Showing posts with label nostalgia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nostalgia. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

The hits kept coming, until they didn't: "But what about Howard Sprague?"

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Remember caption contests? This one originally was a BEER MONEY column for the pre-merger Tribune , to be greeted by dozens of yokels picket...
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Sunday, August 04, 2019

Yet again gripped with nostalgia, we remember Gahan's hilarious Great Street Piano Meltdown of 2015.

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You'll recall the Board of Public Works and Safety as an entity twisted these past eight years to primarily administer Jeff Gahan...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

LIVE TO EAT: Remembering Bastille Day dinners at Bistro New Albany and Bank Street Brewhouse, 2006-2010.

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It's Bastille Day. The number of New Albany eateries has proliferated in recent years, but few if any of them have been marking the...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Culture, demographics and territorial pissings: "Gen X Is Having a (Very Gen X) Moment."

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Let us be the first generation to opt out of building monuments to our rightness. Let’s build no monuments at all. Thanks to Bluegill (...
Monday, September 03, 2018

My friend Barry reminds me there used to be a Labor Day horse show and chicken dinner at the Optimist Club in Georgetown.

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Somewhere in the dozens of photo albums archived downstairs, which inherited me as their keeper when my mother sold the house, there is phot...
Thursday, August 02, 2018

ON THE AVENUES: Daze of future passed.

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ON THE AVENUES: Daze of future passed. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. A few of us were chatting last evening at the pub, and befo...
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Thursday, May 24, 2018

A 2015 flashback to the former Boomtown, when the mayor's money machine went big-time.

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According to the data miners at Facebook, this photograph was taken three years ago today, featuring my campaign's top volunteer. L...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

ON THE AVENUES: Remembering Max Allen, bartender extraordinaire.

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ON THE AVENUES: Remembering  Max Allen, bartender  extraordinaire.  A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. We're drinking my friend...
Thursday, March 01, 2018

ON THE AVENUES: Scoreboard daze of old.

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ON THE AVENUES: Scoreboard daze of old. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. On the occasion of Indiana's impending (and long overd...
Tuesday, September 05, 2017

ASK THE BORED: Gripped with nostalgia, we remember the Great Street Piano Meltdown of 2015.

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Came the reminder: two years ago today was the belated (to put it mildly) dedication ceremony for the street piano that produced so much ...
Wednesday, August 02, 2017

Now, if he'd ever think to use that anchor on speeding cars ... then we might be slowing somewhere.

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But here are a few words that rhyme with anchor: banker, canker, chancre, danker, flanker, hanker, manker, planker, rancor, rancour, rank...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

ON THE AVENUES DOUBLEHEADER (1): Listening to "Dixieland" jazz, and thinking about drinking a beer.

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ON THE AVENUES DOUBLEHEADER (1): Listening to "Dixieland" jazz, and thinking about drinking a beer. A weekly column by Roger A...
Saturday, April 08, 2017

A tentative toe in the water for Euro '87.

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One week from today in 1987, my second summer in Europe kicked off with a flight to Brussels. Earlier in the year, I'd registered f...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

THE BEER BEAT: Football, how it used to be for me, why I seldom watch it at all -- and don't even mention those horrid beers.

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(Part two of two ... part one is here ) In the first part of this Sunday morning mental exercise, as we await the games later today that...