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40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 44: Life becoming a...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 43: Facing the music at Rich O’s in 1992.
By the late summer of 1992, a routine had...
Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
C’mon, do you really believe Robert Maxwell accidentally fell off that...
At this point in the nation's haphazard experience, most Americans know far too much about Ghislaine Maxwell owing to her connections with the conveniently...
Miscellany
On the murder of Charlie Kirk
I’ve largely refrained from commenting on The Assassination of Charlie Kirk By The Coward Robert Ford (wait, this should be Tyler Robinson). I oppose...
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On the late James Levine
The conductor and pianist James Levine died earlier this month, and yesterday's obituary in the The New York Times is here. Levine was renowned,...
Diary 9 Dec 2021: Political patronage, police promotion and pervasive paranoia
The reporter John Boyle (WFPK) does a great job of sifting through complicated material and explaining the situation clearly.
Late rent and unsigned leases: Building...
40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 45: The Silo and Oertels, as well...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 44: Life becoming a landslide (1992-93).
Author's note: I've chosen to keep this installment as a single...
Diary: What’s next? Beats me, but I’ll think of something
Beginning today, I'll be posting piecemeal, online, the contents of Food & Dining Magazine's Spring 2026 (Vol. 89) print issue.
In the aftermath of John...
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A brief recounting of the Balkan getaway in February, 2025
Obsessions can be of lasting duration, as with my history of 47 pilgrimages to the European continent since 1985, or they can be more...
Diary: Tall ships, Randy Shilts “and the band played on”
Consider my enthusiasm curbed.
I think about it every year on July 4, and have done so for a good while, but on the occasion...
Diary: Talking ‘bout my generation (subtitle: OK Boomer)
Recently a post by Chris Arnade (ar-NAHD-i) at X caught my eye.
I've written for the last decade about the educational divide in the US,...
Diary: 17 years ago, the New Albany Historic Home Tour and the Schwartzel family
It so happens that today was the New Albany Historic Home Tour, which appears to have debuted in 2006. My opinion about this event...
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...
Recipes for Chaos
Diary: Dream flashbacks, 2023
https://www.anxietycentre.com/anxiety-disorders/symptoms/dream-flashbacks/
On May 15, 2023 I took to Facebook to reference the phenomenon of the "dream flashback," which I'd experienced for the first time the...
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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...
40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 90: A brewery for the New Albanian...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 89: A millennial upsurge with Cumberland Brews, Browning’s, BBC Brewing Co. (2000 – 2003).
I’d dearly love...
Diary: Cousteau the band (not the oceanographer)
Sometimes when you're engaged in a life-altering and transformational maelstrom, as I was a quarter-century ago, little bits and pieces of the soundtrack slip...
