If your milk hotel is neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the milk hotel of the oppressor.

I’m usually pretty knee-jerk booo gatekeeping, hurray democratization of the outdoors, but I’m not sure where I come down on this one! Great story tho. audubon.org/news/social-di…

If you always dreamed of hearing Larry David say "David Grisman Quartet," your dream has now come true.

BBC team reporting from Gaza find dozens of neighbours & friends among the injured & dead in Al-Shifa Hospital. Exceptional reporting - at a huge personal cost - from adnanelbursh Rushdi Abualouf & many others in Gaza.

Tavern-style pizza is unequivocally the best pizza and not just because you can eat so much more of it in a sitting than you probably should. nytimes.com/2023/03/17/din…

Update: the wrong pilsner won, but it’s not a bad one, so I’ll stick around.

Flew to Austin to see my fantasy football rival @mikehoinski on a night when the Bills are deciding our contest, and he had the class to rep 207 on his lid. True competitor.

What I’ve been up to lately. 👇🏼

Sorry but I have to share a bit more of this morning’s Downeast Maine meteorology magic, with 15F overnight chill clashing with far warmer sea temperatures, creating an astonishing frost crystal cloak on marsh grasses and drifting sea mist.

One of my fave stories of my time at Down East Magazine in this week’s The Sunday Long Read. Pleasant surprise! Thanks Esmé E. Deprez! mailchi.mp/sundaylongread…

Counterpoint, courtesy of the Joynt in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where I learned to love doing dishes.

More and more, when I use the word "catholic" in the small-c sense, I realize people have no idea what I'm talking about. This just kinda fallen out of the vocab?

prolly my fave pic of jimmy buffett

Pretty cool getting to make one of my first @wildsamguides assignments out of the gate last year to the great Col. Gustavo Arellano, here introducing a whole cast of voices reflecting on today's Route 66. wildsam.com/stories/the-mo…

The replies to this will break your brain.

I was honored to talk about my friend Rosemary Mosco (Bird And Moon Comics) for this National Audubon story! She’s the greatest. audubon.org/magazine/somet…

Big fun reporting this one for Thrillist. From the idyllic Wisconsin vacation town that gave birth to Dungeons & Dragons — but is only just now kinda laying claim to it. thrillist.com/travel/chicago…

Karen Wynn Fonstad was a novice cartographer who painstakingly plumbed J.R.R. Tolkien’s books and notes to draw atlases of Middle-earth, the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.” Her maps became crucial for the films that followed. nyti.ms/3DSXHvf

Karen Wynn Fonstad was a novice cartographer who painstakingly plumbed J.R.R. Tolkien’s books and notes to draw atlases of Middle-earth, the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.” Her maps became crucial for the films that followed. nyti.ms/4gU3Q9d