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Kate Dries
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I met her at a book signing in like 2007 and when I told her my name she said, “You’re shittin’ me,” and asked to see my driver’s license. (It was admittedly weird of me to ask her to make it out to my full name.) Read more

Listen, I genuinely sympathize with people who’ve been part of the commenting community there, and are seeing that community roiled by the change. I was a Deadspin commenter for years before I joined the staff, and when we went through the series of redesigns and commenting system changeovers that eventually landed us Read more

You know, if you don’t like the design that’s fine and you can say so, but just say so rather than going with this wised-up, savvy internet user horseshit. There are really very few things sillier than some invariably wrong commenter offering up their ill-informed takes about the business side of a business we Read more

Carter was the carpenter who took over after Ty left and man oh man was he hot. Read more

This filled me with so much love and sadness; as a biologist, an insect enthusiast, and as someone who also has fond memories of the Smokies. I section hike the Appalachian Trail and the most comforting moments of my hike so far has been escaping through the Smokies and Shenandoah NP. At the same time, it feels almost Read more