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October 18: Live from Datyon: PARTY BLOWER SOLO

2007-10-18 · John · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · comedy performance

Vlogging from a Dayton hotel between two library-conference presentations, John calls Hank's Tetris song his favourite Brotherhood 2.0 song and replays its Party Blower Solo as a cure for nerves.

What is said

00:00:00 — In Dayton, Ohio: freight trains, the convention center, gray speckled hotel walls as 'the squirrels of commercial interiors'; anagram-joke setup

  • ★ John says Brotherhood 2.0 made him notice how ubiquitous gray speckled walls are in commercial interiors. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Brotherhood 2.0

00:00:43 — 'Dayton, Ohio' anagrams to 'I Don't Yahoo'; at a library conference; DFTBA button; Hank's Tetris song was his favourite Brotherhood 2.0 song; nervous between two presentations

  • ★★ John is in Dayton, Ohio, in a hotel, because he is at a library conference. — 00:00:43
  • ★ A Nerdfighter librarian gave John a button that says 'don't forget to be awesome'. — 00:00:43 · DFTBA
  • ★★★ John tells Hank that yesterday's Tetris song, in which Hank made party blowers play, was his favourite Brotherhood 2.0 song ever. — 00:00:43 · Brotherhood 2.0
  • ★★ John is giving two presentations today and, between them, is doubly nervous: about the speech he just gave and the one to come. — 00:00:43

00:01:12 — Party Blower Solo as anti-anxiety medicine and peace plan, played again; can it loop in his mind as an MP3?; sign-off

  • ★★ John replays the Party Blower Solo to calm down, calling it anti-anxiety medication without side effects that makes him unselfconscious. (playful) — 00:01:12
  • ★★ John asks Hank whether the Party Blower Solo could be made into an MP3 implanted in his mind to loop for the rest of his life. (playful) — 00:01:58

00:02:27 — Tom Selleck's mustache; P.S. congratulations to Hank (New York Times), a Nerdfighter on YouTube's front page, and Sara Zarr (National Book Award finalist)

  • ★★ John congratulates Hank on being published in The New York Times this Sunday. — 00:02:27 · The New York Times
  • ★ John congratulates a Nerdfighter who had a video on YouTube's front page this weekend. — 00:02:27 · YouTube
  • ★★ John congratulates Nerdfighter Sara Zarr, whose first novel, Story of a Girl, is a finalist for the National Book Award. — 00:02:27

Humor (significant)

  • John asks Hank why people in Dayton, Ohio use Google. — 00:00:43 > «It's because Dayton, Ohio anagrams to I Don't Yahoo.»
  • Not wanting to overstate the Party Blower Solo, John proposes playing it to enough people in Israel and Palestine. — 00:01:12 > «it could potentially result in a sensible two-state solution.»
  • After signing off with 'Don't forget to be awesome', John adds a comparison. — 00:02:27 > «telling you not to forget to be awesome is like telling Tom Selleck not to forget his mustache.»

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