As a result of my duties as a Technology editor at Suicide Girls, a fiercely proud representative of Team PokerStars, and writing for The Onion AV Club and writing for CardSquad, I find myself without a whole lot of free time right now. When I do find some free time, I’d rather spend it with my family than with The Interets, and that means less time blogging.
I thought about that, as I walked Ferris Berris and Riley Monster this afternoon: I’ve had such a fabulous time blogging about whatever here in Exile, I don’t want to let regular posts fall down to once or twice a week. It’s easy to fall into this trap where I think everything I write here has to be so fucking important and meaningful . . . I am always on the verge of taking myself a little too seriously, and that’s just not what this is all about.
To keep perspective, and to keep blogging fun, I’m going to see how putting up whatever the hell I feel like works out for me, starting with this, which I found earlier today at boingboing:
Replica of Charlie Brown’s Xmas tree
Urban Outfitters is selling a replica of the "pathetic" Xmas tree Charlie Brown took home in A Charlie Brown Christmas:
The tree is an exact replica of the tree from the famous cartoon, made
of wire branches and plastic needles with a criss cross wooden base.
The bendable branches allow you to make it look just how you want,
super pathetic or just kind of pathetic. The tree comes with one red
Christmas ball ornament.
Discover more from WIL WHEATON dot NET
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
That’s the good thing about keeping our priorities staight. Good for you. ;o)
ugh. That typo was ‘straight’.
I want one of those! I blogged it too 🙂
Wil,
Post whatever you want. Hell its your blog. As the saying goes, “Write it and they will read.”
In honor of posting “whatever” I thought I’d share this little gem. Did you know if you search for the word “failure” on google the number one thing on the list is the official white house bio of George W. Bush. Check it out. It’s fun.
So, while we’re being pointless…Shatner has a blog. Dude. I think he wants to be you when he grows up.
“It’s just such a thrill!!11”
Well, I’m fairly certain that blogging is supposed to be about whatever you want to say… I treat my own blog like an online journal, a diary…
Then again, you’ve been at this longer than I… I’m just an amateur 🙂
Just ordered one for Wee’s office at Google; I think it’ll be a hit. =) Thanks for the link!
Please forgive me – and please stop by and say Hi.. hehe I’m trying to win a contest here lol Thanks for letting me comment and link
Check out my Text America MoBlog, and all those around me…
I’d tell you all about my poker blog, but wil doesn’t write there 🙁
I wanted to get him to be the fourth amigo, but Card Squad went and snatched him up. I wonder how I can bribe him to switch teams! 😉
Ohmygosh, that’s so cute! It’s amazing how Christmassy that pathetic little tree can make me feel. I have the sudden urge to go listen to “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”…
I think they also sell replicas of Marcy’s underwear.
Wait.
No. That was a different site.
AJ,
I think I speak for at least one other lurker when I say: You win the thread. Awesome, even though you just made me spit egg nog all over my monitor. Yeah, that’s right.
honestly, Wil, write whatever you want, it is way more interesting. you dont have to be all meaningful, we dont care if you are writing a manifesto, or a reciepe. we like you, and we will come to see you regardless of the content. i prefer fun stuff like the tree here to the crappy boring political crap i can get elsewhere, anyways! just dont forget to talk about poker occasionally. hehe
I’m all for writing what you damn well choose, especially if it includes stuff about Peanuts and Charlie Brown, I just love that little guy!
Only 36 More Days
Until Beethoven’s Birthday!
-Schroeder
Hi Everyone,
I REALLY liked the tree. I’ll have to think about getting one.
Wil,
As others have said, this is your site, and I like what you have to say; I wouldn’t read it otherwise.
Have a Great Day!!!!
Harlan…
Does anybody else find the Charlie Brown Tree a bit ironic?
Charlie’s point was about the over-commercialization of Christmas, his tree being the only real pine tree he could find amongst a proliferation of fakes. Now Urban Outfitters is marketing a plastic replica?
Yes, it’s cute. But I hope Schultz isn’t spinning in his grave.
Paradox -> LOL!
Now That’s Irony. WOW.
Although, I think it’s a safe bet that Charles Schultz isn’t spinning in his grave. Or at least any more than he did before… That guy had marketed the ever-lovin’-spit out of Peanuts. It’s not like there was anything left.
Garrett
That’s funny. Does it come in aluminum too?
Actually we have something we call a Charlie Brown tree at home. Of course we also have the regular full, robust honking Christmas tree too but my favorite is the C’ Brown one. It’s so threadbare and simple (not entirely plastic, made with real materials for the most part).
Back to the blogging thing. It’s very strange because I was JUST reading your mind, Wil. I was just thinking that you probably don’t have all this free time with the movie, the new book coming up, the shows, the articles, the poker, the kids, dogs, wife, and the kitchen sink.
And hell, it’s nice to have Dalai Lama type of meditative posts but it’s also nice to read about everyday stuff too. Post whatever you’re feeling! 🙂
Just saw in your sidebar that Neil Gaiman has another book out? Awesome!
I’ll have to go back and re-read American Gods…
I definitely find the tree ironic…
You want a tree? Come see the six foot fake tree we bought the first year my husband and I were married. We were poor and we had 40 dollars for xmas. We got that tree for 12 and spent 8 decorating it.
Coming up on 13 Christmasses and we are STILL using the 12 dollar tree and 8 dollar ornaments.
The Urban Outfitters tree is four bucks more.
Wil, you could devote a blog entry entirely about what you had for dinner and I’d still read it!
Do whatever you feel like. It’s your world.
We just live in it.
I’d buy one but my wife would hang me. Quite hilarious, all the same. Garrett and I have a brother who might like it, though.
Wil, I’m going to have to hop on the bandwagon here and say BLOG! Doesn’t matter if it’s witty, insightful, or even if it seems particularly meaningless. You’ve opened the pages of your diary to the world here (brave thing to do, btw), but don’t do it for us, do it for you!
I find that writing as a whole helps me organize my thoughts, center me and calms me. I have to assume that you get some kind of similar satisfaction out of it, so blog away. You have no obligation to us, this is your thing. Do it the way you want, when you want and damned be the fool who calls you out for it.
Wil – Don’t let expectations (yours or anyone else’s) inhibit or handcuff you. I’ve let this very issue constrain me from my writing. “It HAS to be good/significant/socially valuable.” Bullshit. Now if I could just convince myself… 😉
— and call it ironic, hopelessly capitalistic, or trailer-trash – but I just ordered the Charlie Brown Xmas Tree, which I wouldn’t have found without reading about it in your blog. It makes me giggle. A fine thing for a blog entry to accomplish.
That tree is very cool. I’m doing homemade gifts this year. But then I also put cross stitching that I have done on my tree. I am thinking of making some more – I wonder if I could get my boys to string popcorn.
Anyways – I love everything you do (The recipes that you do are cool too even if you think it is quick & easy)