everyone calm down

I don’t want to ruin the joke, but since people on the internet seem to be sarcasm-challenged: Aaron is kidding. We are members of the mutual admiration society, fellow hockey goaltenders, and share an affinity for as much beer as we can find. No joke: we contributed to the drying up of the Guinness tap at the sportsbar across the street from the hotel in Phoenix.

I’ve done two shows with Aaron, and I’ve been lucky to sit next to him both times. He’s what we call Good People™ and even though he totally fucked up the beard curve at the convention, I hope to see him again sooner than later.

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  2. I love that you just outed Aaron’s LJ. It shouldn’t take long for a flurry of BSG fangirls and boys to descend upon him. I wonder if he’ll ever post there again. 🙂

  4. *chuckles* Since I already knew that he was on live journal (fan girl) and I am one of your loyal followers (fan girl again) – I wouldn’t consider a word of what he or you would say as “reality” unless it was something nice about the other ..you’re friends, that is cool 🙂

  6. I don’t know if I should be offended or not.
    Please clarify so I can appropriately reply:
    1. Awesome.
    2. Go frak yourself.
    Thanks so much. <G>

  7. {Do not read the following comment if you are one of the last 5 people left in sci-fi fandom who haven’t yet been following the travails of the rag-tag fugitive fleet led by the Battlestar Galactica (now on Friday nights). You’ve been spoiler warned.}
    Never trust a toaster.

  8. It was intended to be in the spirit of Mr. Douglas’s entry. The ambiguity took careful planning to craft.
    I’ll go back to frakking myself now. While I finish this Guinness.

  9. Ah! Excellent!
    Then, in the spirit of my friendship and many conversations with Aaron:
    1.Awesome
    2. Go frak yourself, for having Guinness when I have none.
    /I do have Stone IPA, though. Yaaay.

  10. Wow, it’s really something when you have to explain such transparent sarcasm to people.
    It’s clearly just him saying “I love you”

  11. Side effect of a dotcom that survives the bubble burst: 1998-style perks. I’m steps from a tap. Nitrogen powered, no less. It’s right next to the solar-powered reverse-osmosis water filter that proves I’m in California.

  16. Brent was doing a similar joke, and he paid it off on the panel we were on with Marina. It was very funny to me, but I think that about 80% of the audience was thinking, “Twitter? What’s that?”

  18. I was not in Phoenix (boo, me), so wondering if Brent returned your missing “L”?
    Maybe he had you “looking kind of dumb with h[is] finger and h[is] thumb in the shape of an “L” on h[is] forehead?”

  19. Man, I don’t know how that got past my “NO SMASHMOUTH EVER ON MY BLOG” filter.
    Must look at config files …

  20. My bad.
    Never again (flogs self repeatedly with thumb and finger on forehead).
    Oops, I did it again.
    Oops, now I’ve activated the Britney filter.

  22. Hey, Wil!
    Nice to finally meet you! We were at that bar sooo much! You must’ve been hiding in the corner… Too bad, my Amex had plenty of room for plenty of Guinness! 🙂 Did you see Chris Titus there on Saturday night? Nice guy.
    Perhaps next time? I SWEAR I am NOT your “biggest fan” (that honour went to Andreas Katsulas). I just talk a lot when I’ve got security timing my visit, ready to bounce me.
    Since I never saw you outside of the con (due to your mad fangirl dodging skillz no doubt, heh), I found Yuri for my stalking needs! He’s awesome and doesn’t seem to mind a bit of fangirldom on my part. After all, if you can’t fangirl at a con, where can you?
    Loved the manga, BTW. The one with the teddy bears was, um, different…
    We hope you enjoyed the ThinkWeasel comic. 🙂
    Cheers!
    Angela
    (misangela.com)

  24. Oh man. This post and comments-thread made me so frakkin happy. Just about to go shovel the walk (again) but had to comment – great stuff. I sometimes wonder if the BSG and TNG crews inter-mingle and if so, how much beer is involved. I also secretly hope there are booze-fueled shoving matches between Tigh and Ryker.
    Hope the panel with Brent and Marina was great – I look forward to the wrap-up when/ if it materializes.

  26. I admit to huge envy for anyone who has a nitro push guinness anywhere withing a mile of them right now. Sounds like a missed a good con, not that I ever do those anymore, what with kids and wife and such. In some ways life sucks. But this weekend I hope to find out if the new brewpub a few miles away does or does not.

  27. Yep. He was to be introduced as the final Cylon model for the final run of episodes. Unfortunately, his backstage proclivity for tying up production by orchestrating overlong sessions of Rock Band with numerous cast members created tension on the set. The final straw came when Wil requested that a new Ion drumkit be placed backstage for Band use, which Wheaton claimed would help promote cast solidarity and stimulate the actors’ creative process. Co-creator Ron Moore had heard enough at that point and decided to send Wheaton on his way and take a different tack with the final Cylon storyline. The resulting firestorm created bad blood among series producers and the series’ regulars (since Moore fired the only person who could successfully drum to Anyway You Want It on Hard difficulty). Some of the bad blood resurfaced in Phoenix and hence the animosity shown by Aaron Douglas towards Wil in his recent blog post.
    Or they could be the best of friends and we all just need to get a life :). Or play more Rock Band.

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