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Roger’s year in music, 2025
Yes, this is 2026, and I’m supposed to be recapping my year in music in 2025. To get there, we must begin by stumbling...
Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
Diary for 28 July 2021: “Craft” is especially nonsensical when tacked...
The point of these “diary” entries is to write as the mood strikes me, in the moment.
I'd suggest we piss on hard seltzer, but...
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Gahan’s beloved low head dam: “A very elegant trap for human...
The Green Mouse says that Mayor Jeff Gahan and his Reisz Mahal acolytes intend to file a lawsuit to delay or even terminate the...
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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 16: Lessons learned, corners turned, bridges burned (finis)
Throughout this series, I've offered songs that I associate with the time of my first trip to Europe, and yes, I know quite well...
Beers with a Stoic: “Until philosophers become kings”
This morning at Facebook, Diana and I were both targeted with a memory reminder in the form of the cover photo, which was taken...
GREEN MOUSE SAYS: Here’s how Floyd County’s brewery lead over Clark County has widened...
Several weeks ago the Green Mouse filed a report with upper management.
He noted that Jeffersonville's Red Foot brewery (256 Spring Street) had ceased operations,...
Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 9: Lizard King in the City of Light — and...
Previously: Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 8: At long last, glorious beer in Salzburg and Munich.
Air travel digression: I wasn’t a very good flier 40 years...
Diary
Justin Brown is my preferred candidate for Floyd Circuit Court Judge
“All politics is local.”
So the legendary Boston ward heeler Tip O’Neill said, and in the main, he was right.
However, in recent years those big,...
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...
Make your own fun, but I will not carry a gun
I will not carry a gun, Frank. When I got thrown into this war I had a clear understanding with the Pentagon: no guns....
Diary for 28 July 2021: “Craft” is especially nonsensical when tacked to “hard” seltzer
The point of these “diary” entries is to write as the mood strikes me, in the moment.
I'd suggest we piss on hard seltzer, but...
R.I.P. Ralph Griggs … it is belated, but no less heartfelt
Originally published at NA Confidential on October 8, 2015.
And then you get sidetracked — and feel like crying.
30-odd years ago, when I was working...
Recipes for Chaos
Just a bit of Germany in Jeffersonville; that’s plenty enough
Here's the link at Louisville Business First.
Pints & Union owner to open German beer hall near the Big Four Bridge
The first year I hit...
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A few of Skopje’s many statues (one year later)
https://www.rogerbaylor.com/2025/02/24/a-brief-recounting-of-the-balkan-getaway-in-february-2025/
It's been almost a year since our visit to Skopje, and later Albania and Montenegro. The Balkans are enduringly fascinating to me, and it...
40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 85: Belgian beercycling concludes with the Delirium...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 84: Y2K and the Belgian beercycling inaugural (1).
With the foreplay at Vapeur ended, it was time...
Beers with a Stoic: Check out THIS upscale luxury beer list
There's a restaurant in the area.
Salads and soups start at $13; appetizers at $20. Main courses are $34 - $39, and steaks $47 -...
