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She is made of win and awesome. And you are one lucky dude.
Commented Dec 17, 2010 on Check. And. Mate. at WWdN: In Exile
Check. And. Mate.
On our way home from the grocery store tonight, I said to Anne, "Have you heard of this Tumblr called I'm Remembering?" "No," she said, "what's that?" "It's all these images and things from the eighties and early nineties, and it's pretty awesome." In spite of myself, I added with a rather copio...
I still have a dangly ankh earring. I still wear it to Goth clubs.
Commented Oct 24, 2010 on regarding dangly ankh earrings and the 18 year-olds who wore them in 1990 at WWdN: In Exile
regarding dangly ankh earrings and the 18 year-olds who wore them in 1990
I shoot Big Bang Theory on Monday before I go back to Vancouver to finish out the fourth season of Eureka, so I have scored an entirely unexpected bonus weekend at home with my wife. Yesterday, we heard that Toy Soldiers was playing on local station KDOC (which was one of the truly great UHF sta...
Remind me to show you my yearbook photo sometime.
I had the babydyke version of the same haircut*.
What? IT WAS THE 80S, BITCH.
*And I rocked it.
Commented Sep 15, 2010 on Wesley Crusher's Sweet-Ass Motherfucking Bouffant at WWdN: In Exile
Wesley Crusher's Sweet-Ass Motherfucking Bouffant
When I was a teenager pretending to fly a spaceship, I got to do a lot of really cool things with a lot of really cool people. The price of admission to this wonderful world, though, was the most annoying hairdo I've ever experienced in my life. I called it Wesley's Helmet Hair, because it did n...
This is such very awesome advice.
It works for writing, too. I feel like when I lose track of the writing I do for myself, for the joy of it--that's when I lose track, also, of my edge as an artist.
Commented Mar 24, 2010 on the play's the thing at WWdN: In Exile
the play's the thing
I spent most of the morning and afternoon rehearsing my speech, listening to how it sounds, and making sure it times out right. The old improviser in me even played New Choice a few times with some ad-libs that amused me so much, I ended up writing them into the text. Writing this speech and pre...
Sing it, sister.
Commented Jan 25, 2010 on Campbell's, a Pro-Ana Company at Deus Ex Machinatio
Campbell's, a Pro-Ana Company
Campbell's, the generally benign and beloved soup company, is running some commercials that are driving me insane. In them, women are mindlessly shambling through the frozen foods aisle of a supermarket, tossing various light and diet frozen meals into their carts. And then... they come to their...
Aww, Wil. I'm so sorry for your loss.
Commented Aug 25, 2009 on through the fish-eyed lens of tear stained eyes at WWdN: In Exile
through the fish-eyed lens of tear stained eyes
My dog Ferris, who was rescued from a bus stop in Monrovia by my wife Anne almost exactly 8 years ago, had a heart attack and died this morning. It happened very quickly, and I was with her, which is supposed to make me feel better, but at this moment all I can feel is nearly-unbearable sorrow, ...
Fingers crossed!
Commented Dec 1, 2008 on In which wil goes "O_o" but retains his grip on reality at WWdN: In Exile
In which wil goes "O_o" but retains his grip on reality
I thought I'd completed this week's LA Daily column on Friday, but when I opened it up yesterday afternoon to give it one final look, I realized that it didn't work at all. It's fine for a blog post (and will likely show up here sooner or later) but it just doesn't work as a column. As you can i...
That gives me a little warm shiver.
Commented Oct 21, 2008 on so fucking special at WWdN: In Exile
so fucking special
I hope this makes my fellow Gen Xers as happy as it made me. Damn kids today: When we saw this during October, it usually meant that something wonderful, like a It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown was about to start. When we saw it in December, it usually meant a Rankin/Bass special was ab...
I just found my batwing Guatemalan jacket with the wooden toggle buttons. Reader, I kept it.
Also, dude. Hypercolor t-shirt? I *coveted* one of those.
Commented Oct 7, 2008 on Strewn with time's dead flowers at WWdN: In Exile
Strewn with time's dead flowers
Remember how radical it was when you got your first dirt bike in the 80s? Mine had a red frame, hand brakes, and yellow pads that told the world it was a Red Line BMX. I wish I could say that I was sad to retire the banana seat bike I'd loved since Christmas in 1978, but I was 9, and felt like I...
That's so awesome! One of the coolest dudes I know on my favorite TV show.
I promise to squeal loudly when I see you!
Commented Jul 4, 2008 on the pretty white ships that i've been dreaming of at WWdN: In Exile
the pretty white ships that i've been dreaming of
I haven't had a theatrical agent for years, so I don't have as many auditions or opportunities to work as an actor as I once did. I have a fantastic manager, though, who always gets me into quality auditions, where I have a real shot at booking the job.[1] My manager and I have an understanding ...
I have a theory that WinAmp is psychic. And no matter how many times I tell myself that really it's just situational relevance, not actual divination--STILL CREEPY.
Commented Mar 12, 2008 on geek vs. itunes at WWdN: In Exile
geek vs. itunes
In the spirit of Cat vs. Monkey . . . Me: iTunes, play whatever you want on random. iTunes: Cool! Have some Isaac Hayes, followed by Yes! Me: Maybe we need to talk about this... iTunes: Hey, jerk, it was in YOUR library. Don't blame me for getting creative. Me: Let's never fight again. iTune...
Glad to hear you are feeling better, and breathing through your nose again. And I hope you adapt quickly to the change in resonance within your skull.
It must be like listening to yourself on a recording all the time. How weird!
Commented Feb 28, 2008 on breathe . . . breathe in the air at WWdN: In Exile
breathe . . . breathe in the air
Hey, want to have some fun? Take a look at your nose. See how normally-sized it is? Pretty small and stuff, right? Maybe a few centimeters across? This afternoon, my doctor pulled two plastic splints out of mine, each the about one-and-a-half times the size of a silver dollar and shape of a sm...
Dude. Don't budge off that couch. And yeah, try not to bleed.
--ebear
Commented Feb 13, 2008 on is there anyone home? at WWdN: In Exile
is there anyone home?
. . . yep. But my doctor says that talking on the phone, sending e-mails, posting in my blog, and spending too any time doing much more than watching TV (I'm still too drugged up to fucos -- I'm not changing the spelling on that because it's so goddamn funny -- on reading this big stack of graph...
Wil,
I think you're a tremendously dedicated and entertaining writer (and I am actually a regular reader of your blog as well, though I lurk shamelessly) and I am extremely happy that I could be of service.
I try to write the blog I really wanted to be able to read when I was struggling in the trenches and trying to figure out how to write decent stories, and the best response I can ever have is for it to be useful.
Yours,
--Elizabeth Bear (but really, everybody calls me Bear.)
Commented Jan 8, 2008 on announcement one of four (collect them all!) at WWdN: In Exile
announcement one of four (collect them all!)
I'm not going to bury the lede like I usually do: the script I turned in on Friday was for Volume 3 of Star Trek: The Manga. TokyoPop is releasing it this summer in time for the Big Honkin' Vegas Convention, and Comic-Con. Everyone at CBS and TokyoPop liked the story I did for Volume 2: Kakan n...
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