Good Morning John, it's Friday April 13th. I don't know very much about Kurt Vonnegut, but it's pretty clear that the English nerdfighters do, and with them I mourn. In times of mourning, it's easy to concentrate on the increase of worldsuck, but Brotherhood 2.0 isn't about recognizing when suck levels increase, it's about decreasing suck levels. This stuff on my head is for Kurt Vonnegut, but this video is for decreasing worldsuck.
(is wearing a compact fluorescent lightbulb on his head) Let's spend a little bit of time talking about global warming. As my last video showed, I spend an awful lot of time thinking about global warming, and while a vast majority of Americans have decided that global warming is a really big deal and that we really need to do something about it, so far no one is doing anything about it. I mean, we are individually, people are buying Priuses and turning off lights and using compact florescent lightbulbs, which I heartily encourage you to do. What needs to be done, can't be done just by individuals. There are pretty much three types of entities in the world: there are people, there are corporations, and there are governments. We got the people. We need the corporations and the governments. And I'll tell you what, it feels like we have the corporations more than we have the government, which is just screwed up! So if you want to talk about decreasing suck levels worldwide, we need to talk about decreasing temperatures worldwide, or at least decrease carbon emissions.
And just by coincidence, tomorrow is Step It Up Day. Step It Up is a campaign started by Bill McKibben, the guy who wrote that book I told you to read. Basically, its a campaign to say "Okay, Congress, uh, now we all agree that there's a problem, and you all agree that there's a problem, now you should do something." And the good news is that almost everybody can participate in a Step It Up event because they're like, they're everywhere. We've got one in Missoula, and one in Glacier, and one in Corvallis. I mean, in terms of Montana, thats like having three block parties on the same block. This is a big deal! There's like 400 of these things going on in New York City alone. Basically, everybody's getting together and having a bloddy fantastic time, trying not to emit very much carbon, and getting really angry at Congress! I mean, I love being angry at Congress.
John, I know that there's a bunch of these cool things going on in New York, and I challenge you to attend one of them. I want to see video of you at a Step It Up rally, even if you have to have a Step It Up rally of one, I want to see you asking Congress to step it up for 2007 and actually make some change. Also, I know there's some eco-nerdfighters out there, I want to see you guys stepping it up too. My personal step it up project, I am going to turn off my house. All of it... a-all of it, you won't see me on the internet, I won't be there because my house will be off. I will also be attending a rally in downtown Missoula and, uh I will be gardening, because that doesn't take any power, and it's a good thing to do anyways.
I have to go because this thing is falling off my head. I'll see you on Monday.
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March 22nd: Book Club and Business Cards
(Hank has a box made of misprinted EcoGeek business cards on his head) Good morning, John. It’s Thursday, March 22nd. I just mixed a Misprinted Business Card Utilization idea with putting stuff on my head. Now all I have to do is put a misprinted business card in my pants and then put my pants on my head. Hmmm? (holds up box; puts box in pants; puts pants on head) So, I haven’t figured out what I’m gonna talk about today. Well, first I have to show you how I made this misprinted business card utilization idea. And second, I think I’m going to talk about my new edition to the Brotherhood 2.0 Book Club. (pants slide off head; shakes head)
A very long time ago a commenter suggested that I make a cube out of my misprinted business cards. And I thought he was kind of crazy. But then I realized all I needed was a little magic. (waves fingers in midair; business cards fly up and form into a perfect box) Okay, actually he sent me to a tutorial. You need six business cards. You actually will eventually need twelve, but start with six. They all have to be the exact same size, which is fine for me because all of mine are the same size.
Then, you take one and you bend it over the other (demonstrates). You end up with these little cups. You have to combine them using a lot of manual dexterity. Put them together (builds box) This is half the cube…this is when it starts to get really hard. Get this on camera because you have to hold everything while you’re doing it. one more piece and the cube will be done. Voila! Suddenly a surprisingly sturdy cube. Now, this is kind of ugly. What the tutorial advises is that you use these flappy things, here and here, and you use other little cups that you’ve made, and you slide them into your flappy things like so (demonstrates). Your face becomes a flat, pretty face instead of these tabby, ugly faces. So, now you just do that six times, and you’ve got this! (complete box) This is a beautiful little EcoGeek cube, that I’ve used now in my intros to my EcoGeek videos, which you will soon be able to see on ecogeek.org.
