News of my World
An Afternoon with Santa Claus: Zürich’s Hürlimann Brewery, 1994
Exuberant excess in beer has been redefined so many times recently that I wouldn't know where to begin a survey of the territory, but...
Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Seven: Ladislav’s language — or, teaching...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Six: From a 1990 portal, Sportstime Pizza to Rich O’s BBQ to NABC.
Editor's note: The black and white photos...
Miscellany
Fire in the hole: Labor Day in America should be May...
Just a wee bit of clarity, then some music, and finally a benediction. The content herewith is derived from past posts at the NA...
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Commonism in Kentucky? Why not, seeing as it’s a true American brew
Kentucky Common needs to become more customary, and today my friend Michael, one of three visionaries behind Louisville Ale Trail, revealed that he'd started...
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...
Diary for 9 July 2021: Origin Park is the green space equivalent of Jeff...
Diary for 9 July 2021
Earlier in the week I mentioned to a few friends that a new ON THE AVENUES column was forthcoming. However,...
Secular humanism would be a good antidote to religion — right, News and Tribune?
Apart from Friday afternoons each week, when the Jeffersonville News and Tribune treats us to not one but two evangelical Christian guest columnists, one...
Diary
Battered, bruised, and crawling back onto the non-band wagon
"The Dutch blueprint for urban vitality isn’t about bicycles. It’s about refusing to sacrifice vast amounts of the public realm to the private car;...
Coffey vs. Dickey in the 2nd? Slice me off a piece of THAT
Told you so.
The Green Mouse reports that Dan Coffey—for decades a Democrat, then an independent, and now a Republican (somewhere a Falangist has lost...
Diary for 1 June 2021: Constructive criticism is seldom tolerated at the grassroots
If there is any one surefire takeaway that springs to mind from my lengthy period of civic engagement — the grassroots era, those "localism"...
Out and about, in America, in Europe — and in my cups
This one was written in 2009 and revised in 2014. It hasn't appeared anywhere since, which makes it ripe for a rerun. The biggest...
Diary: It’s very disappointing when independent small business owners become science deniers
Recently at Pints&union we received a cyber complaint from a disgruntled customer.
To his credit, the patron made no effort to conceal his identity, which...
Recipes for Chaos
40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty: Beer, zakuski, vodka and ice...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Nineteen: Moscow skyline in twilight, 1989.
Founding Soviet patriarch Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died in early 1924, and while he...