Heartbroken to share the tragic and unexpected news about my longtime colleague and friend Brian Doherty, who died earlier this week in a hiking accident.

So happy to have spent most of my career working shoulder to shoulder with him, both at Reason magazine and the late, lamented Suck, where he wrote under the nom de plume Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk.

Unlike Camus with Sisyphus and his rock, I don't have to imagine Brian happy as he chronicled the great, innovative weirdos who created things like Burning Man, underground comix, cryptocurrency, and the modern libertarian movement.

He was every bit as weird, cranky, and wonderful as the people and movements he wrote about.

He and his work will be missed--and more important, remembered. RIP, Brian, RIP.

More as I have it. Take some time to roam through his Reason archive at reason.com/people/brian…