March 1, 2013 7:01 am by: Mike Lee
Did you know that today, March 1, is Beer Day in Iceland? It's the day when Icelanders (Icelandians? I really don't know) commemorate the March 1, 1989 end of prohibition in that country. It's celebrated by many by participating in a "rúntur" or pub crawl, and if you ask me, going on a pub crawl in Iceland on Beer Day sounds like about the drinkingist thing you can do with yourself....
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Boy, oh boy, how about that wind yesterday, huh? We all hope that you and yours didn't lose power or get blown around too much. Also, we're really rethinking our decision to put the O'Dark offices in a treehouse. Things are a mess around here, man.
But we're going to soldier on and bring you a spanking new podcast anyway, 'cause that's how we do things around these parts. We've got three cool bits of radio for your ears today, starting off with Mississippi Porches, a great little slice-of-life piece from O'Dark stalwart Jake Warga. Good stuff as always from our buddy Jake.
And then it's He Didn't Mean to Die, from Sara Curtus. This one packs a lot of emotion into its brief 55 second runtime.
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