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Diary: Cousteau the band (not the oceanographer)

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40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 89: A millennial upsurge with Cumberland Brews, Browning’s, BBC Brewing Co. (2000 – 2003)

40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 89: A millennial upsurge...

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Remembering the Bastille Day “Bieres de Garde Dinner” at Bistro New Albany in June, 2006

Remembering the Bastille Day “Bieres de Garde Dinner” at Bistro New...

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Dearest Dear Leader: “The trashing-by-design of Spring St. needs to stop”

Dearest Dear Leader: “The trashing-by-design of Spring St. needs to stop”

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City officials giddy as New Albany finally makes Guinness Book of World Records

City officials giddy as New Albany finally makes Guinness Book of...

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40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 88: From Tokaj to Żywiec, and Achouffe to Poperinge (Travel 2002)

40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 88: From Tokaj to...

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Diary: Tall ships, Randy Shilts “and the band played on”

Diary: Tall ships, Randy Shilts “and the band played on”

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40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 87: Travel 2001 with English John, Le Tour ― and a gutting personal loss

40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 87: Travel 2001 with...

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“I got food, but I’m not a foodie” (the 2026 remix)

“I got food, but I’m not a foodie” (the 2026 remix)

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Diary: Dream flashbacks, 2023

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Diary: Upland’s acquisition of FCBC emblemizes a shift in food and...

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Diary: Another fine waterside bicycling morning near (a) river’s edge

Diary: Another fine waterside bicycling morning near (a) river’s edge

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A rainy writing morning; time again for “Venetian Vespers”

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Diary: As for me, I’m sorry you made it so damn...

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What’s done is done, and new adventures await

What’s done is done, and new adventures await

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Diary: Talking ‘bout my generation (subtitle: OK Boomer)

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Diary: Is it the end? A new beginning? Anyone? Bueller?

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Diary: What’s next? Beats me, but I’ll think of something

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40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 86: Beer, writing, and my life in and out of F.O.S.S.I.L.S., 1990 – 2026

40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 86: Beer, writing, and...

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Herring salad — a simple, savory and effective recipe

Herring salad — a simple, savory and effective recipe

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Diary: Magic and loss (adios, John Carlos White)

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A war, a novel, a walk through the cemetery

A war, a novel, a walk through the cemetery

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Claude Lanzmann’s essential documentary film Shoah

Claude Lanzmann’s essential documentary film Shoah

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Barack Obama’s speech at the funeral of Jesse Jackson

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Green beer for St. Paddy’s? No, but let’s reward the principled,...

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With the passing of Jesse Jackson, I’m reminded of 1984 (the year, not the book)

With the passing of Jesse Jackson, I’m reminded of 1984 (the...

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A few of Skopje’s many statues (one year later)

A few of Skopje’s many statues (one year later)

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40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 85: Belgian beercycling concludes with the Delirium Tremens escapade, and more

40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 85: Belgian beercycling concludes...

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Beers with a Stoic: Check out THIS upscale luxury beer list

Beers with a Stoic: Check out THIS upscale luxury beer list

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40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 84: Y2K and the Belgian beercycling inaugural (1)

40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 84: Y2K and the...

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MLK Day, 2026

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Diary: Best beer list in NA? I know it when I see it, and it’s NABC’s

Diary: Best beer list in NA? I know it when I...

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 83: Full frontal hops in Poperinge, Bamberg and Žatec (1999)

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 83: Full frontal hops...

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 82: BrewWorks, Jack Daniel’s, and the next wave of Kentuckiana breweries (1994 – 2001)

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 82: BrewWorks, Jack Daniel’s,...

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Roger’s year in music, 2025

Roger’s year in music, 2025

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My year in books and reading, 2025

My year in books and reading, 2025

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10 Songs for Remembering Barry Sears (pre-1980)

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 81: In 2025, the...

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From 2009: “Senior editor graces inner pages of Today’s Woman magazine, world gasps”

From 2009: “Senior editor graces inner pages of Today’s Woman magazine,...

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1970s-era albums for December, 2025

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John Lennon: Life (and death) is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans

John Lennon: Life (and death) is what happens to you while...

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On making the San Fernando Valley one’s home sweet home

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From 2015: “Budweiser explains the Doctrine of Trojan Geese Island Transubstantiation”

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Unleash your inner pagan at Saturnalia MMVI, a winter solstice draft...

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Black Friday ain’t nothing but a memorable song by Steely Dan

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The book that wasn’t, why it won’t be, and really, that’s...

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R.I.P. Barry Sears, a friend since kindergarten who changed my life...

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Diary: The story of the Sladek (brewer/maltster) stone at Fairview Cemetery

Diary: The story of the Sladek (brewer/maltster) stone at Fairview Cemetery

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On the murder of Charlie Kirk

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Diary: “Me? I just want to walk the parade route tomorrow” (Oct. 2, 2015)

Diary: “Me? I just want to walk the parade route tomorrow”...

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Harvest Culture on the Skids: All of Tony’s NABC Fringe Fest posters in one place (2008 – 2018)

Harvest Culture on the Skids: All of Tony’s NABC Fringe Fest...

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Top Ten things I reject that other people revere

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Still failing to reincarnate Keith Moon

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<div>Pints&union dissolves amid self-delusional whimpering</div>

Pints&union dissolves amid self-delusional whimpering

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 16: Lessons learned, corners turned, bridges burned (finis)

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 16: Lessons learned, corners turned, bridges burned...

