Open letters to our 15-year-old brothers: a vlogbrothers theme week (September 2010)
project history · status: last documented in 2010 · last event: milestone (2010-09-24)
In September 2010 John proposed a theme week of open letters to the brothers' 15-year-old selves and opened it with his own letter to 15-year-old Hank.
Part of: Vlogbrothers in 2010: the channel's end-of-year reinvention (2009)
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-09-20 | launched | John proposes and starts a theme week of open letters to their 15-year-old brothers with his letter to 15-year-old Hank. (hedged) · also in: Non-VIrgin...a Lexical Gap? | Life Is Like Pizza 00:00:00 |
| 2010-09-24 | milestone | John points to a My Little Pony behind him and tells 15-year-old Hank that people will one day paint ponies about his songs, which, he jokes, his brother will then steal. (playful) | Dumping My Girlfriend 00:02:31 |
What is said about it
4 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2010-09-20 · Life Is Like Pizza — John tells 15-year-old Hank that life is a lot like pizza, asking whether pizza is American, Italian, Greek or Brazilian. (playful) — 00:00:14
- 2010-09-22 · Non-VIrgin...a Lexical Gap? — Hank says 33-year-old John will write a video letter to 15-year-old Hank saying the same thing about critical reading, and he will be right. (playful) — 00:02:42
- 2010-09-22 · Non-VIrgin...a Lexical Gap? — Hank says there are many routes to choosing what and how to think (critical reading for John; statistics, population dynamics and evolutionary theory for him); what matters for a good life is getting there. — 00:02:55
- 2010-09-22 · Non-VIrgin...a Lexical Gap? — Hank tells 15-year-old John to dump his girlfriend now, so that he has one girlfriend in his past he dumped before she dumped him. (joke) — 00:03:18