A listicle without commentary — 13. Gross terminological inexactitude 12. Ugandan discussions 11. His door was always open. 10. Colorful racing personality 9. Tireless raconteur 8. Bon viveur 7. Outgoing 6. In high spirits 5. Extremely gregarious 4. Convivial 3. Tired and Emotional 2. Uncompromisingly direct ladies’ man 1. Burnish his own reputation

And they can handle the spotlight — Leos are famous. I don’t mean that Leos are disproportionately represented in the entertainment industry, although they are. I mean that they are famous as a concept. If you went up to someone who didn’t care or know anything about astrology and said, “Tell me a star sign immediately,” they…

Ernest Hemingway, Tom Cruise, Lindsay Lohan—see? — Picture a storm. Picture yourself living in a coastal village, and you wake up one morning and look out your window and there it is: the storm. Far away, still, but Oh Jesus. Do you understand how bad this is going to be? Soon you will be waist deep in…

This piece was originally published in Prufrock magazine I had a dinner party the other night, and this guy started talking about his PhD. No one really asked him to. He just up and started in on us, in response to the most routine inquiry about his job. He was…

You were published in Emergency Medicine on this day in 1974, to great controversy. There is, apparently, some skepticism out there as to your efficacy. The Wikipedia article (which for some reason prefers the term “abdominal thrusts”) has a whole section in which many doctors robustly contend that you don’t…

They cannot be defeated. —

An honest question. — What do you think of when you see this photo? Do you admire the composition? Do you identify the landscape at once as Eastern European? Do you think about bears and sectarianism? Maybe. Only later, though. The first thing you think is “That man seems to be very asleep in…

A healthy young man or a fox? — If this were a Buzzfeed article it would be called “The Image You Get in Your Mind When Someone Asks You to Picture Robin Hood Might Say a Lot About You!” This is an unwieldy title, but it is accurate, and I don’t know how else to say it. This…

No good reason either, they just haaaaaate it. — Some signs hate change because it interferes with their ability to be the main boss of the world. For example Scorpios. They hate change because it puts them on the back foot, even if only briefly, and forces them to recalculate their ongoing plans for war. …