Two Photos For Your Consideration

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I am the son of a sailor-turned-telephone man from Bushwick, Brooklyn. Open seas and lines – horizon and underwater cables – circumscribe me.

Sky surveyors shouldn’t leave their sextants at home when probing these mirror-like horizon lines.

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Bay of Baku, Baku, Azerbaijan (August, 2013)
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Hvar Island over the Neretva Channel, Hvar, Croatia (July, 2010)

 

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Side/Dishes was born of Jim Baker on February 18, 2016 in Lincoln, Nebraska, sprung fully formed from the consummation of two enduring loves: music and food. The First and Guiding Thought was to write short (~200 - ~400 words) observational commentary on lunches and meals enjoyed while listening to one "side" of music: maybe the first side of an LP, maybe 25 / 35 minutes of music - hence the name of the blog "Side/Dishes." Conceptually, the name unifies a few threads I've been fussing with for years - wherein the beloved "side dish" is a metaphor, a distraction, a moment at the family table between grace and argument, a work of starch, a shared thing done outside the work of preparing the main course for the evening - or a panoply of small plates to which all else (save conversation) is secondary. Banchan, for readers acquainted with Korean cuisine - a digest of myriad ideas for collective gustation. Thank you for joining me here. Feel free to reach out to me at james.eugene.baker@gmail.com.