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Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington, et al (Part Two)
You'll notice I reversed their names in the title for the second installment. This 2007 film by Robert Levi helps provide context to the...
Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
Pints&union schedule for Harvest Homecoming (with food vending collaborator Leaven Bakery)
When the no parking signs go up for the Harvest Homecoming parade, so does the ambient weirdness in New Albany. It peaks on the...
Miscellany
GREEN MOUSE SAYS: Jason Applegate should run for State Senate
When this popped up on retiring State Senator Ron Grooms' feed, I couldn't help myself.
Of course the dedication went out to Kevin Boehnlein because...
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Our (quasi) weekly editorial meme: $16.83 million reasons to eat thin gruel
That's it. That's the meme.
“I got food, but I’m not a foodie” (the 2026 remix)
I don't always repeat previous posts, but I will when the point of the original post is worth reinforcing. The following originally appeared at...
Barack Obama’s speech at the funeral of Jesse Jackson
Earlier this afternoon I happened to scroll past the live feed just as Barack Obama was beginning his speech. I listened to all of...
Beers with a Stoic: Your luxury beer “list” reeks, so stop pretending it doesn’t
Consider the following a composite.
One thing I've always tried to do is advocate for my segment.
It means nothing negative to me if an everyday...
Diary
Make your own fun, but I will not carry a gun
I will not carry a gun, Frank. When I got thrown into this war I had a clear understanding with the Pentagon: no guns....
Diary: Brief reflections on professionalism, perception, arrogance and respect
“Professionalism” probably means different things to different people. The Internet yields this checklist, which I find reasonably accurate:
“The eight core characteristics of professionalism are:...
Diary: Cousteau the band (not the oceanographer)
Sometimes when you're engaged in a life-altering and transformational maelstrom, as I was a quarter-century ago, little bits and pieces of the soundtrack slip...
Diary: As for me, I’m sorry you made it so damn hard, and I...
"I'm sorry that things got hard."
That's like saying "I'm sorry it rained," when neither of us have any say over the weather. "Sorry" in...
The centenary of my father’s birth is today (March 7, 1925 – 2025)
For immediate filing among those factoids that never really occur to you, right up until they do, today is the centenary of my father’s...
Recipes for Chaos
Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 7: Vienna and the dawning of a...
Previously: Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 6: Pecetto idyll, with a Parisian excursion.
During my stay in Rome, a veteran Australian wanderer taught me a “wedding...
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A 2015 column encore: “There’s an indie twist to this curmudgeon’s annual Harvest Homecoming...
When Harvest Homecoming rolled around in 2015, I was:
Running for mayor as an independent, and learning all about the credits and debits of...
Diary: Sweet agony of fuddy-duddy, but our spaceship was wonderful
Diana often reminds me that my cultural references tend toward the time of World War II, as opposed to Trump's debacle with Iran.
Once in...
40 Years in Beer: It’s time for another breather. See you in a bit
For me, the biggest impediment to writing is putting the first word into the machine, knowing how much it's going to hurt before I'm...
