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Patrick O'Grady was bad enough with pen and ink. He got worse with a keyboard. Now he has a microphone. God help us all.

Nov 24, 2018

It's probably not what Anheuser-Busch had in mind with the tagline, "This Bud's for you." But nevertheless, craft breweries — and a few bigger outfits, too — are finding creative ways of working weed into their beverages, which could bring a whole new meaning to the term "skunky beer."

These kids today. Before long...


Nov 16, 2018

Marc Sani's "Through the Grapevine" column about legislation to permit mountain bikes in wilderness, and the Republicans who support it, squeezed the grapes of many a reader of the trade magazine Bicycle Retailer and Industry News. 

Patrick O'Grady never could resist kicking someone who's down, especially if someone...


Nov 9, 2018

Remember how it feels to lose? Keep that in mind when you win. A mediation on the midterms.

Recorded using an Audio-Technica AT2100-USB microphone and a Zoom H5 Handy Recorder. Edited in Apple's GarageBand.

The National Emblem March, composed in 1902 by Edwin Eugene Bagley, was performed by the U.S. Air Force...


Nov 2, 2018

Patrick O'Grady chats with his old friend and colleague Hal Walter about the running career of Hal's son, Harrison.

Patrick's father was a ball-sports kind of guy, and the two never connected on that level. But Harrison has grown up sharing his father's love of running, and he just completed his first season with the...