Men! What are they thinking? We can't always answer that, but we'll be posting our favorite glimpses into their world in this space every Thursday.

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* A week later, we are still mourning the death of writer David Rakoff. Revisit the stories he wrote for us about Elizabeth Bishop and pet ownership. It's also worth reading this lovely remembrance by comedian Dave Hill and watching Rakoff perform for This American Life. (O Magazine; Huffington Post; Open Culture)

* Four guys go fishing for albacore off the coast of Santa Cruz. They catch some tuna, but the real action must be seen to be believed. (Vimeo)

* Ernest Hemingway was a lousy spy. (Foreign Policy)

* Over at the Classical, Tom Breihan has written a terrific essay that is partly about the pro-wrestling's reigning giant, The Big Show, but mostly about what it is like to be really, really tall. (The Classical)

* Explore Tombstone, Arizona's Boot Hill cemetery, wild resting place for gunslingers and cowboys. (NPR)