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Narrowly Avoiding Arrest: Some Airport Insanity

2011-09-16 · John, Josh Lewis, Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson · watch on YouTube · Books & writing · comedy performance

Lower-confidence wave

2011 videos did not pass the QA gate (17 %); their analysis is shown but less reliable.

John vlogs from airports after New York meetings about The Fault in Our Stars: he signs sheets while delayed, frets over his inconsistent signature, is questioned by a police officer for filming a dead-sheep monument, and plugs his FIFA storytelling series on HankGames.

What is said

00:00:00 — Josh Lewis, Holly Black, Cassie Clare and Maureen Johnson say good morning; John in an airport after New York meetings with his publisher and agent about The Fault in Our Stars

  • ★ John tells Hank he has just been greeted by Josh Lewis, Holly Black, Cassie Clare and Maureen Johnson. — 00:00:00 · Maureen Johnson
  • ★ In the description John says the entire first printing of The Fault in Our Stars will be signed and suggests today may be the day to order it. — 00:00:00 · The Fault in Our Stars
  • ★★ John says he has spent a couple of days in New York meeting his publisher Julie Strauss-Gabel and agent Jodi Reamer about The Fault in Our Stars and wonderful things he can't tell about. — 00:00:22 · New York City, The Fault in Our Stars

00:00:31 — Signing The Fault in Our Stars during flight delays: 2,000 sheets, a green pen day, Green Day

  • ★★ John says when flights are delayed he signs The Fault in Our Stars; he brought 2,000 sheets to sign that day, and it is a green pen day, as it always is. — 00:00:31 · The Fault in Our Stars

00:00:58 — Six hours a day of signing: the illegibility and inconsistency of John's signature, Sarah thinks he is crazy, 'signing madness'

  • ★★ John says he spends about six hours a day signing his name, which has made him think about his signature's many shortcomings: it is illegible and inconsistent. — 00:00:58
  • ★ John says Sarah thinks he is crazy for seeing tragic flaws in some signatures, but after 57,000 iterations he notices details like the J scribble. (playful) — 00:01:17 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★ John hopes he is not suffering from 'signing madness', a disease he says he made up. (playful) (hedged) — 00:01:55

00:02:00 — Interesting things in the airport; a police officer questions John for filming a monument to a dead sheep; thus ends the vlog

  • ★★ John says a police officer asked why he was filming an airport monument to a dead sheep; unsure if it was illegal, the officer said he probably shouldn't. (playful) — 00:02:10

00:02:51 — John from the future future: P.S. on his HankGames series playing FIFA while telling life stories, e.g. meeting the Yeti; his calendar

  • ★★★ John says that, in older-brother tradition, he has 'stolen' Hank's channel HankGames for a series playing FIFA while telling life stories, such as how he met and courted the Yeti. — 00:02:54 · HankGames, Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers, Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★ John asks viewers to click his face to watch the FIFA story video and to subscribe if they like it. — 00:03:07 · HankGames

Humor (significant)

  • John hopes each morning for a purple day, but it is always a green pen day — 00:00:52 > «Oh that would be a good name for a band... Green Day...»
  • John lists the little things he notices after 57,000 signatures — 00:01:35 > «whether the hooble-dee-hoo lines up with the whattidy-what in the J.»
  • John worries Hank thinks he's crazy and hopes he isn't suffering from signing madness — 00:01:55 > «That's a disease, you know. I made it up, but it's a disease.»
  • A police officer asks why John is filming a monument to a dead sheep; after a long stare John asks — 00:02:27 > «"Is it illegal?" and he said, "I don't know!"»

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