It’s Friday, I’m in Love

Remember when we were younger, and we’d start planning our Friday nights on Tuesday?
Remember those big plans, to go out to a club, or a concert, or a show, and find some hot member of the opposite sex, and take them home?
Yeah, me neither.
But now that we’re older, our Friday night plans usually go something like this:

  • heat up leftovers
  • start laundry
  • clean up kitchen
  • move laundry from washer to dryer
  • clean up living room
  • take burned dinner out of oven
  • curse at oven
  • order dinner
  • open bottle of wine, so it can “breathe” before dinner gets here
  • vaccuum family room
  • pour glass of wine while waiting
  • clean bathroom
  • pour second glass of wine
  • call boss, give him a piece of my mind
  • get into argument on internet
  • yell at delivery guy for taking two $#!ing hours to deliver my lasagna, which is now cold
  • pour third glass of wine
  • pour fourth glass of wine
  • fall into sad, nostalgic stupor watching Wacky Races on Boomerang
  • pass out ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H go to sleep

Sound familiar? Want to return to the days when we were crazy and free? The days when we’d actually go out on a Friday night, because, goddammit, we were young and free?
Hell yeah!!
Well, I’ve got something for you, chucky: If you live in or near Los Angeles, and you don’t know what to do for your Friday night, you can come and see me, Wil Wheaton, live and in person, on the J. Keith vanStraaten show!!
Tonight’s guests include Bruno Kirby, comedian John O’Donnell, and kickass band Blockage.
The show is always insanely fun, and I’d love to meet any WWDN readers who come over to see us.
We are at the ACME Comedy Theatre, and the show starts at 10 PM. There are only 6 shows this season, so time is already running out. You can get information on reservations and ticket prices from Keith’s website.
Now, if you’re not in or near Los Angeles, of you’re just afraid to leave the house without your Tinfoil Hat, I have another thing that you can do tonight: you can stay home, safe and secure, and watch my sister, Amy, on First Monday, tonight at 9PM on CBS.
Now how about that? Who else on the internet helps plan out your Friday night Social Calendar?
Nobody, that’s who.
Except for your old pal Uncle Willie, because he cares.

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149 thoughts on “It’s Friday, I’m in Love”

  6. Apparently, the University of Australia has taken such an interest in Wil’s sister Amy that they named a building after her. At this University they named one of the science Buildings after her http://www.alia.org.au/cgi-bin/htsearch Shouldn’t that have been Wil’s building? Oh well, it is Australia, after all.

  11. I know this has nothing to do with Amy or Wil or anything, but I just thought I’d announce that I get to see Kids in the Hall!!!! Happy Birthday to me!!!!!!!! I can’t wait!!!!

  14. I see. So that’s her on the cover. I was hoping to see pictures that are a bit more recent. SAy from the 1990’s. 😛

  16. :Sees picture from Johnny A’s original link:
    *shudder*
    OK, that was mean-I apologize.
    But now having seen Amy’s IMDB entry, don’t you think Wil should be taken to task for Amy also being in “The Curse?” I mean after all, aren’t big brothers supposed to protect their little sisters from things like that? 🙂

  18. olafandy jon: Um…no, no, not at all. Big brothers are supposed to do things
    like get their little sisters into things like “The Curse,” so that
    years later, they can laugh hysterically, and say things like,
    “Damn, Sis, I *still* can’t believe you fell for the “truly artistic”
    line! hahahahaha! You actually thought that because I was in it too,
    that meant it was good! hahahahahaha!!!”
    You really have to have siblings to truly appreciate things like that, though.
    🙂

  22. Oh…um…not that I’m saying “The Curse” WASN’T “truly artistic” or
    anything…just trying to make a point about siblings. I’m sure “The Curse” was a
    really fine film.
    (Softly, softly, let’s not offend anyone now, Mrs. V…)

  23. Uncle willie said:
    “Remember those big plans, to go out to a club, or a concert, or a show, and find some hot member of the opposite sex, and take them …?”
    I say:
    Sounds familiar,but change the word opposite to ssame and ya got it!

  24. Wow, Wil, your sister is my age and she’s on TV doing a role in a hit series. And…I’m here… underachieving.
    Lovely. I feel much better about my life now. 🙂
    j/k I’ll be sure to watch tonight.

  25. Don’t worry KB. I’m sure there are actors out there who may feel that they are underachieving as well. Remember only 5% of SAG members work in a given year. How many actors went from a successful series and then (blah) were relegated to Love Boat only because theat’s all that was available? As long as you are filling your life with a variety of activities, there is no underachieving. Right?

