Diary: 17 years ago, the New Albany Historic Home Tour and the Schwartzel family

It so happens that today was the New Albany Historic Home Tour, which appears to have debuted in 2006. My opinion about this event...

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Last week we went for a walk to the pharmacy on a day with clear skies and warmth in the air, too early for...

ON THE AVENUES: Welcome to “Pagan Life,” a weekly column devoted to heathens, infidels,...

ON THE AVENUES is the name of my longtime column at the former NA Confidential. It makes the passage to Exile on Spring Street....

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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...

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...

Justin Brown is my preferred candidate for Floyd Circuit Court Judge

“All politics is local.” So the legendary Boston ward heeler Tip O’Neill said, and in the main, he was right. However, in recent years those big,...

What I do that occasionally equates to a monthly house payment

For those who've just tuned in to my periodic "Notes from the Underground," kindly note that I hold two minor positions inside the New...

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...

Diary for 9 July 2021: Origin Park is the green space equivalent of Jeff...

Diary for 9 July 2021 Earlier in the week I mentioned to a few friends that a new ON THE AVENUES column was forthcoming. However,...

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...

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We're told that Nov. 15 will be the last day for Pints&union in New Albany prior to the pub's inglorious "Hail Mary" flight to...

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 65: Smoky treats, a 9-hour, 9-brewery, 9-beer...

Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 64: The 2,301 day McOldenberg Brewmall 1990s vigil. Faithful “40 Years” readers will recall my first-ever visit to...

The Songs for a (P&u) Departure (3): “Don’t go away mad, just go away”

We're told that Nov. 15 will be the last day for Pints&union in New Albany prior to the pub's inglorious "Hail Mary" flight to...