John finds and reads a picture book he wrote as a child, 'Happy New Year Streamers' (2009)
story · status: told 1× · last event: mentioned (2012-11-13)
In January 2009, during his office reorganization, John found 'The Best New Years Resolution Ever: Happy New Year Streamers', a book he wrote as a child, and read it; it turned up again among his finds in 2012.
Told alongside: Hank asks John and viewers what to do with his misprinted EcoGeek business cards (2007)
About: The Best New Years Resolution Ever: Happy New Year Streamers
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-01-27 | told | John reads a book he wrote as a child, found during his office reorganization. | Before Looking for Alaska… 00:00:13 |
| 2012-11-13 | mentioned | Among the finds: his early work 'The Best New Years Resolution Ever: Happy New Year Streamers' and misprinted EcoGeek business cards from January 2007. | I Was a Child Poet. And a Bad One. 00:00:34 |
What is said about it
5 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2009-01-27 · Before Looking for Alaska… — John: In the childhood book, each family member makes a New Year's resolution: Mom to clean the drawers, Dad to weigh under 600 pounds, Hank to bathe, John to try his hardest; only John's comes true. (fiction) — 00:00:21
- 2009-01-27 · Before Looking for Alaska… — John: Growing up in Orlando, John believed as a child that being rich meant having stairs in your house, even imagining the IRS taxed households by their stairs. (playful) — 00:00:34
- 2009-01-27 · Before Looking for Alaska… — John apologizes to his parents for the book's insults, then tells Hank he could in fact stand to take more showers. (playful) — 00:01:46
- 2012-11-13 · I Was a Child Poet. And a Bad One. — John: He also found books other people wrote, including 'Q and the Three Tubs of Vaseline', which only makes sense if you've read Paper Towns, and Debby Kitto's 'Pants Power and his Power Pants'. — 00:00:42
- 2012-11-13 · I Was a Child Poet. And a Bad One. — John found high-school literary journals with his stories, in two of which the main character dies and in one the grandfather dies, plus a childhood 'Book About Me and My Fun Times'. (playful) — 00:00:53