33 inches of rain annually while Miami averages 57 inches of rain. You can look up your own locations, too, by way of comparison.

still no lacan? ~sniff~ Consider this an illustration of the eternally retreating object of desire, the desire defined by absence or, indeed, the desire as absence itself. In other words, our hands are tied. We may be able to mouth the words, but you will not hear our actual speech, only a prerecor...

Midori wrote:No matter what you guys think, nobody, and I mean NOBODY, gets more rain than South Florida. It's so saturated here that you can nearly swim through the air.

Yes. Quite.

If you'd given more of an advance warning, I could possibly have arranged a reception as you disembarked. Alas. No champagne and handkerchiefs...

Mind the Wicker Men. They sprout up like dandelions in the autumn. Catch fire at the drop of a hat, people always getting tangled up in them... nasty business, those. Were I you, I'd stay well clear.

Will the Long Winters be following Death Cab into the lurid, miasmal swamps of Florida?

cool! would you believe, i looked at the same stuff in a 0.75 bottle in an off licence the other day and it was 28 fuckin euro! you want a real good laugh? alright - the off licence was in clontarf! i love this country... *shrug* I'm sorry, but that was just gibberish. Perhaps this will help: 0.75 ...

Is Death Cab currently touring? Are they planning to be this year? There have been some rumors of a local appearance, but nothing I've been able to substantiate...

Ah. I just realized I posted my first reponse on the actual anniversary. So there's a topicality to your question that eluded me at the time.