Showing posts with label Kentucky Derby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kentucky Derby. Show all posts
Saturday, September 05, 2020

Splendid Isolation.

›
But I never go to Louisville on Derby Day. That's an ironclad rule in the Confidential household; leave town whenever possible for ...
Saturday, May 02, 2020

Non-Derby 2020: You keep singing "My Old Kentucky Home." I do not think it means what YOU think it means.

›
In the world of sports , there is not a more moving moment than when the horse s step onto the track for the Kentucky Derby post parade and ...

Ghost juleps on non-race day: "Sadly, the Kentucky Derby no longer is decadent and depraved. It’s just another vacuous capitalist bait ‘n’ switch."

›
This one's from May 3, 2019, but it goes back considerably further. For those just beaming to Earth from the Starship Whatever, the p...
Friday, May 03, 2019

ON THE AVENUES HORSE RACE REHASH: Sadly, the Kentucky Derby no longer is decadent and depraved. It’s just another vacuous capitalist bait ‘n’ switch.

›
Welcome to the second annual reprint of this column, with minor updates. In truth, I've barely noticed the revelry of the 2019 Derby ...
Thursday, May 03, 2018

ON THE AVENUES: Sadly, the Kentucky Derby no longer is decadent and depraved. It’s just another vacuous capitalist bait ‘n’ switch.

›
ON THE AVENUES: Sadly, the Kentucky Derby no longer is decadent and depraved. It’s just another vacuous capitalist bait ‘n’ switch. A w...

You keep singing "My Old Kentucky Home." I do not think it means what you think it means.

›
“It was a fantastic way to market Kentucky, which at the time had this reputation of being violent and corrupt and poor and a mess.” The...
Saturday, May 06, 2017

Mint juleps aside, "What Will Kill Neoliberalism?"

›
It brings me considerable joy to post a link like this one at roughly the same time as those horses run in that race. But give me a ...
Friday, May 05, 2017

Piss off, LEO. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries -- and your governor's worse than ours, on top of it all.

›
Thanks to J for pointing me to this. I've decided to point something more fitting at it. Back in the mid-1990s I helped run a bee...
Monday, May 02, 2016

To repeat: Stella Artois still sucks, and it has nothing whatever to do with Kentucky Derby traditions.

›
Now, THIS is a beer fest. Read all about it. I've been so busy plotting various civic insurrections that Kentucky Derby festival se...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Stella Artois still sucks, and it has nothing whatever to do with Kentucky Derby traditions.

›
A Derby event that's all about the beer.   I've been so busy plotting the forthcoming civic insurrection that Kentucky Derby fes...
Friday, May 03, 2013

BSB’s Derby Menu for tonight and tomorrow.

›
It got started yesterday, and I had the lamb chops with Tunnel Vision last night. Chef is rocking it, and the beer lineup is the best it...

The only Derby song that matters.

›
Not that atrocious Dan Fogelberg number.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Tradition, Americana, Churchill Downs and Stella Artois.

›
It’s almost time for the Kentucky Derby, and while I’ve arranged a convenient excuse to skip town on Oaks Day (Friday, May 3), a handy route...
3 comments:
Sunday, April 21, 2013

Derby Festival begins, bad beer flows, and so we learn to wait.

›
Up north in Indy yesterday, several fellow board members asked me if I was excited that the Kentucky Derby festival season was underway. ...
Wednesday, March 07, 2012

If it's Stella Artois, it means that Churchill Downs does not give a flying **** about local-anything.

›
So why give a **** about Churchill Downs? I sure don't. With all due credit to Sara "Bar Belle" Havens (her complete LEO st...
Friday, April 30, 2010

I didn't use the word "haters," either.

›
I shan’t belabor the point that there is little in two annual weeks of Derby fever that personally appeals to me; of course, to each his or ...
3 comments:
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Reserve now for Bank Street Brewhouse and Chef Josh Lehman's five-course, fixed price menu for Oaks and Derby.

›
Bank Street Brewhouse and Chef Josh Lehman's five-course, fixed price menu for Oaks and Derby. Here's the ad that Tony designed for ...
Monday, April 20, 2009

From the web: "The Kentucky Derby Really Is Decadent and Depraved."

›
I don't know the author's name, but no matter; this is funny, and whoever wrote it has the Derby nailed dead to rights without actua...
4 comments: