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“Death to Chain Restaurants,” or how one evening at Taco Bell…
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Menu Items: Babette’s Feast, the film (1987): “Once good taste is…
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Shane’s Excellent New Words: One bluegill, one crappie, one carp
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Menu Items: You may wish to rethink humble pie for Thanksgiving…
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Menu Items: Štruklji, Jota and Pelinkovac — or, what I ate…
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Quadrophenia: “Ain’t it funny how we all seem to look the…
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Roger’s year in music, 2021
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“Funeral,” by Tigercub
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Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington, et al (Part Two)
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Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, et al (Part One)
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Menu Items: “Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants…
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Roger’s year in books and reading, 2021
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Books: “Bowling for Communism” in Leipzig
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Books and politics, with Roberto Bolaño and “The Savage Detectives”
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Louisville beer, now and then (or, my 2014 review of Kevin…
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My Beers in the GDR, Part Two: Sharing a few Pilsners…
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My Beers in the GDR, Part One: A working lunch in…
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The famous mishap in Madrid, November, 1989
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From 2017: “When it comes to beer, less might yet be…
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European Grand Tour 1985, Part 2: In Luxembourg, I hit the…
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Miscellany
It’s hard to converse when your party’s official policy is censorship
Miscellany
My curious habit of conversing with other people over beers, and…
Miscellany
Shane’s Excellent New Words: Hagiography — or haggis?
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Hunter S. Thompson eulogizes Richard M. Nixon (1994): “He Was a…
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How I learned to stop worrying and love El Jefe —…
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Welcome to Nawbany, Episode 2: Knee deep in the hoopla
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ON THE AVENUES: When love and hate collide, or my father’s…
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Welcome to Nawbany, Episode 1: Let’s all fight for something, anything,…
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EXILE ON SPRING STREET: In defense of godlessness in everyday life
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My Beers in the GDR, Part Two: Sharing a few Pilsners with a future...
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2022-08-14
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Previously: My Beers in the GDR, Part One: A working lunch in East Berlin, August 1989. East Berlin: August, 1989. Each Friday afternoon for three weeks...
My Beers in the GDR, Part One: A working lunch in East Berlin, August...
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2022-08-12
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In 1989 I spent the first three weeks of August buffing and polishing V. I. Lenin’s shoes. The footwear belonged to a gargantuan statue...
40 Years in Beer, Part Ten: When friends actually did let friends drive drunk
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Roger Baylor
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2022-08-08
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Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Nine: The point of know return. It has taken me a long while to understand that it usually takes...