A 2015 column encore: “There’s an indie twist to this curmudgeon’s annual Harvest Homecoming...
When Harvest Homecoming rolled around in 2015, I was:
Running for mayor as an independent, and learning all about the credits and debits of challenging...
Diary: Sweet agony of fuddy-duddy, but our spaceship was wonderful
Diana often reminds me that my cultural references tend toward the time of World War II, as opposed to Trump’s debacle with Iran.
Once in...
40 Years in Beer: It’s time for another breather. See you in a bit
For me, the biggest impediment to writing is putting the first word into the machine, knowing how much it’s going to hurt before I’m...
Diary: Remembering Jouett Meekin, New Albany’s premier pitcher
Jouett Meekin (1867-1944), who retired in 1900 just as the “modern” era in professional baseball began, is the greatest pitcher New Albany has produced...
40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 96: The NABC beer fest dossier (2002...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 95: Sweet home New Albany, and an Irish wintertime oyster indulgence (2003).
Gravity Head came first: famously,...
Martin Luther, gruit, brewer’s droop, Cecil Parkinson — could it be “Industrial Disease”?
Street scene in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, German Democratic Republic, 1989. Martin Luther’s church door is straight ahead.
(Originally published at Food & Dining Magazine on June...
40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 95: Sweet home New Albany, and an...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 94: Beercycling the Danube Cycle Path with Pfifferlinge and Dunkel, 2003 and 40 Years of Sidebars: The...
Diary: Has anyone of sound mind ever fretted over losing a despot?
37 years ago this week, my month’s stay in the German Democratic Republic (we refer to the fading image in our cracked rear view...
40 Years of Sidebars: Drinking beer in East Germany in the summer of 1989
Super-deluxe and “expanded” music box usually feature B-sides, single mixes, and non-album tracks, some hard to find, with outtakes, demos, and other recordings.
“40 Years...
40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 94: Beercycling the Danube Cycle Path with...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 93: Beer, circus, and the Great NABC vs. Big Red Liquors War of 2003.
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The daily reckoning:...