I just got home from Austin, and one of the greatest, superest, funnest, most bestest weekends I’ve ever had in my life.
I’m on about 4 hours of sleep, and my day started twelve hours ago, though, so I’m gonna go fall down for a little while. I’ll put up a trip report as soon as I can get my shit together.
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LOL… Glad you had fun! :o)
Hey wil! You should SOOO Be the new host of the late late show(With Wil wheaton!)
Wil, you should totally come up to Portland and do a showing of SBM at one of the McMenamins theater pubs (http://www.mcmenamins.com). Portland loves you and your signings at Powell’s in Beaverton have gone SO well!
PS – We should all start letting Conan and NBC know about the aforementioned idea for their new host!
A little birdy (full of Schlock) told me that you went home with a good number of “Heart of the Anomaly” cards. What would a guy have to do to get one of these from you? With the requisite signature? I’ll be at Penguicon 3.0, and I’m not above bribery…
Thanks for coming to Austin and talking to us at the Drafthouse! You speak like a writer… and I mean that in the nicest possible way. I totally agree with the post that said you would make a great new late late show host.
aren’t you arrested yet? I mean rested? You should be rested by now. Time’s up! ;-P
YES! Wil on Late Night!
That gets a goat throw \m/ 🙂
Austin huh? AUSTIN HUH?
Ah! Goerge W Bush country! Fun is fine as long as it didn’t make you Baby Bush stupider!
Ah! Goerge W Bush country! Fun is fine as long as it didn’t make you Baby Bush stupider!
It won’t be long before we see Wil Wheaton play in the Celebrity Poker table on BRAVO, baby!
Oh. My. God. I just looked at the Alamo website and they have a 12 hour Degrassi marathon!! With Snake and Joey in person!! How f*cking awesome is that???!?!!! Any place which does an event like that must be cool. So I hope you feel pretty special, Wil :o)
We printed up 1000 copies of the “Heart of the Anomaly” munchkin card (+2, +4 for gadgeteers, +1 more if signed by Wil Wheaton; this is an original limited edition Space Munchkin card, officially blessed by Steve Jackson and with original John Kovalic artwork of Gilly the Perky Goth wearing a heart-shaped diamond pendant ala the Star of India or some such). Wil did not know about this card before he sat down for Celebrity Munchkin.
I dealt one into Wil’s starting hand, and convinced Eric Flint to ask Wil for an autograph right before they started, just to get Wil’s pen away from him in case he was carrying one. (The other four guests at the table all had pens, for taunting purposes), but Wil was so distracted (I’m guessing by playing Munchkin with Steve Jackson, or perhaps by keeping his cards close to his chest as if he was playing poker) that he didn’t notice he had to _sign_ it to get the +1 for several minutes…
The game itself was _FUN_ to watch. I’ll let Wil write about it, that’s not why I’m posting.
Why I’m posting is that during cleanup after the con, we found the second box, with the other 500 copies of the Heart of the Anomaly. (We gave Wil 100 or so, and distributed the rest of the first box around the con.) But we still have 500 of them, it seems.
John Kovalic wanted 100 copies (preferably with a few of those signed by Wil, for the +1 bonus of course). That leaves 400…
We printed up 1000 copies of the “Heart of the Anomaly” munchkin card (+2, +4 for gadgeteers, +1 more if signed by Wil Wheaton; this is an original limited edition Space Munchkin card, officially blessed by Steve Jackson and with original John Kovalic artwork of Gilly the Perky Goth wearing a heart-shaped diamond pendant ala the Star of India or some such). Wil did not know about this card before he sat down for Celebrity Munchkin.
I dealt one into Wil’s starting hand, and convinced Eric Flint to ask Wil for an autograph right before they started, just to get Wil’s pen away from him in case he was carrying one. (The other four guests at the table all had pens, for taunting purposes), but Wil was so distracted (I’m guessing by playing Munchkin with Steve Jackson, or perhaps by keeping his cards close to his chest as if he was playing poker) that he didn’t notice he had to _sign_ it to get the +1 for several minutes…
The game itself was _FUN_ to watch. I’ll let Wil write about it, that’s not why I’m posting.
Why I’m posting is that during cleanup after the con, we found the second box, with the other 500 copies of the Heart of the Anomaly. (We gave Wil 100 or so, and distributed the rest of the first box around the con.) But we still have 500 of them, it seems.
John Kovalic wanted 100 copies (preferably with a few of those signed by Wil, for the +1 bonus of course). That leaves 400…
I am still very bitter that I didn’t get to go. Insert sad face here.
Bestest, shortest Wilest post EVAH!
Ah! Goerge W Bush country! Fun is fine as long as it didn’t make you Baby Bush stupider!
Ah! Goerge W Bush country! Fun is fine as long as it didn’t make you Baby Bush stupider!
Ah! Goerge W Bush country! Fun is fine as long as it didn’t make you Baby Bush stupider!
Thanks for coming to Austin, Mr. Wheaton!
And I really appreciate that you signed “a couple of Star Trek things” for me and my friend, as well as the books.
od0_ital said: “And I really appreciate that you signed “a couple of Star Trek things” for me and my friend, as well as the books.”
I second that thank you! Wil signed *much* more than the two books for me over the course of the weekend and never once gave me the “For the love of god will you stop asking me to sign stuff!” look that I honestly was expecting. (And I know it was a lot because by the end he didn’t have to ask me my name to personalize it anymore. And I wasn’t even wearing my name-tag any more.)
You’re a class-act, Wil Wheaton! Thank you so so much.
cheers!
No Wil, the funnest has to be watching you in “Python”. I am constantly involved in one torrid love affair with one B-movie or another, and “Python” is the current love. I would love to hear a story about the making of this movie! (And why purple hair?)
I’m glad you had fun in Austin. I’ll get there someday…
did i mention how i live the other side of the world? i really wanted to be at the greatest, superest, funnest, most bestest of weekends!
it would have bin even better had i been there ;p
now i must go cos i have cramp in my finger……………..*sob at missing out, big time*
Wil, I totally wanted to see you at Alamo but the show was sold out before I could get tickets. I’m kicking myself for missing it.
I’m glad you had a great time in Austin. Come back soon. It’s only the best city in Texas.
Wil Wheaton is listed as a guest at the Dallas Comic Con next week –
http://www.scifiexpo.com/dcc.asp
– only a few hours drive away from Austin.
I went to this event in Austin. It was totally awesome, memorable, sweet and fun. I took my soon-to-be 12 year year old daughter who is interested in movie-making, thinking it would be a good experience for her to see Stand By Me and hear Wil talk about his experiences. I found it was one of the most interesting “celebrity-in-attendance” events I been to at the Alamo. Very relaxed and intimate, and just the type of thing that is great for my daughter to experience… especially to hear the stories about working on Stand by Me. I am really grateful that Wil came to Austin and I sure hope he cooks up some way to come back soon….
Come by after Plano! It’s my daughter’s birthday!
I wish I’d been more in-real-time and been able to get one of my livejournal friends to fangirl for me…