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40 Years in Beer, Part One: Fun in Hi Skule
Editor's note: As of 27 March 2023, this post has been completely rewritten to better inaugurate the chronology. All links have been checked (I...
Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
Books: “The Cold War from the Margins” in Bulgaria
In May I read a good book about a little-known aspect of the Cold War.
The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State...
Miscellany
Ed Clere is running for mayor of New Albany, and I...
Here's a news item from yesterday.
I'm famously inclined to wordiness, and never much bothered when readers comment about a disturbing need to consult their...
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Our (quasi) weekly editorial meme: $16.83 million reasons to eat thin gruel
That's it. That's the meme.
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...
Our (quasi) weekly editorial meme: Get ready to flick your Bic when they play...
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...
Menu Items: “Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants and Intoxicants”
Originally published at the Food & Dining Magazine web site on 13 September 2020.
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Nothing could be more common than the salt and pepper on...
Diary
Diary for 27 July 2021: I really hate having to drive a car to...
The point of these "diary" entries is to write as the mood strikes me, in the moment.
The past few weeks I've made many, perhaps...
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...
Them ominous vultures
Last week we went for a walk to the pharmacy on a day with clear skies and warmth in the air, too early for...
Shane’s Excellent New Words: NIMBY versus YIMBY, though not to neglect BANANA
Now I'm hiding in Honduras
I'm a desperate man
Send lawyers, guns and money
The shit has hit the fan
-- Warren Zevon
"Shane's Excellent New Words" was a...
Coffey vs. Dickey in the 2nd? Slice me off a piece of THAT
Told you so.
The Green Mouse reports that Dan Coffey—for decades a Democrat, then an independent, and now a Republican (somewhere a Falangist has lost...
Recipes for Chaos
An ongoing chronicle of what I can remember after 40 years...
The following post at Food & Dining Magazine is repeated verbatim from Wednesday. We've been having website issues, and my workspace somewhat resembles a...
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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...
