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Shane’s Excellent New Words: One bluegill, one crappie, one carp
Yesterday's "Edibles & Potables" column at Food & Dining Magazine celebrated the hallowed Czech and Slovak family tradition of yuletide carp. As a postscript,...
Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
Diary for 19 September 2021: Your shrinking attention spans annoy me
If there is any one common denominator to help explain the ever bottoming nadir of daily life in the industrialized (and desperately sick) world,...
Miscellany
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...
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A pint of bitter, please, because it’s The Dubliners at the The Wheeltappers and...
In which three fascinating Anglo-Irish topics collide amid my frequent references to the adjective "elegiac."
It's the mid-1970s lineup of the Irish folk band The...
Not Hip & Fewer Hops: Christmas beers, real or imagined, then and now
Originally published at Food & Dining Magazine on 14 December 2020.
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“My goodness”, muttered Claus, recalling his visit to the Institute, “the restrictive outerwear, the...
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...
My Beers in the GDR, Part Three: Yes, there was lots of beer in...
Previously: My Beers in the GDR, Part Two: Sharing a few Pilsners with a future war criminal.
“Germans absolutely cannot live without sausage and beer.”
--Soviet...
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ON THE AVENUES: When love and hate collide, or my father’s dalliance with the...
Originally published at NA Confidential on 21 August 2020. I thought about this essay earlier today, after reading a post by a friend at...
Battered, bruised, and crawling back onto the non-band wagon
"The Dutch blueprint for urban vitality isn’t about bicycles. It’s about refusing to sacrifice vast amounts of the public realm to the private car;...
Diary: Maybe I’m just having a bad week, or month, or…
I can't recall a time in my life when "retirement" made sense. If you're doing what you love, as I mostly have, then why...
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....
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...
Recipes for Chaos
Diary for 24 July 2021: Oversight of government entities? By the...
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...
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40 Years in Beer, Part Eleven: The Fat Cats Deli & Pub was short-lived...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Ten: When friends actually did let friends drive drunk.
My consciousness was forever altered by Europe. The obsessions engendered...
Diary: Maybe I’m just having a bad week, or month, or…
I can't recall a time in my life when "retirement" made sense. If you're doing what you love, as I mostly have, then why...
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...
