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The abstract modernism of “monuments and memory” in Tito’s Yugoslavia
Controversies over the newer monuments in Yugoslavia also came up as we talked. We discussed the memorial at Tjentište in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Ćosić argued that...
Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
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...
Miscellany
Barack Obama’s speech at the funeral of Jesse Jackson
Earlier this afternoon I happened to scroll past the live feed just as Barack Obama was beginning his speech. I listened to all of...
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Sunday Summary for 15 August 2021, or, links to what I’ve been writing lately
Yes, I know, these updates haven't been timely.
Still, it is my aim to post a Sunday compendium of links here at the web site,...
To hell with car-centric burdens, but long live the Trabant!
I never cared very much for automobiles in the sense of stylishness. Growing up in a transitional zone between rural and suburban, I understood...
40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 46: Expansion culminating in espresso and the...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 45: The Silo and Oertels, as well as a pivotal newspaper article (1992).
There were two trips by...
Trust me, salads ARE a vegetable
Last Thanksgiving my wife's employer gifted the department with $25 coupons to be applied against purchases of turkey, ham and vegetables. Trust me when...
Diary
Diary for 24 July 2021: Oversight of government entities? By the News and Tribune?
Let's begin by defining our terms for those just tuning in.
The News and Tribune (N&T) is a six-day (Monday through Saturday) daily newspaper serving...
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...
The book that wasn’t, why it won’t be, and really, that’s all right with...
Today’s bullet point is borrowed from Groucho Marx in Animal Crackers (1930): “Hello, I must be going.”
Regular readers will recall that earlier this year, I...
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Probably 95% of comments here are spam, and for the past couple of years I've kept them corralled until they could be rejected. The...
Welcome to Roger’s web site, an “Exile on Spring Street”
"Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking...
Recipes for Chaos
Green with entropy?
Regardless of who invented it, the first people to make green beer probably made it the same, slightly unintuitive way it's made today: a...
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40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 92: Pentecostal pews, beer judging exams and...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 91: New Albany’s brewing history, prior to NABC resuming it.
It would be perfectly reasonable of the...
40 Years of Sidebars: Hugo Claus, Frans Masereel & NABC’s one-off Silent Oath Oud...
This Belgian cultural excursion didn’t slot handily into the “40 Years in Beer” narrative, and so I've declared it suitable as a “sidebar.” The...
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.
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