It’s a wonderful morning here in Casa Wheaton. The kids are at school Anne just left for work, and I’ve got 64 ounces of Fair Trade coffee to fuel a morning of hopefully productive work. Behind me, Riley is chasing dust motes around in shafts of early morning sunlight, and Ferris is trying to convince Riley that she should stop chasing the dust, and start chasing her. Scattered clouds ride the tail end of a Pacific storm up and over the San Gabriel Mountains. Mount Wilson had snow on it yesterday.
I’m almost done with my column for blogging.la, then I have to write up bit of Valentine’s Day snark, for the cult of the one-eyed cat, so actual weblog-ish things are backing up (good thing I carry around a notebook with me everywhere — it’s actually a Nightmare Before Christmas diary, with a lock and everything, that my friend Martin gave me for Christmas, and the truth is I totally love it.) So in place of anything original and interesting, I direct you to an
YAY! This is the first time I am first to comment ever since you started your site. 😀
Right, had to do that quickly. Anyways… it seems you’ve got plenty of creative energy there to produce lots of stuff. Recently my writing just feels like giving birth to a square elephant. That interview you did… loved it!
Just to quote two things:
Wil wrote: “Family changes everything, we all know that. It
yeah, you do find crazy places to cut .RSS feeds.
Cool interview… to bad the italics are all mangled.
And Bush IS the worst president ever. Wow.
Yes, us RSS readers do hate it when you cut off there. Just to reiterate. 😉
Also, in case you care, you were quoted on Livejournal’s Metaquotes.
Wow, it must be a coffee blog day. I just read another blog about how coffee growing in central america is killing birds
Apparently we all need to drink Aubudon coffee to save the birds.
Valkyrie is about to die. I thought Maddox said it best: The worst President ever appointed by the Supreme Court. It helps the pain if you blunt it with a little humor.
64 ounces though? I consider myself a caf-fiend, but 64 ounces scares me. It’s either wussy coffee, or you have a serious habit.
Wil, which type of Fair Trade do you use? I mean, whereabouts are the beans from? A blend? African? South American? Just curious.
You might want to look into a moleskine notebook.
http://www.moleskine.com
Better known as the notebooks Hemmingway, Vincent Van Gogh, Neil Gaiman, and Indiana Jones use.
They are really really nicely put together
Jeff
oooo, moleskine notebooks are great! I bought one of the little ones not too long ago just to try it out and it’s now filled with notes on furniture and mortgages and measuments and prices (can you tell I’m in the middle of buying a new home? hehee).
Mine fits right into jean back pockets or shirt pockets and it can take a lot of damage. Probably my favorite perk about it is the grid paper. yey for grid paper!
Though I’ll admit that if it had Jack on the cover, it would be that much cooler 😉
if i knew nothing at all about you the interview would spark an interest in finding out more…thus the interview served you well and make spark some folks to seek out this website…the interview also serves notice to those who thought you dropped off the face of the earth after STTNG that you are alive and doing well…now if only TIME or NEWSWEEK would do a story on you…then millions would know what the WWDN monkey’s know…that the proper thing to do when you don’t know what to do is simply…OBEY WIL!
When do you have time to breathe?
Something seems to be missing lately.. not sure what it is, but I have noticed that you seem more stressed and seem like you are really spreading yourself too thin. Maybe its just me. *shrug*
Keep writing, but don’t forget to take a break every now and then and let your brain thaw out.
P.S. take a moment everyday to do a little danza…
it will work wonders for you! 😉
speaking of neil gaiman (which someone did, above, talking about moleskine notebooks, which are cool and I think I even found a graph paper one for us geekier types)
neil gaiman’s blog has a little pep talk for writers…
http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2004_02_01_archive.asp#107586011016853901
not that you need a pep talk, of course.
naaaah…
’cause I never ever need a pep talk either… 😉
thanks for all the blogging… And you rocked that mars interview on ScreenSavers…
Warrior needs food… badly.
I agree, Wil needs break… badly. Time for a bit of holiday. One of my favorite Dilberts:
Dilbert (over cube wall): Wally, you just sent me the same e-mail you sent last week.
Wally: I’m rerunning the “Best of Wally” while I’m on in-cube sabbatical.
Dilbert: How long is your sabbatical?
Wally: Six months so far, and you’re the first to notice.
Consider doing a ‘Best of Wil’ series of re-runs.
not too shabby of an interview with tv-series.com and, like you, i had never even heard of the site before today. Now i can browse for EVER!!!