  26. Mrs. Veteran: Point very well taken! 🙂
    I guess my problem was that I was the youngest, so I was the guy would would have fallen for that!
    But if I were the oldest, I would not have done something like that to my younger siblings.
    Really…
    I’m serious…
    Aw, who am I kidding….

  27. I’m a First Monday fan. For the last couple of weeks, Blockbuster has been airing a comercial with a hamster and a rabbit (“That’s entretainment!”). Catch it if you can.
    I hope I can catch Amy. I have a hunch that she portrays the daughter of the coma patient.

  28. I love that commercial! I found out that the hamster is voiced by Jim Belushi and the rabbit is James Woods. For some reason, that made it even funnier to me.
    I think I’ve set a personal record for number of posts for a single blog entry. 🙂

  30. olafandy jon: Thanks for the names! I knew the voices were familiar but I just couldn’t place them. I swear, first time I saw it, I laughed so hard, it hurt, one of those laughs that you end up with tears down your face. The funniest thing, I recognize the hamster’s moves from Flashdance. Gotta love it when that kind of humor seeps into prime time.

  31. If anyone knows a webpage with a video capture of the commercial, plese post it here or email me. I want to have it on my computer, just for a laugh when I’m feeling down.

  34. My ex works on First Monday…so I don’t know if I can have much love for the show. 🙂
    And I will be attending Wil’s ACME show tonight. Just made the reservations in fact. How exciting…friday night plans! Weee!

  36. Sorry, I just canm’t seethe comment input box on netscape. I dunno if I even spelled that right.

  37. Woohoo! I actually managed to spell most of that right. YAY!
    So, is your sister going tobe a regular on First MondayWil? Tell her -eer, that is, breaka leg!
    Vidi. Vici. Vini.
    “She said , “Not tonight, I got a haddock.”

  38. You idiots.
    Noone’s asked the most important questions yet.
    1. Mr. Wheaton (SIR!), is your sister hot?
    2. Is she legal?
    It’s sad that I have to ask these questions. THIS is what happens when Roughy and Spudnuts and Jun and Jerhanner aren’t fulfilling their duties.
    And you too, Rob.
    I’m horribly disappointed.
    All of you… Get on the stick! Get back to sucking those rocks!

  39. I remember that TNG eppy but I had no idea that was his sister. OMG she is a cutie in that eppy. But are we having a hard time finding recent pictures?

  40. dake: Yeah, I had to give up on WWDN with Netscape. 🙁
    On the good side, Konqueror seems to render the comments pages
    just dandy.

  42. Oh, wow, gee thanks Uncle Willie! My husband works nights, so no big plans for me. I was thinking I’d have to re-read “Mostly Harmless” for, like, the millionth time. Now I can play “Spot Wil’s Sister” with everyone else who’s not in LA!

  44. thanks to my provider for getting me the link to this site, the whole blogs thing is cool,nice to meet you Wil. will keep posted to this site,this is too fun. ps. loved you in Stand By Me, now my kids watch the movie and love it too!

  45. yet another reminder that Indiana isn’t the “cool place to live (like we could ever forget it). I to will be playing “spot wil’s sister” and as to the question if she was born in 78 she must be 23 or 24.

  46. Mr. Wheaton, I was wondering. Now that I saw Stand By Me I was wondering, do you feel different when you see a younger version of yourself when you were playing Gordie, the deeply saddened kid who thinks his brother died because of him. What do you think connect to this character than others you have played over the years? Is it more of your realistic side or more because of story-telling?
    Does any of this connect with friends you made during the 1980s, like Corey Feldman or River Phoenix. Did something in your heart bring you to having a great filming Stand By Me with these talented actors before?

  47. Break a leg, Uncle Willie!
    I’m down here behind the Orange Curtain, but I need an excuse to get up to L.A. I won’t see ya tonight, but I look forward to next time.
    Hey, check the shirt for cat pee before you leave the house this time. :p
    ~j

  50. Okay, you know you’re an overworked grad student when you’re researching in the library, have been there for 5 hours without a break and lots of work yet to go, and an undergrad library work-study assistant comes up to you and says, “I’m sorry, but you have to leave now, we’re closing,” and you look back at him with a shocked expression and say “what do you mean, it’s still early,” and he says “yeah, but it’s Friday night!” …and it takes you a moment before you realize what he means.
    I need a life! (or at least my M.A. degree) 🙂

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