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It is a forum where tl;dr is a bit of a faux pas. Almost as if it were a civilized discussion where people listened to each other. Funny how that brings down the dickishness factor.
The Tournament of Books: State of Wonder vs. The Sisters Brothers
I am a judge in this year's Tournament of Books at The Morning News. The Tournament is a bracketed competition that pits sixteen books against each other, two books at at time. It's sort of like March Madness, if March Madness didn't bore me to death.* I love to read, and I have so much going on...
Robotron Hero with stars in his eyes? Now that song is going to be stuck in my head all week. Curse you, Wheaton!
title of the blog post
When I was reading back through my archives in preparation for Wil Wheaton versus Paul and Storm last week, I thought, more than once, "I really need to write more." Each time, though, my calendar grabbed focus and shouted at me like Jules in Pulp Fiction until I begged it to stop. I miss writin...
A post that includes flash fiction about a serial killer and ends with you nailing a fictional character to a wall with mind bullets. Thank you for making me feel better about my own creepy statements. Also, well said.
living in another world
Well, last week really got away from me, didn't it? I meant to write some blog stuff last week, but I was too busy working on [AWESOME SECRET THING] and [OTHER AWESOME SECRET THING THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM AWESOME SECRET THING]. It looks like my plan to sell some books will have to wait for a few d...
For whatever reason, the ambiguous nature of the word "influencers" creeps me out.
in other words...
Marketing email I just got: "Do you ever wonder which apps influencers (like yourself), celebrities, or Jersey Shore castmates have on their phones?" My response:
That cake is amazing. Nicely done!
FedCon Day 3
I spent most of the morning signing autographs and taking pictures with fans here at FedCon. I got some lovely gifts, including a cake that was made to look just like a The Wesley Crushers bowling shirt. I don't usually accept food at cons, but this was so amazing, I couldn't say no. I took pict...
At least they didn't spell it with an "H".
it's like winning the actor lottery
When we're on location for Eureka, Felicia Day is like my best friend and my younger sister, all at once. We give each other shit all day long, we hang out when we're not working, and we lean on each other when we have those days all artists have that make us question why we thought we could do ...
Neil Grayston won my heart the day he showed you The Room.
Also, now that you've won the lottery, I bet you get calls from Fame Advisors.
it's like winning the actor lottery
When we're on location for Eureka, Felicia Day is like my best friend and my younger sister, all at once. We give each other shit all day long, we hang out when we're not working, and we lean on each other when we have those days all artists have that make us question why we thought we could do ...
No words can describe it. They should have sent a poet.
Run Vern! RUN! GODDAMMIT RUN!
(created by Storm, for the Stand By Meme portion of Wil Wheaton vs. Paul and Storm)
It's your own darn fault for being awesome, Wheaton! That statement also includes all your co-performers.
It is incredibly cool that you guys are just as excited about sharing your work as we are to witness it, and that type of enthusiasm creates a recursive feedback loop only matched in intensity by the "many Wheatons" shirt.
in which i am grateful
Los Angeles totally turned out for our show at Largo last night. I think the house was about 80% full, which is incredible for a show on a Tuesday, anywhere, but expecially in Hollywood. We all had a great time, and the new material I did with Paul and Storm seemed to play as well as we hoped it...
During an all-night art session in college, we listened to this song on repeat for several hours on end. In consequence, I can sing π to over 30 digits. I feel like that's the sort of thing you'd use as a pick-up line at Genius bars.
happy pi day, my darling mathletes!
I wrote this in 2004: This morning over breakfast, I said to my wife, "Happy π day!" "Happy pie day? What the hell are you talking about?" "No, not 'pie'," I said. "'π'." "Not 'pie,' but 'pie.'" She was clearly not amused. "Isn't it a little early to be drinking?" "Anne, look at the date on the...
1) Cut the Voice some slack. I'm sure it's lonely now that it doesn't have Prove to Everyone for constant company.
2) As an aspiring Forensic Taphonomist, my perspective may be a bit skewed, but like dkplewis I, too left Hunter with a feeling of hope. A description of evil turned in upon itself will never be pleasant, but that's rather the point, isn't it? It's good to know I"m not the only person who thinks of things as dark as this, but choses to face the world with laughter rather than despair.
in a sea black with ink
The greatest reward I can receive as a writer is the knowledge that something I wrote affected someone who read it. Earlier today, a HUNTER reader e-mailed the following: I'd like to make a request: Please don't make it so dark next time. I know just how foolish it is to "make a request" about ...
I really love that you've taken to sharing some of your short fiction with us as it emerges. Thank you, sir.
Flash Fiction: Perchance To Dream
Commence Flash Fiction: The best part of my day? That’s easy: those few blissful seconds right after I wake up, when I just feel my head against the pillow and the warmth of the blanket, before it all comes crashing back down on me and I remember where I am. That’s when the worst part of th...
My Red Pen of Doom wishes to know what number it should be substituting. I am merely the messenger here.
The Day After and Other Stories goes digital
tl;dr: The Day After And Other Stories is once again available for download. It's $4.99 at Lulu. Yay! In December of last year, I released a very short collection of very short stories for a very short time - just ten days, actually - as an experiment in releasing short fiction. It sold fai...
"Storage of corpses is important. As in life, you never know when bits of them will come in handy.
...because I do precisely that, all the time."
I knew you were talking about stories, but something about the wording made me giggle in a sick way and imagine you rooting around in your "golem parts" drawer.
"Storage of corpses is important."
Warren wrote about having to kill a story: The lesson is simply this: you just have to recognise that, no matter how much weight you put behind it and how much you tart it up,sometimes a story just doesn’t bloody work, and you have to take it behind the stables and shoot it through the head. No...
