The "Galaxy Quenching" episode? Yeah. There was a moment when verb tenses changed, and I felt my heart drop.

There's an intimacy in composing an obituary. The purity in finding the words to encapsulate the loss, the love, the pain...

Cranking out an AI obituary is ghoulish.

I'm not making the "Eye of Mordor" joke, but feel free...

Beak and all.

So, your existence is only speculated about until a grainy black and white photo from a trail cam is published?

I'd pay real money to see that happen.

This exploration of Dag is fascinating. Why would this man decide to become a hermit yet conclude that he's not gonna die "easy?" Trauma? An unquenchable drive to live on his own terms? Through this book, we explore Dag's past right alongside him. I'm left admiring Dag and his inner strength. 4/4

He also decided, in his 70s, to train for and compete in an 80-mile Canadian ultramarathon aptly named the “death race." He completed the race. He fuels himself during the death race by eating potatoes he carries in a backpack. His pre-race meal for normal marathons is pizza, lasagna, and beer. 3/4

Dag found work as a stuntman, logger, and ski instructor. Now, he lives as a hermit in a school bus in the mountains of Vernon, BC. It's not that he hates society, he just wants nothing to do with it. He starts every day by running for two hours on mountain paths he cut from the forest. 2/4

The cover of Outsider by Brett Popplewell. It shows a lone figure running on a mountain ridge with mountains and trees in the background.

Recently, I finished Brett Popplewell's book, "Outsider," a biography of Dag Aabye, a man who...well, it's hard to explain. Born to unknown parents in Norway during WWII, he was adopted by a wealthy family who were sympathetic to Nazism. Dag ran away to become the founding father of freeskiing. 1/

I'll alert the authorities.

I'm really partial to Coke Cherry Zero.

But I will try a diet Dr. Pepper. But my expectations are lower than expecting a coherent opinion from Alito.

Oh, man. I was with you until this one. Dr. Pepper is the used mop water after cleaning the floor or a Turkish bathhouse.

As opposed to your amateur account?

Bow (necktie)

I hear members of the Christian right drop Reagan's "If we fail to be a nation under God, we'll be a nation gone under," bullshit all the time. It's desiccated dick fluffing.

You'll store it next next to your trophies?

You sure you don't want to beat everyone at drinking? I'm picturing Marion from "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

Ask him how many PPOs have been taken out against him.

A beautiful green praying mantis on a white background.

Made a fren.

I'd bring the iced tea.

So what you're saying is that leg day is a public service?

My favorite account is an anecdote about a man named John. He started weight training after he retired for one simple reason: He wanted to be able to lift himself off the toilet. And that's the lesson of this book: Wanna get off the crapper in your 80s? Lift a heavy thing. Put it down. Repeat. 4/4

And Jan Todd, a woman who refused to accept that weight training was a male activity and decided to set a bunch of world records, before becoming an academic and vastly expanding our understanding of weight training. 3/4

But the book is more than a dry recounting of history. The book comes alive through the stories of the people exploring history, strength, and muscle. Like Charles Stocking, whose father had him running a 10k before he was a teenager. 2/4

The cover of "Stronger" by Michael Joseph Gross.

Today, I finished "Stronger - The Untold Story of Muscle in Our Lives" by Michael Joseph Gross. The book started in a place I enjoyed: a summary of the understanding of human muscle way back in ancient Greece. 1/4

The crowd was waiting to see someone blow their fingers off.