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Nerdfighters, They Named a PLANE After Us

2010-04-27 · John, David Levithan · watch on YouTube · Books & writing · personal update

In a deadpan voiceover of a Will Grayson, Will Grayson tour day (airport, flight to San Francisco, hotel), John says he misses his family and writing but feels lucky to meet readers and thanks Nerdfighters; he relays Lemniscaat's Looking for Alaska cover-design call and says the fourth Nerdfighter/HPA-funded plane to Haiti is called the SS DFTBA.

What is said

00:00:00 — Hundreds of Nerdfighters said hello yesterday; voiceover of today: getting ready, meeting David, the airport security line John was not allowed to film

  • ★ John opens with hundreds of Nerdfighters saying hello to Hank, which was yesterday; the video is about today. — 00:00:00 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ John narrates his day: he met up with David, went to the airport, and tried to film the security line until the government objected because it is apparently illegal. (playful) — 00:00:00 · David Levithan

00:00:39 — Overpriced sandwich, the gray-speckled wall; Lemniscaat is re-releasing Looking for Alaska in Dutch and wants readers' cover ideas

  • ★★ The description asks readers to email cover designs for Het Grote Misschien ('The Great Perhaps' in Dutch) to John, who says he will forward them to Lemniscaat. — 00:00:00 · Looking for Alaska
  • ★★★ John's Dutch publisher Lemniscaat is re-releasing Looking for Alaska ('Het Grote Misschien') and wants readers to design cover ideas; a liked idea could become the cover in the Netherlands. — 00:00:39 · Looking for Alaska, Netherlands

00:01:09 — A reader cover could be used in the Netherlands; back to the voiceover: the scary flight, San Francisco, the hotel

  • ★★ After a flight (John likes airplanes except in the sky), John and David drove into San Francisco and checked into their hotel, where John looked at pictures of a child of the brothers, whom he misses. (playful) — 00:01:09 · San Francisco

00:01:38 — Pictures of a child of the brothers; John misses Sarah, a child of the brothers and writing but feels lucky to meet readers tonight; thanks Nerdfighters for the tour; Haiti planes

  • ★★★ John misses Sarah and a child of the brothers, is tired and misses having time to write, but in a couple of hours meets hundreds of readers of the book he wrote with David, which makes him feel like the luckiest guy in the world. — 00:01:38 · Sarah Urist Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson, David Levithan
  • ★★ John thanks the Nerdfighters for making his day possible and the tour such a blast. — 00:01:38 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ Nerdfighters with the HP Alliance raised enough to fill four planes with medicine and water for Haiti; the fourth and final plane leaves Thursday, and Partners in Health calls it the SS DFTBA. — 00:01:38 · Nerdfighteria, The Harry Potter Alliance, Haiti, DFTBA > «The SSDFTBA»

Humor (significant)

  • John narrates showering and changing but cannot show it. — 00:00:00 > «I worry that the blinding beauty of my naked body might result in nerdfighters getting retinal damage.»
  • Back to the voiceover: they board the airplane. — 00:01:09 > «I like airplanes, except when they go into the sky.»
  • After sitting against the airport's gray-speckled wall, John lands at another airport. — 00:01:09 > «The airplane took us to a different airport, although you couldn't tell it was different from the wall color.»

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