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My Puppy's SECRET SHAME (and Paper Towns)

2009-09-09 · John · watch on YouTube · Books & writing · announcement promotion

John reveals Willy's 'secret shame' (a downward-bent tail) after Willy chews a Chewbacca figurine, then announces the Paper Towns paperback (September 22), a daily 10-word-comment book giveaway, and progress on the Paper Towns screenplay.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; the wall is still up; Part one: Willy's deal not to eat John's favourite things, broken on the great white wall of cow

  • ★ John says he still has not gotten the wall down. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ John says Willy agreed not to eat the things John loves in exchange for John keeping his secret shame, but broke the deal by eating part of the great white wall of cow. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Willy

00:00:52 — Willy chews a Chewbacca figurine; John reveals Willy's secret shame (bent tail); Part two begins: John is writing a new book

  • ★★ John came home to find Willy had chewed his figurine of the Wookiee (Chewbacca), leaving it armless with a damaged foot. (playful) — 00:00:52 · Willy
  • ★★ John reveals Willy's secret shame: he was born with an extra tailbone that bends his tail downward. (playful) — 00:00:52 · Willy
  • ★★ John is working on a new book and says that while writing something new he can think of nothing else. — 00:00:52

00:01:36 — Paper Towns paperback out September 22; daily 10-word-comment giveaway; all comments to be read in a special video

  • ★★★ John announces the Paper Towns paperback comes out September 22 and asks those who haven't read it to pick it up or pre-order it via the sidebar. — 00:01:36 · Paper Towns
  • ★★★ To celebrate, John will give away one Paper Towns paperback a day for 14 days to his favourite 10-word comment on YouTube or the Ning. — 00:01:36 · Paper Towns, YouTube, Nerdfighter Ning
  • ★★ John says he will read all the comments in a special video, and his favourite comment overall will win an additional prize he shows. — 00:01:36

00:02:08 — Paper Towns movie: rights with Mr. Mudd and Mandate, screenplay revision; thanks to readers; sign-off and bloopers

  • ★★★ John says the Paper Towns movie rights were acquired by Mr. Mudd and Mandate (makers of Juno); he wrote the first screenplay draft and is starting the first big revision. — 00:02:08
  • ★ John asks fans to be patient about the movie and hopes to have more of an update soon. (hedged) — 00:02:08
  • ★★ John thanks everyone who has read or listened to Paper Towns in any language: books never feel finished until people read them, which lets him start a new one. — 00:02:35 · Paper Towns

Humor (significant)

  • Willy shows an irony unusual in West Highland Terriers when he gnaws John's Chewbacca figurine. — 00:00:52 > «Willie chewed. Chewy.»
  • Willy's chewing leaves the Wookiee figurine with a foot that needs amputation. — 00:00:52 > «Willy refused to let the Wookiee win»
  • John reveals Willy's secret shame, an extra tailbone that bends his tail down. — 00:00:52 > «my beloved puppy can never achieve a full tail-rection. It's always a little limp at the end.»

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