Battered, bruised, and crawling back onto the non-band wagon
"The Dutch blueprint for urban vitality isn’t about bicycles. It’s about refusing to sacrifice vast amounts of the public realm to the private car;...
“Howard Zinn’s July 4 Wisdom Stands the Test of Time,” followed with a rant...
Howard Zinn, Mark Twain, Edwin Moses and me, but first, Frederick Douglass. Dave Zirin, one of a select group of sportswriters who really matter,...
Diary: “The moral and aesthetic nightmare of Christmas,” by the late, great Christopher Hitchens
In 2021, I pleased the local powers-that-be by allowing the NA Confidential blog to run its course, and by doing so, liberated myself from...
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,...
Welcome to Nawbany, Episode 1: Let’s all fight for something, anything, whatever
The New Albany City Council's current president is at-large councilman Jason Applegate, who on March 7 asked that "everyone keep the people of Ukraine...
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...
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...
Diary for 19 September 2021: Your shrinking attention spans annoy me
If there is any one common denominator to help explain the ever bottoming nadir of daily life in the industrialized (and desperately sick) world,...
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...
Welcome to Roger’s web site, an “Exile on Spring Street”
"Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking...
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40 Years in Beer (Book II, Part 44): Life becoming a landslide (1992-93)
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II, Part 43): Facing the music at Rich O’s in 1992.
By the late summer of 1992, a routine had...
Diary: When you personally experience ageism, that’s when you know it’s real
I’ll remember the winter of ’23-’24 as a difficult time for me – professionally, not personally.
This turbulence, which seems to be gradually receding as...
Beers with a Stoic: Wouldn’t it be less expensive NOT to brew house beer?
Let's say that you're a small brewery with a relentless social media presence of three, four or more Fb posts per day, probably 90%...
