Because I contain multitudes, I also published this ungodly instant Baja Blast pie recipe today.

Arizona Trail hikers are no longer able to reach the AZT's southern terminus after the DHS blocked it off with razor wire. The AZT Association's executive director says he expects this closure will be permanent www.backpacker.com/news-and-eve...

MLB's official Twitter account...hid a Gundam in the back of their Dodgers World Series post.

I am once again begging everyone to read Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano, one of a few truly essential pieces of sportswriting in history.

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm Bernard-Henri Lévy and I'm here to help.'”

Very bizarre situation in Japan, which has had so many bear attacks this year that the government has now deployed the military to deal with them.

Less money for billionaires, more money for whatever is happening here.

A lot of people from outside of Colorado are missing this important detail: We had universal free meals already, and have for a couple of years; this measure was about funding them so they could continue.

Immediately reminded of this Onion article, which is accidentally a very trenchant piece of sports commentary. theonion.com/shohei-ohtan...

A professional through and through, M. John Fayhee braved other hikers judgement and his own fear of being carried off, Wallace-and-Gromit-style, by his own robotic pants to bring you this look inside the rise of powered hiking exoskeletons.

I hate using the I-word (inspirational), but when I see an old guy doing something cool, I see a very desirable future. On that note, I'm cheering on Greybeard as he tries to become the first person to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail in his 90s.

Look, as long as he doesn't move it to Denver.

(More!) bad news from magazineland.

I wake up, chained to the radiator in the newly-remodeled Lincoln bathroom, the crystal chandelier flickering ominously off the marble. A puppet on a tricycle rides up and hands me a solid-gold bone saw.

Will never not be fascinated by the "Why isnt anyone talking about [thing people are definitely talking about]" genre of post

CHOTINER: Call it. Gas Station Proprietor: Call it? CHOTINER: Yes. Gas Station Proprietor: For what? CHOTINER: Just call it. Gas Station Proprietor: Well, we need to know what we're calling it for here.

Oh hey, a reason to be hopeful: groves of American chestnut trees have once again become self-reproducing in the wild. Turned off comments so 12 people don't show up to tell me why this is actually very sad. Be happy, you assholes.

the stadium stopped selling alcohol seven innings ago. everyone at this game is sober now

If we're going to make up rules to speed the game up we should at least make them more fun. In the 10th the pitcher has to wear boxing gloves. In the 11th they pick a position player's name out of a hat and they're the pitcher now. Starting in the 12th they make the bat 1 inch longer every inning.

Looking forward to inning 18, when they tie the postseason record, inning 19, when they break it, and inning 20, when Joe Davis turns into Satan, looks at me directly through the TV, and cackles that I died before the game started and have been in Hell the entire time.

Wish someone would have warned me when I started watching during inning 10 that I was coming in at the halfway point.

This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball

Put in Yamamoto again.

IDK, but far as baseball scenarios go, "bottom of the 9th, bases loaded" is roughly a hundred times less scary than "maybe the last pitch of your career is giving up a grand slam."

My god Playoff Kershaw looming out there like Checkov's Gun

Hot take: spaghetti

I went to Simp Gap and everyone knew you

Going to make a swear jar for my house but it's for when I accidentally call my wife "bud."

In terms of "direct attacks on the city of Chicago," brutalizing a WGN producer is like one step down from arresting Michael Jordan, the Empire Carpet guy, or that hotdog dressed in the caveman costume on top of Superdawg.

Hiking the CDT: very hard! Hiking the CDT followed, immediately, by the Great Divide Trail: almost unprecedentedly hard. Jessica "Stitches" Guo became the first known woman to do it last month, and spent four full weeks without seeing a single other human being.

This is antisemitism, to me.

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

Shoutout to our video editor, who told my colleague and I to "just talk about whatever" so they could check levels, then promptly used that footage as the intro.

everyone says it for a reason: really important to lock in when it comes to fitness and health. just establishing good habits — regular exercise including strength training, eating a balanced diet — will pay huge dividends

You're gonna pay for your bad sleep habits in a way you didn't in your 20s.

I had no idea how close I came to human sacrifice wandering through those woods as a child. Wiping sweat off my brow.

This is a story about the forest preserves I grew up hiking in, published a year after I was born.

Hikers now need to be U.S. citizens and apply in advance for an Army permit to access the southern terminus and first 1.1 miles of the CDT: www.backpacker.com/news-and-eve...

This is really great reporting from Mother Jones - the "godfather" of evidence-based medicine disavows the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine for misusing his work. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

CHOTINER: So eating well is important to you? ME: Yes, extremely CHOTINER: In 2019 you tweeted a picture of yourself loading a whole box of Honey Buns into a ski pack. ME: OK, so— CHOTINER: You wrote in 2022 that "Swedish Fish rule because they're wax-coated so you can put them in your pockets."

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

knight: have you come for me? chotiner: i have been walking beside you for a long time. knight: that i know. chotiner: are you ready? knight: my flesh is afraid, but i am not.

Hello, would you be interested in doing an interview for the New Yorker?

This too is Torah.

OH I FUCKED UP. THIS RECIPE WAS SUPPOSED TO MAKE SIX LOAVES, NOT TWO. I AM ABOUT TO BE THE PROUD OWNER OF EITHER THE LARGEST CHALLOT ANYONE HAS EVERY MADE, OR A KITCHEN FIRE.

Is this good? Is this what challah is supposed to look like?

This is an absolute tragedy. Crosscut did incredible work.