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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...
Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
An absolute fascination with “The 15 Tallest Skyscrapers of Yugoslavia”
If Donald Niebyl created a calendar with these images I'd snatch one up.
My only visit to Yugoslavia when constituted as such came in 1987,...
Miscellany
Sunday Summary for 25 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...
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“Trieste,” a novel by Daša Drndić
It can be daunting, perhaps even crippling, to consider the immensity of what remains unknown about the wider world. What we as individuals know...
Foundational beer texts, perhaps dated, but gloriously so
We all have our foundational texts, and these are three of mine (although not the only ones), as plucked from the shelf a few...
The cars hiss by my window (and rev, snort, shift, fart and scream)
Every day on Spring Street in Nawbany, drivers race from one end of my city to the other, concerned only with their own pass-through convenience,...
ON THE AVENUES: Karma, karma, karma, karma, karma chameleon (The Big Bang Remix)
From the former NA Confidential, November 15, 2020.
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Pedestrians being hit by cars is a car problem. Car congestion is a car problem. Noise and...
Diary
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...
ON THE AVENUES: A design for life
Originally written in 2016, lightly edited here.
Throughout my decidedly mediocre high school basketball career, members of the coaching staff often administered what they surely...
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;...
What I do that occasionally equates to a monthly house payment
For those who've just tuned in to my periodic "Notes from the Underground," kindly note that I hold two minor positions inside the New...
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...
Recipes for Chaos
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...
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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,...
That’s much better. Cultural appropriation wasn’t ever necessary just to walk for tacos
Earlier today there was a "taco walk" in downtown New Albany. It seemed to go fairly well. I even helped a bit at the...
Sunday Summary for 12 September 2021, or, links to what I’ve been writing lately
I seem to have settled on biweekly writing updates, which serve the purpose well enough. The aim is unchanged: an every-other-Sunday compendium of links here...