Now, everyone knows that I had to read We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with our Families. You didn’t have to read anything because the book I made you read was your book that you were writing because you needed to finish your book because you were past your deadline. Plus, all the people who watch Brotherhood 2.0 are John Green fans, and I think they would all hate me if I stood between you and finishing your book. So I’ve decided that you should read (holds the book up) World Changing: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century. Yes, it is this big. Yes, I am kidding. I considered having you read The God Delusion, but I think maybe that would be a little too inflammatory. So, instead, I’m asking you to read Bill McKibben’s new book, Deep Economy. Because I run EcoGeek, I’m getting a free copy of Deep Economy, and I’ll be reading it too because I’m probably going to be interviewing the author for my website. And it’d be good to know what the book's about first, and I’d like to talk about it with you before the interview, if possible, before the interview.
(with a tan purse on his head) Thank you to everyone who has taken my plea to put stuff on your heads so seriously. I really do believe that this is, at least in part, an opportunity to decrease WorldSuck. (turns head sideways) I look like a Trojan! (raises arm, pretending to carry a spear, trumpets) Doo-doo-doo-doo!
I hope you all won’t think I’m selfish when I say this. I mean, it’s great to see John with dumb stuff on his head, and I do like putting stuff on my own head, but I kind of want to see stuff on your head. So maybe we could set something up where people could send us pictures of stuff on their heads. And videos, and videos of stuff on their heads! And people doing stuff while stuff is on their heads! Yes, yes, I think this is a good idea. Anyhow, I’ll see ya' morrow.
A very long time ago a commenter suggested that I make a cube out of my misprinted business cards. And I thought he was kind of crazy. But then I realized all I needed was a little magic. (waves fingers in midair; business cards fly up and form into a perfect box) Okay, actually he sent me to a tutorial. You need six business cards. You actually will eventually need twelve, but start with six. They all have to be the exact same size, which is fine for me because all of mine are the same size.
Then, you take one and you bend it over the other (demonstrates). You end up with these little cups. You have to combine them using a lot of manual dexterity. Put them together (builds box) This is half the cube…this is when it starts to get really hard. Get this on camera because you have to hold everything while you’re doing it. one more piece and the cube will be done. Voila! Suddenly a surprisingly sturdy cube. Now, this is kind of ugly. What the tutorial advises is that you use these flappy things, here and here, and you use other little cups that you’ve made, and you slide them into your flappy things like so (demonstrates). Your face becomes a flat, pretty face instead of these tabby, ugly faces. So, now you just do that six times, and you’ve got this! (complete box) This is a beautiful little EcoGeek cube, that I’ve used now in my intros to my EcoGeek videos, which you will soon be able to see on ecogeek.org.
Now, everyone knows that I had to read We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with our Families. You didn’t have to read anything because the book I made you read was your book that you were writing because you needed to finish your book because you were past your deadline. Plus, all the people who watch Brotherhood 2.0 are John Green fans, and I think they would all hate me if I stood between you and finishing your book. So I’ve decided that you should read (holds the book up) World Changing: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century. Yes, it is this big. Yes, I am kidding. I considered having you read The God Delusion, but I think maybe that would be a little too inflammatory. So, instead, I’m asking you to read Bill McKibben’s new book, Deep Economy. Because I run EcoGeek, I’m getting a free copy of Deep Economy, and I’ll be reading it too because I’m probably going to be interviewing the author for my website. And it’d be good to know what the book's about first, and I’d like to talk about it with you before the interview, if possible, before the interview.
(with a tan purse on his head) Thank you to everyone who has taken my plea to put stuff on your heads so seriously. I really do believe that this is, at least in part, an opportunity to decrease WorldSuck. (turns head sideways) I look like a Trojan! (raises arm, pretending to carry a spear, trumpets) Doo-doo-doo-doo!