Good luck in all the writing today 🙂
GET BACK TO WORK, WHEATON!!
I prithee, Mr. Wheaton, do tell us who you support for President. Don’t keep us guessing. How else can we rag on your favored politician?
Ah, new T-shirt idea: “Your favorite presidential candidate sucks.”
Good interview in tv-series.com. I always like to see how actors deal with a charater that they have played a while and how it has impacted their life.
Nifty interview, but one thing crossed my mind. All of the interviews you give seem to be centered around your time on Star Trek. Doesn’t that get old after a while? Yes, they eventually move on and talk about your writing or your website, but the meat of the interviews are always about you playing Wesley.
I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, since TNG is what made you a semi-household name. But are there times when you get sick of talking about TNG and want to talk about things like, say, Jane White or the stuff you do with TechTV from time to time?
Just curious…
The wizard is about to die…
Just felt like that hadn’t been said yet…
“Okay. Bye.”?
Methinks someone’s been reading DANZA’s posts on the Soapbox 😉
OK BYE
Great article! Thanks for sharing!
hey wil, hope the work went/is going ok! that article was great…thanks for sharing it!
anyway…
take care
rach
Sounds like Riley and Ferris are having a good time of it as well. And I agree…perhaps a holiday is in order. It’s been awhile since you’ve driven cross-country.
Wil,
You love talking to those reporters. Good job. After all of those years, the TNG answers still seem fresh. A series, like that, never really ends. You worked on a great project and it will never fade away.
FG
Nerd Alert:
I just read the new Next Gen. book, A Time to Be Born and Wesley does come back. He’s a full grown Traveller now and now he has to decide whether to use his powers to save his friends and get kicked out of the Traveller club or to stand by and do nothing like all good Travellers are supposed to do. It’s the first in a huge series of these books. So glad to see Wes is finally back. He’s so adorable. And now we know the rest of the story.
Allrighty, I now return you to your regularly scheduled website commentary.
Thanks for the extra RSS. Makes Dave a happy feeder 😉
Wil Wheaton,
Hey Gordie Lachance. Do you mind if I call ya’ that? 64 ounce of coffee, is that a small ounce or large ounce? I don’t crap about ounces or lbs. Does anyone else?
Riley? Did you get another animal? I was reading up on your blog along time ago, but have forgotten what was Ferris. I thought that Ferris was the dog.
“chasing dust motes around in shafts of early morning sunlight” You have very good way of putting words. It makes it more interesting to read.
Wil, this is Rachael, I am from New Jersey. I posted here the other morning.
You sure do talk about your wife, Anne alot. Doesn’t he girls, women, ladies? “All the ladies throw your hands up at me, Boy I didn’t know you could get down like that” LOL!! If I were Anne and you would put me on your site and talk about me like that, I would be so honored. If I were Anne, You’d get a lot of sex from me, after we would be reading that together. HEHE. I am serious! 🙂
Have a good day. No I am not sucking up. However, I do read your blog all the way through. I try to have you reply to the questions. Hopefully he can reply to you all of us soon.
P.S.
Email:
[email protected]
Anyone can email, just don’t be a god damn psycho!! 🙂 I like to know more info about
certain topics and talk to new peeps’
Take Care,
Rachael Caswell
“lightning strikes the dingo”
I was testing out a new wand, and there is was at the top of my screen. Now all I need is a band…
And RSS readers you too Wil.
Argh! The blog ate my XML inspired ::heart::
Yeah yeah, RSS readers ::heart:: you too Wil… etc etc.
“Lightning Strikes the Dingo” is surely the best nethack/rogue/angband inspired band name I’ve heard all day. LStD. Yup, I like it.
Things that will never happen on Star Trek
http://winn.com/bs/st-never.html
u should all try livejournal.com
Hmm, I don’t know about anyone else, but in that interview I was put off by the questions “do you like our site” etc, etc. I just think its a bit rude. It would be like if Barbara Walters asked Tom Hanks “so am i your favorite reporter? DO you watch 20/20, or that 60 minutes crap?” You just don’t do that. =)
I don’t know if thats how you felt about it, Wil, but I am a journalism student and I was surprised they did that, thats all.
Man, I’ve been talking about Gauntlet all week! I’m on kind of a Gauntlet nostalgia kick. I love how it would call you out in that robot voice if you F’ed up. I don’t get how it relates to today’s blog, but I still like it.