News of my World
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...
Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
Lanesville Heritage Weekend is here again, and my mind is wandering...
On Indiana State Road 62, the main highway through Lanesville, there stands a sturdy red barn with nicely restored Mail Pouch Tobacco advertisements on...
Miscellany
R.I.P. Mariusz Handzlik, a Polish diplomat (1965 – 2010)
A full ten years after my tenure at NABC began a slow-burn of a winding down that lasted until 2018, items belonging to me...
Most popular
I got food, but I’m not a foodie
To paraphrase Esquire’s Charles P. Pierce: pertinent musical accompaniment to have and have not, courtesy of The Killers.
Today, a consideration of self-identity that originally appeared at...
40 Years in Beer, Part Eighteen: In Ostrava, the beer of the people at...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Seventeen: Uncle V’s beery introduction to Southern Bohemia (June 1989).
In 1989 the city of Ostrava (population 330,000) was...
Sunday Summary for 26 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...
Sunday Summary for 11 July 2021, or the links to what I’ve been writing...
Henceforth it is my aim to post a Sunday compendium of links here at the web site, these directing you to recent writings of...
Diary
EXILE ON SPRING STREET: In defense of godlessness in everyday life
After much thought, I've decided to retire the "On the Avenues" identifier after all. As we enter 2022, OTA becomes "Exile on Spring Street."
Until...
Diary: Nature teaches beasts to know their friends
Title credit courtesy of Shakespeare (Coriolanus).
During The Edge’s and Bono’s recent Tiny Desk Concert at NPR, Bono introduced the U2 song "Stuck in a...
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...
Diary: “Beer: Why not for breakfast?” (2009 – 2010)
"Mug Shots"
From 2009 - 2011, I wrote a column for Louisville Eccentric Observer (aka LEO Weekly) called "Mug Shots."
If I recall, it was Cary...
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
40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 73: All 42 pages...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 72: Mitch Steele attends a F.O.S.S.I.L.S. meeting (1998).
I cannot recall the specific impetus for creating the...
LATEST ARTICLES
Latest article
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,...
