Yesterday, I finally got some new headshots done. They should be back from the lab next week.
I’ve been using the same headshot for years, and it’s really been time for a new one for quite awhile…but the thing is, I absolutely hate having my picture taken.
I bet that seems weird, what with me being an actor, and all, but it’s true. I’d much rather be holding the camera than posing for it. Unless I’m posing for some midget porn, so I can get on the Kevin and Bean Show.
But yesterday was different. The photographer was really awesome, and we approached it from a more creative place, and it was more like working on a short film. I’m very excited to see the results next week.
Guess what I got in the mail? A whole buncha CDs! Some old blues records, and some amazing Bob Marley records. If you listen to reggae, you owe it to yourself to pick up the deluxe edition of Exodus! A big thank you to the cool guys who sent me awesome music.
Speaking of awesome music, I have gotten tons of emails today about WILLIAM FUCKING SHATNER’S Blog. The general tone of the emails is that he’s ripping me off…but I don’t think that’s the case, at all. I mean, I wasn’t the first person to write a weblog, and I’m certainly not the best.
If he really wrote it, I think it would be really cool…but I doubt that it’s really him. If it is, I suspect that it’s heavily edited. Tsumo at metafilter said, I really can’t imagine Shatner overtaking Wil in popularity any time soon. There’s just a completely different… feel… to Shatner’s site. ‘Overproduced’ would the be word that comes to mind. Wheaton’s is just down-home fanboyish and a lot more fun to read. Shatner’s entry felt so polished and professional that I can’t help it was passed by half a dozen copy editors on its way to the website.”
On the other hand, Michael Moore (who is going to be in Los Angeles from today until Friday! I get to see him on Friday! Weeeeee!) is keeping a weblog, and he really does write it, and I think it’s awesome.
One final thing, before I head off to work: A friend of ours, Amanda, occasionally babysits for Ryan and Nolan. Amanda is incredibly smart, very driven, honest, caring, and just an all-around good person, who really deserves all the good things in life. Well, I heard last night that she got accepted into USC, and maybe even into Occidental, too. Congratulations, Amanda! You deserve it!
Oh! I taught Ryan how to juggle last night, because they’re doing a medieval day at his school, and he’s dressing up as a court jester. It was really awesome. My relationship with Ryan has always been at arm’s length, because I haven’t ever wanted to force myself into his life…but in the last 2 months or so he’s really made major efforts to come to me, and close that gap. It’s wonderful.
Thought for today:
“If we wish to secure peace for ourselves, we must start by championing it for others.”
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well, hops, we want to share our ideas with the rest of WWDN. If you don’t wanna read it, keep scrolling! 🙂
You’re new here aren’t you hops. This is typical WWDN commenting, like it or leave it.
don’t be too hard on hops, he plays water polo and his link is dead.
I see that, pickle guy.
Sorry my comment came out harsher than I meant it to. I was just saying our ramblings do tend to wander and that if it isn’t to your taste then find a place that is. The Wonderful Wide Web is full of people of all types and interests.
So do I get a multi-post discount today or what? *grin*
hops, I could go for one of those instant massages.
Yeah right there,
a little lower,
yeah thats it
Wow…I stop reading this for a day and an entire war is started and ended and people have made up with cheesy potatoes.
The world is an amazing place. (;
I’ll add to the happy thoughts lists:
1. I finally got everything set for my research trip to England, and I leave on FRIDAY!!!
2. The sun is out and it is almost 70 degrees!!!
3. I found a flat for next fall, and I sign the lease this afternoon!!!
I agree with Gaea, to quote SNL: “Fire Bad!”
btw, just who the hell is Roxann Dawson anyways?
and what happened on the Weakest Link?
(I’m still kinda new here, and I know there was some kinda flame war, but I’ve never heard what the hell it was about.)
In other news, an arctic front has moved southwards, settling itself directly along the internat’l border between Canada and the USA. Suddenly the phrase “Great White North” ceases to be a joke.
And now for sports…
hmm here try this
http://asuwaterpolo.org/
now i am chatting..
I feel the need to come back here and see what people are saying..
I am HOPS
check out the mardi gras pics on our site 🙂
IT’S ALIIIIIIIIIIVE, IT’S ALIIIIIIIIIVE!!!!!!!!!!
yeah, link works now. I am going to assume that “A” stands for Arizona, so you went to Mardi Gras, huh, didn’t happen to pass through Sabine Parish, LA on your way there, didja? If you don’t remember that is understandable, just be glad you got out when you did, people come here and then can’t leave, and not in a good way.
hmm… wasn’t there a sign back there that said “Don’t Feed the Trolls”? 🙂
Kendoka is going to England, and I bet *we* don’t get any souveniers out of it… not even a t-shirt 🙁 Tsk.
what I always found disturbing about the United States is the strong Calvinist undercurrent throughout its dominant cultural modes — that is to say, our dominant culture is very puritan in nature. That doesn’t necessarily mean prudish (although to be honest we act that way when there’s nobody around) but rather then concept that we are the chosen of god, and that somehow we can assume through the works of this world to have some kind of understanding of whether or not we are chosen.
case in point — we don’t have a strong tradition of helping out the poor in this country — in fact the more conserative elements in our government seem to buy into the concept that if you’re poor, you are accursed of god — that material wealth indicates being chosen by god for salvation. Compare that to Catholic countries where they don’t have near the material wealth, but where there is a conceptual framework of good works counting for something — that religious framework pervades the thought processes, even where there’s no longer an overt religious connection.
My favorite tactic when people start going off on the moral decay of the nation and how we need a return to what in essence is puritan values is to state I believe in the same religion as the majority of our founding fathers. That usually gets them excited and off my back — if it doesn’t, they’re often disappointed, because if they read or listen the founding fathers were mostly Deists, heavily influenced by the same sort of ‘godless’ secular humanist thought that they’re decrying. For all its faults, you have to love the Enlightenment.
–Matt
“Kendoka is going to England, and I bet *we* don’t get any souveniers out of it… not even a t-shirt 🙁 Tsk.”
I’ll do my best to find a T-shirt that says “Kendoka went to England to research Sport-for-All programs and all I got was this lousy T-shirt!”
Or, I could take a spiffy picture and post it on here like an old-fashioned post-card… since REAL post cards wouldn’t actually arrive until sometime next December… (;
Happy trails, everyone!
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!
I could even try to get a pic of me doing kendo in England… so you could all see me in all of my ferocious 5-foot-tall glory! (;
Cheese, the public menace that must be stopped.
http://www.ifst.org/hottop15.htm
BTW Y’know called WFS “The Shat” is funnyt since that can be seen as the “past tense” form of the word sh*t – he himself has made that point….. tee hee
***THE BEEJ***
Saw Michael Moore Monday in Hayward, and Wednesday in Berkeley…had time off from work for both events thanks to my Union (CWA 9418).
You’ll have an incredible time, just be sure to get there early! The events have been packed! Peace, yo.
Wil –
You should come to Corey’s show on 9/18/02… Tower Records on Sunset… or even his after-party (Club Joya in Beverly Hills at 9)… A sort of reunion for you and him? Perhaps I’ll see you in the VIP room…
~Amy!
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