I hope you all won’t think I’m selfish when I say this. I mean, it’s great to see John with dumb stuff on his head, and I do like putting stuff on my own head, but I kind of want to see stuff on your head. So maybe we could set something up where people could send us pictures of stuff on their heads. And videos, and videos of stuff on their heads! And people doing stuff while stuff is on their heads! Yes, yes, I think this is a good idea. Anyhow, I’ll see ya' morrow.
Brotherhood 2.0: Peeps and Genocide
Good morning John it's Tuesday, March 6th and I am entirely surrounded by 100 peeps. (in store) We found the peeps. The bunnies count as full-sized right? I think I’m gonna get the bunnies, cause they’re kinda more swallow-able. They look more like a shape that won’t choke me to death. I’ve just discovered something very interesting, it says that four bunnies are 31 grams and that they contain 33 grams of carbohydrates. There is actually more sugar than there is bunny in these bunnies. Good news on the cheapskate front, each of these things is only 99 cents. So I’m going to get out of the store paying exactly 6 dollars.
So now target has 6 of my dollars and I have 100 of their peeps. I would also like to announce that I have completed the first Brotherhood 2.0 book club book. Yes, I finished We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch and since I don’t have time to discuss that and eat 100 peeps, I’m going to discuss the book while eating 100 peeps. On your mark, get set, go.
Now there some discussion on brotherhood 2.0 about We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families and how it’s a book designed to make you feel guilty about something that already happened and there’s no use crying over spilled milk. 1 gallon per every dead person, 800,000 gallons of milk. But what Philip Gourevitch’s book was really about was understanding that something happened in Rwanda. Something very significant on a world-wide scale. Unlike eating peeps.
I only ate half of this one, why did I do that?
Beyond acknowledging it, it’s about understanding how something like that could happen. I mean, in a matter of days 800,000 people were killed. All you have to have is the right cocktail of International indecision, local alcoholism, long-term racism, and a couple of inflammatory people with control over the media and it is absolutely possible for completely normal, heathy people to become genocidal maniacs, to commit the worse crime that so far humanity is capable of committing. It wasn’t just bad people killing bad people it was a bad situation and that when we can recognize those ingredients being poured together in the stew again, we can put a lid on it before the fumes reach a nation-wide fervor and create a another genocidal scenario. World governments need to recognize that it’s possible and that individual citizens need to recognize that it’s possible so that they can pressure their governments.
Bla. (cough). That’s not me almost puking, that’s just the bad taste of the peeps. Oh, 5:16. I’m not going to be able to finish this one. It’s too late, I’m so glad. 6 minutes is up. That peep was just sticking to my finger, and I’m not gonna, I'm not gonna eat this half a peep. I had that many, which honestly I think is pretty good. (burp) I’m feeling kinda jittery. I really haven’t eaten anything else today, that is, that is all I’ve eaten, that is 100% of the food I’ve eaten today. It doesn’t feel very good though. I can’t I can’t see, huh hu- I hate their little eyes. So now I have to go online and contribute 87.5 dollars to the Brotherhood 2.0 foundation to decrease suck levels worldwide. Think what we could do with that money! Plus the 20 I already donated and plus the 20 you already donated, that’s like 127.5 dollars. Whew! Um, this video is longer then 4 minutes please do not punish me because I’m doing a punishment and we haven’t made that an official rule yet. But I’m making it a rule now, from now on video must be less then 4 minutes and this is the last one that will be more then 4 minutes. That is a rule as of tomorrow, which is when I will see you.
(After logo) Who wants peeps? (Shakes head and Peeps fly up under glasses)
So now target has 6 of my dollars and I have 100 of their peeps. I would also like to announce that I have completed the first Brotherhood 2.0 book club book. Yes, I finished We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch and since I don’t have time to discuss that and eat 100 peeps, I’m going to discuss the book while eating 100 peeps. On your mark, get set, go.
Now there some discussion on brotherhood 2.0 about We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families and how it’s a book designed to make you feel guilty about something that already happened and there’s no use crying over spilled milk. 1 gallon per every dead person, 800,000 gallons of milk. But what Philip Gourevitch’s book was really about was understanding that something happened in Rwanda. Something very significant on a world-wide scale. Unlike eating peeps.
I only ate half of this one, why did I do that?
Beyond acknowledging it, it’s about understanding how something like that could happen. I mean, in a matter of days 800,000 people were killed. All you have to have is the right cocktail of International indecision, local alcoholism, long-term racism, and a couple of inflammatory people with control over the media and it is absolutely possible for completely normal, heathy people to become genocidal maniacs, to commit the worse crime that so far humanity is capable of committing. It wasn’t just bad people killing bad people it was a bad situation and that when we can recognize those ingredients being poured together in the stew again, we can put a lid on it before the fumes reach a nation-wide fervor and create a another genocidal scenario. World governments need to recognize that it’s possible and that individual citizens need to recognize that it’s possible so that they can pressure their governments.
Bla. (cough). That’s not me almost puking, that’s just the bad taste of the peeps. Oh, 5:16. I’m not going to be able to finish this one. It’s too late, I’m so glad. 6 minutes is up. That peep was just sticking to my finger, and I’m not gonna, I'm not gonna eat this half a peep. I had that many, which honestly I think is pretty good. (burp) I’m feeling kinda jittery. I really haven’t eaten anything else today, that is, that is all I’ve eaten, that is 100% of the food I’ve eaten today. It doesn’t feel very good though. I can’t I can’t see, huh hu- I hate their little eyes. So now I have to go online and contribute 87.5 dollars to the Brotherhood 2.0 foundation to decrease suck levels worldwide. Think what we could do with that money! Plus the 20 I already donated and plus the 20 you already donated, that’s like 127.5 dollars. Whew! Um, this video is longer then 4 minutes please do not punish me because I’m doing a punishment and we haven’t made that an official rule yet. But I’m making it a rule now, from now on video must be less then 4 minutes and this is the last one that will be more then 4 minutes. That is a rule as of tomorrow, which is when I will see you.
(After logo) Who wants peeps? (Shakes head and Peeps fly up under glasses)
Brotherhood 2.0: February 22nd: Where Do Books Go?
Good morning, John. It’s Thursday, February 22nd, (echoing voice) and this is the sound that my MacBook makes when I’ve got the speakers on while I’m recording. blaargaaahhaablaa. That’s, that’s enough of that. (echoes end)
Yesterday, a commenter, Julia, brought up a problem that I think a lot of us deal with. Now, because you’re a semi-famous author, I think that a large percentage of our fan base are book readers. The problem with books is that they’re kinda big. I mean, not one book, but when you have a couple hundred they can become kind of unwieldy. And it can become kind of difficult to find places to put all of them.
I have this problem, and so does Julia, and I would like to show Julia and the rest of our viewers how I deal with this problem.
(shot of large bookshelf, chipmunk voice) We have this bookshelf, which not only has books but also DVDs and some random stuff and more books…and more books. (Books with no shelf on wall) It looks as if these are just affixed to the wall, as if there’s some kind of anti-gravity device. How does it work? (Hank removes book, metal piece is sticking out of wall) The thing’s screwed into the wall. It’s got a little clasp down there. (slides book on) It goes on, and it holds up the cover. (another bookshelf) Over here, we have a less innovative method for storing books. (Stack of books) Another method for storing books is to put embarrassing books in the closet. What? What Star Trek novels? I don’t have any Star Trek novels!
(more floating books) And up here we have two more of the amazing floating book stacks. They also double nicely as picture holders. (table) Katherine and I are also fans of the random stacks in random places. This one is on our kitchen table. (Shelving with bookshelves on top) So, yeah, we have a lot of built-in shelving, which helps us with the book problem. (bed side table) More random stacks in random places. (On top of a dresser) There’s my underwear drawer. (giggles, closes drawer with foot) This one’s on our dresser.
(Shelf above bed) And, of course, there is the bed stand stack, which, you will notice includes Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families. These are the books that we are supposedly reading right now, though, I have to say that I haven’t been reading that book very much lately. (kitchen counter) Sometimes, we find books in completely random places, like on top of this bowl. (bathroom) Toilet-side magazine stack. (small table) Another random stack. (some picture frames on a shelf) My chemistry books are hiding behind pictures of Italy and the three-volume complete Calvin and Hobbes.
But, most importantly, we have the places where the books go when we can’t fit anymore books, because we will always have this problem. The place that Katherine and I most commonly go is called the Book Exchange (a sign that says The BOOK EXCHANGE)
The Book Exchange is awesome because you can buy books from the Book Exchange and then exchange them for the exact amount that you paid for them. So, say that Katherine bought an Agatha Christie book from the Book Exchange for a dollar fifty. She can take it back and get a dollar fifty in used paperback credit. Just today, Katherine and I took back a giant stack of books to the Book Exchange, where they gave us $40 so we could buy more books at the Book Exchange, which is a pretty good deal because they have a lot more shelf space than we do and it’s a heck of a lot cheaper than buying books at Barnes and Noble.
How do authors feel about used bookstores? Other authors here are, of course, invited to answer this question, as well. What about libraries? And what about downloaded books? I mean, I, personally, have to admit that I have, in fact, downloaded books before and read them on the internet. I don’t really feel bad about it because they’re not the kind of books where the authors are, are really trying to make a living. Like Alexander Dumas, he’s not saying, “Oh, I wish those people wouldn’t download my books!”
The question becomes, when we buy a book, what are we paying for? In all of these cases, libraries, used bookstores, and downloaded books, people are reading your books, but you’re not getting credit for it. You’re not getting money for it. So how does that make you feel? One thing I know for sure is that it’d be a heck of a lot easier to put all these books someplace if they were on my hard drive instead of on my wall.
I’ll see you tomorrow.
Yesterday, a commenter, Julia, brought up a problem that I think a lot of us deal with. Now, because you’re a semi-famous author, I think that a large percentage of our fan base are book readers. The problem with books is that they’re kinda big. I mean, not one book, but when you have a couple hundred they can become kind of unwieldy. And it can become kind of difficult to find places to put all of them.
I have this problem, and so does Julia, and I would like to show Julia and the rest of our viewers how I deal with this problem.
(shot of large bookshelf, chipmunk voice) We have this bookshelf, which not only has books but also DVDs and some random stuff and more books…and more books. (Books with no shelf on wall) It looks as if these are just affixed to the wall, as if there’s some kind of anti-gravity device. How does it work? (Hank removes book, metal piece is sticking out of wall) The thing’s screwed into the wall. It’s got a little clasp down there. (slides book on) It goes on, and it holds up the cover. (another bookshelf) Over here, we have a less innovative method for storing books. (Stack of books) Another method for storing books is to put embarrassing books in the closet. What? What Star Trek novels? I don’t have any Star Trek novels!
(more floating books) And up here we have two more of the amazing floating book stacks. They also double nicely as picture holders. (table) Katherine and I are also fans of the random stacks in random places. This one is on our kitchen table. (Shelving with bookshelves on top) So, yeah, we have a lot of built-in shelving, which helps us with the book problem. (bed side table) More random stacks in random places. (On top of a dresser) There’s my underwear drawer. (giggles, closes drawer with foot) This one’s on our dresser.
(Shelf above bed) And, of course, there is the bed stand stack, which, you will notice includes Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families. These are the books that we are supposedly reading right now, though, I have to say that I haven’t been reading that book very much lately. (kitchen counter) Sometimes, we find books in completely random places, like on top of this bowl. (bathroom) Toilet-side magazine stack. (small table) Another random stack. (some picture frames on a shelf) My chemistry books are hiding behind pictures of Italy and the three-volume complete Calvin and Hobbes.
But, most importantly, we have the places where the books go when we can’t fit anymore books, because we will always have this problem. The place that Katherine and I most commonly go is called the Book Exchange (a sign that says The BOOK EXCHANGE)
The Book Exchange is awesome because you can buy books from the Book Exchange and then exchange them for the exact amount that you paid for them. So, say that Katherine bought an Agatha Christie book from the Book Exchange for a dollar fifty. She can take it back and get a dollar fifty in used paperback credit. Just today, Katherine and I took back a giant stack of books to the Book Exchange, where they gave us $40 so we could buy more books at the Book Exchange, which is a pretty good deal because they have a lot more shelf space than we do and it’s a heck of a lot cheaper than buying books at Barnes and Noble.
How do authors feel about used bookstores? Other authors here are, of course, invited to answer this question, as well. What about libraries? And what about downloaded books? I mean, I, personally, have to admit that I have, in fact, downloaded books before and read them on the internet. I don’t really feel bad about it because they’re not the kind of books where the authors are, are really trying to make a living. Like Alexander Dumas, he’s not saying, “Oh, I wish those people wouldn’t download my books!”
The question becomes, when we buy a book, what are we paying for? In all of these cases, libraries, used bookstores, and downloaded books, people are reading your books, but you’re not getting credit for it. You’re not getting money for it. So how does that make you feel? One thing I know for sure is that it’d be a heck of a lot easier to put all these books someplace if they were on my hard drive instead of on my wall.
I’ll see you tomorrow.
Brotherhood 2.0: January 15th
Good morning John, it's Monday, January 15th, and I'm sitting in front of the new Brotherhood 2.0 website which you can find at Brotherhood2.com. I'd appreciate any suggestions or comments. The podcast isn't quite working, but we'll get there.
Well, I'm feeling better. I'm not feeling great. But now I've got this voice, it's like not so much of a voice, it's just little popping noises. Aaaaaahh. One of the advantages is that I'm kind of a baritone now. I guess I'm usually a baritone, but maybe I'm a bass? Maybe I'm a bass now.
(sings low) Do not forsake me though you know I must spend...
So I went to Barnes and Noble yesterday. I had to walk up to the lady at the desk because I didn't know where they would keep this book, and I had to say, "I'm looking for a book, it's called We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families," and she said "That's catchy!" So I brought the book home, and then something interesting happened: (uses books as puppets and makes them fight, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families beats Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. All the other ones then gang up on it, and squash it.)
So yeah, it didn't happen. Um, I'm not saying that the Brotherhood 2.0 book club is not a good idea, I'm just saying that right now I'm going to have to avoid your genocide book for a little while. And when I say a little while, I mean, like, less than a week. So I'll probably start it for Brotherhood 2.0 Friday.
Brotherhood 2.0 Agreement Moment! That's right, John and I agreed on something! I think it's a great idea for us for us to do our happy dances for three minutes and thirty seconds. That sounds like a perfect Brotherhood 2.0 project idea! I don't have Daniel Biss, but I do this. (calculator) It's what the University of Montana gave me for all of my hard work. 3.5 minutes times sixty seconds in a minute divided by five seconds per clip is 42 (shows calculator).
Now there are several amazing things about this idea: First, is that you got the math really, very wrong. Second remarkable thing about this idea is that Daniel Biss commented within like, three seconds of you posting the video and told you that you were wrong. It must be very convenient to have your own personal mathematician. I gotta get me one of those! Last, and most remarkable about this idea is that we now know the question. What are you talking about? Oh, sorry! Well, the answer to life, the universe, and everything is forty-two, right? So the question must be, "How many happy dance clips does it take to fill up a Brotherhood 2.0 segment?"
We really are doing some amazing things here.
I've been very impressed by the number and quality of Misprinted Business Card Utilization ideas. Thank you very much, I will be discussing those and other sundrys on Wednesday. John, I'll see you tomorrow.
Well, I'm feeling better. I'm not feeling great. But now I've got this voice, it's like not so much of a voice, it's just little popping noises. Aaaaaahh. One of the advantages is that I'm kind of a baritone now. I guess I'm usually a baritone, but maybe I'm a bass? Maybe I'm a bass now.
(sings low) Do not forsake me though you know I must spend...
So I went to Barnes and Noble yesterday. I had to walk up to the lady at the desk because I didn't know where they would keep this book, and I had to say, "I'm looking for a book, it's called We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families," and she said "That's catchy!" So I brought the book home, and then something interesting happened: (uses books as puppets and makes them fight, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families beats Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. All the other ones then gang up on it, and squash it.)
So yeah, it didn't happen. Um, I'm not saying that the Brotherhood 2.0 book club is not a good idea, I'm just saying that right now I'm going to have to avoid your genocide book for a little while. And when I say a little while, I mean, like, less than a week. So I'll probably start it for Brotherhood 2.0 Friday.
Brotherhood 2.0 Agreement Moment! That's right, John and I agreed on something! I think it's a great idea for us for us to do our happy dances for three minutes and thirty seconds. That sounds like a perfect Brotherhood 2.0 project idea! I don't have Daniel Biss, but I do this. (calculator) It's what the University of Montana gave me for all of my hard work. 3.5 minutes times sixty seconds in a minute divided by five seconds per clip is 42 (shows calculator).
Now there are several amazing things about this idea: First, is that you got the math really, very wrong. Second remarkable thing about this idea is that Daniel Biss commented within like, three seconds of you posting the video and told you that you were wrong. It must be very convenient to have your own personal mathematician. I gotta get me one of those! Last, and most remarkable about this idea is that we now know the question. What are you talking about? Oh, sorry! Well, the answer to life, the universe, and everything is forty-two, right? So the question must be, "How many happy dance clips does it take to fill up a Brotherhood 2.0 segment?"
We really are doing some amazing things here.
I've been very impressed by the number and quality of Misprinted Business Card Utilization ideas. Thank you very much, I will be discussing those and other sundrys on Wednesday. John, I'll see you tomorrow.
Monday, November 1
Brotherhood 2.0 January 9th
Hello, John. It's Tuesday, January 9th. I'm in Detroit, Michigan. It's very windy and cold. I'm standing in the only place in the continental United States where you can look South and see Canada, which you are doing right now. I'm also standing in front of General Motors headquarters. It's a very very big building. It's very nice of you to say that I live in a way that is commensurate with my values. I haven't been feeling that way lately. For the new year I drove to Spokane and I flew to Reno and then I drove to Lake Tahoe. And then I did that all in reverse for, like, a three day long party. Like a week later I've excepted an invitation from General Motors to visit the North American National Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan. I was invited to this because I write for a few environmental blogs and there are some environmental things going on here. Those are my values. This is not my values. It's kind of difficult to convey what's really going on here. It's a pretty gigantic spectacle. Looked earlier, there's fake lichen on those fake rocks. And up here, fake fire. I don't even know how they're doing that, it's amazing. And here we have the weirdest, prettiest fake waterfall ever and it spells things. Right here, we have a jeep that has got stuck to a wall and all the people in that Jeep have had to jump out of the Jeep because they were stuck to a wall. General Motors is giving out hot dogs to a long line of people. So lame. Oh my god.
[Girls]: Hey John! See what you're missing?
[Hank]: ehhehehehehehehehehe yeah.
As for the Brotherhood 2.0 book club, I'm really excited that you're giving me so many opportunities to read so many books about genocide. I love genocide. In terms of what you're going to read, apparently none of our viewers want you to read anything because they all want you to write. So you should just go ahead and read whatever it is you're writing. I'm gonna make that your one option. You have to read the book you are writing. And as for what to call it, you're gonna have to give me some time. Also, it'd be nice to know what it was about. I'd also like to say happy birthday to Jessalyn Sheilds, a brotherhood 2.0 viewer and one of my best friends.
[Girls]: Hey John! See what you're missing?
[Hank]: ehhehehehehehehehehe yeah.
As for the Brotherhood 2.0 book club, I'm really excited that you're giving me so many opportunities to read so many books about genocide. I love genocide. In terms of what you're going to read, apparently none of our viewers want you to read anything because they all want you to write. So you should just go ahead and read whatever it is you're writing. I'm gonna make that your one option. You have to read the book you are writing. And as for what to call it, you're gonna have to give me some time. Also, it'd be nice to know what it was about. I'd also like to say happy birthday to Jessalyn Sheilds, a brotherhood 2.0 viewer and one of my best friends.
