Google News has this nifty feature that lets you subscribe to news alerts. You tell Google what to watch for, and when those key words are found, it will send you an e-mail alert. I use it to watch for “Jenna Jameson declares love for Wil Wheaton.” While it hasn’t found that particular story just yet, it lets me know when my name appears on one of the news sources Google crawls.
A few days ago, I got a Google News alert that linked me to an article called “Wil Wheaton is a Dick” that was posted to Alternet.
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Who knew Wil was a dick? I always knew he was a pussy, but never would I have guessed he was a dick too. That’s got to be a first.
Actually, I’ve got to admit that when I read the article, I thought it was funny. I thought she was trying to be funny and good natured about it and I hadn’t read it as having any negativey or hatred pointed towards you at all! And I thought the whole “dick” thing was just as she said in her apology to you. That it was poking fun at what YOU had said about yourself.
Of course, it’s really easy for ME to think it was all meant in fun since it wasn’t about *me* 🙂 I might not have been so unbiased about it had I been in your shoes reading an article about myself! But really, as an outsider reading it, I didn’t think for a second that she had any malice towards you nor that she was trying to make you look bad at all in any way.
Why would you care what I think? 😉 No reason. I guess just in case you thought the average person out there who read the article might thing you were a bad person, I’d have to say that probably the opposite is true. Of COURSE you may miss the initial humor in something when it’s about you, especially since you do have so many… what’s a good word… “anti-fans”? 😉 But I really think most people reading it would be able to see that the writer was genuinely trying to be funny and sarcastic. I didn’t think it made you look bad nor did it look (to me) like the writer disliked you or was trying to disparage you in any way.
Just my feedback/opinion (which nobody asked for! 🙂 )
duder,
i can’t imagine a casting person passing you over because of a tongue-in-cheek article about your orkut friend-list.
i’m not gonna lie, though: i think there’s an implicit obligation involved with joining orkut or any of those friendster-style communities. you must be willing to play ball, in the spirit of the system. orkut was not designed for people who count their friends on one hand. this is why i am not an orkut member, and it is why i am not on friendster. and trust, you don’t need procmail to screen spam. i have all my orkut/friendster/whateverster email go straight to my trash in my email client. i can’t imagine that you order V1AGRA F0R CHE4P SKLFXJCZ! or REF1NANCE N0W 10015 WIL! just because you get lots of non-opt-outable emails about it.
i love your blog, and i sympathize with the situation of being a well-known actor/blogger — i can imagine your email box is deluged regularly. but i think if you don’t want to be FRIENDZ-4-EVR with [email protected] on some social networking site, you ought to consider why you want to join a social networking site at all.
join me, wil, in the elite few: the non-friendsters.
optimus
I love Wil Wheaton and I am a super big fan of his and I would love to meet him in person in Star Fleet uniform and give him a very big hug.