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Roger’s year in music, 2023
Music does something to me, and I’ve never been able to explain exactly why. It just happens.
My molecules are somehow rearranged when I walk...
Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
Green beer for St. Paddy’s? No, but let’s reward the principled,...
beer
The following isn’t anything you have not heard me say before, and often, but the time draws near, and once again this year I’ll...
Miscellany
How I learned to stop worrying and love El Jefe —...
NA Confidential’s Person of the Year awards began in 2011, when the blog was going strong and approaching the apex of its readership locally....
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MLK Day, 2026
I was not quite eight years old when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in April of 1968, and consequently, my memories of...
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...
The enduring fraudulence of street sweeping in Nawbany
This morning (24 April 2024), a Facebook friend had this to say:
The street sweeper in NA sucks. I can’t believe we juggle our cars...
Not Hip & Fewer Hops: Congratulations to Larry, who found his way through the...
Originally posted at Food & Dining Magazine on 15 Nov 2021.
In a previous life, I fancied myself a group tour operator, and for a...
Diary
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...
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...
Diary for 21 July 2021: The artist’s name comes first
Can you name the Pope who commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel?
Didn't think so. I had to look it up: Julius II.
While I'm...
Diary for 15 July 2021: Once there was a bridge
Roger, describe your relationship with City Hall in one photo or less. pic.twitter.com/7OZNAjBVAw
— Roger A. Baylor (@newalbanian) March 11, 2021
Twitter games amuse me at...
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...
Recipes for Chaos
Common Haus Draft Preview I: Meet the inner tap circle
Common Haus Hall (134 Spring Street, Jeffersonville IN) will be open for business soon. I’m the head of the Bierabteilung (Beer Department), and my...
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Diary: What’s next? Beats me, but I’ll think of something
Beginning today, I'll be posting piecemeal, online, the contents of Food & Dining Magazine's Spring 2026 (Vol. 89) print issue.
In the aftermath of John...
40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 86: Beer, writing, and my life in...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 85: Belgian beercycling concludes with the Delirium Tremens escapade, and more (2).
When Joe Strummer, leader of...
Herring salad — a simple, savory and effective recipe
Believe it or not, this tasty and simple recipe for herring salad originated with Betty Crocker's International Cookbook, which was published in 1980 and...