I too have wondered about the 12-year-old-boy syndrome (aka: laugh hysterically at anything that contains the words "balls" or "duty"). I think it must be intrinsic to the game since a number of us in our company have only been playing for the past few years and most of us are women. I like to think it's an indication of the high intellectual caliber of the group and we subconsciously feel it's our duty to keep our higher brains from functioning.
Heh. Doody.
P.S. I feel Martin's pain. My DM continually refused to let me get a pygmy Owlbear as a pet.
In which we play Cal & D.
Saturday morning, I drove over to my friend Cal's house for D&D. Our friend Steve was already there, and our friend Martin was on his way to meet us. While we waited for Martin to show up, we caught up on our lives, told stupid (and not-so-stupid) jokes, and got ready for the game. "Hey, I broug...
I'm shocked no one else has brought up the obvious corollary to this post! Two words: Gaming Spa.
I'm sure no one else has ever had the experience of playing for 8 hours straight and then standing up to a world of back pain. Why not solve that by battling through a dungeon in order to reach the fabled "massage room"? And no, I don't mean that to sound as sketchy as it does.
"In fact, I've never seen her this excited for me to go play D&D."
In my keynote to PAX East last year, I said that gaming is the foundation of, and the mortar that holds together, the strongest and longest lasting friendships in my life. I've been playing with the same guys since high school, and even though we all live in different states (and some of us live...
...even when they hijack your Twitter account. Maybe particularly then.
I am no longer on a boat...
...but my inner ear is pretty convinced that I am. Goodtimes. Goodtimes. Until I have enough moments in a row to reflect on and recount the amazing and wonderful time I had on #JoCoCruiseCrazy, I wanted to take a second to share the best part of the entire trip for me: For seven days and six nau...
Do you mind if I steal that mantra? Also I've specifically ordered a few copies so I can, uh...laugh at you. Yep. Not because you've got awesome talent.
Announcing The Day After and Other Stories
This is one of the scariest things I've ever done: I'm releasing a short collection of short fiction, called The Day After and Other Stories. Last year, I collected a few short stories I'd written and sold them as a chapbook at PAX. It was a scary thing for me to do, because while I feel confide...
I will throw my hat in the ring and participate in this mortal combat...I mean lottery. Thank you for making the opportunity more accessible to those of us with time constraints even though I'm sure it has made your job about a bazillion times harder.
As others have noted, I don't think the Twitter sign in gives you a direct e-mail link, so I'm hannah at ecosystem dot com
a very limited (I mean VERY limited) autographed book lottery
Yesterday, I said: I found nine hardback copies of The Happiest Days of Our Lives that I must have put there when they first arrived at my house a couple of years ago. They look as perfect as they did the day they were taken out of the box. So I have this idea to sell them, that goes like this:...
Would I be interested? Is the Space Pope reptilian?
possible (and very limited) autographed book sale
I've been cleaning out my office, organizing comic books and games, and slowly crawling through a decade's accumulation of geek stuff. It. Has. Been. AWESOME. Last night, I went into the depths of the hallway closet, and behind a bunch of CDs and DVDs, I found nine hardback copies of The Happies...
I will never forget the moment I saw Saturn through a telescope for the first time. It was like I suddenly realized that all those pictures in books were actually physically out there. That comprehension of vastness is terrifying and amazing and I don't think the human brain can take it for too long. Just like when you begin to learn basic quantum theory and your entire conception of reality is altered. It kind of makes me want to simultaneously cry and hug everyone around me in an exceedingly dopey fashion.
starry starry night
I stayed up until almost one this morning, reading comic books. I know, it's like I'm 12 all over again. And it's awesome. Around four, Anne woke me up. "What's wrong?" I said, while I was still waiting to clear immigration between Dreamland and Reality. "Nothing. I just couldn't sleep, so I got...
I had hoped this might be a cross-over between alignments and your character on Leverage, but even so it's still awesome.
Because if you're going to be evil, just go all the way to chaotic.
I love these alignment charts that are currently going around the Internets at the speed of meme; it isn't very often that D&D and pop culture references overlap, after all. As you can imagine, I especially love this one: There are several other charts at Mighty God King, where they're in the ...
Hard pressed to say which I love more: the TURDIS or Physician Buttinski's outfit.
He's clearly the AU hobo Doctor- wearing others' cast-offs and living in a loo.
Robot Astronomy Talk Show: Destroyer of Worlds
A few times a year, I get to go over to the Spitzer Science Center at Cal Tech, and do some voice over work for these wonderful educational shorts. I'm really proud to be a small part of IRrelevant Astronomy; we're making science accessible and entertaining, and hopefully inspiring people to lea...
The invitation just said "Cast&Crew". No one thought to tell Wil that they weren't the only show in the building having a Christmas party that day.
merry smurfin' smurfmas, mothersmurfers
This is crying out for a caption. I'll choose my favorite, and send something neat* to whoever writes it. Submissions open throughout the weekend, one per person, and can only be left as comments here (it's too difficult to track on Twitter or via e-mail). *definition of 'neat' will be at my s...
I feel that the stage whispered "They're being weird again," is the sign of a healthy family. At least that's what I tell myself because it sure happens in mine.
I'm giving you one of those "Wil wrote something awesome again" looks over the magic of the interwebs.
... because we're actually together, not just sitting at the same table.
Ryan was home for Thanksgiving, and as part of Operation Make The Most Out of Having My Entire Family Together for a Few Days, the four of us went out to dinner early Saturday evening. After we put in our drink orders, I got up to wash my hands. On my way to the washroom, I passed a mom and two ...
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