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I’m so glad I live in an M CITY OF THE MIDWEST (and not that fictional M-Chicago, either)! areasofmyexpertise: Here is TOM DEJA’S amazing new image for our M CITIES OF THE MIDWEST TOUR, during which I,  JOHN HODGMAN OF TELEVISION  will be visiting the cities of: MINNEAPOLIS!MADISON!MILWAUKEE!and MCHICAGO! …to speak to them about WEALTH, WINE, SPORTS, and THE END OF THE WORLD.  NOT ONLY THIS, but I will be joined at each and every stop by the great BILL CORBETT and KEVIN MURPHY of RIFFTRAX and a television show called Mystery Science Theater 3000! Tickets are available at the links above, and always at bit.ly/hodgmania Please come say hello, and if you do not mind, RETWEET, RE-TUMBL, and UPTHUMB at will. I am very grateful.   That is all. 

I’m so glad I live in an M CITY OF THE MIDWEST (and not that fictional M-Chicago, either)!

areasofmyexpertise:

Here is TOM DEJA’S amazing new image for our M CITIES OF THE MIDWEST TOUR, during which I, 

JOHN HODGMAN OF TELEVISION 

will be visiting the cities of:

MINNEAPOLIS!
MADISON!
MILWAUKEE!
and MCHICAGO!

…to speak to them about WEALTH, WINE, SPORTS, and THE END OF THE WORLD. 

NOT ONLY THIS, but I will be joined at each and every stop by the great BILL CORBETT and KEVIN MURPHY of RIFFTRAX and a television show called Mystery Science Theater 3000!

Tickets are available at the links above, and always at bit.ly/hodgmania

Please come say hello, and if you do not mind, RETWEET, RE-TUMBL, and UPTHUMB at will.

I am very grateful.  

That is all. 

(Source: hodgman)

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areasofmyexpertise: THANKS TO THE INTERNET SLEUTHING OF CORI REDFORD on the Official Facebook Hodgmania Page, a thing that truly EXISTS,  I NOW KNOW that the artist responsible for painting me on the side of the Rialto Theater in Tucson is JOE PAGAC. I AM GRATEFUL TO HIM. AS A REMINDER, John Roderick and I will be in Tucson at the Rialto on SATURDAY NIGHT.  JUST ONE NIGHT AFTER our appearance at Largo in LA on FRIDAY NIGHT.  REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER FTW. That is all. 

areasofmyexpertise:

THANKS TO THE INTERNET SLEUTHING OF CORI REDFORD on the Official Facebook Hodgmania Page, a thing that truly EXISTS, 

I NOW KNOW that the artist responsible for painting me on the side of the Rialto Theater in Tucson is JOE PAGAC.

I AM GRATEFUL TO HIM.

AS A REMINDER, John Roderick and I will be in Tucson at the Rialto on SATURDAY NIGHT. 

JUST ONE NIGHT AFTER our appearance at Largo in LA on FRIDAY NIGHT. 

REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER FTW.

That is all. 

(via hodgman)

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Abstentia Temporaris: This is a condition in which a writer is suddenly unable to form coherent sentences. It is commonly instigated by the question, “What’s your book about?”

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…oh ignore me. Sometimes I suffer from fluffy emotions.

—Kola, in Wole Soyinka’s “The Interpreters” (49)

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Here’s a sign that reads: “PORK!” Some signs aren’t there to make you happy.

—Why Did I Ever, Mary Robison

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