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Ah, I see what you mean. Could be.....
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.)
Uhmm... I'm thinking that might be Worf with Ro.
I agree with all of the other compliments.
Except that Tasha wig is extremely distracting. I keep wondering if it's going to slide around while Data is interfacing with her.
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.)
Wil (and all of the Wheatonites),
If you love Journey, and I know you love Metallica, you have got to listen to "Don't Stop the Sandman" by Rock Sugar - featuring world renowned voice actor Jess Harnell (Wakko Warner) on lead vocals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr4HffbAUTk&playnext_from=TL&videos=NZF59A0OCr0
You can thank me later.
Friday at the 2010 Phoenix Comicon - the awesome hour and rock band
Since I didn't write about it while I was there, I'm recapping some highlights of the 2010 Phoenix Comicon in the next couple posts, starting with Friday. Friday: I have felt creatively stagnant for months, and unable to write much of anything. I suspect it's because the creative part of my brai...
FWIW, Wil, I liked the stereo separation during the interview. Of course, I was listening via my laptop speakers and not headphones.
And as an aside, I subscribe via gpodder and it has no problem grabbing the burrito and futurecast.
Radio Free Burrito: Episode Twenty-Eight
Holy Crap, it's time for a new episode of Radio Free Burrito! Has it really been three weeks since the last show? I guess it has. Well, I brought a note that will hopefully excuse my absence... Show Notes: The logo was designed by WWdN:iX reader Marc, who asked that I not link to his "in progr...
Yes, this is awesome. But do you know what else is awesome? "Just a Geek - Teh Audiobook" which my lovely wife just purchased and downloaded for me as a surprise gift!
Yay me!
The Empire Strikes Back (1950)
I think this may be the most impressive Star Wars parody/tribute/whatever I've ever seen, and I've seen some truly great ones. This makes me want to do a 13 episode webseries, probably serialized 3 minutes at a time, that's entirely done in the 1950s Sci-Fi style, with locations at Vasquez R...
Wow. I didn't even know about "A Long Way Home". That is so cool. I'll have to look it up.
LEVERAGE: day two
Today's on-set report actually begins with a moment from yesterday afternoon that was so unexpected, I'm still wrapping my head around it. I obviously can't go into any details about the plot or characters, so you'll just have to use your imagination to construct what the set looked like. I can ...
YES! I have been calling for this pairing since Rogers started talking about this show on his blog before it was filming the pilot. WooHoo! Can't wait....
LEVERAGE: day zero
Greetings from Portland! I'm here for the next few days to work on an episode of Leverage, playing a character who I have a few things in common with, as evidenced by something that happened earlier today during my costume fitting. The costume designer is an incredibly kind and easy going woman....
Excellent bonus idea Wil!
Oh, and hey W, Frakes gave you a shoutout in a TV Squad interview http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/02/10/jonathan-frakes-the-tv-squad-interview-video/
sunken treasure goes on sale
As promised, Sunken Treasure is now officially on sale! I have created two editions, a US Edition and a World Edition. They are identical in content, but the World Edition is in a slightly larger format, so it's $2.00 more. The trade off is that you don't have to spend a million dollars on shi...
This officially cements Wil as "King of All Geeks" folks. I dare anyone to fight me on this. Bruce Campbell can still hold the title of "King of Cool" but I do not see him being this geeky with his fans.
Oh, and are the original vocals always that loud on Rock Band or can you turn them down in the settings? I know it would drive me freakin' nuts if I was competing with the actual singer.
did my time, took my chances, got my geek on
YouTube user ewingsquadron put together a really cool overview of our Rock Band party at Phoenix Comicon: And here I am doing Eye of the Tiger: And here's We Got The Beat, which was crazy fun and much more tiring on drums than I was expecting. It does have a drum solo, though, which ...
Ho-lee Fuuuuuck.
we are all of us living in the shadow of manhattan
Um. Wow. Even if you're not counting down the minutes until Watchmen comes out, if you are of a certain age, this is pretty much a perfect recreation of the time it's supposed to be, well, recreating. My nostalgia centers are currently well above the flood stage, and it's not just because o...
