PLOV 14 - Not dead, just done
I got home. But before: no news for days, not a peep, not a single instant gram. He must be dead, they said! He must have perished in those snowsliding cabs;...
PLOV 13 - Channel Genghis
Five hours into the six-and-a-half train ride from Bukhara to Tashkent. For the first three, the landscape is just a dusty brown, the only bits of green...
PLOV 12 - Honey and ginger paste
Oh, the light in Buchara in the evenings, my friends. The greens and blues on the mosques and minarets, turning the jutting brick into multimillenial LEGO....
PLOV 10, 11 - Change of Plans
Alive, improbably, after facing the combined insanity of a sudden winter snowfall and Uzbek driving culture. PLOV, Bernard, you know the drill. Truly,...
PLOV 9 - Summary Day
Meeting's over but the work's not done, reader. We're in the weird postorgasmic lull of a completed COP without a completed meeting summary. So the work...
PLOV 8 - Budget Fart
It's over, reader! The CMS COP is over. Boom. Halfway through the newsletter. I have been staring at a computer screen for the past twelve hours. I have...
PLOV 7 - Straw-Coloured Fruit Bat Blues
Привет, friend! PLOV here, I mean, Bernard. Maybe. I may not have slept that much in the past couple of days. I ended up having to take some Floor Time...
PLOV 6 - Floor Time
Oh hi, reader. I am having a quiet morning; I am fourth on the note-taking list today, and only need to come in at eleven. I got up at seven. I ran at level...
PLOV 5 - Helipad Traffic
The lights from the hotel across way from us have kept me awake all night, and now that the sun has the decency to rise from its cavern somewhere in...
PLOV 4 - Snow Leopard High Kick
Hi, reader! You have once again received PLOV, and I once again find myself past the first hurdle of the early newsletters, and into the many hurdles of...
PLOV 3 - Live from the Many Bags Room
Good morning, friend. I have woken early. I have taken the VIP Elevator. I have walked by the Many Bags Room. I have been to gym YesBody, which features a...
PLOV 2 - Dog Nap
No news of migratory species today; we're still on the road. Following the tracks from Tashkent to Samarkand in the Afrosiyob, after a twenty-hour layover...
PLOV 1 - Departure, Big Truck YES
Good morning, friends, and welcome to PLOV--the place where I, Bernard Soubry, wake up at four-thirty and listen to selected excerpts from old episodes of...