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"I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish-cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer." (Or, other conversations at a Denny's in a Haruki Murakami novel.)

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Adventures Close to Home

Human history physically merged into the natural setting. A toddler explores nearby.

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To Bear Oral Arms

3.19.16: Sprung from the neck of Medusa – the pivot away from vertebrate life.

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Mullen, Nebraska (Pop.: ~509)

3.16.16: A moment’s pause in the heart of the Nebraska Sandhills.

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Hvala Haul! Bosnian ajvar, Bulgarian cheese, and Bradford beer

The surprising history of Balkan caviar; Cheese in search of eight recipes; Beer from Bradford, UK that might be more Settlers of Catan than Steelers of Pittsburgh.

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Some Plov, A Book, No Beer: A Day in a Read State (8)

3.7.16: Or, How I Learned to Plov the Bomb. Dr. Strangeplov – the food truck, obvs. Or, better yet “Without Plov,” since we’re talking Tracy and Hepburn.

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Maps: The Speeding Tickets of the Homesick

Late-night Nebraska with Springsteen’s “Nebraska.”

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Juba, Cuba, Lincoln, Nebraska

In which a South Sudanese refugee applying for U.S. citizenship relates how he spent 8 formative years as an agriculture student on Cuba’s Isla de la Juventud.

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