While I liked Godfather 3 better than most people, even discounting Sophia's performance, it's not as good as the first two.
And why the Vincent D'Onofrio mention? Confused me....
CultureGeek: Famous Oscar Snubs
While the geek world fumes over shutting out THE DARK KNIGHT for Oscar, the mundanes fume that Kate Winslet didn't get nominated for REVOLUTIONARY ROAD. She got nominated for THE READER, one per customer, move along. Still, it reminds me that there have been many, many famous shut-outs over the...
I thought the same. I had already seen that strip today and missed the cast at the bottom until Wil's post.
I'm not going to lie to you, Marge ...
...even though they're my friends, and it shouldn't make me squeal like a little girl, I still squeal like a little girl whenever I get mentioned in Penny Arcade.
Show of hands - who immediately thought of "The Dark Half" when they say the trailer for "The Unborn"?
MovieGeek: Now Playing
Opening this week: • GRAN TORINO. Clint Eastwood doesn't care if you think he's old; he grits out "Get off my lawn" and dares you to laugh at the old-fogey cliche. And if you've got the guts to laugh at Clint Eastwood, well, it was nice knowing you. Eastwood plays a racist Korean War vet who fo...
-Thanks for the link. Any Leverage info is welcomed. Although I would have liked to have read an actual interview instead of what reads more like highlights of an interview. Oh well, you take what you can get.
-Ok, now knowing that you have a good relationship w/ Rogers online and a fond past w/ Dean, I totally expect to see you getting scammed by the Leverage team next season.
-Love the hockey story. I mean, if you are going to be scored on, wow. Really looking forward to the adult Wil hockey stories in the next book. :)
-Aside: well here's something we definitely do nothave in common from our youths. Grew up in MO, rarely cold enough for the ponds to freeze that solid reliably, and no ice rink in our town. Plus, I could never skate worth a crap, so no hockey for me.
the great wheaton hockey scandal of 1991
My friends at CliqueClack did an interview with Dean Devlin, creator of the sensational new series Leverage. Dean and I played hockey on the same team (with, I've just now remembered, Adam Baldwin, also) from around 1989-1991. He was a forward and I was a goalie. One night in Burbank, our team g...
Huh. I didn't have any ads until the end (watching in Firefox).
Very funny bit Wil. I'm going to have to watch the rest of these now.
wil does the commodore hustle
I joined the cast of Loading Ready Run at the Child's Play Dinner last month for another episode of Commodore Hustle! It's long, but it's worth it. THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID! Ah, that joke never gets old.
Glad you added in the reference to Canadia up there, Wil. I was confused about what day it was when I saw the episode pop up on the torrent sites.
I was kind of hoping you'd play Miles Sklar again, tying the FBI from the two shows into a shared universe. Or even better, have Sklar go missing on a episode of "Without A Trace" first, before being outed as a serial killer on "Criminal Minds"! Three CBS FBI shows tied together via Wheaton!
Oh well, can't wait to watch this episode.
Reminder: I'm on Criminal Minds tonight
Tonight at 9pm et/pt on CBS, you can catch my episode of Criminal Minds, Paradise. A serial killer who disguises his victims' demise by creating car accidents to mask their earlier deaths is the subject of a BAU manhunt, on CRIMINAL MINDS, Wednesday, Oct. 22 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Te...
Glen,
As Wil has said previously, he is working as hard as he can to pay tuition for his son(s), along with the regular things like putting food on his family, so he really doesn't have the disposable income to make the Vegas trek unless there is a chance he can do it as a professional (e.g. make some sales and get his expenses covered).
And don't worry W, Frakes knows you used ot be cool too. ;-)
I can tell by watching this that he used to be cool.
