Hi there, I’m Wil, and I’m the luckiest guy in the world. Why is that? Well, allow me to present the following items to support this outrageous claim:
Quite some time ago, I engaged in correspondence with one of the guys who makes woot go. One thing lead to another, and I ended up designing a T-shirt for shirt.woot.com.
According to the woot newsletter, it’ll be available tomorrow (THURSDAY):
Ever Bought A T-Shirt Designed By Somebody On Star Trek? You Wil. Speaking of Shirt.Woot, noted actor, author, gambler, blogger, and android Wil Wheaton adds ”t-shirt designer” to his CV this Thursday, and it’s all going down at Shirt.Woot <http://shirt.woot.com> . This is like a true-cross thing for hardcore geeks (like us), except that Wil himself will never have laid eyes on your actual shirt, much less hands. But still. As for the design, we don’t want to give too much away, so we’ll just thank Wil for rolling the DICE with us to release this to-DIE-for tee.
Speaking of DICE, The first episode of the Penny Arcade/PvP/WWdN/D&D4E Podcast (MP3 link) has been released! Even if you subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, you owe it to yourself to go check out the D&D Podcast page, because Mike and Scott did incredibly awesome art to go with each episode.
Returning to Woot for a moment: there’s a woot-off happening right now, and you can follow wootoff on Twitter to get almost as many updates in an hour as I occasionally send.
Speaking of Twitter, as of right now, there are 105,547 accounts following me. Um. What? How the hell did that happen? I thought I was freaked out when it was at 51,000, but I didn’t know what freaked out truly was until I tried to compose a tweet, and ended up staring at it for five minutes before I sent it because the thought of sending it to that many accounts paralyzed me.
What was that tweet, you ask? Allow me to show you: When I got this invite today, I thought it was too good to be true, but it’s real: I get to see WATCHMEN *tomorrow* for this MTV thing!
Yeah, for at least four hours today, it won’t be so bad that MTV doesn’t play music videos like they did when I was a kid. They do a movie show called SPOILERS, and one of their producers invited me to come see the move. Because just seeing the movie wasn’t cool enough, the entire cast will be there. Because that wasn’t cool enough, Zack Snyder will be there, doing a Q&A after the movie. Because that wasn’t cool enough, they’re also going to show some preview clips of the new Star Trek movie. Because that isn’t cool enough, they want me to go on TV and talk about all this stuff as some kind of expert.
Don’t tell them I’m just a geek, okay? Or at least wait until after we’re done. I don’t want to mess this up.
The show will air on Saturday, but I think they’re putting some live updates on their website somewhere today. I’ll try to take my phone with me so I can Twitter about what’s going on, (without spoilers, of course) but I suspect this will be one of those “don’t bring your shitty little cell phone into the theater because the studio thinks you’re going to pirate the movie with your tiny 3MP camera that can’t even focus on the screen” kind of things.
I’ve gotten to do some really awesome things lately, and for the last week or so, I feel like I’m dreaming — in fact, last night, I dreamt that I was at PAX, and woke up all excited to go there — and I’m afraid that I’m going to wake up, and find out that none of this incredibly cool stuff has actually happened, so I’m working extra hard to appreciate every moment and not take a single thing for granted.
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Commander Taggart: Brandon, it’s all real.
Brandon: I KNEW IT!
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I’m glad the world is smiling on you, Wil, and I’m truly happy for your success. Hug it, squeeze it, and call it George.
Or, you know, not on that last part.
That is AWESOME! Congrats on being the “go-to guy” when it comes to teh awesome stuff for the intarwebs. 🙂 I’m looking forward to the shirt – can’t wait to see it!
thats so awesome I hope you have so much fun!
It’s good to be geek.
I’m pretty damn happy with life, so it’s not often I really envy someone. But for today, damn, that’s some really cool/fun/nerdy stuff to enjoy. A whole dice bag full.
“on Earth, two hundred years ago I was a prince with power over 105,000…”
Being the mayor of Twitter apparently comes with a lot of perks, eh? Good for you. Enjoy! 🙂
Dammit, now I’m gonna need to stay up until 1:00 to make sure I get the freakin’ t-shirt. If I drag ass tomorrow at work, it’ll be on your head, Wheaton!
Go you for being made of 267% Pure Awesome.
May your geek combine with your freak this action-packed week!
I’m still reading WATCHMEN, but my pace seems to be accelerating. Very jealous of your MTV gig. Congratulations, and enjoy the dream!
I said it before, I’ll say it again. Cool!
Okay, I actually said “RUE” but then I said sorry for that.
