Keith Plocek

I Can't Control the World, But I Can Leave Stickers on It — The New York Times Magazine

The History of Shrinkflation, or How to Avoid a Bread Riot in Feudal Europe — Slate

We Have the Best Damn Little Free Library on the Block — McSweeney's Internet Tendency

A Motorcyle Trip Through the Misty Mountains of Northern Vietnam — Travel + Leisure

The Secret History of The Endless Summer — LA Weekly

Nine Cities Where Public Transit Offers Eye-Popping Views — The New York Times

So Glad I Didn't Reach the Summit of Cotopaxi, Ecuador's Tallest Active Volcano — Nowhere

Spy Stories: The CIA, Edwin Wilson and 40,000 Pounds of Plastic Explosive — Houston Press

Edward Drinker Cope and the Story of the Paleontologist's Wandering Skull — Mental Floss

I Flew a Kite Near Kelly Slater's Artificial Wave and Scored Aerial Photos of Surfing's Future — The Inertia

An Open Letter to Balding Men from a Bald Man — McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Venice Is the Best Neighborhood in Los Angeles, But I'm Leaving — LA Weekly