I think lots of us have taken up the What Digby Said cry. I mean, she's just the Digbyest! I love her to bits.

I think lots of us have taken up the What Digby Said cry. I mean, she's just the Digbyest! I love her to bits.

Damn it, Wil, next time pick up a copy of Suicide Squad: Raise the Flag! Mama needs a new pair of s-- I mean, a sushi dinner! These books can't sell themselves, as great as the inking is on them! :)

Damn it, Wil, next time pick up a copy of Suicide Squad: Raise the Flag! Mama needs a new pair of s-- I mean, a sushi dinner! These books can't sell themselves, as great as the inking is on them! :)

Good catch on Ryan's part; it absolutely is the self-awareness thing and the pride thing. Happy birthday, Wil! Greatly enjoying your Twitters from SD...

Good catch on Ryan's part; it absolutely is the self-awareness thing and the pride thing. Happy birthday, Wil! Greatly enjoying your Twitters from SD...

Hey, Wil? Happy Father's Day. Congratulations, Ryan!

Hey, Wil? Happy Father's Day. Congratulations, Ryan!

Obviously a Cafe Press-type "Wil Wheaton Has a Zombie Pimp Posse" t-shirt is called for here...

Obviously a Cafe Press-type "Wil Wheaton Has a Zombie Pimp Posse" t-shirt is called for here...

My husband's something of a Beatles fanatic, so we got LOVE when it first came out. I adore it. I like the arrangement on While My Guitar Gently Weeps the best, I think, but I'd say most of it is just terrific. And I fell in love with TheTube sometime last year, before it had commercials. It's not as good now that it's no longer ad-free, but I still appreciate that it's actual music videos, since I don't watch a lot of music online.

My husband's something of a Beatles fanatic, so we got LOVE when it first came out. I adore it. I like the arrangement on While My Guitar Gently Weeps the best, I think, but I'd say most of it is just terrific. And I fell in love with TheTube sometime last year, before it had commercials. It's not as good now that it's no longer ad-free, but I still appreciate that it's actual music videos, since I don't watch a lot of music online.

I once lunched with Edie McClurg (she's a friend of friends) and so was very eager to see how she did on this, and I wasn't disappointed. But I tend to agree with you - it was like the four players who had the scripted portions kept "correcting" the improvisors, which is pretty much the opposite of what improv is all about. Why weren't they instructed to "go with" what the improvisor responded rather than wrenching it back to the topic (as you put it, blocking the offer) and killing all the spontaneity? And what's with David Alan Grier's changing hair color? And those horrid non-reaction shots when he's listening to Foley or vice versa? (And wow, talk about a lack of chemistry!) Real disappointing. I was hoping for much, much better.

I once lunched with Edie McClurg (she's a friend of friends) and so was very eager to see how she did on this, and I wasn't disappointed. But I tend to agree with you - it was like the four players who had the scripted portions kept "correcting" the improvisors, which is pretty much the opposite of what improv is all about. Why weren't they instructed to "go with" what the improvisor responded rather than wrenching it back to the topic (as you put it, blocking the offer) and killing all the spontaneity? And what's with David Alan Grier's changing hair color? And those horrid non-reaction shots when he's listening to Foley or vice versa? (And wow, talk about a lack of chemistry!) Real disappointing. I was hoping for much, much better.

My husband bought the Pet Sounds 40th anniversary thingie too, both the DVD/CD collection and the cool colored-vinyl records (he has #2364 out of an out-of-print run of 10,000!). His favorite bit from the DVD is from a George Martin show from a few years back, because he remembered all these years later the bit between Martin and Brian Wilson at the control board where Wilson said, "hey, you just made it sound better than it did on the record!"

My husband bought the Pet Sounds 40th anniversary thingie too, both the DVD/CD collection and the cool colored-vinyl records (he has #2364 out of an out-of-print run of 10,000!). His favorite bit from the DVD is from a George Martin show from a few years back, because he remembered all these years later the bit between Martin and Brian Wilson at the control board where Wilson said, "hey, you just made it sound better than it did on the record!"

The one that's driving me crazy now is "chirp", which is supposed to be slang that companies who sell fancy walkie-talkies are trying to get consumers to use to mean "causing the annoying sound the walkie-talkies make that drives everybody crazy." Like "text" only more annoying. "You get unlimited chirp for ten bucks a month!" Yeah, bend over and I'll give you unlimited chirp, chump.

The one that's driving me crazy now is "chirp", which is supposed to be slang that companies who sell fancy walkie-talkies are trying to get consumers to use to mean "causing the annoying sound the walkie-talkies make that drives everybody crazy." Like "text" only more annoying. "You get unlimited chirp for ten bucks a month!" Yeah, bend over and I'll give you unlimited chirp, chump.

Thanks for responding, Wil. Never gonna stop reading your blog, you're one of my "blogfathers" and inspirations. But yeah, I'll be steering clear of SG, I'm afraid. Definitely one of those places where a female gaze doesn't feel very welcome. :)

Thanks for responding, Wil. Never gonna stop reading your blog, you're one of my "blogfathers" and inspirations. But yeah, I'll be steering clear of SG, I'm afraid. Definitely one of those places where a female gaze doesn't feel very welcome. :)

I don't get it. Why are you writing for a pinup site in the first place? I think it's pretty unwelcoming for female readers to begin with.

I don't get it. Why are you writing for a pinup site in the first place? I think it's pretty unwelcoming for female readers to begin with.

The definition of a blog is pretty simple. It's a tool or series of tools by which a writer updates a website for others to read (what we used to call "one-to-many writing" in the days of apas and zines). The definition of "blogger" is equally simple - a writer who uses blogs for his or her one-to-many writing. Everything else is just niggling.

The definition of a blog is pretty simple. It's a tool or series of tools by which a writer updates a website for others to read (what we used to call "one-to-many writing" in the days of apas and zines). The definition of "blogger" is equally simple - a writer who uses blogs for his or her one-to-many writing. Everything else is just niggling.

Good for you, Wil! I'm kind of going through the same thing at the moment. I had a bit of a heart scare last month, so since then my motto has become "Simplify, simplify, simplify." Lots of flotsam and jetsam out of my life now, as I try to reorganize what I still wish to retain. Today was rainy and dreary outside and I didn't have much energy so I decided to reorganize a few drawers here and there, which I knew wouldn't exhaust me too much. Every little helps! Don't try to do it all at once, it's easier as a series of small tasks than as one panicked "oh my god I need to do all this NOW" big one which will leave you exhausted.