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Every major industrialized nation has A BEER (you can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear...
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REWIND: “This week in solipsistic beer narcissism” (2014)
Lightly edited to remove a couple of obscure topical references.
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Miscellany
Ed Clere is running for mayor of New Albany, and I...
Here's a news item from yesterday.
I'm famously inclined to wordiness, and never much bothered when readers comment about a disturbing need to consult their...
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GREEN MOUSE SAYS: I won’t be seeking the open county council seat as a...
The Green Mouse has asked me to issue a clarification, re: Floyd County Democrats to hold caucus for county council seat, via the Jeffersonville...
“Howard Zinn’s July 4 Wisdom Stands the Test of Time,” followed with a rant...
Howard Zinn, Mark Twain, Edwin Moses and me, but first, Frederick Douglass. Dave Zirin, one of a select group of sportswriters who really matter,...
40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-One: Those legendary working beers with the FDJ in...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty: Beer, zakuski, vodka and ice cream.
As August approached, I’d been tourist-grade ambulatory in the East Bloc for...
Pink Guava Gose or Fuller’s ESB? Hmm, let me see …
Just the other day I saw a Twitter tout heralding the forthcoming release of a beer called Pink Guava Gose (brewery unknown), which I...
Diary
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 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,...
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...
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...
Diary: Atlas Shrugged and how Bob Youngblood taught me to appreciate Charles Dickens
At best, I tend to regard Ayn Rand as a sociopath, and yet I’ve read her ball-boiling pot-buster (and seemingly interminable) novel Atlas Shrugged.
Why...
Recipes for Chaos
40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 52: “Anheuser-Busch, Gone Home,”...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 51: Papazian sidesteps AB vs. Budvar by prohibiting FOSSILS from quoting him.
As of 2024, the trademark war...
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Speaking of epitaphs, a wonderful song called “Get Out and Stay Out”
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It usually surprises people to learn that I’ve lived in Floyd County, Indiana my entire life, and in New Albany since the early 1990s....
