My plan to be Doctor Horrible for Halloween was disrupted when I couldn’t find the appropriate lab coat and goggles anywhere. Luckily, I had a much more disturbing Plan B.
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After a long Exile, I returned home this weekend. Until the heat death of the universe or I stop blogging (whichever comes first), I'll be back at WWdN.
Treat her like a lady, and she’ll always bring you home.
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Treat her like a lady, and she’ll always bring you home.
This weekend, after way, way too many years in exile, I’m finally returning home. Wow. Typing that made me feel all the feels. I wasn't expecting that.
You know…this is why people are afraid of clowns.
Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!
Even Tim Curry would be afraid of It.
(T.L.V. slips away waiting for lightning to strike.)
I’m saving money. Gonna wear a frumpy college sweatshirt, eyeshadow me a shiner, and gently scratch a backwards J on my cheek. Then I’ll walk around claiming I was jumped by a tired old white man enraged by my Obama pin.
I was seriously not ready for this. I’m not even sure I can eat lunch now.
Clowns and carny people scare me, Austin Powers and Cosmo Kramer.
Can you say “IT”??
ok if I have nightmares tonight it will be your fault this time and not Stephen Kings’s. 🙂
“To me, clowns aren’t funny. In fact, they’re kind of scary. I’ve wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad.”
– J. Handey
Dude. You don’t know how unnerving and unsettling it is to see you dressed like that… excellent!
HI Wil, spacewriter here…
apropos of your post where you described the need to hug your fellow actor after that particularly rough scene in CM, I had to write and tell you that I had a similar experience as a writer recently — I’d been working on a fiction story and it turned into a particularly morbid one where several people are killed by a madwoman. I have no idea where those things came from, but when I finished one of the scenes, I had to go and do something positive and wonderful to help me get rid of the scene I’d just written. It felt very much like shucking a character after a difficult scene study… but your story reminded me of that!
Someone make me stop clicking on links when comments say “argh” etc….I am too curious and almost sent the laptop flying when I jumped. Whoah momma!
Dude, I sent you a Hallowe’en present. 🙂
OT: spacewriter here — I thought I posted this earlier, but must have hit “preview” instead of “post”… anyway, about your feelings of needing to release that character on CM — I had a recent writing experience very similar to that where I wrote a pretty gruesome scene for a piece of fiction I’m doing, and when it was done, I felt the need to do something positive and uplifting to help me shed the feelings that the writing engendered.It was as if I was shedding that character I’d assumed in the writing and letting it go… and I appreciated then reading your feelings at the end of that one rough scene… I really understood that.
So, thanks…
Oh. crap… it did post twice… I’m sorry about that… it didn’t show up in the comments right away…
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Good heavens, it’s Pennywheat!
Oh dear gods!
IN response to Freeman, I have Trio’s Little Blue dress, and My husband has the red uniform. We could all hook up …NOw that would be cool!!!!!
can’t…stop…screaming…oh great now they’re sending me home from work…
“Can’t sleep, clown’ll eat me…can’t sleep, clown’ll eat me…” *rocking back and forth*
This is just wrong, Wil. Sick and wrong. Gaaa. ;>)
My best friend is terrified of clowns (her brother used to hide under her bed and hold a clown puppet over her head until she cried). Since Warren Ellis posted your pic this morning it gave me the perfect opportunity for a Halloween trick on her. So Thanks!
Okay, so my X360 just RRoD’ed, and now I’m going to have nightmares.
Time for a beer.
GAH! Next time you can’t find the costume things you need, EMAIL ME! It’s what I do! I can find those goggles. I can make that lab coat!
Sigh…rainbow wig.
Pulled off sewing my own labcoat thanks to this http://www.flickr.com/photos/mei_li/2855270742/
The goggles and gloves were at the local hardware stores. The boots…well don’t even get me started about the boots.
So I am Dr. Horrible today in running shoes (doesn’t matter cause no one knows who that is anyway). Still won the costume contest at work with it!
Dude, we *all* wanted to be Dr. Horrible this year. But, wow, it is a subtle costume, that’s all in the details. Most modern lab coats (that button down the front) just wouldn’t cut it. And all the manufacturers of the right kind of welding goggles have been sold out for weeks.
From Warren Ellis:
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=6685
Hi Wil:
It’s GOOD down here, Wil…
we all FLOAT down here, Wil…
EEEEEEWWWWWW!!! CLOWNS!! *shudder* Did you know, as a clown, you can tear through cushions and pillows with your jagged razor sharp teeth, and make people’s brains explode in their head with the creepy clown stare?
It’s true that is!
HEY HOW ABOUT A LITTLE WARNING
JEEBUXZ I hate clowns
For future reference:
Dr. Horrible’s lab coat is a recycled lab coat from the Ariel episode of Firefly. (Simon wore one.)
The gloves are Tillmans, about fifteen bucks.
The goggles are distressed/repainted plastic welding goggles, very inexpensive.
The boots are here: http://www.amazon.com/WHITE-SAFETY-RUBBER-BOOTS-SIZE/dp/B000VLY93M/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=hi&qid=1225550112&sr=8-4
Oh, and my neighbor has those boots that he wears while doing yard work. Every time I see him I have to repress the urge to yell “GIVE ME YOUR BOOOOOOOTS!”
This town thinks I’m weird enough as it is.
Can’t sleep, Clown!Wil will eat me! LOL!
I had to take my 12 year old nephew trick or treating on Friday night. He was a ninja, I was a pirate wench, and we’ve got a great picture of him & I on the front yard of my mom’s house having a “Pirates vs. Ninjas” swordfight.
grease paint + beard fuzz = terrifying
I thought the husband from your Criminal Minds episode looked a lot like Nathan Fillion.
Maybe a Captain Hammer costume would have involved less make up (but no less scary!)
From that lead-in, for a moment I thought you were going to be dressed in your Wesley uniform. I like Wesley and have defended him going back to the BBS days while TNG was still in production, but you dressed in that grey suit while a mid-30s adult would be very Halloween-creepy. (Although you in one of the movie-era red jacket uniforms as “William Fucking Shatner”, or better yet, “as Frasier Smith as William Fucking Shatner” would be a hoot.)
From that lead-in, for a moment I thought you were going to be dressed in your Wesley uniform. I like Wesley and have defended him going back to the BBS days while TNG was still in production, but you dressed in that grey suit while a mid-30s adult would be very Halloween-creepy. (Although you in one of the movie-era red jacket uniforms as “William Fucking Shatner”, or better yet, “as Frasier Smith as William Fucking Shatner” would be a hoot.)
From that lead-in, for a moment I thought you were going to be dressed in your Wesley uniform. I like Wesley and have defended him going back to the BBS days while TNG was still in production, but you dressed in that grey suit while a mid-30s adult would be very Halloween-creepy. (Although you in one of the movie-era red jacket uniforms as “William Fucking Shatner”, or better yet, “as Frasier Smith as William Fucking Shatner” would be a hoot.)
Aw, Hell, I never meant for the damned thing to post three times. I’m sorry for whatever I screwed up.
Please delete two of them when you have the chance.
Wil,
Your “Plan B” costume picture has made it to a Russian random picture page:
http://www.dezinfo.net/post/8702/3
Any other sightings?
Dude.
You would fit in so well with my crew of friends, it’s scary. Each year, my buddy Dan hosts a Halloween theme to implement as much emotional distress in children as he can.
Case in point… http://www.flickr.com/photos/9769895@N02/sets/72157600691148369/