@mat couldn't make it, so we had an extended THIS WEEK IN HISTORY with @brockwinstead
Behold, and read along in the 29 Oct 1850 California Daily Alta:
- This Week in 1850 (The big party for California's admission to the Union!)
- what is a beer engine? (thanks @jobius!)
- sea shanties (thanks @lmc!)
- vaguely nautical music -- Stan Rogers, Great Big Sea, Drawn Ships.
- important horse news
- important tortilla legal news
- important proto-burrito tortilla history (1877)
- very important burrito history (1886)
Playlist
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Comin' Home by 2 Lane Blacktop on 2 Lane Blacktop (Linda Perry) -
White Riot by The Clash on The Clash (Sony) -
Barrett's Privateers by Stan Rogers on Fogarty's Cove (Barn Swallow Records) -
Ordinary Day by Great Big Sea on XX (Rounder Records USA) -
Glass Eye by Drawn Ships on Low Domestic (Scratch Records) -
Breakup Math by Drawn Ship on Ghost Weight (Scratch Records) -
Let's Fall in Love by Mother Mother on The Sticks (Last Gang Records) -
The Battle of Duck Lake by Portico on First Neighbours (Arts & Crafts) -
All I Am Is All You're Not by Sloan on Parallel Play (Murderecords) -
Bury Our Friends by Sleater Kinney on No Cities To Love (Sub Pop) - Break
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Man Out of Time by Elvis Costello on Imperial Bedroom (Columbia) -
Albatross by Fleetwood Mac on Pious Bird of Good Omen (Columbia)