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The Fox Hat IS REAL, but Are Zombies People?

2010-08-20 · John · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update

In a five-part video John wears a real fox hat from Looking for Alaska, suggests zombies may be people (and we may be zombies in weaker moments), plugs the crowdsourced Guide to Nerdfighting, tours his home library recatalogued by the Yeti, names the Thoughts From Places series, and reports a children's book called The Sweaty Yeti.

What is said

00:00:00 — Fox hat from Looking for Alaska made real; Part 1: the 'Zombies Are People Too' sign at Charlie's, the trolls fight, and whether zombies are people

  • ★★ John wears a fox hat, funny to readers of Looking for Alaska: he put something in a book and someone made it real. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Looking for Alaska
  • ★★ The other day at Charlie McDonnell's house John saw the sign 'Zombies Are People Too' on Charlie's famous wall of stuff. — 00:00:00 · Charlie McDonnell, zombie
  • ★ Years ago in New York, John's friends Cassandra Clare and Holly Bl- (cut off) had a knock-down fight over whether trolls are people. — 00:00:00 · New York City
  • ★★★ John suggests zombiness is defined not by shuffling, reanimation or cannibalism but by just walking around doing whatever is needed to keep walking around. (hedged) — 00:00:29 · zombie
  • ★★★ Hence John's 'terrifying thought': zombies may be people, and in our weaker moments we may be zombies. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:58 · zombie

00:00:58 — End of Part 1 (are we zombies? discuss in comments); Part 2: the crowdsourced Guide to Nerdfighting book

  • ★★ Unsure himself, John asks Nerdfighters whether zombies are people and invites them to continue the conversation in the comments. (hedged) — 00:00:58 · Nerdfighteria, zombie
  • ★★ John reports that made-of-awesome Nerdfighters are making a crowdsourced book, a guide to nerdfighting, with Nerdfighter language definitions, stories from Nerdfighteria and artwork. — 00:00:58 · Nerdfighteria, made of awesome
  • ★★ John thinks crowdsourcing a book is a really cool idea and points Nerdfighters who want to help to guidetonerdfighting.com. (hedged) — 00:00:58

00:01:27 — Part 3: tour of John's recatalogued home library, upstairs and the new downstairs, done by the Yeti as his birthday wish

00:02:49 — Part 4: the recent voiceover place videos are the start of a series called Thoughts From Places

  • ★★★ John says the recent voiceover videos from places (a bison range, Munich) are the beginning of a series of visual essays called Thoughts From Places; more on his website. — 00:02:49 · Thoughts from Places
  • ★ Unlike WheezyWaiter, who 'cowardly' refuses to acknowledge that Explosion Wednesday is a thing, John says these videos are a thing. (playful) — 00:02:49 · Craig Benzine

00:03:18 — Part 5: developments in the field of your pants, a children's book called The Sweaty Yeti; sign-off

  • ★★ In 'important developments in the field of your pants', John announces that a UK Nerdfighter has found a children's book called The Sweaty Yeti. (playful) — 00:03:18 · in your pants
  • ★★ John says he loves his life and loves Nerdfighteria. — 00:03:18 · Nerdfighteria

Humor (significant)

  • Wearing a Looking for Alaska fox hat, John says his whole life is like a complicated Paper Towns cartographic metaphor. — 00:00:00 > «is a sentence that has never been spoken before in human history.»
  • John's favourite recent comment exchange: someone commented 'that guy looks like a nerd'. — 00:01:27 > «he doesn't just look like a nerd. To the library!»
  • Touring the downstairs shelves of his recatalogued library, John lists a section. — 00:02:20 > «everything you need to know about the goth scene in your pants»
  • Announcing important developments 'in the field of your pants', John reveals a UK Nerdfighter's find, a children's book. — 00:03:18 > «The Sweaty Yeti. In your pants. The Sweaty Yeti.»

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