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Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007

2007-01-26 · John · watch on YouTube · Personal life · conversation qa

John finishes Hank's survey, asked by a puppet: his perfect day, wanting a baby, foods Weight Watchers forbids, Vonnegut and Margo Lanagan, his first concert, and a store gag that turns into 'The Blind Assassin in Your Pants'.

What is said

00:00:00 — Library chant and the Thursday/Friday joke; thanks to the George Bruce branch of the NYPL; survey: a perfect day of writing, sushi with Sarah and reading

  • ★ John thanks the George Bruce branch of the New York Public Library for taking part in the opening chant that it's Friday. (playful) — 00:00:03
  • ★★ John's perfect day: wake up, write 4,000 words, Sarah comes home from school, a sushi dinner together, then reading until bed. — 00:00:03 · Sarah Urist Green

00:00:42 — The Office and Pam and Jim; how humans will go extinct (T.S. Eliot's whimper); wanting a baby, even 16; own question: pirates or ninjas

  • ★★ He adds that on the perfect day The Office is on and Pam and Jim hook up. (playful) — 00:00:42
  • ★★ Asked how humans will go extinct, John sides with T.S. Eliot: not with a bang but with a whimper. — 00:00:42
  • ★★★ Asked how he feels about 'kids these days', John says he really wants a baby, a lot, but asks Hank where one would fit in their apartment. — 00:00:42

00:01:16 — Ninjas; ambrosia = everything Weight Watchers forbids; a dark and stormy night; brushing teeth; Vonnegut and Margo Lanagan; cheese or chocolate

  • ★ Setting his own question, pirates or ninjas, John picks ninjas for how fast they strike. (playful) — 00:01:16
  • ★★ Ambrosia, John says, tastes like everything you can't eat on Weight Watchers: cheeseburgers, sugar cookies, real ice cream. (playful) — 00:01:16
  • ★★★ On science fiction, John says he really likes Kurt Vonnegut and is a big fan of Margo Lanagan's short stories. — 00:01:16
  • ★★ Asked cheese or chocolate, John protests that both are things he can't eat anymore. (playful) — 00:01:16

00:02:00 — First concert The Cure; living in North Carolina; invisibility cloak so time travel; an instantly successful business: malaria cure or a John Green novels store

  • ★★ John thinks his first concert was The Cure in ninth grade, with a friend; he liked The Cure a lot. (hedged) — 00:02:00
  • ★★ If he could live anywhere, John would live in North Carolina. — 00:02:00
  • ★★ Invisibility or time travel: claiming he already wears an invisibility cloak, John chooses time travel. (playful) (hedged) — 00:02:00
  • ★★ For an instantly successful business John suggests a malaria-curing business or a store selling only novels by John Green. (playful) — 00:02:00

00:02:29 — The store called 'The Blind Assassin in Your Pants'; thanks to commenters; what's wrong with the world: people; permission to post the survey; sign-off

  • ★★ Unsure what the store would sell, John says it would be called 'The Blind Assassin in Your Pants', apologising that he can't stop himself. (joke) — 00:02:29 · in your pants
  • ★ John thanks all the commenters for their great ideas. — 00:02:29
  • ★★ Asked what's wrong with the world, John says the big problem is people ('we're the worst'); puppets are a small problem. (playful) (hedged) — 00:02:29
  • ★★ John gives Hank permission to put the survey on his webpage. — 00:02:29

Humor (significant)

  • Wanting a baby but lacking room in the apartment, John escalates to 16 babies. — 00:00:42 > «I want to have like a little army of babies.»
  • Asked what ambrosia tastes like, John lists foods Weight Watchers forbids him. — 00:01:16 > «regular frickin' ice cream instead of like ice cream that's made out of air and human hope.»
  • Asked to choose invisibility or time travel, John, fully visible on camera, explains. — 00:02:00 > «I'm wearing my invisibility cloak right now»
  • Unsure what his instantly successful store would sell, John names it anyway. — 00:02:29 > «it would definitely be called the blind assassin in your pants»

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