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Paper Towns and Touring Question Tuesday

2008-09-23 · Q&A · John · 3:53 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Books & writing (also: Nerdfighteria) · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: self promotion, recurring series, community lore, punishment or challenge

In a stressed Question Tuesday three weeks before Paper Towns comes out, John answers tour questions: meet the tour halfway, pre-tour events in the Twin Cities and Berlin, the list of tour cities, and a Nerdfighter vote on the brothers' punishment.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Paper Towns out in 22 days; John stressed, the puff; Question Tuesday: release date October 16

  • ★★★ John says Paper Towns comes out in 22 days, on October 16, and repeats the date several times. — 00:00:00 · Paper Towns
  • ★★ John says he is seriously stressed about the release and got a haircut to keep the puff under control. (playful) — 00:00:00 · the Puff

00:00:43 — Why the tour isn't coming to your city: meet us halfway; pre-tour events in the Twin Cities and Berlin

  • ★★ Answering why the tour skips certain cities, John says that over the next five to six weeks he is going everywhere he possibly can. — 00:00:43 · Tour de Nerdfighting
  • ★★★ John asks Nerdfighters to meet the tour halfway: find the nearest tour stop, come to it, and bring friends. — 00:00:43 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ Before the tour, John will be in the Twin Cities this Friday (26 September 2008) and Saturday and at a public event in Berlin, Germany, on October 1. — 00:01:12
  • ★★★ John says several new tour events were added, details at nerdfighters.com, and lists the cities the tour is definitely going to. — 00:01:12 · Tour de Nerdfighting, nerdfighters.com

00:01:41 — The cities the tour is definitely going to, recited fast; events free, few tickets

  • ★ After reciting the cities at speed, John tells Hank that is how fast he can talk and challenges him to match it. (playful) — 00:01:41 · Hank Green
  • ★★ John says the events are entirely free and open to the public, and tickets are not needed except in a couple of cases. — 00:01:41

00:02:10 — Julia Nunes at the Boston event; the Paper Towns cover girl; Nerdfighters pick the punishment by vote

  • ★★ John says Julia Nunes will not be at the New York event but will be at the Boston event. — 00:02:10 · New York City
  • ★ John does not know the girl on the Paper Towns cover personally but helped pick her; he says she is Canadian. — 00:02:10 · Paper Towns
  • ★★★ John says the brothers do not pick their punishment; Nerdfighters do, and he names the most popular suggestions. — 00:02:10 · Punishment, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ John asks Nerdfighters to vote for their favourite punishments in the comments. — 00:02:46 · Punishment
  • ★★★ John explains the two Paper Towns covers: each represents a misimagining of the person on it, and since both are fundamentally wrong, neither can be superior. — 00:02:52 · Paper Towns

00:03:09 — School nights and parents; the Yeti at events; sign-off, note to self, Minneapolis surprise

  • ★★ John says he scheduled no events during school hours; for school-night events he suggests telling parents they are book-related and offers to convince parents by email. (playful) — 00:03:09
  • ★ John says the Yeti will be at many of the events, unless he has been making her up all along. (playful) — 00:03:09 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★ John says Nerdfighters attending the Minneapolis events will get a pretty amazing surprise. — 00:03:38

Humor (significant)

  • A viewer asks why the tour isn't coming to 'Tempe, New Mexico'; John tells viewers to check their own state first. — 00:00:43

    “Ask yourself, do I live in Tempe or do I live in New Mexico?”

  • John tells Nerdfighters to bring their friends to tour events. — 00:01:12

    “Unless you're too much of a Nerdfighter to have friends in real life, in which case, bring your bullies.”

  • Julia Nunes will be at the Boston show, so John picks a tagline for it. — 00:02:10

    “the official tagline for that show is, oh yes, there will be Nunes.”

  • Asked whether viewers will finally see the Yeti, John says she will be at many events. — 00:03:09

    “Unless, of course, I've been making her up all this time.”

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Mentioned

Central: Paper Towns · Tour de Nerdfighting

Also: People: Julia Nunes · Sarah Urist Green

Projects: Brotherhood 2.0 · nerdfighters.com

Rituals: Punishment · Question Tuesday

Terms: the Puff

Concepts: Book cover

Places: Ames, Iowa · Ann Arbor, Michigan · Atlanta · Berlin · Boston · Charlottesville, Virginia · Chicago (city) · Columbus, Ohio · Dallas · Gadsden, Alabama · Indianapolis · Kansas City, Missouri · Knoxville, Tennessee · Lancaster, Pennsylvania · Los Angeles · Louisville, Kentucky · Miami · Minneapolis · Minneapolis–Saint Paul · Naperville, Illinois · New Mexico · New York City · Newport News, Virginia · Oklahoma City · Orlando, Florida · Phoenix, Arizona · Pittsburgh · Plano, Texas · Racine, Wisconsin · San Francisco · Seattle · St. Louis · Tempe, Arizona · Tucson, Arizona · Washington, DC · Westport, Connecticut

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