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Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground

2007-05-16 · John · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · announcement promotion

John reports reading the screenplay of the planned Looking for Alaska movie (retitled Famous Last Words), proposes developing the Evil Baby Orphanage through videos in which the brothers read proposed book proposals to each other, and corrects Hank: he left Indianapolis at three weeks, not three years.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; high puff level; hot day in New York reading the Looking for Alaska movie screenplay, retitled Famous Last Words

  • ★ John says his puff level is high today, with lots of puff on the sides. (playful) — 00:00:10 · the Puff
  • ★★ After a long hot day in New York City, John has spent the day reading the screenplay of the Looking for Alaska movie. — 00:00:10 · New York City, Looking for Alaska
  • ★★★ John says the Looking for Alaska movie is known in Hollywood as Famous Last Words; the title is changing because, he says, the original sounds like a movie about mountaineering. — 00:00:10 · Looking for Alaska

00:00:40 — Looking for Alaska screenplay verdict; move ahead with the Evil Baby Orphanage without Brooke's permission; video readings of proposed book proposals; missing text; weekend posts; evil baby junior counselors

  • ★★ John thinks it is a pretty good screenplay even though it is way different from the book, and hopes the film gets made. (hedged) — 00:00:40 · Looking for Alaska
  • ★★★ John says that, so far as he can tell, Evil Baby Orphanage creator Brooke has not officially permitted making it into a movie, novel, graphic novel or whatever, but he thinks they should move ahead with the project. (hedged) — 00:00:40 · Evil Baby Orphanage
  • ★★★ Since collaborative writing is hard without text, John proposes a series of Evil Baby Orphanage videos in which the brothers read their proposed book proposals to each other, eventually building a book proposal from them. — 00:01:10 · Evil Baby Orphanage, No textual communication
  • ★★ John says he misses text badly; he sometimes opens an instant-message window to Hank and types without hitting enter, so as not to break the rules. (playful) — 00:01:10 · No textual communication
  • ★★ John proposes also posting the Evil Baby Orphanage videos on Brotherhood 2.0 over weekends so the Nerdfighters can see them, if and when they do this. (hedged) — 00:01:39 · Brotherhood 2.0, Nerdfighteria, Evil Baby Orphanage
  • ★★ John adds a story idea: evil babies grow into teenage 'evil baby junior counselors', and a 14- or 15-year-old at a mountaintop school in Canada discovers they are an evil baby from the past. (playful) (hedged) — 00:01:39 · Evil Baby Orphanage, Canada

00:02:08 — Correcting Hank's last video: John left Indianapolis at three weeks old; the family's moves

  • ★★★ Correcting Hank's last video, John says he was born in Indianapolis but lived there only until he was three weeks old, not three years. — 00:02:08 · Indianapolis
  • ★★ John recalls the family living in Michigan, then moving to Birmingham, where Hank was born, then to Florida. — 00:02:08 · Florida, Hank Green

00:02:47 — Wikipedia pronunciation tease; sign-off; P.S. the Yeti became a master; John's distance photos

  • ★★ John says his Wikipedia page will eventually cover his early years, and teases Hank's pronunciation of Wikipedia, urging him to say it John's way. (playful) — 00:02:47 · Wikipedia
  • ★★ In a P.S. John says the Yeti has just officially become 'a master' and shows photos he took from a distance. — 00:02:47 · Sarah Urist Green

Humor (significant)

  • John points out his high puff level. — 00:00:10 > «It reminds me of when I was in high school and they called me Muffin.»
  • John describes typing into an IM window addressed to Hank's screen name without sending, to obey the no-text rule. — 00:01:39 > «Hey, I just told everyone what your screen name is!»
  • John scolds Hank for not knowing where the family lived in John's first years. — 00:02:08 > «due to the fact that you weren't alive for them»
  • John shows blurry distance photos of the Yeti's big day and compares himself to Ansel Adams. — 00:03:17 > «You know, drunk. Forget the video blog, Hank. I'm going into professional distance photography.»

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