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,...
There’s plenty of good food to eat without red meat and fowl
In a rare display of resolve, I've been meatless (red meat and fowl) for the first two months of 2021; might as well go...
Them ominous vultures
Last week we went for a walk to the pharmacy on a day with clear skies and warmth in the air, too early for...
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...
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....
Diary for 27 July 2021: I really hate having to drive a car to...
The point of these "diary" entries is to write as the mood strikes me, in the moment.
The past few weeks I've made many, perhaps...
Shane’s Excellent New Words: NIMBY versus YIMBY, though not to neglect BANANA
Now I'm hiding in Honduras
I'm a desperate man
Send lawyers, guns and money
The shit has hit the fan
-- Warren Zevon
"Shane's Excellent New Words" was a...
The wild, wild Right Bank of the Ohio
Not so long ago, one of the downtown bars within extended staggering distance of our place of residence posted a social media notice in...
Diary: Even I have to admit the parade manages to slow traffic
The Harvest Homecoming parade returns today after a year's COVID layoff. Those of you who know me well understand the depth of my love-hate...
Welcome to Nawbany, Episode 2: Knee deep in the hoopla
Roger has removed himself from active involvement in the local resistance movement because the retaliation isn’t worth it. But sometimes the sheer vapid inanity...
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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...
