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Numerology (known before the 20th century as arithmancy) is the belief in an occult, divine or mystical relationship between a number and...
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Diary for 7 September 2021: Time to learn
I was awake early this morning, and started listening to WUOL 90.5, Louisville's classical station.
It took me back to the early 1980s, the period...
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15 December 2022 Preface: I've been asked if I would consider getting back into the game, resuming my role as dissident, once again speaking...
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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...
Not Hip & Fewer Hops: My bucket beer list is NOT served with sliced...
Originally published at Food & Dining Magazine on 27 September 2021.
Mr. Creosote: "Better get a bucket."
Maître d': "booKAY?"
I’ve often been accused of being a cynic,...
Roger G. Baylor (1925 – 2001)
An updated and expanded version of this post can be found here:
https://www.rogerbaylor.com/2025/03/07/the-centenary-of-my-fathers-birth-is-today-march-7-1925-2025/
Roger George Baylor was born in 1925 and died on July 18, 2001,...
Say hello to Agave & Rye Epic Tacos, an eatery conceived with Floyd County...
"Notes from the Underground" extends a hale and hearty welcome to Agave & Rye Epic Tacos. Here's a preview I wrote at Food &...
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There’s plenty of good food to eat without red meat and fowl
In a rare display of resolve, I've been meatless (red meat and fowl) for the first two months of 2021; might as well go...
Welcome to Nawbany, Episode 2: Knee deep in the hoopla
Roger has removed himself from active involvement in the local resistance movement because the retaliation isn’t worth it. But sometimes the sheer vapid inanity...
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...
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...
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
40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 73: All 42 pages...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 72: Mitch Steele attends a F.O.S.S.I.L.S. meeting (1998).
I cannot recall the specific impetus for creating the...
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