Stream

Off the top of my head, without any editing, a stream a consciousness:
Man, I really want to write, but I am just out of ideas. It’s not that I’m “blocked,” or anything, I just can’t think of anything to write about.
So I’ll just make myself write, and maybe something interesting will come out.
Maybe it’s because there’s not too much going on in my life right now: no auditions, nothing really exciting at home . . . I’ve just been working on rewrites of Just A Geek, and collecting some other weblog entries that I really like, (but couldn’t put in JAG) for their own smaller book.
Just A Geek came in at over 350 pages today, and “Dancing Barefoot” comes in at about 90. I’m applying for ISBNs tomorrow.
I did some heavy rewriting of SpongeBob Vega$ Pants, to clean it up and make it flow better, and while I did that, I relived those five days. Jesus, what a great time that was. What a great con.
Jesus, I really hate Puddle of Mudd, and POD, and all those shitty bands that sound like them.
I’ve been trading calls with Adam from Creation about the Grand Slam show, and it sounds like he’s excited to have me there. I’ve been thinking about conventions a lot lately, because I talk about them a great deal in JAG, and realized something: I have ALWAYS had more in common with the fans than the franchise, and attending conventions, as a speaker or a paying fan, is something I’ll always love to do. Now that I have stories to read, a website to talk about, and comedy shows to do, I don’t feel any angst about doing the shows. I can’t tell you enough how great that feels.
As I get closer to finishing JAG, and it’s younger brother (which requires far less work) I’ve been looking for printers . . . and actually got some quotes today for the first printing. It’s very exciting, and also terrifying.
If anyone reading this has experience with a printer, and you’d like to share comments about that printer (good or bad) I’d really like to hear them.
I mowed my lawn tonight, and my shoes are grass stained and smelling like a summer morning.
When I mow the lawn, I like to listen to Jimmy Eat World on my car radio. “A Praise Chorus” is one of the greatest songs I’ve ever heard. This afternoon, I didn’t listen to the radio, but I did sing “Dogs” from Pink Floyd to myself as I mowed in a circle, rather than the diagonal lines I usually make.
My cool neighbor moved away on Friday. He’s like 80, and Anne and I both felt like he’s moving away to die. He’d lived in his house since 1951. That made me really sad. Now his house is empty, and will remain that way for a long time, according to neighborhood gossip.
Ferris wants to go outside.
Nolan is watching WWE. I remember when I was a kid, and I’d get up each Saturday morning to watch WWF when it was on KCOP here in Los Angeles. I loved it, once I figured out it was fake.
Anyone remember M.U.S.C.L.E. figures? The Dark Tower game from Milton Bradley? I bought a new GURPS 3E last week, to replace my old and falling apart copy. Boy do I love RPGs.
This was more fun than I thought it would be, but I can guarantee you that I’ll read this in a few days and want to take it down. Well, I feel pretty satisfied now. Maybe I am blocked.
Does everybody really love Raymond? Because I really don’t.
Anne just walked in, and Ferris doesn’t want to go outside any more. Now she just wants to run around with Anne.
I really love Anne a lot. She is TRULY my “other half.”
I have Red Hat 8.0, and I want to install KDE 3.1. Has anyone else done this? Is it going to bork my machine like it did when I tried to upgrade on Mandrake 8.2? Why can’t I get CUPS to work?
I have to go make dinner: Falafel, tabouleh, and hummus. How Greek^H^H^H^H^H Lebanese of us.

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  2. Ouzo, mmmmmm…
    Don’t you just love it when your kid runs up to you after school and throws her arms around you and states that she loves you? Makes my day. Then she goes into the house and either loses the remote, or breaks the irreplaceable.
    Thought this entry was a good place to comment about that.

  3. Hey Wil. Wut’s up? While I was designing my webpage for practice for my job at AMC, I was inspired by your website. Please check out mine and post a comment and tell me what you think. That goes for everyone else too. It’s not much, so don’t please give me any sheeat for it being lame.

  6. Uhmmm, ….well…. falafel and tabouleh aren’t really greek. You can find them at greek restaurants, but these are not truly greek specialties like moussaka, tyropita, souvlaki etc. Falafel and tabouleh are from Egypt.
    I know I am being anal, my therapist tells me that I focus too much on details, but I thought I’d mention this….

