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I am not an Internet superstar.

John Hodgman

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John Hodgman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 3
Author
Comedian
Film Actor
Podcaster
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Television Actor
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Brookline
Massachusetts
John Kellogg Hodgman
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We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth.
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John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald meet in hell and team up to assassinate Satan.
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When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.
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There is a need for expertise, for real expertise. I'm not doing much to help that cause, but I think we can find the healthy balance between intellectualism and anti-intellectualism. Jocks and nerds may come together, I believe it.
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A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.
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Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.
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Why certain political classes want purposefully to keep Americans in a state of perpetual debt and uncertainty and why certain people don't want a middle class - because middle class creates a certain happiness. You know what I mean?
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People like what they like. They're gonna do what they're gonna do.
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Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.
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I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'
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I'm not sure if that answers the question and I have absolutely no problem with any major world religion on Earth.
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If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason. They do not choose how, when, or whom they shove. They are doing this in order to please one angry old man on the sidelines. This old man is called the 'coach' or 'yelling surrogate' dad who will never be happy.
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Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
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