Being Wil Wheaton

Despite what the title says, there is not a small space that you can crawl into and take over my body…not yet, at least.
It refers to the title of this really wonderful story that was written about me and WWDN by this guy Tod Goldberg (BAHHH!!! Who’s next?!).
Big thanks to Joyce who emailed me about it…makes me want to finish SpongeBob Vega$pants.

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  1. Where Are They Now?
    Wil Wheaton boldly goes where no other ex-Star Trek: The Next Generation actor has gone before: improv comedy.
    I found this under the table of contents for this week’s magazine. They won’t put the article on the website for a while because they are actually trying to sell the print edition first. I guess they do eventually web it, because Wil is mentioned in another installment of “Where are they now” regarding Danica McKellar that someone else already posted. So, go on out and buy People Magazine or hold on for a few weeks and check it on the website. Whatever tickles you.

  2. Spudnuts-
    If you’re ever in Columbus, OH- we have Tennents of Scotland.
    (pause) naw.. doesn’t have the same thing.
    Great article Wil! Congrats.
    -K
    preparing to fight the groupie hords of Flickerstick on the 15th

  3. What a great article, Wil. He hit the nail on the head. Very cool.
    Congrats on your recent sweep, also. 🙂

  7. Congrats on the Bloggies and the great article– it sums it all up perfectly, why we are compelled to be here. “Our reasons are the same…”
    *Monkey feels loved, and understood*
    Karla

  8. My first introduction to WWDN:
    I woke up late one September morning. Still bleary-eyed, I stumbled to the computer and yawned as I waited for the monitor’s sleep mode to click off. The screen slowly came to life with a huge-assed photo of Wil Wheaton looking absurdly happy over a boarding pass with the number 42. A very surreal thing to wake up to I assure you. Seems my husband had again left me something interesting to check out from his morning web surf before work. It turns out Kev found the link to WWDN on the U2log.com news site.
    So I’m still half-asleep, thinking “WTF? Kev doesn’t even watch Star Trek. Why is he looking at Wil Wheaton? Hey, 42. “Hitchhiker’s” is cool…” and I click about to find WWDN. I read the recent entries and was continually stunned to find Mr. Wheaton quoting all my favourite bands, movies, and books. It started a fast & furious ICQ session with hubby Kev, featuring such brilliant messages as “actually he seems kinda sweet and geeky.. and admittedly so. You should read his story about the Hooters waitress”, “It’s just so wrong that he’s so funny”, “I KNOW!!!” and “He mentions jingoism”, “And he quotes some very on-target articles about the US/bin Laden/Afghanistan issue. I’m weirded out by sharing opinions with “Weasley””, “Me too!!!!”.
    I was still sitting there in my pajamas at 4pm, reading the archives and the comments, starving from missing breakfast and lunch, and seriously considering how to survive without dinner since I couldn’t stop reading the damned site.
    Since that fateful morning, both of us have been daily visitors to the site, much to the incredulity of our friends who tease us mercilessly. We are working to convert them. 🙂

  9. BTW– why the frappucino does it always cut my “Posted by me” line off?
    Technical advice, anyone?
    Karla

  10. WWDN. Let’s face it folks. This here’s gotta be the weirdest phenomenon. Wil’s going from fame derived from “that kid in Stand by Me and Star Trek” to being famous for being famous.
    “Famous for being famous” always reminds me of whatshername, who slapped that Highway Patrolman that tried to give her a ticket. (help me out here folks)or Anna Nicole Smith. Not to say that Wil is a copslapper or a golddigger, quite the opposite actually. Wil is the nice kid from the ‘burbs who just liked acting, and ended up a curious chapter in the pop culture encyclopedia.
    Anyway, love the site, it’s like a twice daily work-time-waster for me.

  11. I loved the write up. When I came in from work today, my husband said to me “I can see why you are addicted to that Wil Wheaton site”. The reason… he’s become addicted too, and he wasn’t a pimply fat adolescent who watched “Stand By Me” 200 times, and watched Star Trek, dreaming of Wesley Crusher.
    My theory is this: it is addicting because Wil is pretty much a normal guy. I love the geek he turned out to be. I married one too!
    Good for you Wil! Proud to be part of your posse.

  12. Wil has a posse, and I’m in it! I just got the shirt in the mail today! I just got out of the shower and walked into my room and I saw it draped on my bed! I almost lost my towel! Aanyway.. That article is really good. And *do* finish SpongeBob Las Vega$ Pants! Even though I’m a newbie and I had to read all the archives to get caught up on it.. >

  13. Sweet article. I know what exactly how the guy feels to. I make my entire sophomore religion class pray for Wil & his auditions every time he asks for the mojo (lol — my teacher’s kind of ticked at me for it too!)
    And Wil, Please do finish the SpongeBob Vega$Pants! We’ve been waiting for months to hear the ending!!! (lol)

  14. It must be tuff being Wil. He’s been disqualified from the “Anti-Bloggies”. Check out the rules here.

  17. That old chick who had slapped the cop was Zsa Zsa Gabor.
    I have no idea why Zsa Zsa was famous in the first place.
    I just know her as the copslapper.

  19. We (well, at least I do… am just flying by the seat of my pants, and not reading all the posts yet) want SpongeBob VegaPants!!! We want SpongeBob VegaPants!!
    LOL now I have this urge to watch SpongeBob SquarePants and go around annoying my family and friends with the themesong!! Thanks, Wil!!

  20. neat, rules specifically exclude ww from ever winning an anti-bloggy. wil’s becoming meme-ified 😉
    still signed edgar, or something

  22. Spudnuts moving to France? FRANCE SURRENDERS!
    So, if we’re a posse, don’t we need a handshake or a hand sign, or something? Gang colors?

