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Sci-Fi... syfy... by any name a network that has always screwed it's fans. Farscape? Weird quirky show with a small but fanatical fanbase chock full of that magic 18-35 demo of college educated men and women (yes, women that liked their space show) cancelled by sci-fi because... an executive didn't like space shows. Let me say that again. An executive at SCI-FI didn't like space shows!
Flash forward a few years and they cancel Caprica and Eureka and SG:1 when it looked like it might have some life it in with new cast injections and SG: Universe which while a tepid BSG attitude and a Voyager retread story line was, like Caprica, slowly finding it's way... Too bad. syfy needs bad copies of Brit shows about vampires and werewolves living in a flat downtown Real World style and a multi year deal with WWE wrestling (although looking at it every now and then I'm convinced it's from another world).
At least maybe now they can afford a sequel to Sharktopus!
Saying goodbye to Eureka
Last year, my friend Amy told me she was moving from writing Leverage to writing Eureka. She asked me if I was interested in playing a scientist who was kind of a jerk. I said "yes" as fast as I could, and ended up playing Doctor Isaac Parrish for seven of the ten episodes in season 4.5. When se...
Well ok. I'll visit your arcade if you get it running... as long as there is no air hockey game. There are always big kids with feathered hair hanging out around those things... They scare me.
the value of a quarter
Last week, I took my car to one of those car washes at the gas station. When I was waiting to pull in, I saw that for the low low price of one dollar more, I could upgrade my wash options from four useless things to seven useless things. Obviously, I reached into my change box (some of you may k...
No, it's not. That's the impressive thing. It takes the results of Yesterday's Enterprise about a time paradox that results in Tasha's kid from that episode being a Romulan in the regular show's 'timeline' in later episodes and adds a second paradox where that doesn't happen.
Pr0n guys they may be, but true geeks wrote that thing.
*EDIT* Can you believe that 'Romulan" is not in the Firefox default dictionary? Pathetic!
Your move, Fan Fiction Writers
This is Safe for Work. As Chris Hardwick says, I think I'm going to buy this, and skip the naughty bits so I can see the story. (There are a bunch of NSFW behind the scenes pictures from actress April O'Neil -- who is a gigantic geek, apparently -- right here.)
So... You are going to be an evil helpdesk guy on Outsourced?
...clawing at the ceiling of his grave...
All this week, I'm recording the audio version of John Scalzi's The Android's Dream. It's a delightful book, with wonderful characters, smart dialog, and some of the most enjoyable side trips into world building I've ever read in a SF novel. Also, it's really, really funny. Tomorrow, I'm going i...
Hey Wil-
So I remember reading in one of your books (thanks for signing JAG in SF a couple months ago, btw) that as time has gone on you have begun to see yourself as a writer who sometimes acts. In the last year or two it seems that it has evened out quite a bit with the several guest shots you did on television and now a couple of recurring roles and the traveling to live events... are you now just this guy that does stuff or do you still identify yourself as an actor or a writer? Seems to me your are both... but without a qualifier showing one bigger than the other. HOw do you see it?
on the finding (and not finding) of evil wil wheaton
We filmed until 330 this morning, and when I finally got home a little after 4am, it was all I could do to convince myself to wash off my makeup and go to sleep. I woke up at 1230 this afternoon in the same position I fell asleep, and I probably could have easily slept another 3 hours or more. W...
Cthulu Old Spice man! That's the name of my Manowar cover band...
"Look at your God. Now look at me."
(via Rogers)
Only if it says "I'm THE Wil Wheaton, Beyotch!"
in which wil goes HULK SMASH
Last night, I was supposed to perform in the Thrilling Adventure Hour at Largo with a bunch of my friends, and a bunch of people who I really admire. Unfortunately, the sinus infection I was fighting all week had other plans, so I stayed home and rested on the couch with a screening of Repo Man....
Wil-
Have a great time and THIS time 'ware the acid traps (TRAPS, not trips ;)
See you in a couple weeks at w00Tstock in SF (or as we say, The City (and yes, it's capitalized... because that's how we are)).
Clay-
My 2010 PAX Prime Schedule
When I was at GenCon last month, I signed autographs and stuff for close to six hours a day. I got to meet a lot of people (and took home about ten pounds of dice!) but I hardly got to see any of the con, and I got to play a grand total of three games while I was there. I’ve been working my ass ...
Jesus Christ, people. The man doesn't want to get your creeping crud so he won't do any PDA. "Suck it up" as some dope said above... but he should have been looking in the mirror. Wil isn't charging you anything for anything unless you want to buy one of his books. Having met him a couple of times at non-trek events I can assure you that he is approachable, happy to take a pic with you and exchange a few words and sign something (at the appropriate time, of course, if you get barked at interrupting a game, meal or conversation you deserve to get slapped down, but he's probably too much of a gentleman to put the smackdown down as hard as you might deserve).
Now... I specified non-trek events as I'd have a little sympathy for the "You owe us" attitude at a Creation con or some such since they have become such money sucking rackets limiting what can be signed, charging for sigs and sometimes for the signature materials. But at a game con where the man is there to throw dice and mingle with fellow gamers? Sorry, but again "suck it up."
Game on: GenCon info, chapbooks, and dice. Lots and lots of dice.
I leave for GenCon in about 3d12 hours. While I'm not thrilled about getting up at 4am on Thursday, knowing that the reward for dragging myself out of bed at areyoufuckingserious o'clock is three days of gaming and geeking makes it all worthwhile. I'm blessing dice, taking pictures, and signing ...
Is that Indian Elvis I see? Glorious...
in place of a title, imagine the sound of a howling wolf
I'm going to be traveling like crazy for the next several weeks, so last week Anne and I took a couple days off to have a quick two day getaway. We went out to this hotel in the desert that we like, and spent about 36 hours sitting by the pool, doing a whole lot of nothing. It was glorious. The ...
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