BOOKS: “Capitalism & Disability,” by Marta Russell.
My friend Loren is COO at Sweet Behavior LLC, and he mentioned this book a while back. I bought it immediately and read these...
We cannot know if the push-button crosswalk buttons work when so many of...
That's right, NA:
We're fundamentally better.
Jeff Speck, who once authored a walkability study for New Albany -- a document now being depleted, one precious page...
H.L. Mencken on William Jennings Bryan …
... and the values of New Albany's city council reactionaries.Epochal journalist H.L. Mencken penned the following consideration of William Jennings Bryan for publication in...
Jane Jacobs, 1958: “Downtown is for People.”
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It's an essay by Jane Jacobs written in 1958, and worth revisiting at regular intervals. First, for those just tuning in
Jacobs is credited,...
Born too late: “In colonial times, the calf was the most attractive part of...
Cribbed from a Chinese web site. Whatever.
Well ... I used to have the legs for it.
Were Colonial Men Obsessed With Their Calves?, by Cara...
ON THE AVENUES: Magic and loss.
For one who is accustomed to recording his thoughts on paper, because he has always understood in his particular case that writing is the...
The myriad joys of detesting Anheuser-Busch.
At another on-line venue, I spent the past weekend making the case for beer as a beverage just as suitable as wine for pairing...
PINTS & UNION PORTFOLIO: In the on-deck circle to pinch hit, it’s Bell’s Porter.
The unfortunate truth of the matter is that with the exception of Hoosier brewers, who can deliver their wares to a licensed pub or...
Grid Control, Vol. 16: What about HWC’s cross hatching correction? Will this be finished...
On June 22, NA Confidential offered this news item.
Grid Control, Vol. 5: Egg on HWC Engineering's well-compensated face as it botches Spring Street's westbound...
Bix Beiderbecke was born 117 years ago today in Davenport, Iowa.
Bix Beiderbecke was born 117 years ago today in Davenport, Iowa. He died at 28 in 1931, and thanks to the LP collection at...
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2006: The NA Confidential – Volunteer Hoosier merger.
Diana and I first met Randy Smith on the grounds of the Moser Tannery in 2004 (wife Ann was with him; I knew her...
The Highwayman at city council, 2009: “Romeo, Romeo,——-?”
Lloyd "The Highwayman" Wimp, who sadly left us on November 12, 2010, was an old acquaintance of my 1990s-era pub madness who became a...
Prague’s concrete paneláks aren’t finished yet.
Having grown up under the tutelage of a father who went out of his way to avoid urban areas, and this being America, my...
