Roger Baylor | Exile, within and without | Page 2

Miscellany

Fire in the hole: Labor Day in America should be May...

Roger Baylor - 2021-09-06

Miscellany

Secular humanism would be a good antidote to religion — right,...

Roger Baylor - 2021-09-05

Miscellany

Texas is the new Taliban, which of course is so very...

Roger Baylor - 2021-09-04

Music

Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington, et al (Part Two)

Roger Baylor - 2021-09-01

Music

Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, et al (Part One)

Roger Baylor - 2021-08-31

Miscellany

Sunday Summary for 29 August 2021, or, links to what I’ve...

Roger Baylor - 2021-08-29

Miscellany

Sara Havens: ‘Changing last-call hours is a knee-jerk reaction that’ll stifle...

Roger Baylor - 2021-08-28

Miscellany

The war in Afghanistan turned out like it did because of...

Roger Baylor - 2021-08-27

Beer

Reminding myself about how these (almost) 40 years in beer came...

Roger Baylor - 2021-08-26

Beer

Foundational beer texts, perhaps dated, but gloriously so

Roger Baylor - 2021-08-25

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"This is a city made for exiles. Many exiles, of course, are given no choice, but I imagine most of us sometimes tire of living in the open, where everything is plain to see and we ourselves are obvious, and for anyone with this sporadic impulse to withdraw into somewhere less transparent, Trieste offers a compelling destination--surreptitious itself, and ambiguous. It has offered a new home to many expatriates, voluntary or compulsory, but in the event, many have spent half their time here wistfully wishing they were somewhere else. For this is an ironic gift of the place--to attract and to sadden, both at the same time."
Jan Morris (1926-2020)