Jason Pargin
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Jason Keith Pargin is an American novelist, humorist, and internet personality. com. He is the author of the comic lovecraftian horror series John Dies at the End (2007-present) and the Zoey Ashe series (2015-present), as well as the standalone novel I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom (2024).
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Remember that there are elements of your personality you are totally unaware of that are immediately apparent to any stranger within five minutes of meeting you
Threads post, August 8, 2024.
Your heroes aren't gods, they're just regular people who probably got good at one thing by neglecting literally everything else.
"Learning Day: Jason Pargin's Alpha Success Method", 1-900-HOTDOG, January 20, 2022.
...in isolation, human minds tend to get strange, like a self-portrait painted from memory, in the dark, using a live snake as a brush.
Chapter 11: Key
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Jason Keith Pargin is an American novelist, humorist, and internet personality. Writing for many years under the pen name David Wong, he founded the humor site Pointless Waste of Time and later served as executive editor of Cracked.com. He is the author of the comic lovecraftian horror series John Dies at the End (2007-present) and the Zoey Ashe series (2015-present), as well as the standalone novel I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom (2024). John Dies at the End was adapted as a feature film in 2012. Pargin retired the David Wong pseudonym in 2020, and since 2022 has produced short-form videos on TikTok and other social media platforms, which he has credited with sustaining his writing career. Since 2023, he has co-hosted the Mountain Monsters watchalong comedy podcast Bigfeets.
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