May 3rd Extended Edition

2007-05-03 · letter vlog · Hank · 3:00 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Books & writing (also: Personal life, Pop culture) · mode: Personal update · tags: community lore

Hank catches up on leftovers (Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things, the meaning of 'yeti', They Might Be Giants scoring the Coraline film, Katherine's invasive-plant job), reacts to the ban of Maureen Johnson's book and thanks viewers, then adds news that Neil Gaiman linked Maureen's blog post on the ban.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Greeting (Thursday, May 3rd); happy birthday to Dad; leftovers from Hank's last video; Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things, read aloud with Katherine; 'yeti' apparently means 'that thing over there', with a Himalayan-guide skit; They Might Be Giants reportedly doing the soundtrack to the Coraline movie and 3 parts more

• This part replays May 3rd: Yetis, TMBG, Weeds and MoJo (2007-05-03); what is said here is covered on that page: 14 statements.

Humor (significant)

• After the 'yeti' etymology, Hank acts out a brave Himalayan guide being asked what that thing over there is. — 00:01:12

  “What's that thing over there? Uh, Yeti? I see.”

• Clearing up confusion about his wife's new job doing 'weed research'. — 00:01:12

  “Catherine is not researching marijuana.”

• John's book-banning video drew more comments than any other Brotherhood 2.0 video. — 00:01:53

  “So apparently people care more about book banning than they do about my obsession with Helen Hunt.”

Threads in this video

• update · Katherine gets a job doing weed research (2007) — Hank clarifies Katherine's weed-research job: plant communities and eliminating invasive species like spotted knapweed, not marijuana; it starts in a couple of weeks. (00:01:12)
• restate · Should schools and libraries restrict books? — Hank calls the banning of Maureen Johnson's book not cool. (00:01:53)
• callback · Hank's crush on Helen Hunt (2007) — Hank jokes that people care more about book banning than about his obsession with Helen Hunt. (00:01:53)
• thanks · Letters asking a school to return Maureen Johnson's The Bermudez Triangle to its shelves (2007) — Hank thanks viewers for standing up for the librarians and for Maureen after John's book-banning video, which he thinks drew record comments. (00:02:17) → refers to Brotherhood 2.0: May 2: Book Banning

Mentioned

Central: Neil Gaiman

Also: People: Helen Hunt (actor) · Katherine Green · Maureen Johnson · Mike Green

Projects: Brotherhood 2.0

Works: Coraline (film) · Fragile Things · I Am a Very Dangerous Person · The Bermudez Triangle

Groups: They Might Be Giants

Concepts: book censorship · invasive species

Myths: Yeti

Also centred on Neil Gaiman: May 1st: Neil Gaiman in Helena · May 3rd: Yetis, TMBG, Weeds and MoJo · May 7th: Birthday Extravaganza · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall

Replies to

• continues · May 1st: Neil Gaiman in Helena — “There were a few things I didn't want to talk about last video”
• answers · Brotherhood 2.0: May 2: Book Banning — “your video yesterday”
• continues · May 3rd: Yetis, TMBG, Weeds and MoJo — “an updated version of a Brotherhood 2.0 video”

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