  25. Zsa Zsa Gabor. Thanks guys. I couldn’t for the life of me remember, and I was to damn lazy to look her name up.
    Exactly- Why is Zsa Zsa famous? She was famous before “the slap”, which made her infamous. Wil is now becoming famous for being famous “awhile back”. It’s so…. Douglas Coupland.
    Holy shit! Wil would be perfect to play one of the lead guys in a film version of Generation X. It would be so apropo it makes the head spin. Wil, get your agent on that boyo… tell ’em I said so……. they’ll listen.

  28. Rob — 70’s porn music sounds perfect. Any composers in the audience? Maybe Wil should embed some 70’s porn music MIDI files in the homepage. 😉
    Interesting. Check out Zsa Zsa’s filmography.
    (http://us.imdb.com/Name?Gabor,+Zsa+Zsa)
    Funny that she player HERSELF in many of her later roles, haha. She was also in the 1952 version of “Moulin Rouge”. Innnnnteresting.

  29. Aw Wil… did they at least buy you dinner first?
    Don’t worry about those crappy People people. It’s not like they have a stellar reputation anyway. It seems like they jump on any celebrity’s misfortunes for their covers, and just do fluff beauty pieces the rest of the time. Fairly useless in my opinion.

  30. What the fuck? I posted after JSc and my comment appears 2 hours prior. Is there a time zone oddity going on?
    Maybe there’s a rift in the space-time continuum.
    /nerd
    🙂

  31. I too look to Wil for humor every day. (My husband swears I have a crush on him) I’ve never seen Stand By Me and was only an occasional viewer of Star Trek, but my goodness, I do think ‘all grown up’ Wil is funny. I absolutely love to read about him and his wife. They seem to have such a great relationship. The fact that Wil adores her comes through loud and clear. She’s a lucky woman. Thanks goes to Wil for all his hard work on this website.

  33. Oh goodness — I would absolutely purchase a “Wil Fucking Wheaton” shirt. *starts cracking up* [but in a nice, non-threatening way.] (Great job on everything, Wil. You deserve the praise.)

  34. I love that I’m not eligible for an anti-bloggie. That’s rad.
    Don’t waste your time with the People story. It completely sucks. I’ll write a response to it sometime when I’m not so hurt and angry, but the short version is, I opened my family, my life, and my home to them, and they fucked me in the ass.

  35. Not to go completely off topic, but….
    The D is on the Late Late Show tonight. (Craig Kilbourn, for those of you who remember shows by the host).

  36. Wil,
    I’m really sorry to hear about the People article. I know if we look back somewhere on the archives, we can find the entry where you wrote about how excited you were that they and someone else came (Wired, was it? I have memory problems these days, thanks to a toddler!) out to interview you. I don’t understand why they would waste your and their time to hang with you that long just to do a tiny, fluff “Where Are They Now” piece.
    Hey-you’ll be fine! You’ve gotten way past the hurt of the whole Wesley thing and look what you have going on now. This should be a drop in the bucket compared to that, right? : D
    Hang in there! People’s articles are mainly only about those that have a spectacular divorce, win Survivor, or create some sort of flash in the pan fad, anyway!

  37. Wil,
    In all seriousness, there are worse things that can happen to you than getting dissed by the paragon of journalistic integrity that IS People Magazine.

  38. Tod’s story summed it up for me. Frankly I can’t remember how I found this site –it might have been due to TNN’s rebroadcast of old TNG episodes. But when I found the site, and realized Wil did it himself, and not by his agency or by a fan, I thought…WOW! That’s so…so…Asia Carrera!
    My girlfriend made the observation that we had dated over a year before she discovered that I liked Star Trek…much to her chagrin. 😉

  41. Ray said: “Is Jamie Lee Curtis a hermaphrodite?”
    Actually, he’s no the only one who’s mentioned this, so I thought I’d explain (or, really, suppose, since I don’t know Jamie Lee Curtis).
    Here’s the deal. Jamie Lee Curtis is not a hermaphrodite.
    Genetically, she was born male, but developed into a female. She has a Y chromosome. That’s it.
    It’s actually a whole lot more common than you’d think, and she’s been pretty open about it in interviews and such.
    Point of trivia: Marilyn Monroe was the same way.

  42. Hey, Wil. Man, that totally blows about the whole People thing. I say we track down the interviewer, his editor, and the copy editor and shave their cats.
    Or at the very least write a few irate letters. “Dear sir, I’d like to strongly object…”

  43. Hey, Wil. Man, that totally blows about the whole People thing. I say we track down the interviewer, his editor, and the copy editor and shave their cats.
    Or at the very least write a few irate letters. “Dear sir, I’d like to strongly object…”

  44. Why did that post twice? I’m positive I only pushed the button once…
    Sorry for sucking up bandwidth. But look at the bright side, now you can read my cat shaving suggestion twice, and let it slowly soak in…

  46. Way off topic here, but since we just had Kevin’s birthday…
    Wil, if you talk to Brent Spiner today tell him Happy Birthday from the posse. A friend of yours is a friend of ours 🙂
    BTW– am keeping an eye on the ST movie marathon today to watch for you hosting. I’m wearing our gang colors. WWDN painted on my cheek. My version of the Superbowl.
    Karla

  48. Lisa J.,
    You’re “Will Fucking Wheaton” t-shirt is in the mail.
    Please note that we have just added a new item to our product line: A solid pewter Wil Wheaton with 24 karat gold electroplate, complete with genuine red crystal Cabochon eyes. Comes with display stand and complimentary box.

  50. I agree with Rob Uncle Willy.
    As my friend Sutton (sporting the “I LOST Bands on the Run” tee shirt) has said; “even bad free publicity is still something I didn’t have to pay for and makes it more fun to go out there and prove all those A-holes wrong”
    Screw the man and screw People Magazine.

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