  8. Raymond annoys the shit out of me. The SHIT. *shudders*
    Dude. If you’re gonna be at Grand Slam, that gives me like, the best excuse EVER to go down there and visit my friend Olivia. Score!
    Viggo Mortensen uses Percival Press. *nods* (I know nothing about publishing, wish I did, but here’s percival’s website: http://www.percevalpress.com/home.html They’re not taking submissions right now, I just read..but yeah..thought I’d show you anyway)
    I love Jimmy Eat World man. Annoyingly enough, before I knew who they were my sister lit their show when she worked at the Great American Music Hall in San Fran. I could’ve gotten in for free and everything, but oh well. A Praise Chorus is one of my very favorite songs by them. Go us!
    And dude, don’t take this down, it’s kick!ass. I love random stream of consciousness entries.
    One last thing:
    It’s so wonderfully nice to see some one so in love with their partner. Little random sentences proclaiming your love for Anne, so sweet. I’m happy for you and I hope you have the luck of long-lasting marriages my parents and paternal grandparents have had. (grandparents 50+ years and my parents, 32)
    Hugs and random proclimations of, “Wil Wheaton Kicks Mad Ass!” to you from me. 🙂

  9. Somewhere, in my parent’s house (God, is it scary when you stop referring to it as “home”), there’s a rather large can filled with M.U.S.C.L.E. figures. I have no idea what I ever did with them in terms of actually playing with them, but man, were they cool. I’d completely forgotten about them until today.
    You should do entries like this more often, by the way. I really enjoyed reading it.

  10. Mowed your lawn? I hate you people. I haven’t seen grass in months, and I wont for a few yet. Stupid snow. I get to shovel that crap whilest you’re mowing your lawn. Which is easier? I’ll let you decide.

  11. So you didn’t have much to write today? Big whoopty do. Don’t knock stream of consciousness, todays log was funny and quirky and entertaining as hell. Also made me see you more as a person, just like me, than some of your other stuff.
    You do good work. Thanks.

  12. Wil,
    This is what it’s all about.
    We, as monkeys, come to your web site because of logs like this one.
    Honestly, i like you as a person, i think your a interesting gye. I could do with out the political stuff, but hay, no one is perfect…
    Keed up the good work and keep not replying to my E-Mails—> I don’t understand but I’ll cope.
    Smile Bitch… 🙂

  13. Music…
    well if you are looking for somthing different/new to listen to, you can always check our stuff out. We have all our tunes up for downloading, so check it out if you want!
    [ Throatmotor.com ]
    –Joel

  14. 1)I have no cable, but I’ve seen ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ a couple of times when I visited my out-of-state brother. Thought it was good (but I was comparing it to ‘Will and Grace’ which I thought sucked).
    2) Life is dull and boring for everyone. Welcome to early middle age.
    3) Unilaterally attacking Iraq is both a) stupid and b) immoral. I understand that reasonable and morally serious people may disagree… but they’re wrong 🙂
    Regards,

  15. There is something so sad about your neighbor moving away that really impacted me. I’ve been thinking alot about my grandma (died 2001) and all the photos of her that I inherited.
    There’s one where she is sitting on my grandpa’s lap in the mid 70’s and I remember that kitchen like it was yesterday. There’s another one where she is in her 20’s with her sister on a beach eating snowcones – looking funny – with big smiles, big swimsuits and bobbed hair.
    Who holds onto all of these memories for the next generations or do they just get lost? Since 1951 that guy lived, loved, laughed in that home and I hope someone is holding onto those memories.
    Sad.

  17. Hey, I’m looking for help in spreading the site http://www.runtheusa.com around. Two running friends of mine are heading out to run across the country. More information about what’s going on there is in this post on my site: http://sps.bigwhoop.org/archives/000438.php
    If you know of anyone in or around the towns along their trans-continental route, please, I ask that you get in contact with them. If nothing else, please help me get news of this site spread as far and wide as possible. If you could post about it, that would really help I think, but anything of course (except donations, not looking for that). Thanks.

  18. KDE 3.1 should be available over the redhat network, I’ve installed it without incident. Mandrake 8.2 was borked no matter what you did to it. And CUPS is a bitch, good luck with that.

