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Paper Towns Tour Dates!

2008-09-04 · John · watch on YouTube · Books & writing · announcement promotion

John shows the first finished copies of Paper Towns with its two covers, polls viewers on the covers, and announces the October Paper Towns tour dates and the November Tour de Nerdfighting dates.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting to new subscribers; the two finished Paper Towns copies as Margo puppets

  • ★ John welcomes the nearly 2,000 subscribers who joined since the Sarah Palin video. — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ John shows the first two finished copies of Paper Towns, which has two different covers (happy Margo and sad Margo) with the same book inside. — 00:00:00 · Paper Towns, Margo Roth Spiegelman

00:00:42 — Why two covers: answer promised for next video; cover poll in comments

  • ★★ John says he will answer why Paper Towns has two covers in his next video, devoted to questions about Paper Towns and the tour. — 00:00:42 · Paper Towns
  • ★★ John asks viewers to say in comments which of the two covers they prefer, calling it an extremely unscientific study. (hedged) — 00:00:42 · Paper Towns
  • ★ The back of both editions is a big photo of John in Amsterdam in mismatched argyle socks. (playful) — 00:00:42 · Amsterdam

00:01:12 — Official Paper Towns tour dates, from the New York launch party to the Los Angeles Halloween party

00:02:56 — Tour de Nerdfighting 2008 dates booked so far; which stops are you coming to

Humor (significant)

  • John voices the two Paper Towns covers as Margo puppets crowding him out; one protests with a pun on covers. — 00:00:42 > «Don't cover me up! I refuse to be silenced!»
  • Expecting a third of Nerdfighters not to know Julia Nunes, John bends Mr. T's catchphrase. — 00:01:43 > «As Mr. T so memorably put it, I pitied a third.»
  • On returning to Columbus, John credits Queen Isabella with an obscure pun about Christopher Columbus. — 00:02:13 > «I can't get enough Columbus!»
  • A Margo cover announces Westport, Connecticut, in a squeaky voice. — 00:03:25 > «Margo, I don't want to criticize here, but you have a terrible voice for vlogging.»

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