LeakyCon

event · in 24 videos (2009–2013)

Mentions by year: 2009: 7 · 2010: 2 · 2011: 7 · 2012: 5 · 2013: 3

Threads

2009-05-20 · Question Tuesday! — John says he must prepare for LeakyCon, then leave for Australia right after, and has a ton of work on edits of the book he is writing with David Levithan. (00:00:00)
2009-05-21 · Ulcerative Colitis: A Song — Hank says he is very excited about LeakyCon, and he and John have been working on their speech all week. (00:03:19)
2009-05-25 · WROCK! — John says he and Hank just had two extraordinary days at LeakyCon, a Harry Potter conference. (00:00:00)
2009-05-25 · WROCK! — John says he was inspired by people who care about one another and about making the world more awesome so completely without irony; in a hyper-cynical world we forget it's okay to be enthusiastic. (00:00:29)
2009-05-25 · WROCK! — John stops talking to show Hank "some awesome" from LeakyCon in the form of wizard rock. (00:00:50)
2009-07-30 · Mules are so Half-Ass — Hank shows a rap in which every line is an acronym for DFTBA, which people who were not at LeakyCon have never heard in acoustic version. (00:03:13)

2010-07-06 · With a private person — John's first 'amazing night of amazing' with a private person was at LeakyCon, a Harry Potter conference. (00:01:45)
2010-12-14 · 8 Things I Love — John says a Nerdfighter approached him at LeakyCon years ago saying she had written a book due in 2010; when it arrived he couldn't stop reading. (00:00:21)

2011-06-09 · Punishments, Floods, and Pink Hitler Babies — Hank hopes to have the album at LeakyCon and on sale at DFTBA shortly after, around July 13. (00:03:30)
2011-07-13 · ELLEN HARDCASTLE IS HERE! A Reunion Video — John reports he is at LeakyCon 2011, which he jokingly calls Hogwarts, with many nerdfighters downstairs. (00:00:00)
2011-07-15 · Harry Freaking Potter — Hank says he is at LeakyCon but pre-recorded this video along with his new Harry Potter posters. (00:00:00)
2011-07-21 · HARDCASTLED! — Hank says he hurt his neck at LeakyCon. (00:00:24)
2011-07-21 · HARDCASTLED! — Hank says people who bought the CD at LeakyCon or will buy it at VidCon can send a photo of themselves with it plus their script. (00:02:28)
2011-07-25 · I Am Not a P#$$Y - this video contains mild swear words. — Hank says that at LeakyCon a young woman asked him how he dealt with bullying, and it troubles him that he could not give her a good answer. (00:02:48)
2011-09-15 · How to Make Ideas Real: Readit1st.com — Hank says he brain-cracked ReadIt1st for about a year until LeakyCon re-inspired him about books, adaptations and how people should read the book first. (00:01:20)

2012-08-03 · I Don't Understand My Life — a private person was a Nerdfighter the brothers met in 2009 at the first LeakyCon; she and her friends were and remain very important to Nerdfighteria; she had lived with cancer a long time. (00:02:08)
2012-08-14 · To Be Anything At All: Thoughts from Places, Chicago and LeakyCon 2012 — John shows gifts from Brazilian Nerdfighters at LeakyCon: a Brazilian soccer jersey signed by Pelé, who wrote DFTBA on it, and a book hundreds of them read and annotated. (00:00:00)
2012-08-14 · To Be Anything At All: Thoughts from Places, Chicago and LeakyCon 2012 — At LeakyCon 2012 John chatted with Lev Grossman in front of a crowd, then shattered his phone by dropping it from about eight inches. (00:00:00)
2012-08-17 · Open Letter to the Wizards — This year Hank saved his song to premiere it on stage at LeakyCon, and now releases it to everyone. (00:00:24)

2013-06-28 · Plane Butts, Fish Farts, LeakyCon, and Marriage Equality — At LeakyCon in Portland Hank meets Harry Potter actor Devon Murray, someone even more tired than he is. (00:01:58)
2013-08-03 · Esther Day 2013 — John says a private person was a Nerdfighter the brothers met at LeakyCon 2009 in Boston. (00:00:43)
2013-08-09 · What I Learned at VidCon — Hank, at LeakyCon in London after VidCon, films on a fire escape; he calls it 'three cons in three weeks'. (00:00:03)
2013-08-09 · What I Learned at VidCon — Hank tells John he's sorry John couldn't be at LeakyCon London but glad he's back with his family; LeakyCon attendees then greet John. (00:03:06)