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Hayseed Enough for Small Town Living: Clarence Loves Michiana
Confronted with the possibility of another sweltering week without air conditioning in Bloomington, we gleefully packed up and headed north for a week to that hazy zone on the Indiana/Michigan border...
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Object Relations No. 5: Giardiniera
MC, a good friend from my time California, has relocated to Chicago for the past two years. Despite my best intentions, I hadn’t managed to spend any time with him despite our relative geographic...
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Let’s Give Monsieur Bigoudis Some Love, Plus Wim Wenders and Wax Food Replicas!
Are you guys still following Monsieur Bigoudis’ photos on flickr? Just because I fancy myself a decent photographer nowadays (snort) doesn’t mean that you still shouldn’t be looking at the real deal...
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Booze or Lose: Where to Drink in Bloomington
So the cat’s out of the bag: most of you know that I’ve spent the last eleven months or so in Bloomington, Indiana, home of Indiana University and a relatively high sleeve-to-man ratio compared to the...
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Sapp Coffee House
When I was still living in the Midwest, I asked my friend M if there was anything he missed about living in Los Angeles. He suddenly got a far-away look in his eyes and quietly murmured, “The boat...
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Dat Thanh
I recently met up with my friend K in the city of Westminster, where she had been storing her belongings for several years while she was living in Tokyo. Yes, I totally just said that as if that is a...
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BLT
I know there have been some crickets chirping around here lately, but I have a most excellent excuse this time: I finished my dissertation, filed it, and am now a doctor everywhere except on flight...
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Night Squirrel
K: Did you see the Eater article I posted about Jessica Koslow’s new dinnertime venture? Me: Totally. What are they going to call it? Night Squirrel? *** Here’s the Eater post:...
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Cherry Bomb
If the slide into bourgeois bohemian middle age is signaled by weekly farmer’s market visits and excessive zeal for new kitchen gadgets, I am the avalanche. Unable to consume one more raw cherry and...
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Yum Yum Cherriums
About nine months ago, we defected from our CSA subscription. Community supported agriculture is a really awesome way of buying produce if you don’t mind eating kohlrabi all the time. We unfortunately...
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