This was shot by my friend Rich, presumably while I was driving home from Comic-Con. This video is awesome, but it makes me sad because it reminds me of one of the best things ever about working on TNG (Jonathan Frakes breaking into show tunes at random intervals) and it reminds me that I saw Jo...
There's definitely a t-shirt idea in there, especially with that last panel slogan!
Excellent work.
in which i wear a red hat and travel by vine
This totally made my day week, and I wonder if this is how Cory Doctorow and Stallman[1] felt when they were in xkcd? You know, things like this have been happening to me more and more frequently lately, and while it's still very hard get used to, it's genuinely wonderful to feel cooler than I...
Ok, so part of me is saying Dodd is going to see this and go "OMG! Wil Wheaton totally e-mailed me! This is going in my LJ!"
And the other part of me is just going, "Bravo and well said, Wil."
However, looking at how overwhelmingly the FISA bill passed, it looks like Reid was just doing what the majority wanted, which is really fucking sad in this case.
I miss my country.
Thank you, Chris Dodd
When the Democrats -- who I thought were the good (or at least the anti-Bush, and pro-Constitution) guys -- took back Congress in the last election, I was overjoyed. I thought we'd see an end -- finally -- to the Bush administration's recklessness and lawlessness that's made me feel ashamed to ...
Or, you could tell him that D&D girl has probably read Ender's Game and he might need to catch up....
in the name of Scalzi!
My pal John Scalzi got this phenomenal mention from SFFAudio: The name of John Scalzi can now stand in Science Fiction pantheon proudly beside the likes of Orson Scott Card, Joe Haldeman and Robert A. Heinlein. I recently put out my call for SF anthology suggestions, so let me return the fav...
Wil,
Have you checked out OSCommerce yet?
It's open source. Maybe it can figure out your paypal problem.
http://www.oscommerce.com/
Compulsive Reader reviews Happiest Days. Also, Hardbacks!
The Compulsive Reader reviewed The Happiest Days of Our Lives, and says: Frequently, I found myself smiling at memories of my own that reading this book evoked. Ah, yes, I remember the weekend-long Dungeons and Dragons marathons with my fellow geeks. I, too, grin like an idiot at the thought of...
I assume you've looked at opening a new Paypal account just for the Hardcover books?
good news, great news, bad news
The good news is the hard covers were just dropped off. The great news is that they look beautiful, feel great, and are exactly the way I wanted them to be. The bad news is that I can't sell them, because PayPal still hasn't been able to hep me solve the item number problem when I try to ship mu...
Oooh, I'll play! Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris on Voyager, and Nick Locarno on TNG episode "The First Duty") directed "Chuck Versus The Helicopter" last week on Chuck
TrekGeek: Trek actors popping up everywhere!
Is it just me, or are Trek alums appearing everywhere this season? A quick recap thus far: • John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox on ENTERPRISE) appeared in last week's JOURNEYMAN as a gambling addict and will have a recurring role on 24 this year, though details of his character are being kept under wrap...
Hmmmm...my only thought beyond the pizza idea would be to find someone you trust up in Canada to drop ship the books for you. Send up a bulk package (10-20 books at a time) and then let them know the address to send each to, along with the proper postage on that end. That saves several customs forms at least.
I do like the separate Paypal account for the s/n hardcover, and any other special items that may come along.
Good luck!
some happiest days items, and paypal frustrations
My head was pounding when I went to bed last night, and is still pounding as I write this, seven hours later. I had one of those nights where I couldn't get comfortable and woke up about once an hour, so I finally decided to just give in and get out of bed about an hour ago. I still have the hea...
Even better than a flier, how about a free WWdN bookmark with every purchase of Star Trek: The Manga (complete with a mention of Teh Nu Book on it!
reminder: barnes and noble at the grove tonight
For all five of you who are in Los Angeles: I'll be signing the Star Trek Manga at Barnes and Noble at The Grove tonight at 7:30. I talked to Erin at the SG Newswire about it yesterday. This is one of the few stops where I won't have The Happiest Days of Our Lives, because Barnes and Noble doesn...
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