Diary: “Beer: Why not for breakfast?” (2009 – 2010)
"Mug Shots"
From 2009 - 2011, I wrote a column for Louisville Eccentric Observer (aka LEO Weekly) called "Mug Shots."
If I recall, it was Cary...
Diary: Looking for a good biography of Eugene V. Debs? This isn’t it
This being an election year — and accordingly, utterly infuriating on a daily basis for the MAGA stupidity it embodies — I thought it...
Diary: Atlas Shrugged and how Bob Youngblood taught me to appreciate Charles Dickens
At best, I tend to regard Ayn Rand as a sociopath, and yet I’ve read her ball-boiling pot-buster (and seemingly interminable) novel Atlas Shrugged.
Why...
When I’m 64? Now that I’m 64? Can we go back to Europa yet?
If memory serves, we sang snippets of this song by The Beatles in swing choir during high school. I never really imagined it would...
Two negatives seldom equal a positive, but enough of toxic fortune cookies
Yesterday I undertook to facilitate resolution of a few matters that have proven vexing, and while I'm usually not much for statements like the...
Roger G. Baylor (1925 – 2001)
Roger George Baylor was born in 1925 and died on July 18, 2001, making him 35 years of age when I arrived in 1960....
R.I.P. Ralph Griggs … it is belated, but no less heartfelt
Originally published at NA Confidential on October 8, 2015.
And then you get sidetracked — and feel like crying.
30-odd years ago, when I was working...
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Probably 95% of comments here are spam, and for the past couple of years I've kept them corralled until they could be rejected. The...
Diary: Endeavour Morse, Joseph Brodsky and coping with the darkness of the Open Air...
Back on October 27, 2019 at NA Confidential, I undertook to explain a reference I'd previously made to New Albany as the Open Air...
Diary: Jerry Sandusky is not allowed to rewrite his heinous narrative
I’ve been thinking about Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State football coach and convicted serial child molester. Sandusky is in prison, and his earliest...
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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 67: Yuletide atrocities, courtesy of the Butt-Head...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 66: The Updated Good Beer Guide to Louisville (1996).
We shouldn’t attempt to fashion the elusive silk...
Highlands crowds jubilant as “Brother Joe’s Travelling Salvation Show” heads south
On Sunday, Pints&union took to the airwaves for a final round of self-congratulation before decamping for Louisville.
From beginning to end, the symmetry between Joe's...
40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 66: The Updated Good Beer Guide to...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 65: Smoky treats, a 9-hour, 9-brewery, 9-beer Bamberg stroll in 1996.
The 1996 F.O.S.S.I.L.S. Membership Directory Issue (#66...
