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Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
40 Years in Beer, Part Four: Those Scoreboard daze of old...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Three: Did I really look like a guy with a plan?
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When I first began working at Scoreboard Liquors in...
Miscellany
Nawbany’s New Albany-opoly game is quite unique
When people began posting photos of the New Albany-opoly game now appearing so very weirdly at Wal-Fart, my first thought was that finally, at...
Most popular
40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Nine: The radicalization of F.O.S.S.I.L.S. (1990-91)
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Eight: The founding of F.O.S.S.I.L.S. in 1990.
“You’re quite the polemicist. Have I told you why your Red Room...
Louisville beer, now and then (or, my 2014 review of Kevin Gibson’s “Louisville Beer”...
Because, I really nailed this one.
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Louisville Beer, Now and Then
“Anyone who has groped among the dark beer dungeons which lie for a number...
Diary: Endeavour Morse, Joseph Brodsky and coping with the darkness of the Open Air...
Back on October 27, 2019 at NA Confidential, I undertook to explain a reference I'd previously made to New Albany as the Open Air...
The house painting job
My dentist practices in a rural community a good forty-minute drive from where I live near Louisville. The route passes through the town where...
Diary
Diary: Even I have to admit the parade manages to slow traffic
The Harvest Homecoming parade returns today after a year's COVID layoff. Those of you who know me well understand the depth of my love-hate...
The wild, wild Right Bank of the Ohio
Not so long ago, one of the downtown bars within extended staggering distance of our place of residence posted a social media notice in...
Diary for 19 September 2021: Your shrinking attention spans annoy me
If there is any one common denominator to help explain the ever bottoming nadir of daily life in the industrialized (and desperately sick) world,...
Diary for 28 July 2021: “Craft” is especially nonsensical when tacked to “hard” seltzer
The point of these “diary” entries is to write as the mood strikes me, in the moment.
I'd suggest we piss on hard seltzer, but...
Welcome to Nawbany, Episode 2: Knee deep in the hoopla
Roger has removed himself from active involvement in the local resistance movement because the retaliation isn’t worth it. But sometimes the sheer vapid inanity...
Recipes for Chaos
40 Years in Beer, Part Forty: Here’s why my tenure at...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty Nine: I’m off to Spijkenisse with a beer list in my hand (1992).
With this 40th chapter of...