  20. Recently the cool neighbor behind me left. He was something like 82. Was a sweet old man, always giving us fresh stuff from his garden, chating with the kids, ect.
    After his family sold his house, he came back (presumably for the last time) to show the new folks how to prune the grape vines.
    He wandered up to the low chain-link fence and told me that he’d recently had a tumor removed from his brian, and that he’d just been diagnosed with cancer. How the hell to you respond to an announcement like that?? All I could do was look him in the eye and say, “That really sucks Jim.” (How lame.)
    Later as I sat at my kitchen table watching him continue to prune his grape vines, I realized that I’d never see him again. It hit me that in a way he was saying good bye to his house in his own way. He was truly going off to die.
    sigh…this term really sucks.
    JL

  23. Wil:
    Tabbouleh and Hummus-YUMMM!
    Don’t forget to micro some pita bread-it makes the meal!
    Seriously, its too bad about your neighbor-but maybe he couldn’t afford to stay in his home cause of high loan payments or something, and hopefully he found a place to live that will take those worries away. Thats what happened to us, and I know having a home is everyones dream, but with an apartment, someone else has to fix the plumbing or pull the weeds or pay the taxes!
    Is the Grand Slam you’re going to be at in Pasadena? If so, I’m there! Looking forward to
    “Geek” and getting the chance to say thanks in person!
    Hope Dinner was good!

  25. Wil that was very touching about your neighbor and I know how you feel I felt like that when my Grandmother moved away when I was a kid. Also, Puddle of mudd isn’t a shit band i mean you gotta like that song “she fuckin hates me” thats a good song lol.

  26. oh and Chucky P.O.D. is absolute shit and Puddle of Mudd isn’t I think you got that one twisted around.

  27. As can be witnessed Wil has censored my voice again. He marches with Communists and quotes racists. He says go to the soapbox, but refuses to let me register! He is a hypocrite of the highest order.
    I will not return to this site, it is just pure leftist pablum.
    And to ChimChim, you seem to lack any ability to understand Wil’s level of hypocricy, he has a free speech banner on his site, claims to be a free thinker, when it is really just re-hashed Stalinist-Leninist censorship and politics. Peace be with you my brothers. Hitler and Senator BYRD would be proud of Wil and his hysterics. Oh ye suckers!
    I CALL FOR A BOYCOTT OF WIL AND THIS SITE, HIS MOVIES, TV SHOWS AND APPEARANCES. Tonight I will destroy my copy of Stand by Me.
    AUF WIEDERSEIN
    67.28.93.199

  28. P.S. Wil I am a member of the working press, and have consistently given you good press in the past. That changes Friday.
    After my piece, lets see if they still let you near Tulsa, or anywhere else in the MIDWEST, enough said!
    Peace.
    67.28.93.199 has valid reverse DNS of dialup-67.28.93.199.Dial1.SaintLouis1.Level3.net

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  36. Nice entry. Wil’s ‘stream’ for today shows how a commitment to writing even when you think you don’t want to and have nothing to say really pays off.
    My new year’s resolution this year is to write every day — email and /. comments don’t count, my blog, journal, and handwritten letters do. The discipline of writing something every day, even if I’m scrawling in bed past midnight, has made a big difference.
    Here’s something I wrote in a run down motel after a very very long day of driving: http://annmariabell.com/alternate/blog/blog.html#diary

  37. I’ve seen NYC’s most recent comment, and I take it this poster is but the latest example of neoconservative blog-trolling, along with the hateful e-mails directed at Wil. I have some comments about this behavior I’d like to make at this time.
    I’m amazed and saddened that the supporters of George W. Bush who engage in this behavior seem utterly ignorant of how their venom and vitriol reflects on the cause they support. These people are the very same ones who are the first to condemn this sort of behavior when radical leftists of the “PC” ilk express themselves that way. So then why do the neocons think it’s okay behavior for themselves to be perpetuating? If the only answer they can come up with is something on the order of “We’re right and they’re wrong”, then they are totally deserving of the label “REDNECK”. After all, that is how rednecks think and act.
    And I find it nothing short of laughable that people who are being as hateful as they can be are screaming “censorship” when their hatefulness is getting the flushing it richly deserves. You are a guest on somebody’s web-site, and if you act with extreme immaturity towards that person, don’t be surprised that your crappy attitude isn’t welcome!

