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June 26: The American Library Association Parties

2007-06-27 · John · watch on YouTube · Books & writing · personal update

Back from the ALA Annual Conference, where he lost most footage by taping over it, John shows a crowd greeting, Cynthia Lord's Newbery Honor and the Printz Award reception, reports that librarians knew him as Hank Green's brother, and shares the funniest bit of his Printz speech.

What is said

00:00:00 — John gets a librarian, then a crowd of librarians, to say 'Good morning, Hank'

  • ★ John asks a woman named Julie to say 'Good morning, Hank', then a crowd of librarians ('700 librarians') greets Hank: 'Good morning, Hank. It's Tuesday.' (playful) — 00:00:20 · Good morning greeting

00:00:38 — ALA conference: the Judy Blume and party footage accidentally taped over; John haranguing a reader about a breakup

  • ★★ John reports many great things at the ALA conference that weekend, including time with Judy Blume and parties, but he accidentally taped over that footage. — 00:00:40
  • ★ Surviving footage shows John jokingly haranguing a reader about a breakup she says was mutual. (playful) — 00:01:00

00:01:10 — Remaining footage: Cynthia Lord's Newbery Honor and the Printz Award reception, where a speaker recalls the phone-call video and Hank's toast

  • ★★ John has footage of Nerdfighter Cynthia Lord winning the Newbery Honor for her book Rules, and of the Printz Award reception on Monday night. — 00:01:10
  • ★★ At the Printz reception a speaker recalls checking the Brotherhood 2.0 website for John's video of the phone call and his happy dance, and Hank's toast the next day. — 00:01:19 · Brotherhood 2.0, Hank Green, Happy dance

00:01:53 — A 'Hank-tastic' convention: people know John as Hank Green's brother and want Hank's number; John urges Hank to write YA

  • ★★ John says the convention was 'Hank-tastic': people kept calling him Hank Green's brother, four asked for Hank's phone number (he refused), and many praised Hank. (playful) — 00:01:53 · Hank Green > «it was so Hank-tastic»
  • ★★ Since Hank likes young adult literature so much, John encourages him to write some, saying he is bound to be an instant hit. (playful) — 00:02:21 · Hank Green

00:02:27 — The Printz speeches; the funniest snippet of John's own speech: a drunk librarian in a New Orleans casino; sign-off

  • ★ John praises all the Printz speeches: Markus Zusak, Tobin (M. T.) Anderson, Gene Yang and Sonya Hartnett were wonderful. — 00:02:27
  • ★★ Unsure how his own speech went, John plays its funniest snippet: against the shy-librarian stereotype, a story of a drunk librarian at a New Orleans casino holding a galley. (hedged) — 00:02:33

Humor (significant)

  • John coaxes a woman named Julie, then a crowd of librarians, into the 'Good morning, Hank' greeting. — 00:00:34 > «Good morning, Hank. It's Tuesday.»
  • Instead of footage of Judy Blume and the parties, Hank gets a strange shot. — 00:00:54 > «It's because I accidentally taped over all that stuff with 30 minutes of this stuff.»
  • Librarians call John Hank Green's brother; he protests that he also writes books. — 00:02:02 > «right, but you're Hank Green's brother!!»
  • In his Printz speech John counters the shy-librarian stereotype with a librarian passed out drunk in a New Orleans casino, a spilled drink in one hand. — 00:02:57 > «and a galley of a promising first novel in the other.»

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