Ryan said, "We should make our own beer while I'm home this summer." "That would be the most awesome father/son activity, ever," I said. "Plus, we get beer when we're finished!" | Continue »

It's been taken offline, so I can't quote it, but the basic premise was that Wesley Crusher was playing Ted Kord, so Ted Kord was a Redshirt, because Wesley was a Redshirt, so now you know how lame that episode is going to be ha ha ha. ... I'm putting it here because it's the most successful I've ever been in attempting to explain why I'm so fed up with this sort of thing: Wow, this is so profoundly insulting and so profoundly wrong, I don't even know where to begin. ... I am offended on behalf of all of us who worked on Fall of the Blue Beetle, but what I find so personally insulting is your belittling suggestion that any work that I do now - as a 36 year-old actor - should just be discarded and disparaged because of some badly-written episodes and a sometimes-badly-written character that I played two decades ago . | Continue »

I've been thinking a lot about Twitter lately, mostly because I have a whole lot of fun using it, but also because the number of people who read my stupid messages on Twitter has exploded by several thousand in just the last few days. ... I bet a lot of them don't read my blog, and only know me as Gordie LaChance or Wesley Crusher, or the gangly kid who played those characters and was a lot more concerned about whether girls liked him than he was being honest and true to himself. ... This disconcerts some people — not a lot, but enough that I feel compelled to write Wil's Quick Guide To Following Me On Twitter , mostly so people know what they're getting themselves into, what to expect, and how much I'm going to disappoint them. | Continue »