For those of you who have been to How I Learned before, you know how much I enjoy John Hughes movies. (Well, really only nine movies out of all of them, but I love those nine so much that it's like enough theoretical love to go around.)
BuzzFeed -- you know that site that does all the quizzes that get posted all over Facebook -- just posted a "Which John Hughes Classic Are You?" quiz. Now, the senior editor of BuzzFeed, Louis Peitzman, was a featured performer at the last How I Learned and I was campaigning for a "Which How I Learned Theme Are You" quiz. I think this is as close as it's gonna get.
Oh, of course I did the quiz. Naturally, I got the 'The Breakfast Club.' I am Allison Reynolds. I've been saying that for years.
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Blaise Allysen Kearsley is a Brooklyn-based writer and the creator, producer, and host of How I Learned, which has been a thing for a super long time. She has performed at The Moth, RISK!, Mortified, Literary Death Match, and many other shows. Her writing has appeared in Longreads, Midnight Breakfast, VICE, The Weeklings, The Nervous Breakdown, two anthologies, and in several other places a long time ago that don't even exist anymore, and are perhaps not worth mentioning by name. She also teaches creative nonfiction to other so-called grownups. Learn how to pronounce all three of her names at blaiseallysenkearsley.com.