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Hank asks John to answer his annual friends-and-family survey (2007)

ask · status: reported back · last event: result reported (2007-01-26) · owner: Hank

In January 2007 Hank gave John his annual survey in video form. John answered it in two parts, on 24 and 26 January 2007, asked by a puppet.

About: No textual communication, Katherine Green, Wii, The Book Thief, Sarah Urist Green

date event what video
2007-01-19 asked Hank gives John his annual survey in video form, questions 7 to 30. Brotherhood 2.0: January 19th 00:01:03
2007-01-24 result reported John answers the first part of Hank's survey, asked by a puppet: knowing Hank and Katherine, a Wii, his books and the video project, his untitled third book, The Book Thief. → refers to Brotherhood 2.0: January 19th Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 00:00:00
2007-01-25 reminder Hank says he enjoyed John's survey answers and hopes to see more of them tomorrow. (hedged) → refers to Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 Brotherhood 2.0: January 25th 00:03:30
2007-01-26 result reported John answers the rest of Hank's survey, asked by a puppet: perfect day, extinction, babies, ninjas, ambrosia, writers, first concert, where to live, time travel, a business, what's wrong with the world. → refers to Brotherhood 2.0: January 19th Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 00:00:03

What is said about it

24 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).

  • 2007-01-19 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 19th — Hank says that every year around this time he sends a survey to all his friends and family, who answer it, and he then puts the answers online. — 00:00:34
  • 2007-01-19 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 19th — Hank: Since the survey is text-based he can't send it to John, but refusing to break the tradition, Hank gives it in video form, skipping questions 1 to 6, which are unchanged and whose answers he already knows. — 00:00:34
  • 2007-01-19 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 19th — ask: Hank's questions for John include how long he has known Hank and Katherine, what he wants from them, what he is doing, why, and for how long, what he wants to be doing, what's next, and the best book he read this year (2007). — 00:01:03
  • 2007-01-19 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 19th — ask: Hank: Later questions turn whimsical: how humans will go extinct, feelings about kids these days, what Ambrozzo tastes like, which cliché he would be, invisibility or time travel, what's wrong with the world; the last asks to post the survey online. (playful) — 00:02:05
  • 2007-01-22 · Brotherhood 2.0, January 22, 2007 — announcement: John says he planned to start the survey today but it will have to wait until Wednesday (24 January 2007). — 00:00:12
  • 2007-01-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 — John: Answering the survey, John says he has known Hank since Hank was born and Katherine since, he believes, 1999. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2007-01-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 — John: Asked what he wants from them, John calls it a 'question wrongly phrased': the question is what his brother wants from him, a Nintendo Wii, which John also wants from Hank. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2007-01-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 — John says he is writing books for teenagers and doing 'this weird video project' with his brother; his answer to why he writes is cut off mid-sentence. — 00:00:38
  • 2007-01-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 — John says the major next thing is finishing his new and as yet untitled third book. — 00:00:59
  • 2007-01-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 — recommendation: John: Asked for the best book he's read this year (2007), John names the best he read last year (2006): probably The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. (hedged) — 00:00:59
  • 2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John's perfect day: wake up, write 4,000 words, Sarah comes home from school, a sushi dinner together, then reading until bed. — 00:00:03
  • 2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: He adds that on the perfect day The Office is on and Pam and Jim hook up. (playful) — 00:00:42
  • 2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: Asked how humans will go extinct, John sides with T.S. Eliot: not with a bang but with a whimper. — 00:00:42
  • 2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: Asked how he feels about 'kids these days', John says he really wants a baby, a lot, but asks Hank where one would fit in their apartment. — 00:00:42
  • 2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: Setting his own question, pirates or ninjas, John picks ninjas for how fast they strike. (playful) — 00:01:16
  • 2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: Ambrosia, John says, tastes like everything you can't eat on Weight Watchers: cheeseburgers, sugar cookies, real ice cream. (playful) — 00:01:16
  • 2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — recommendation: John: On science fiction, John says he really likes Kurt Vonnegut and is a big fan of Margo Lanagan's short stories. — 00:01:16
  • 2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: Asked cheese or chocolate, John protests that both are things he can't eat anymore. (playful) — 00:01:16
  • 2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John thinks his first concert was The Cure in ninth grade, with a friend; he liked The Cure a lot. (hedged) — 00:02:00
  • 2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: If he could live anywhere, John would live in North Carolina. — 00:02:00
  • 2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: Invisibility or time travel: claiming he already wears an invisibility cloak, John chooses time travel. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:00
  • 2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: For an instantly successful business John suggests a malaria-curing business or a store selling only novels by John Green. (playful) — 00:02:00
  • 2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: Asked what's wrong with the world, John says the big problem is people ('we're the worst'); puppets are a small problem. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:29
  • 2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John gives Hank permission to put the survey on his webpage. — 00:02:29