Hank and Maureen Johnson's unsanctioned Nerdfighter gathering at Barnes & Noble, Union Square, New York (2008)
project history · status: completed · last event: outcome (2008-08-12) · last mentioned: 2024-10-02
Hank announced an informal Nerdfighter meet-up with Maureen Johnson at the Barnes & Noble in Union Square, New York, for 6 August 2008; about 50 Nerdfighters flash-mobbed the store and then hung out across the street. Hank later remembered it as his first Nerdfighter gathering.
Told alongside: Hank's 2008 deal to sell EcoGeek to Scientific American, paused by the financial crisis (2008)
About: Barnes & Noble, Union Square, Maureen Johnson
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-08-05 | announced | Hank announces a gathering with Maureen Johnson at the Barnes & Noble in Union Square at 6 p.m. the next day (August 6) for Nerdfighters in and around New York. | Everyone's Your Friend… 00:00:46 |
| 2008-08-12 (happened 2008-08-06) | outcome | Hank reports that he and about 50 Nerdfighters flash-mobbed the Barnes & Noble after an announcement, then hung out across the street. | Eight Days of Awesome 00:01:09 |
| 2024-10-02 | looked back | Hank recalls that on his 2008 New York trip he had just attended his first Nerdfighter gathering. | What I learned from the weirdest day of my life 00:00:29 |
What is said about it
5 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2008-08-05 · Everyone's Your Friend… — ask: Hank tells Nerdfighters anywhere on the East Coast they have to come, excusing only those as far away as Florida, then softens it to 'if you can, do it'. (playful) — 00:00:46
- 2008-08-05 · Everyone's Your Friend… — announcement: Hank says they will hopefully be in the upstairs conference room; he won't have his guitar or sing, but will sign John's books for anyone who buys them. (hedged) — 00:01:15
- 2008-08-05 · Everyone's Your Friend… — Hank says they are holding the event because the Barnes & Noble in Manhattan apparently doesn't think John Green can draw a crowd, so this unsanctioned gathering will show that Nerdfighters can. (hedged) — 00:01:45
- 2008-08-05 · Everyone's Your Friend… — ask: Hank asks viewers who want to help to come to the Barnes & Noble in Union Square at 6 o'clock the next day, which he confirms is August 6. — 00:01:45
- 2024-10-02 · What I learned from the weirdest day of my life — Hank: On one of the weirdest days of his life, in New York in 2008, just after his first Nerdfighter gathering and wearing a fan-made Nerdfighteria shirt under his suit, Hank made a deal to sell EcoGeek to Scientific American for money and a job. — 00:00:29