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Live from LAX

2008-07-01 · John · watch on YouTube · Books & writing · personal update

From an airport, a hoarse John postpones Question Tuesday and reports on the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim: librarians are secret superheroes, one reader panned the second half of Looking for Alaska, and everyone asked for Hank.

What is said

00:00:00 — Intro filmed Sunday; no Question Tuesday today; in an airport; hoarse after five days at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim

  • ★★ John apologizes that there will be no Question Tuesday today and says he will do it soon. — 00:00:00 · Question Tuesday
  • ★★ On Tuesday, July 1, John vlogs from an airport and tells Hank to get used to such walls, since he will be seeing a lot of them between now and October. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ John is hoarse after five days of talking at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. — 00:00:00

00:01:12 — ALA as the most fun of his professional year; librarians as secret superheroes; the old lady who disliked the second half of Looking for Alaska; everyone asks where Hank is

  • ★★★ John says ALA is consistently the most fun he has professionally every year because he loves librarians, whom he calls the secret superheroes of the world. — 00:01:12
  • ★★ Signing Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines, John met one sweet-looking old lady who loved the first half of Looking for Alaska but said the second half fell apart. (playful) — 00:01:42 · Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines
  • ★★ Otherwise, people at the conference mostly asked John where Hank was. — 00:01:42 · Hank Green

00:02:11 — Hank is training for the Tour de Nerdfighting; Hank, nerdfighters and librarians made of awesome

Humor (significant)

  • John, hoarse after five days of talking at a conference, explains his voice. — 00:00:00 > «you may be wondering why I sound like Kermit the Frog with late-stage emphysema»
  • The TSA announcement about carry-on items interrupts John, as it does every four minutes. — 00:00:46 > «and indeed every four minutes that I'm in an airport in my entire life, which is, of course, a full 20% of the time»
  • An old lady tells John she loved the first half of Looking for Alaska but the second half fell apart. — 00:01:42 > «i was like well i really liked the first half of your comment»

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