Line #30 Literature/ThatIsAll


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3	->''"And as the dull, watery sun washed out those long nights, I would go back up to my room and I would look into my mirror, and I would ask in the queasy dawn:\
4	WHO AM I?\
5	And the mirror would answer:\
6	MY NAME IS JOHN HODGMAN. But that is all over now."''[[labelnote:240]][[ComicallyMissingThePoint "The mirrors at the Chateau Marmont are AMAZING."]][[/labelnote]]
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8	Short for:\
9	''As Long Threatened and Longer Postponed, Herein you Will Find: A Third Compendium ("Tri-Pendium") of Complete World Knowledge, Now and Finally Complete, As Set Down by Me, A Former Professional Literary Writer; A Former Former Professional Literary Agent; A Minor Television Personality Who Is Arguably Still Famous In Some Circles; and ... A Current DERANGED MILLONAIRE, Who Is Known In Your Language as JOHN HODGMAN Simultaneously Covering and Uncovering Such Previously Un-touched-upon Subjects As... The Practice and Pronunciation of "Oenophilia"; The Ancient Teachings of The ''Americanomicon''; The Meaning of your Dreams; Gentleman Criminals; How Boats Work; How To Raise Sperm Wales; The Secrets of The Master Magicians; How To Finally Become Happy and Wealthy As A Deranged Millionaire Before The Coming Global Super-Collapse and The End of Human Civilization, aka "Ragnarok"; Plus: Sports! As Well As Most Other Subjects, At Last In Such Sufficiency As To Report: '''[[TitleDrop THAT IS ALL]]''' ''
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11	The final entry in the ''Literature/CompleteWorldKnowledge'' trilogy, Creator/JohnHodgman's last book of fake trivia, and, quite possibly, the last book ever to be printed before the arrival of RAGNAROK and the end of the Earth.
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13	Compared to ''Literature/TheAreasOfMyExpertise'' and ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire,'' ''That Is All'' retains the humor of its predecessors even as it takes a much [[ToneShift darker tone]]. Hodgman's fame is waning, and now, a newly-minted Deranged Millionaire, he's taken it upon himself to document his Albuterol-induced visions of the final year of human civilization.
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16	!!This book provides examples of, and parodies, the following tropes:
17	* AIIsACrapshoot:
18	** The entire subplot about Ray Kurzweil.
19	** Also, all computers are sentient, and want to kill you. And as soon as the anti-sentience wave is shut down in the coming global superpocalypse, they will.
20	* AlternateHistory: Apparently the books are set in an alternate timeline where [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] drowned during the '30s. UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt was watching the whole time and did nothing.
21	* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Many of the ancient and unspeakable ones.
22	** [[SeaMonster Giant Swimmer]]: Ole Missus Crushgumbs, Mother Of All Monster Catfish.
23	** HairRaisingHare: Oester-[[Literature/WatershipDown Rah]].
24	* BetterByADifferentName: A variant. Hodgman writes that he was able to accomplish his goal of getting ''Series/TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr'' back on the air, except he had nothing to do with it and the show is now called ''Series/BurnNotice''.
25	* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: The sasquatch seeks police custody. And the reason most people aren't allowed in NYC's Gramercy Park? THERE'S A YETI IN THERE.
26	* BrickJoke: The [[CoolVersusAwesome Zeppeliners Vs. Submariners Feud]] ends up surfacing unexpectedly, resulting in the tragic death of the jock/nerd {{Steampunk}} messiah Nick Mangold.
27	* CosmicHorrorStory: Admittedly, a very comic take on the genre.
28	* DemonicDummy: Waylon Flowers' puppet Madame resurfaces as the god-figure of the abandoned children of New Brookline, Massachusetts, and sentences Stephen King to death for the crime of bringing new information. Even though she's puppeteered by a teenager, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane she also does fifteen minutes of her old act, and makes many cultural references that even kids in the time-stopped New Brookline wouldn't get]].
29	* EccentricMillionaire: John Hodgman and other Deranged Millionaires.
30	** The BLOOD WAVE is actually caused by a Deranged '''Billionaire'''.
31	* EldritchAbomination: Many of them figure prominently in the end of the world.
32	* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt
33	* EtTuBrute: Your dog has BETRAYED US ALL.
34	* FantasyKitchenSink: All the many, many things contributing the Apocalypse.
35	* FlatEarthAtheist: Juggoth, God of Atheists Who Is Himself an Atheist
36	* GentlemanThief: Parodied in "Table 49: Other Gentlemen Criminals", most of whom committed crimes far less glamourous than burglary.
37	* GrailInTheGarbage: The [[spoiler: giant frozen head of Nug-Shohab]] is found in a walk-in freezer behind some meat, at a South Pole research station.
38	* HiveMind: DOGSTORM
39	* {{Homage}}: Nick Mangold's ascension as the Nerd-Jock Messiah is full of these. He credits [[Franchise/StarWars Admiral Ackbar]] with helping him recognize a trap by an opposing football team, plays a duet of [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} "Still Alive"]] with Creator/FeliciaDay, and reminds nerds and jocks they need to cooperate because [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire winter is coming]].
40	* {{Immortality}}: Discussed at length as a common pursuit of Deranged Millionaires. Popular forms include [[BrainUploading Consciousness Transfer]], [[HumanPopsicle cryogenics]], and [[{{Cyborg}} Cyborgism]].
41	* JustBeforeTheEnd
42	* LongList: This time, it's a list of the seven hundred [[EldritchAbomination Ancient and Unspeakable Ones.]] Some familiar names crop up, including Nick Nolte and the Century Toad.
43	* LovecraftLite: More in overall tone than in plot.
44	* MayanDoomsday
45	* ManEatingPlant: The Carno-fern. [[ForScience There are no practical uses for it.]]
46	* MonumentalDamage: Starting with Washington DC being consumed in a storm of green Masonic fire.
47	* NoteToSelf: The hideous scar you asked about in the previous book turns out to be a reminder to yourself to [[InsaneTrollLogic remember that you have amnesia.]]
48	* NostalgiaFilter: There's a HiddenElfVillage dedicated to preserving the year 1983, because it was clearly the best childhood ever.
49	* OverlyLongGag: [[Film/TheyLive "Rowdy" Roddy Piper encounters Keith David in an alley, and the two begin to fight viciously]]. Months later, [[spoiler:as the End Times rage around them and tear the world asunder]], they're ''still'' going at it.
50	* RaisingTheSteaks: See ZombieApocalypse, below.
51	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The Diner's Club POFH Nine-Times-Diamond Credit Card. Among its perks: the right to have legitimate ticket-holders thrown out of any event you want to attend, the ability to fake your own death, and a safe house from the coming global superapocalypse.
52	** KarmicDeath: The safe house is among the first to be destroyed.
53	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[GiantFlyer The Thunderbirds]] abandon Earth, and the mole-men commit mass suicide via the Century Toad. The hobos, first to see it coming, are already long since gone.
54	* TheSingularity: Referred to by name.
55	* ShaggyDogStory: The odyssey of [[spoiler: Nug-Shohab the Headless]]
56	** RedemptionEqualsDeath
57	* ZombieApocalypse: Almost entirely averted. The only dead that will rise will be [[RaisingTheSteaks taxidermied animals]], and they'll be harmless as they're nailed down and their eyes are glass. A bearskin rug does manage to crawl outside the taxidermist's shop, but it only succeeds in making someone cozy.

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