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I would say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect.
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John Hodgman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 3
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John Kellogg Hodgman
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Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.
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People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.
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Just a small-scale cult of personality, maybe raise a geodetic dome out in western Massachusetts and make people wear jumpsuits and give all their possessions to me.
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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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I know nothing about letting go.
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