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"Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking...
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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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Prioritizing drivers merely fails everyone else
If our city or any other continually cites favorable traffic accident statistics pertaining to cars ALONE as proof that streets are "safer," this of...
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Hill Street Blues, from a time when I cared about such matters
Thanks to my friend Bluegill, this Hill Street Blues video retrospective was an hour well spent, and mind you, I don't often have warm...
An absolute fascination with “The 15 Tallest Skyscrapers of Yugoslavia”
If Donald Niebyl created a calendar with these images I'd snatch one up.
My only visit to Yugoslavia when constituted as such came in 1987,...
NAHA? Four years later, the questions remain unasked and unanswered
At the Jeffersonville News and Tribune, there is an article: "New Albany Housing Authority moving forward with $27 million in renovations," by Daniel Suddeath.
City...
Ideas for a German-themed beer program at Common Haus, an eatery under development in...
German consular official: "Yes, Mr. Baylor, we see you're requesting asylum in our country. Can you explain why you'd like to live in Germany?
Me:...
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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...
Welcome to Roger’s web site, an “Exile on Spring Street”
"Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking...
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....
ON THE AVENUES: A design for life
Originally written in 2016, lightly edited here.
Throughout my decidedly mediocre high school basketball career, members of the coaching staff often administered what they surely...
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;...
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