20. Ultimately, Vacationland is about @hodgman making peace with aging & inescapable identity. But hilariously.
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25. Those who dismiss Hodgman don't understand type of art that achieves universal resonance only by rubbing against grit of particularity.
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26. As Marianne Moore once said, artist has to have "the courage of one's peculiarities." Hodgman has that courage.
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27. Hodgman's comedy of erudition requires a little bit more of an effort to appreciate than, say, Louis C.K.'s more universal jokes.
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28. Yet the effort to pick up Hodgman's frequency, to enter into his head-space, is more than reward, not just in laughs but in insight.
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29. "Maine is not a death cult," Hodgman says in Vacationland, not completely with conviction.
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30. Part of the wonder of Vacationland: it makes Maine so real that we can understand why it's not a death cult but evokes deathly thoughts
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