PC's new book

This guy is so funny.... read the whole article on CNN here.

You might want to take John Hodgman's new book, "More Information Than You Require," with a grain of salt. Or maybe the whole shaker.

Like its predecessor, "The Areas of My Expertise," Hodgman's latest is an almanac-style compendium of facts ranging from the historical to the trivial. Except it's largely bogus, often completely made up and delightfully absurd.

CNN:Why did you decide to do a second book?

John Hodgman: My first book was called "The Areas of My Expertise," and like my new book, it was a collection of fascinating trivia and historical oddities and amazing true facts -- with the advantage that all the amazing true facts were made up by me.

I really wanted to write the second book, "More Information Than You Require," because [with] the first book of fake facts [being] only 236 pages long, people might think that I was a sane person. By adding an additional 300 pages to the total world knowledge count, I now look completely insane.

CNN: How do you go about researching your book?

Hodgman: I compile it by not doing any. My research generally involves me sitting down and thinking of all the half-truths and common misperceptions I've picked up along the way, and then I'll supplement that with a little bit of surfing the Internet, which is my favorite repository of dubious scholarship, and then I fuse that into the kind of world-complete knowledge that only my book can provide -- unresearched, largely fictional and entirely true.

CNN: Your book contains some interesting information about the electoral process, for instance.

Hodgman: It is that time of year that we pretend to vote for a president -- and I say "pretend" because, of course, we cast our ballots and create the popular vote and then all of those ballots are taken to a vault in upstate New York and hidden away and never looked at again. And then it goes to the Electoral College.

Now the Electoral College is a beautiful college in upstate New York. A lot of people have visited its campus. The town of Electoral is not much to speak of, I have to say.

CNN:And in your book we learn some strange but "true" things about America's presidents, including Woodrow Wilson.

Hodgman: Yes, Wilson was incapacitated after he had a stroke, so they had to put him in a special "stroke box," and from that time on, his wife really acted as the de facto president. That's why he was given the nickname "The President Who Is Secretly a Lady," and lots of people thought she was running interference and making all the decisions, and from time to time, they would say "Look, we need to see the president."

He was locked away in a closet, and she would bring him out, and even then they were suspicious -- they thought he might be a ventriloquist dummy shaped as Woodrow Wilson. But she had them tricked -- it was ventriloquist dummy made entirely out of Woodrow Wilson.

HAHAHAH!!!!!