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Question Friday

2008-10-11 (said on 2008-10-10 — implied: date said in the video; uploaded 1 day later) · Q&A · John · 3:34 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Books & writing (also: Personal life) · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: recurring series, self promotion, community lore, on location

From a hotel room, John holds his promised Question Friday, answering Nerdfighters' questions mostly with jokes while failing to stop mentioning Paper Towns, out in six days, and previewing the release-party gatherings.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Hotel room with two bathrooms and a huge bathtub

  • ★ John vlogs from a hotel room with two bathrooms and a bathtub he says is the size of a swimming pool. (playful) — 00:00:00

00:00:29 — Question Friday on the iSight camera: Paper Towns timer, Canada release, deconstructionism, instruments, Willy neutered, blibs riddle, octopus, Palin anagram, hair, gatherings

  • ★ John records on the iSight camera because he left his camera charger at home. — 00:00:29
  • ★★★ John holds Question Friday, the day he answers real questions from real Nerdfighters. — 00:00:29 · Question Tuesday, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Asked, John says Paper Towns will be out in Canada at the same time as in the United States. — 00:00:29 · Paper Towns, Canada, United States
  • ★★★ Asked whether deconstructionism takes something away from the author, John says maybe, but authors don't own books, readers do. (hedged) — 00:00:58
  • ★★ Asked if the Nerdfighting puppy is neutered, John says yes, joking that he had threatened to castrate Willy for peeing inside and then did it. (playful) — 00:00:58 · Willy
  • ★★ John says Joe Biden anagrams to 'I Need Job' and Sarah Palin to 'Las Pirana'. (playful) — 00:01:43 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★★ John says Paper Towns comes out in six days and is the culmination of two and a half years of his life. (playful) — 00:01:43 · Paper Towns

00:02:37 — Paper Towns outburst; what happens at the gatherings; early sales; unanswerable question; why Y is a vowel; signing other books; see you at the release party

  • ★★★ At the Nerdfighter gatherings, John says, songs will be sung, Paper Towns read, books discussed, questions answered and stuff signed. — 00:02:37 · Paper Towns
  • ★★ John is not thrilled that Paper Towns is being sold early in some places but says there is nothing he can do about it. — 00:02:37 · Paper Towns
  • ★★ John will sign books other than Paper Towns on tour, anything except skin. — 00:03:15 · Paper Towns
  • ★★ John will see Hank in real life at the Paper Towns release party on Thursday. — 00:03:15 · Hank Green, Paper Towns

Humor (significant)

  • Asked whether the Nerdfighting puppy is neutered, John recalls warning Willy about peeing inside. — 00:00:58

    “I am gonna chop your balls off, and then I did it.”

  • Asked if he is an octopus, John counts his limbs and wonders if he lost four legs, then tests by jumping at the wall. — 00:01:43

    “If I jumped against the wall, I would stick. I am not an octopus.”

  • John has been timing how long he can go without mentioning Paper Towns. — 00:01:43

    “Okay, that's it. That's as long as I can go without mentioning paper towns.”

  • Asked why Y is only sometimes a vowel. — 00:02:37

    “Because if it were always a vowel, there would be no Yeti, and then I would be all alone in the world.”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: Paper Towns · Question Tuesday

Also: People: Joe Biden · Sarah Palin · Sarah Urist Green (“Yeti”)

Projects: Paper Towns Tour

Rituals: Presidential anagrams

Concepts: authorial intent · Deconstruction

Places: Canada · United States

Products: iSight

animal: Willy

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