i shine, i’m freshly minted

Quick announcement: This Sunday, the 24th of October, I will be appearing at the Grand Opening of a brand new Borders in the Santa Anita Mall.
Check out what Borders says on their website:

Join us for a discussion and signing with this ever-popular actor turned writer. Despite early stardom in the motion picture Stand By Me, and his role as Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Wil left Hollywood in pursuit of happiness on an extended hiatus from acting to write full time. In his newest book, Just a Geek, Wil shares his deeply personal and difficult journey to find himself with stories that reveal an honesty and disarming humanity.

I’ll be reading from and signing Just A Geek, and Dancing Barefoot, and I’ll do my best to read fast, so I can take questions. Also, if you’re a WWdN reader, I’ll have a few “WWdN Monkey” ribbons that are leftover from Linucon, and a couple of the “Heart of the Anomaly” cards for Star Munchkin, too.
I’m really looking forward to this event — I grew up about 20 miles away from this mall, and I used to go there often when I was a kid, so I feel like I’m closing the circle here, this time as a “local” author.
The weekend was awesome. I started out with some ADR work on Teen Titans Friday morning, for Titans East Parts One and Two . . . holy shit. It’s not secret that I love Teen Titans, and it’s no secret that I’m fiercely proud of my work there . . . but holy shit holy shit holy shit. The episodes just keep getting better and better, and this story arc is the best I’ve been in so far. It’s dark, it’s a little scary, and the animation is SO FREAKING COOL! I actually had my very first “cool, dry superhero” line on Friday. I got to say, “Something tells me you guys don’t like water . . .” right before I . . . uh, I mean, Aqualad does some seriously cool superhero stuff. I can’t wait to see this episode when it airs.
Friday afternoon, I went over to the set of a movie to do some research for a magazine article that I’m writing — yeah, you read that correctly: I get to write a magazine article! I can’t say anything more than this: I’m entering some new territory with this piece, and it’s going to totally rock when it’s done.
Friday night, Anne and I took the kids to Knott’s Halloween Haunt. She and I have gone almost every year for the last decade, and I’ve been going since I was 14 . . . but it’s the first time we took the kids. It was super cool, because they’re old enough to have fun getting scared in the mazes, but not too old to be embarrassed about going with their parents. We didn’t get home until after 2 a.m., and we all slept until 10 on Saturday.
Saturday was another big day, because Ryan was going to his very first High School dance Saturday night. He had been excited about it for three weeks, but I wonder if it was as important to him as it was significant to me and Anne . . . I remember when Ryan’s feet couldn’t touch the floor when he sat at the dinner table. We drove him and his friends, and they all had a great time. Again, we finally got into bed after 2am.
Sunday we slept as late as we could, and spent the day cleaning our house. Sunday afternoon we watched Nolan play in his basketball league, and by dinnertime last night, we were all ready to fall asleep!
I was able to stay awake until about 9:30, but I was so wiped out from the weekend, I fell asleep during the ALCS. That’s a pretty big deal, since I’m a huge baseball weenie. I’m hoping for a Red Sox / St. Louis World Series, if you care about that sort of thing.
So it was a great weekend, and I can’t believe that it’s already 9am on Monday. I’m off for some voice over auditions, then I’m actually working on a game this afternoon. I don’t think I’m allowed to say what it is, yet, but it’s an established title in a successful franchise. It should be extra fun.
updated: Whoops. I keep forgetting to mention this: the audition I had a few weeks ago was for CSI:Miami. I did a *really* good job, and I probably would have booked it, but they changed the part from male to female. When my manager told me that, I said, “Well, can I go back there in a wig and a dress?”
“We’re not quite to that point in the career, Wil,” he said.
Har. Har. Har.

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83 thoughts on “i shine, i’m freshly minted”

  2. wow, i did not know wil had kids or was even married!
    So wil’s books Just a Geek and Dancing Barefoot are new?
    Wil should do a signing in Denver sometime.

  3. Wil, if you were a real base-ball guy you’d realize that coming back from 3-0 down is never going to happen.

  6. Okay, who do I need to go give a massive smackdown too to get you on CSI? The first time you mentioned that audtion I just had this feeling that it was going to be one of the CSI and I couldn’t wait. I mean, my fave actor on my current fave non-sci-fi show, the possiblites were endless. (Not to mention the drool worthy factor of you and the new guy 😉
    ::Sigh:: Guess I’ll have to rely on my overactive imagination again.
    (quick aside while I’m here, any chance of getting you to Ohio for a book signing so I can actually go to one of these things? ::big brown puppy dog eyes::)

  7. Hey dude,
    Saw you at Linucon 🙂 I had a blast there as well but was wondering…
    …still planning to write about it?
    -ca

  8. CSI’s loss could be NCIS’s gain-please have your agent put you up for something on the coolest show in town! 🙂
    You would give Mark Harmon and Michael Weatherly
    a run for their money!
    Special Agent Wheaton anyone?
    Looking forward to seeing the hardest working man in writdom at Santa Anita-you’ll love what they’ve done with the place!
    Have a good time in Plan-o!

