Showing posts with label 1985. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1985. Show all posts
Thursday, August 15, 2019

ON THE AVENUES: Breakfast is better with those gorgeous little herrings.

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"A kind word is no substitute for a piece of herring or a bag of oats." -- Sholom Aleichem Other people go berserk about soc...
Thursday, November 29, 2018

You know Freddie Mercury and Queen stole the show at Live Aid, but what the hell WAS Live Aid?

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I spent three hours last night contemplating lost youth, so allow me to explain. On the one hand, I'm no fan of biopics, and I prob...
Monday, December 26, 2016

Photos of Meteora in Greece, 1985, reclaimed from slides via a nifty scanner.

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From 1985 through 1994, a period comprising six trips to Europe, some of them quite lengthy, most of the 2,500-plus photos I took wh...
Tuesday, July 05, 2016

50,000 words later, my 1985 European travelogue is finished. I think.

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How many words are in a book? Estimates vary, though at the low end of the range, I'm close. Perspective is a condition impossible t...
Saturday, February 06, 2016

My Euro '85 travel writing reboot is meandering toward a conclusion.

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Weenies in Copenhagen. It used to be a stock comedic gag that returning vacationers would force friends to view photos of their holiday,...
Sunday, September 13, 2015

Of cuisine, great and humble.

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This morning I cooked this recipe for West African Vegetarian Peanut Stew , and it's delicious. I think I’ve just discovered the m...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

A future mayor? An ex-brewery owner? 30 years later, there's another fork in the road, and I'm pumped.

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Thirty years ago, I closed my eyes wide shut and jumped -- not so sure where or even if I'd land, but firm in the realization that I ne...
Sunday, July 05, 2015

The Euro '85 travel writing reboot.

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It used to be a stock comedic gag that returning vacationers would force friends to view photos of their holiday, prattling for hours while ...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

ON THE AVENUES: Breakfast is better with kippers.

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ON THE AVENUES: Breakfast is better with kippers. A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. Scoff if you wish, but I like to eat fish fo...
Sunday, August 18, 2013

Travel Music 3: Foreigner in a foreign land, 1985.

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Kiddies, here's the way it used to work, before personal devices, downloads and YouTube: A song was released, became a hit, was play...
Monday, August 05, 2013

Travel Music 1: Pole-vaulting a borderline, 1985.

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My musical tastes never were particularly avant-garde . They are what they are, influenced heavily by early exposure to swing and big ba...
Sunday, August 04, 2013

The Smiths on my birthday, and a Soviet recollection.

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Yesterday was my birthday, and a whole slew of Facebook friends wished me a good one. For these greetings, I'm sincerely grateful. ...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

ON THE AVENUES When in Rome.

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ON THE AVENUES: When in Rome. A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. Woody Allen’s 2012 film, “To Rome With Love,” received middling ...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Today's Tribune column: "Tears of joy at the Augustiner beer garden."

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BAYLOR: Tears of joy at the Augustiner beer garden Coming of age in the Ohio Valley in the 1960s and '70s meant witnessing on a depress...
Thursday, July 08, 2010

Today's Tribune column: "History and sausages in Vienna."

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There are no kangaroos in Austria, and for an outsider who doesn't speak German, the Viennese can seem a bit detached. In spite of a zea...
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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Today's Tribune column: "Italian idyll--Pecetto to Venice."

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The 25th anniversary travel series continues today in the Tribune . In unrelated news, yesterday at Potable Curmudgeon, I posted what would...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

Today's Tribune column: "An eventful detour to Pecetto."

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It's the second in my summer series of travel recollections from 1985, although not without a moment's pause for venting exasperatio...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

Today's Tribune column: "Hassan in Pithion, 1985."

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We approach the 25th anniversary of my first pilgrimage to Europe, which began in early May, 1985. Vignettes like the one recounted below, s...
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