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November 20th: A White Thanksgiving

2007-11-20 · letter vlog · Hank · 3:52 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life · mode: Personal update

On a snowy day in Missoula Hank walks with Catherine to do Thanksgiving shopping and reflects that, despite a Florida childhood, he has come to love cold weather; he sets the Thanksgiving video schedule and congratulates John on selling his book.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Heavy snow at Hank's house in Missoula; power outages from falling branches

  • ★★ It is snowing heavily at Hank's house in Missoula, which he says never gets this much snow, and he is delighted. — 00:00:00 · Missoula, Montana
  • ★★ The power went off about five times the previous night as big branches fell onto power lines and Hank's front yard. — 00:00:00

00:00:41 — Snowballs and a walk with Catherine: the shaken bush, a neighbour clearing his car with a hockey stick, walking to the bigger store for Thanksgiving shopping

  • ★★ Hank and Catherine walk to the farther, bigger food store to do their Thanksgiving shopping. — 00:01:08 · Katherine Green

00:01:54 — Town news of thousands without power; arriving at the warm store

00:02:31 — Hank's fondness for cold weather after a Florida childhood: frost, first icicles and snowflakes, a 60-degree house

  • ★★★ Hank says he has a bizarre fondness for cold weather, surprising since he and John grew up in Florida. — 00:02:31 · Florida
  • ★★ In Florida the family bundled up at 60 degrees; when it hit 30 degrees once, Dad got the brothers up around 6 a.m. to see frost on the roof. (playful) — 00:02:31 · Florida, Mike Green
  • ★★ When Hank moved to Missoula he had never seen an icicle, a snowflake or a frozen river, and found them all new and interesting. — 00:02:31 · Missoula, Montana
  • ★★★ Hank says he likes being cold: he keeps his house around 60 degrees, works better and is more comfortable, and likes winter, which surprised him. (hedged) — 00:03:00

00:03:29 — Thanksgiving video schedule, Friday thankfulness video, congratulations on John and David's book sale

  • ★★ Because Thanksgiving falls on Thursday, John posts tomorrow, Hank posts Friday and nobody posts Thursday; Hank notes a holiday finally falls on one of his days. — 00:03:29
  • ★★ Hank says that on Friday he will tell viewers some of the things he is thankful for. — 00:03:29
  • ★★ Hank congratulates John on selling the book he wrote with David. — 00:03:29
  • ★ Hank ends by saying the numbers "25, 6, 22" without explanation. — 00:03:29

Humor (significant)

  • Filming while throwing a snowball makes Hank throw weakly; he insists that is not how he throws. — 00:00:41

    “If you see me throwing a snowball at you, that is because I want you to see me throwing a snowball at you.”

  • Catherine, sad for a bush laden with ice and snow, goes under it and shakes it. — 00:00:41

    “That was a mistake.”

  • Hank shows Catherine's earlier revenge snowball, thrown at him while he filmed. — 00:01:08

    “She has very good aim. She missed the camera. She hit me in the head.”

  • In Florida it hit 30 degrees once and Dad woke the brothers at 6 a.m. to see frost on the roof. — 00:02:31

    “Oh my god, frost!”

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Central: Missoula, Montana

Also: Alternating days · David Levithan · Florida · John and David Levithan's co-written book · Katherine Green · Mike Green · Thanksgiving

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