Knowledge runs down.

I am a walking manifesto: “Too serious to be taken seriously,” according to Andrea Long Chu, author of the (so far) excellent book Females.

My birth chart (stellion in Sagittarius, moon in Gemini) says I am a comedienne, humorous, a laugh. And I think I’m friggin’ hilarious.

But I also take things too seriously. Andrea says that’s what humor is, though!

“A bit may be fantastical, but the seriousness required to commit to it is always real. This is the humorlessness that vegetates at the core of all humor,” she writes.

I am humorless and funny as a result.

It’s true I’ve always known I’m funniest when I don’t mean to be – when I laugh along with those laughing at my earnestness.

I am too serious to be taken seriously, so I am funny. Life-long commitment to the bit, that’s me.

Love and seriousness,
Jordie