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 15: Soviet times in Leningrad and the long trek back to Luxembourg

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 15: Soviet times in Leningrad and the...

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Euro Pilgrimage 1985-2025, Ch. 14: Meet the Finns — and hop a bus to Leningrad

Euro Pilgrimage 1985-2025, Ch. 14: Meet the Finns — and hop...

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The Euro ’85 Pilgrimage Compendium

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This post will self-destruct in 3…2…1

This post will self-destruct in 3…2…1

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Euro Pilgrimage 1985-2025, Ch. 13: Introductions to Oslo, Bergen, Stockholm and Uppsala

Euro Pilgrimage 1985-2025, Ch. 13: Introductions to Oslo, Bergen, Stockholm and...

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Euro Pilgrimage 1985-2025, Ch. 12: Omaha Beach to the Manneken-Pis and Little Mermaid

Euro Pilgrimage 1985-2025, Ch. 12: Omaha Beach to the Manneken-Pis and...

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Euro Pilgrimage 1985-2025 Pt. 11: Sligo respite, Live Aid, then back to France for the D-Day beaches

Euro Pilgrimage 1985-2025 Pt. 11: Sligo respite, Live Aid, then back...

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40 Years in Beer, Part 80: Running Gravity Head’s daunting gauntlet (Act I: 1999 – 2009)

40 Years in Beer, Part 80: Running Gravity Head’s daunting gauntlet...

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 10: Irish history with musical accompaniment and a Guinness chaser

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 10: Irish history with musical accompaniment and...

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 9: Lizard King in the City of Light — and on to Ireland

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 9: Lizard King in the City of...

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 79: Stuck in a moment (and you can’t get out of it)

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 79: Stuck in a...

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Pint and bunions, or “A Cynic’s Word Book” for food and...

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 8: At long last, glorious beer in Salzburg and Munich

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 8: At long last, glorious beer in...

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 7: Vienna and the dawning of a Habsburg fixation

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 7: Vienna and the dawning of a...

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 6: Pecetto idyll, with a Parisian chaser

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 6: Pecetto idyll, with a Parisian chaser

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 5: A critical Mass in Rome — and the famous Pecetto bus incident

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 5: A critical Mass in Rome —...

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 4: Greece, Turkey, a famous Pythion interlude, and the Levant according to Hassan

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 4: Greece, Turkey, a famous Pythion interlude,...

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 3: Growing up in Greece with Henry Miller

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 3: Growing up in Greece with Henry...

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 2: Crawling across the borderline into Luxembourg

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 2: Crawling across the borderline into Luxembourg

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 78: We just had to get to Merry Old England (1998)

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 78: We just had...

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 1: Three months that shook my world

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 1: Three months that shook my world

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<div>40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 77: A “tight” 1998 European summer (San Fermin & the French Alps)</div>

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 77: A “tight” 1998...

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Diary: The Craft Brewers Conference was in Indy, but I feared...

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R.I.P. Mariusz Handzlik, a Polish diplomat (1965 – 2010)

R.I.P. Mariusz Handzlik, a Polish diplomat (1965 – 2010)

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Reprise: “Talking Seventh Inning Blues”

Reprise: “Talking Seventh Inning Blues”

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Seeing is believing — right, Zuckerschmuck?

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40 Years of Sidebars: Baltimore and a few wee drams in spring (1996)

40 Years of Sidebars: Baltimore and a few wee drams in...

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Dear New Albany: I only bedded you because “space just happened to be available”

Dear New Albany: I only bedded you because “space just happened...

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A writing update: the beer book is underway (also, other projects)

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A big damn guide to downtown New Albany (in 2010)

A big damn guide to downtown New Albany (in 2010)

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 76: A boy can dream – about beercycling (and a Requiem for Moose)

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 76: A boy can...

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The abstract modernism of “monuments and memory” in Tito’s Yugoslavia

The abstract modernism of “monuments and memory” in Tito’s Yugoslavia

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 75: My shoes are filled with Volga mud (1999)

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 75: My shoes are...

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Archie’s axiom — or, beer’s ephemeral pass-through nature

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40 Years of Sidebars: “The Budweiser Menace,” Fred Eckhardt’s 1997 column

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Tirana 2025: Bunk’Art 2 and a Skanderbeg Square protest

Tirana 2025: Bunk’Art 2 and a Skanderbeg Square protest

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The centenary of my father’s birth is today (March 7, 1925 – 2025)

The centenary of my father’s birth is today (March 7, 1925...

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 74: Down a rabbit hole, deep into the Belgian beer paradise (1998)

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 74: Down a rabbit...

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An entirely unexpected Sagamore of the Wabash

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In Tirana, 31 years between views of Enver Hoxha’s house

In Tirana, 31 years between views of Enver Hoxha’s house

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I’m set to write a book about beer, or so this...

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<div>“One Night with the Publican” beer tastings to be revived at Harbor & Hops in 2025</div>

“One Night with the Publican” beer tastings to be revived at...

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It’s your friends, neighbors and a few blood relatives doing this,...

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A brief recounting of the Balkan getaway in February, 2025

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February update: 40 Years in Beer, Baylors in the Balkans, and...

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