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40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 51: Papazian sidesteps AB...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 50: Papazian goes AWOL as we contest AB’s aggression against Budvar.
Around the same time in 1994 that...
Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
40 Years in Beer, Part Two: Brontosaurus Stomp, or the time...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part One: Fun in Hi Skule.
(A version of Part 2 appeared in The Aggregate's January 2022 issue.)
I turned 21 in...
Miscellany
In memoriam: Stanley E. Robison (1954-2021)
Stanley E. Robison died earlier this week. Stan possessed a wickedly sharp intellect, but wasn't by any stretch a "know it all." Fellow attorney...
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Let’s have some fun with 7:13 ($7.13) passages from the Good Book
Wikipedia leads off.
Numerology (known before the 20th century as arithmancy) is the belief in an occult, divine or mystical relationship between a number and...
Beers with a Stoic: On Hop Atomica, brewery taproom expectations and generation gaps
Long ago and faraway, it was explained to me — again and again — that responsible (read: profit-seeking) restaurants and bars simply could not...
40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 55: Cerveza in the afternoon at Pamplona’s...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 54: New Albanians on beer holiday in Old Albania (1994).
Albania was exhilarating and exhausting. For the next...
Ed Clere is running for mayor of New Albany, and I support him
Here's a news item from yesterday.
I'm famously inclined to wordiness, and never much bothered when readers comment about a disturbing need to consult their...
Diary
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 centenary of my father’s birth is today (March 7, 1925 – 2025)
For immediate filing among those factoids that never really occur to you, right up until they do, today is the centenary of my father’s...
Diary: Brief reflections on professionalism, perception, arrogance and respect
“Professionalism” probably means different things to different people. The Internet yields this checklist, which I find reasonably accurate:
“The eight core characteristics of professionalism are:...
ON THE AVENUES: Welcome to “Pagan Life,” a weekly column devoted to heathens, infidels,...
ON THE AVENUES is the name of my longtime column at the former NA Confidential. It makes the passage to Exile on Spring Street....
Diary: Atlas Shrugged and how Bob Youngblood taught me to appreciate Charles Dickens
At best, I tend to regard Ayn Rand as a sociopath, and yet I’ve read her ball-boiling pot-buster (and seemingly interminable) novel Atlas Shrugged.
Why...
Recipes for Chaos
Does New Albany even have an intellectual history?
Originally written and published at NA Confidential on October 30, 2014.
ON THE AVENUES: Does New Albany even have an intellectual history?
The last time I...
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