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Brotherhood 2.0: April 18th: Prom and Consequences

2007-04-18 · John · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update

After an opening clip of Gawker co-editor Emily Gould, John lies exhausted on his living-room floor in a beat-up seersucker suit after the young adult literature prom, dreads flying to Mobile, Alabama, and jokes that his carbon-cutting week will not include unheated food.

What is said

00:00:11 — John on his living-room floor in a beat-up seersucker suit after the young adult literature prom, 'the social event on the young adult literature calendar'

  • ★★ John identifies the opening clip as Emily Gould, co-editor of 'the world-famous website Gawker.com'. — 00:00:11
  • ★★★ John is lying on his living-room floor in a beat-up seersucker suit because he was up very late at the young adult literature prom, which he calls the social event of the YA calendar. (playful) — 00:00:11

00:00:57 — The long night; he must go to Mobile, Alabama; carbon-footprint week: no unheated food, lights only when needed; the prom had no lights; he doesn't want to fly

  • ★★ After the long night John now has to go to Mobile, Alabama; he doesn't want to get on an airplane or go to an airport and would rather stay on the floor. (playful) — 00:00:57
  • ★★★ On his carbon-cutting week, John jokes he didn't know reducing his footprint meant eating unheated food and won't do that; he is just not turning on the lights unless he really has to. (playful) — 00:00:57

00:01:40 — Staying on the floor; prom music vs Hank's wedding and the Mickey song; why he doesn't love New York: car alarms at 10:25 in the morning

  • ★ John says the prom music wasn't as good as at Hank's wedding but fairly good; it's always nice to hear the Mickey song. (playful) — 00:01:40

Humor (significant)

  • John, cutting his carbon for a week, reacts to learning that reducing one's footprint meant eating unheated food. — 00:00:57 > «In that case, I'm not reducing my carbon footprint at all.»
  • John says the YA prom last night wasn't bad for his carbon footprint, though. — 00:00:57 > «There were no lights at all.»
  • John explains he doesn't love New York because car alarms go off while a man tries to sleep in his brand-new seersucker suit — 00:01:40 > «at the ungodly hour of 1025 in the morning»

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