Kayla

“Even as a grown-up, I love pretending to be a grown-up.”
― John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

“Now normally I consider nostalgia to be a toxic impulse. It is the twinned, yearning delusion that (a) the past was better (it wasn’t) and (b) it can be recaptured (it can’t) that leads at best to bad art, movie versions of old TV shows, and sad dads watching Fox News. At worst it leads to revisionist, extremist politics, fundamentalist terrorism, and the victory—in Appalachia in particular—of a narcissist Manhattan cartoon maybe-millionaire”
― John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

“As I’ve mentioned, I am an only child. This makes me a member of the worldwide super-smart-afraid-of-conflict narcissist club. And let me emphasize: afraid of conflict. Since I had no siblings to routinely challenge/hit me and equally no interest in playing sports, I had grown up without any experience in conflict. I therefore had no reason to imagine that confrontation of any kind, ranging from fighting to kissing, was not probably fatal.”
― John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

“After all, there's no mansplaining like white mansplaining 'cause white mansplaining don't stop.”
― John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches