John Green's Blog, page 41
January 10, 2012
Question Tuesday: THE FAULT IN OUR STARS IS HERE EDITION
In which John discusses The Fault in Our Stars, his new book, which is OUT NOW AT BOOKSTORES EVERYWHERE. (Also at like Target and Walmart and Kroger, if you like to shop for books while shopping for toilet paper.)
Tour tickets still available in a few cities: http://dft.ba/-tourdenerdfighting2012
(For incredibly complicated reasons involving people not believing me about nerdfighteria's amazingness, some preorders--especially in Europe--are unsigned. I am solving this problem. Email me at sparksflyup-at-gmail-dot-com with your name, your address, and where you ordered the book from, and a beautiful and very very rare signed bookplate will be sent to you.)
January 9, 2012
January 6, 2012
Death To Cable!
The vlogbrothers alternative to Cable TV:
http://www.youtube.com/scishow
http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse
http://www.youtube.com/hankgames
http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail
http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel
http://www.youtube.com/vlogbrothers
In which Hank is astounded by how extremely unfriendly, exploitative, annoying, expensive, and useless digital cable systems are these days. I literally could not believe how annoying it was. It's clearly an industry not just ripe for, but in great need of, revolution. And I suppose that's what we're doing here.
And that dog at the end is Sam, who is the dog of my friends Heather and Dave who are the owners of said TV. Sam just had a bit of surgery but he's doing fine now!
January 2, 2012
Changes to Vlogbrothers
YourPants is BACK: http://www.yourpants.org
Check out SciShow http://www.youtube.com/scishow and CrashCourse http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse
In which John discusses some changes to 2012 (that is, twenty twelve) vlogbrothers, including a location for the evil baby orphanage and--SORRY--a slight reduction to two videos a week so we can devote more time to the community and its projects (and also so I can hopefully get a better stomach).
December 30, 2011
How to Tip Properly
In which Hank shares his personal rules for tipping, discusses why we do it, and how it kills time lords...and then he says the word Poohster.
December 28, 2011
Goat Mating Is Weird
In which John witnesses his parents' goats having sex, including all of the weird foreplay that precedes goat sex, like the part where the male goat urinates on his own beard and then rubs it all over the female goat, and then the part where the goat humps in all the wrong places. Basically, it's a Thoughts from Places video about walking around the woods in North Carolina, only I stumbled into...yeah...goats loving goats.
Our mom will be making goat soap again after the new year thanks to the hard work of these and other goats; if you'd like some, check out http://farmerjanesoap.bigcartel.com/
There are some new tickets to the Boston Tour de Nerdfighting event and the venue has changed. More info here: http://www.wellesley.indiebound.com/e... You can find out about tickets for other Tour de Nerdfighting stops at http://dft.ba/-tourdenerdfighting2012
December 26, 2011
Project for Awesome and Truth or Fail
SWANS A SWIMMING http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVDSU8...
STILL COPYRIGHTED http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWbApx...
In which Hank reveals which charities will be receiving over $14,000 each!
December 23, 2011
There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!!
If you need something to read between now and TFiOS, I have written a few other books, including Looking for Alaska: http://dft.ba/-looking4alaska An Abundance of Katherines: http://dft.ba/-aokatherines and Paper Towns: http://dft.ba/-1h5U
In which John discusses the unfortunate and accidental leaking of his new novel The Fault in Our Stars, and his readers' amazing and generous response.
Preorder The Fault in Our Stars at amazon http://dft.ba/-tfios or at your local indie bookseller http://dft.ba/-tfiosindie (Every copy of the first printing is signed! By me! Yes, really! Yes, all of them!)
December 21, 2011
2011 Presidential Anagrams!!
In which Hank delves into the mystery of the Republican presidential hopefuls using the inescapably useful and magical tool of the anagram!
Donations are still being accepted at http://www.projectforawesome.com
Also, everyone seems to agree that Hank and Katherine play Super Mario Bros. Wii is like the best thing that ever happened.
http://www.youtube.com/hankgames
December 19, 2011
Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath
Donate at http://www.projectforawesome.com, get my zombie apocalypse story* at http://dft.ba/zombies, or buy remixes of Alex Day's (brilliant!) "Forever Yours" at http://dft.ba/remix All proceeds from all these endeavors go to charity.
Tour de Nerdfighting Updates and Tickets: http://dft.ba/-tourdenerdfighting2012
In which John discusses the 2011 Project for Awesome and shows off some excellent pictures of Hank. Thanks to effyeahnerdfighters, http://www.effyeahnerdfighters.com, for their relentless dedication to making the p4a successful, and thanks also to the brilliant Karen Kavett http://www.youtube.com/xperpetualmotion who designed the p4a site, and Sam Rudge, who made it work. And thanks to everyone who made videos, comment spammed, and donated!
* This story, "The War for Banks Island," is unfinished and when it is finished, it will be bad. But unlike Zombicorns, it will not be released under a creative commons license, so only people who buy it will ever get to read it. I'm hoping to finish it around January 20th.