  38. Look,
    I respect everyone’s right to have their own opinion.
    But I am not obligated to provide a forum for you to express that opinion. If you’d like to discuss things, we have the message board.
    If you will please read the TOS, you will see that off-topic or offensive posts will be deleted.
    You are no longer welcome to comment on this website. Please take your comments someplace else.
    I’m not going to ask again. If you keep it up, I’ll be forced to take legal action.

  39. Fair enough. I will no longer post off-topic to these comments. I have fallen victom to my own outrage. I appologize for posting in the wrong place. I’ll see and hopefully debate you on your message boards.
    Peace.

  40. Wil:
    I suppose I’m kind of Off-Topic, too, so it won’t bother me if you delete my little scolding of the blog trolls. I’ll repost it in a more topical “comments” section.
    Hugs and smoocheroos,
    Mr. N.

  41. Wil rocks. Wil is awesome. This is his site. He can say what he wants on his site. You cannot say whatever you want on _his_ site as you are a guest here. ‘Nuff said.
    /unecessary protectiveness of cool dude she doesnt actually know

  42. You know? I have oft refered to that Raymond show as ‘Nobody loves Raymond’. NO one I know likes it. I sure don’t. Sort of the way I don’t like Seinfeld, but at least Seinfeld makes me chuckle.
    I really don’t like Seinfeld, he’s irritating. I do, like stand-up, though. A friend did stand-up for the first time last week and she kicked all ass, and she had an improv bit about going to a monster truck rally.
    Which brings me to WWE. Only my story comes from the days of WWF, when friends of mine went to a big wrestling event in Hamilton (a steel town about an hour out of Toronto). They were there, with all the mulleted masses, holding up a great big sign, like the sort that say, “Crush the Rock,” and whatnot, only theirs said, “WWF Promotes Literacy” ! God, I wish I’d been there.
    I remember the M.U.S.C.L.E. figures. All my friends, who were mainly boys, had them. I didn’t have them. But not for the reason that I wasn’t allowed to have Transformers or GI Joes (because they apparently promoted violence), rather because my mother said, “Ech, they’re so ugly.” Okay, ya, they weren’t works of art.
    Speaking of art, I have to start thinking about getting ready for Ad-Astra (sci-fi con in Toronto) because I’ll be there selling art in the show. Alan Lee is the artist guest of honour, so hopefully he’ll draw a big crowd, who will then buy the cheaper work of aspiring artists like me.
    But mostly, I have to think about going to bed. You offered your stream of conciousness and, in return, I’ve given you one of mine. By the way, I’m looking forward to your book. When it is mine, I will slot it between the autobiography of Boy George and Bunny Years, the partially autobiographical account of the playboy bunnies, which I found in the garbage in nearly mint condition.
    I also found a book on Marx and Engles, printed in the USSR in the (we think – it’s not dated) 1950s. It was sitting on this junk couch outside the little appartment building where my pal, Megs, (big wrestling fan) lives. It was just sitting there, like someone had gotten up from the couch (on the lawn) to go to the bathroom and had left this book there. One of the better finds in my somewhat eclectic book collection.
    My cat just walked by and yelled at me. Time for me to play with her.

  43. Wil,
    I’d suggest getting your book printed in Singapore or Australia because they’re cheap and goood. In fact most books are printed in Singapore or even Hong Kong & with the US dollar doing well against the OZ dollar or Sinagpore dollar you’d be laughing.

  44. Wil, thank you for finally advertising what I’ve been thinking about passionately for years now: not everybody loves Raymond. Truly, I feel closer to you today after reading that you don’t like Raymond or Puddle of Mudd, either. Cheers.

  49. I feel about Everybody Loves Raymond the same way I felt about Dharma & Greg: the parents are far more interesting than the title characters.
    There’s quite a few shows out there like that, shows that centered on the wrong people.

  50. Doesn’t your literary agent take care of all the printing mumbo jumbo? I don’t know. That’s why I am asking.
    Or are you self publishing it?
    Or do you have a literary agent?
    So many questions. I am asking, because I will be in these exact footsteps within the year, hopefully, and have no idea where to go, and what to do….
    I do these streaming entries from time to time as well. They are quite refreshing. It always amazes me just what is really on my mind.
    Late

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