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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 5: A critical Mass in Rome —...
Musical introduction, or "the songs I heard playing in 1985 as I traveled around Europe." I had no Walkman or radio of my own,...
Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
A reminder: “Welcome to the last will and testament of NA...
15 December 2022 Preface: I've been asked if I would consider getting back into the game, resuming my role as dissident, once again speaking...
Miscellany
OTA Archive from June, 2020: “There, there. People are dying, so...
In New Albany, Harvest Homecoming is once again under way after a year's layoff owing to COVID safety protocols. This column originally appeared at...
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40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 91: New Albany’s brewing history, prior to...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 90: A brewery for the New Albanian in all of us, Lite-free NABC debuts in 2002.
In...
The 40 Years in Beer Compendium: links, previews, and coming attractions
(Updated on September 8, 2026)
40 44 Years in Beer is a memoir of my life and times in the beer business.
The first of these...
40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 62: Rich O’s expands, and we gain...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 61: The Silo Microbrewery’s fatal travails, 1994 – 1997.
Hang on tight, dear reader. This installment’s tilt-a-whirl...
40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 75: My shoes are filled with Volga...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 74: Down a rabbit hole, deep into the Belgian beer paradise (1998).
Insofar as ordinary Americans know to...
Diary
Welcome to Nawbany, Episode 1: Let’s all fight for something, anything, whatever
The New Albany City Council's current president is at-large councilman Jason Applegate, who on March 7 asked that "everyone keep the people of Ukraine...
Diary: Has anyone of sound mind ever fretted over losing a despot?
37 years ago this week, my month’s stay in the German Democratic Republic (we refer to the fading image in our cracked rear view...
MLK Day, 2026
I was not quite eight years old when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in April of 1968, and consequently, my memories of...
The Weekly Wad lives on in the minds of malcontents everywhere
(updated for the 50th anniversary in 2025)
In the past I've expended quite a few words to explain why I try to keep high school...
Diary for 21 July 2021: The artist’s name comes first
Can you name the Pope who commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel?
Didn't think so. I had to look it up: Julius II.
While I'm...
Recipes for Chaos
GREEN MOUSE SAYS: Here’s how Floyd County’s brewery lead over Clark...
Several weeks ago the Green Mouse filed a report with upper management.
He noted that Jeffersonville's Red Foot brewery (256 Spring Street) had ceased operations,...
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For me, the biggest impediment to writing is putting the first word into the machine, knowing how much it's going to hurt before I'm...
Diary: Remembering Jouett Meekin, New Albany’s premier pitcher
Jouett Meekin (1867-1944), who retired in 1900 just as the "modern" era in professional baseball began, is the greatest pitcher New Albany has produced...
40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 96: The NABC beer fest dossier (2002...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 95: Sweet home New Albany, and an Irish wintertime oyster indulgence (2003).
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