Brotherhood 2.0: January 8, 2007
Good morning Hank, It's Monday, January 8th. Sarah and I are about to drive out of Asheville, on our way to Birmingham, Alabama. I know you're gonna be here soon, but in the meantime I thought you should enjoy how pretty it is. We're going down the dirt road on the way to the other dirt road that leads away from Mom's house. And Dad's house! Sorry Dad, Jeez. I would like to congratulate you on successfully completing the Strawberry Hill challenge, except that you didn't complete it! Drinking Sutterhome wine when you've been challenged to drink Strawberry Hill is like slow dancing with Teddy Ruxpin when you've been challenged to wrestle a grizzly bear. Sutterhome may be terrible, but at least it's derived from grapes. Strawberry Hill isn't made out of grapes. It's made out of strawberries. Just kidding, it's made out of apple wine, malt, red die, and the fires of hell.
Hank, as you know, I had surgery on my mouth a few weeks ago. After they sewed my gum back into my mouth, my mouth tasted like cement, and blood, and burnt meat. And you know how after any dental procedure they make you drink that, like, green, gross, minty alcoholy stuff and then spit? Strawberry Hill tast- *achoo*
That was the Yeti!
Strawberry Hill tastes exactly like that spit. (To Yeti) Do you think I'm funny? Am I trying too hard? When? The whole time? Teddy Ruxpin? It's just you get that way around the camera.
So Hank, today is a very significant day, and I'll tell you why, it's January 8th and the first draft of my new novel is due on January 21st. Now, I'm not a mathematician, but I know a couple, so I called Daniel Biss and he told me that January 21st is only 13 days away. Aside from the problem of actually finishing the book, which is, admittedly, a pretty serious problem, there's the problem that it doesn't have a title. I would feel a lot better if I actually had a title for the novel, so that I could say, you know, in ten days I have to turn in the first draft of my new novel, The Babysitter's Club 26: Claudia's Sad Goodbye.
I've been thinking of using either Shakespeare or The Bible. You've got a lot of great Shakespearean titles over the years, like: Infinite Jest, The Dogs of War, Brave New Word, In Cold Blood. And there're also a lot of great Bible titles like: East of Eden, Song of Solomon, or Rich Dad Poor Dad. Of course in the Biblical version of Rich Dad Poor Dad, rich dad gets turned into a pillar of salt and uh poor dad is exalted above all others. Anyway Hank, I'm hopeful you'll be able to come up with a title for me.
Project idea: Brotherhood 2.0 Book Club. I'll read a book you suggest if you read a book I suggest. My first suggestion? Either What is the What by Dave Eggers or We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch.
Hank, as you know, I had surgery on my mouth a few weeks ago. After they sewed my gum back into my mouth, my mouth tasted like cement, and blood, and burnt meat. And you know how after any dental procedure they make you drink that, like, green, gross, minty alcoholy stuff and then spit? Strawberry Hill tast- *achoo*
That was the Yeti!
Strawberry Hill tastes exactly like that spit. (To Yeti) Do you think I'm funny? Am I trying too hard? When? The whole time? Teddy Ruxpin? It's just you get that way around the camera.
So Hank, today is a very significant day, and I'll tell you why, it's January 8th and the first draft of my new novel is due on January 21st. Now, I'm not a mathematician, but I know a couple, so I called Daniel Biss and he told me that January 21st is only 13 days away. Aside from the problem of actually finishing the book, which is, admittedly, a pretty serious problem, there's the problem that it doesn't have a title. I would feel a lot better if I actually had a title for the novel, so that I could say, you know, in ten days I have to turn in the first draft of my new novel, The Babysitter's Club 26: Claudia's Sad Goodbye.
I've been thinking of using either Shakespeare or The Bible. You've got a lot of great Shakespearean titles over the years, like: Infinite Jest, The Dogs of War, Brave New Word, In Cold Blood. And there're also a lot of great Bible titles like: East of Eden, Song of Solomon, or Rich Dad Poor Dad. Of course in the Biblical version of Rich Dad Poor Dad, rich dad gets turned into a pillar of salt and uh poor dad is exalted above all others. Anyway Hank, I'm hopeful you'll be able to come up with a title for me.
Project idea: Brotherhood 2.0 Book Club. I'll read a book you suggest if you read a book I suggest. My first suggestion? Either What is the What by Dave Eggers or We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch.
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