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Fire in the hole: Labor Day in America should be May...
Just a wee bit of clarity, then some music, and finally a benediction. The content herewith is derived from past posts at the NA...
Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
A pint of bitter, please, because it’s The Dubliners at the...
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...
Miscellany
Our (quasi) weekly editorial meme: Get ready to flick your Bic...
But here's a fascinating link, which is all the more interesting for having nothing to do with local politics: Architecture of Concert Stage Design.
Few...
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The Weekly Wad lives on in the minds of malcontents everywhere
I've expended quite a few words to explain why I try to keep high school memories at arm’s length. At the same time, formative...
“Death to Chain Restaurants,” or how one evening at Taco Bell (circa 2005) radicalized...
I've meant to tell this story many times over the years. Earlier this week the topic arose at Facebook in the form of a...
Welcome to Nawbany, Episode 1: Let’s all fight for something, anything, whatever
The New Albany City Council's current president is at-large councilman Jason Applegate, who on March 7 asked that "everyone keep the people of Ukraine...
“Almost half of all car trips in U.S. cities are three miles long or...
Just following up on that point I was making about the way an actual New Albany bicycling network inside the beltway, the rudiments of...
Diary
Diary: Nature teaches beasts to know their friends
Title credit courtesy of Shakespeare (Coriolanus).
During The Edge’s and Bono’s recent Tiny Desk Concert at NPR, Bono introduced the U2 song "Stuck in a...
Diary: For 11 years, NABC’s Fringe Fest added conceptual depth to Harvest Homecoming
Charles Dickens anticipated the record of my working career as it pertains to the late NABC Bank Street Brewhouse (415 Bank Street in New...
Out and about, in America, in Europe — and in my cups
This one was written in 2009 and revised in 2014. It hasn't appeared anywhere since, which makes it ripe for a rerun. The biggest...
Diary for 1 June 2021: Constructive criticism is seldom tolerated at the grassroots
If there is any one surefire takeaway that springs to mind from my lengthy period of civic engagement — the grassroots era, those "localism"...
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...
Recipes for Chaos
Trust me, salads ARE a vegetable
Last Thanksgiving my wife's employer gifted the department with $25 coupons to be applied against purchases of turkey, ham and vegetables. Trust me when...
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40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty Nine: I’m off to Spijkenisse with a beer...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty Eight: Christmas in Košice, 1991.
My teaching assignment had always been open-ended, and I might have worked longer....
Beware, yuletide oupistidophobes, ‘cuz I’m watching you
(This guest column first appeared in December of 2009 at the former New Albany Tribune. It has been updated and lightly tweaked.)
Phobias are among...
40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty Eight: Christmas in Košice, 1991
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty Seven: Andy, the Tatras, Magic Johnson and Mamut.
Communism in Czechoslovakia lasted from 1948 through 1989, when the...
