Hello and welcome to the Anthropocene Reviewed, a podcast where we review different facets

of the Human-centered planet on a five-star scale.

Today, in this podcast's first ever one review episode, I'll be reviewing all-lang Zine,

a song that is today most associated with New Year's Eve.

I find it fascinating that in a world where so much is so new, we welcome New Year's

by singing a very old song.

The chorus starts out, for all-lang Zine, my Joe, for all-lang Zine, I'll take a cup of

kindness yet for all-lang Zine.

Joe is a Scots word that can be straightforwardly translated to deer, but all-lang Zine is

more complicated.

It literally means something like old-long sense, but it's idiomatically similar to the

old times.

We have a phrase in English, somewhat similar to for old-lang Zine.

The phrase is for old-time's sake.

Here's a bit of my old-long sense.

In the summer of 2001, the writer Amy Kross-Rosenthal emailed Booklist Magazine to inquire about

a review.

At the time, I was working for Booklist as a publishing assistant.

Most of my job was data entry, but I also answered many of the low-priority emails that

came in.

So I responded to Amy with an update on the status of the review, and I also mentioned

that on a personal note, I had loved her Zine-like column in Might magazine.

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