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Interview: John Hodgman

By CLEA SIMON | November 21, 2008

I’m very cheered by your hope.
I’m glad you’re cheered.

I’ve read you are in fact a Mac user?
Yes, I have been since 1984. There was a brief period in the wilderness when I was reviewing video games for Time Out New York and had to go PC for a while. it was not the worst experience in the world, but it was not the best.

There seems to be a cat theme in your books.
Yes, I own a cat and I feel very ambivalent about cats. But not more than they feel ambivalent about us.

Are you, in fact, the Yale Feline Studies Institute?
No, those people are monsters. What got done in the name of science, it’s very frightening.

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