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The cars hiss by my window (and rev, snort, shift, fart...
Every day on Spring Street in Nawbany, drivers race from one end of my city to the other, concerned only with their own pass-through convenience,...
Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
Sunday Summary for 11 July 2021, or the links to what...
Henceforth it is my aim to post a Sunday compendium of links here at the web site, these directing you to recent writings of...
Miscellany
OTA Archive from June, 2020: “There, there. People are dying, so...
In New Albany, Harvest Homecoming is once again under way after a year's layoff owing to COVID safety protocols. This column originally appeared at...
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40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Four: That infamous Madrid episode, and a necessary curtailment
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Three: Beery Copenhagen days and Oktoberfest nights in Munich.
As a general rule, and for a great many years,...
That’s much better. Cultural appropriation wasn’t ever necessary just to walk for tacos
Earlier today there was a "taco walk" in downtown New Albany. It seemed to go fairly well. I even helped a bit at the...
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...
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...
Diary
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: “The moral and aesthetic nightmare of Christmas,” by the late, great Christopher Hitchens
In 2021, I pleased the local powers-that-be by allowing the NA Confidential blog to run its course, and by doing so, liberated myself from...
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...
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;...
The house painting job
My dentist practices in a rural community a good forty-minute drive from where I live near Louisville. The route passes through the town where...
Recipes for Chaos
Pints&union schedule for Harvest Homecoming (with food vending collaborator Leaven Bakery)
When the no parking signs go up for the Harvest Homecoming parade, so does the ambient weirdness in New Albany. It peaks on the...
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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 67: Yuletide atrocities, courtesy of the Butt-Head...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 66: The Updated Good Beer Guide to Louisville (1996).
We shouldn’t attempt to fashion the elusive silk...
Highlands crowds jubilant as “Brother Joe’s Travelling Salvation Show” heads south
On Sunday, Pints&union took to the airwaves for a final round of self-congratulation before decamping for Louisville.
From beginning to end, the symmetry between Joe's...
40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 66: The Updated Good Beer Guide to...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 65: Smoky treats, a 9-hour, 9-brewery, 9-beer Bamberg stroll in 1996.
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