News of my World
Sunday Summary for 11 July 2021, or the links to what...
Henceforth it is my aim to post a Sunday compendium of links here at the web site, these directing you to recent writings of...
Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Two: A placid traditional Danish lunch...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-One: Those legendary working beers with the FDJ in the GDR.
There was a faint glow, and an aura...
Miscellany
The Mysterious Case of the Departing Policemen
There was an opinion piece in the Jeffersonville News and Tribune.
OUR VIEW: New Albany Police Department, city must be transparent about resignations
Over the span...
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Common Haus Draft Preview I: Meet the inner tap circle
Common Haus Hall (134 Spring Street, Jeffersonville IN) will be open for business soon. I’m the head of the Bierabteilung (Beer Department), and my...
An entirely unexpected Sagamore of the Wabash in 2025
If you've ever wondered what a "sagamore" is, the state of Indiana stands ready with an explanation.
The term “sagamore” was used by the American...
40 Years in Beer (Book II, Part 41): Just a singer in a rock...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Forty: Here’s why my tenure at Rich O’s BBQ began in 1992.
You’ll recall that it was a warm...
40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 76: A boy can dream – about...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 75: My shoes are filled with Volga mud (1999).
This installment was terribly hard to write. Kindly...
Diary
Diary for 27 July 2021: I really hate having to drive a car to...
The point of these "diary" entries is to write as the mood strikes me, in the moment.
The past few weeks I've made many, perhaps...
When I’m 64? Now that I’m 64? Can we go back to Europa yet?
If memory serves, we sang snippets of this song by The Beatles in swing choir during high school. I never really imagined it would...
ON THE AVENUES: Welcome to “Pagan Life,” a weekly column devoted to heathens, infidels,...
ON THE AVENUES is the name of my longtime column at the former NA Confidential. It makes the passage to Exile on Spring Street....
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...
Diary: Let’s keep those mine shafts to a minimum in 2025
(Cover photo: Split before surgery.)
Twenty-three days ago I had hip replacement surgery (left side), and the recovery proceeds apace. Gradually strength is returning, and...
Recipes for Chaos
Diary: Looking for a good biography of Eugene V. Debs? This...
This being an election year — and accordingly, utterly infuriating on a daily basis for the MAGA stupidity it embodies — I thought it...
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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 7: Vienna and the dawning of a Habsburg fixation
Previously: Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 6: Pecetto idyll, with a Parisian chaser.
During my stay in Rome, a veteran Australian wanderer taught me a “wedding...
Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 6: Pecetto idyll, with a Parisian chaser
(I'm including examples of songs I heard while in Europe in 1985. I'd like to say that I recall music of local origin, but...
Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 5: A critical Mass in Rome — and the famous...
Musical introduction, or "the songs I heard playing in 1985 as I traveled around Europe." I had no Walkman or radio of my own,...