  11. First time posting a comment here–Wil! I had no idea you were doing voice acting work for Teen Titans. That’s awesome. I’ll definitely have to check it out. It’s nice to see you’re having fun with work and still finding time for your family. I know absolutely nothing about baseball, but I did watch part of the Sox/Yankees game. I’ll be good and say ‘Go Sox!’ And I’ll be sending some major happy mojo your way for that audition.

  12. I so did NOT post the comment about the Halloween costume on more than one of these comment pages… If I did, I’m retarded and don’t know how it happened. Sorry for the double-post. I realized it a few minutes ago when scrolling through these comments.. “How did THAT get in HERE?” LOL.. 😉
    *Melinda*

  16. Aw, I was hoping you were trying out for the regular (and best) CSI (Vegas, baby!) On that show, the “geeky” lab guy is being promoted to field work, and they’re looking for a new lab person. The first candidate (a woman) quit before the week was over. When this happened, I actually said to my wife “You know, Wil would be perfect for this roll. He could play it kind of cocky, but hip in a geek sort of way.” She just sort of smiled and humored me, which she does when I geek out.
    So, try to get a foot in the door at the better CSI. You didn’t want to work with Curuso anyway.

  17. OOOOOOO, I love CSI!!!! I had a feeling it was one of those shows except I was thinking more of the original CSI. You know, with it being set in Vegas and all…

  19. Rock on with the busy weekend, sounds like you had a lot of fun though.
    How friggin’ AWESOME would that have been to get CSI:Miami?!? Maybe your manager can reconsider the wig thing..you’d make a cute girl.
    woohoo teen titans.

  20. notice how once Wil mentioned his preferable World Series choices,that the Red Sox started winning???
    maybe it’s just me… 😉

  21. Good Luck at the signing I just saw Sean Astin on Best Week Ever he is looking great I hope you two will get to do book signings or something together.

  24. Hey Wil,
    If I lived in CA I’d audition for CSI and get the part for you and you could just show up. How funny would that be….you’d just have to say you’re filling in because I am sick LOL!

  25. Hey Wil!
    Sounds like a busy time. I know all about that lately (spending 8 am until after midnight every day for 3 weeks at the theatre department working on Noises Off). Anyway, good to hear all of your news, except the CSI thing. Law and Order is better (SVU rules!). Although, I couldn’t stand the thought of you as the “bad guy.” For some reason, I’m reminded of when Fred Savage was on as some stalker/rapist. Too weird.
    St. Louis/Boston series with St. Louis all the way baby!
    Rock \m/

  27. Argh! My hubby is going to be in town on Monday, the 25th for a trip out to JPL. Do you think you can do a two day signing at the Borders?
    I’m gonna send my copy of Just A Geek out with him just in case.
    So close! One of these days I’ll finally get an autograph!
    Melissa

  28. I’m pulling the for Cards/Sox series as well! Trying to line up tickets through some friends, i’m just trying to hide the fact that I’ll be cheering for the sox until after I get a ticket! I was at game 6 of the NLDS last night, great game.
    Go Cards!
    Go Sox!

  29. Holy shit! You’re the voice of Aqualad in Teen Titans?!? I had NO idea!!! I’m so jazzed to learn this, I can’t wait to go back to work and tell my colleagues about this! (We’ve got a bunch of Teen Titans fans @ my workplace, like a dozen people or so–I’m sure they’ll get a huge kick out of learning you’re doing Aqualad in the series!)
    Good luck with that! Can’t wait to see another Aqualad episode again, now that I know you’re his voice!
    (Darn! Can’t believe I hadn’t realized it! It’s so obvious, now that I think about it!)

  30. I’ve been researching blogs (grad school comps) and found several references to yours in articles. So I visited, looked around, enjoyed most of it, will post comments on my blog. Good to see you’re still working and doing exciting projects. BTW, you were my favorite Star Trek character… don’t know where the ‘hate Wil’ mentions in your FAQs came from… I was oblivious I guess.

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