All that, AND you are an awesome voice over actor. Could you please do more animated voice over actinging gigs? That would be bad ass! Oh, almost forgot, congratulations for all your success. I agree with Jackwabbit, you should call it George.
Almost too much awesome for me to handle. I guess I forgive Mike and Jerry for not updating Downloadable Content more often. I’ve been meaning to read Watchmen, so thanks for the reminder, and the shirt, I can’t wait. I am a total tshirt whore. I just got a bunch of deliveries from PA and Diesel Sweeties 🙂
So SO jealous! At least we all get to hear about the coolness and live vicariously…sigh.
Now I understand what “awesome” REALLY means, thanks and enjoy yourself Wil!
Dear God… too much cool stuff to compute!!!
Lucky Bastard…
At least make sure you have enough fun for all of us, ok?
Said it before, I’ll say it again: What side of Karma Street have you been walking on?
This is just great for you, Wil. This is just another example of staying true to yourself and your course, and good things happen.
We all look forward to watching our TweetDeck’s and TwitterRiffic’s for updates….
Holy haberdashery, WilWheaton! There really IS a lot of awesome packed into this post!
1: Congrats on the shirt! That’s wicked \m/
2: Watchman! fricken COOL!
3: Seeing the new Star Trek sneak preview clips! ::JEALOUS::
4: I listened to the first ep of the PA-D&D session. Hilarious, and AWESOME! Was glad to see “Jim” was back to his old tricks!
And yes, the artwork was funny too!
5: over 105,000 twitter followers? One small step towards you ruling the world with your Geek army! Priceless!
Cheers.
Yea, I replied with a tweet that you didn’t see, that says
@wilw Damn you Wil Wheaton. Damn you. *shakes fist in jealousy*
And how come I want to own this tshirt with the hope that it will have some giant D20 on the front of it?
It’s good to be the geek. 🙂
Because d20s are awesome?
I hate you in the best possible way 🙂
Way to go on having so much cool stuff going on now. Have fun for all of us geeks who wish we were there with you.
~~TARA~~
Yes, I was one of those 105,547. Hey, It’s your fault for blogging about it. I was perfectly content to ignore Twitter as just another distraction I didn’t need. Then, The Wheaton endorsed it, and I was compelled.
Besides, it makes me seem less like a stalker… there are 105,547 people who also want to feel like they are Wil Wheaton’s friend.
Oh, and Mtv is right on the money calling you. It is BECAUSE you are a geek that you ARE an expert, at least in those areas. Supreme geekdom can pay off.
But nothing says overkill like a D50. It’s like bringing a Hummer to a Yugo crash derby.
I am not jealous, becuase you have picked me to be the winner of your impromptu “Fly your ass down to LA at the last minute so you can spend the day with Wil Wheaton and bask in the awesomeness along side me at the Watchmen preview and other fun stuff” contest!
Thanks Wil! Which airport should I fly into?!?!?
105,547 followers? Holy population explosion, Batman! I’d be freaking out a little bit too.
“Because that isn’t cool enough..” Are they going to shower you with cupcakes and chant your name while you parade under ticker tape? Jeez… way to rub it in Wil. Just don’t let ticker tape get into your cupcake frosting.
totally joined the bandwagon and started following you (I’m one of those jump-off-the-bridge-with-the-rest-of-the-group kinda gals).
PS. not sure if it’s a dream? pinch yourself. If it hurts, pinch yourself again.
When it comes to a Watchmen review (or non-spoiler reaction) I’ll trust your judgement over the non-geek movie reviewers any day. I’m hoping so hard that it’s as awesome as the trailers are making it out to be!
You’ve had such a great year so far and it’s only February! Doesn’t all the geekitude make it seem as if PAX must be just around the corner instead of 7 months away?
At Orcon, Nolan picked up one of those d100’s that you always see at cons.
“What is this?” he said.
“A d100,” I said.
“Who needs that?” He said.
“Someone who doesn’t know how to roll 2d10,” I said.
That’s HAWESOME!
I wonder if it will be like that dream where I’m wearing these sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at me.
…am I the only one who has that dream?
*tear* You know that’s from the glory years. Back when men were men, and geeks were torn on choosing to read a Zork book, or playing the game itself.
Though, you really make me look forward to when my son’s old enough for cons. Except for explaining “con funk” to him.
Wil, re the surge in followers, here’s an interesting page on the topic. It seems you’re not the only one to have experie3nced a recent increase.
http://brooksbayne.com/post/79132853/the-newest-way-to-game-twitter-fake-followers
Also, for some reason the LA Weekly blog server just flat won’t load for me. Anyone else having that problem?
I’ll go with no, actually. I’ve known too many geek boys.
That’s one reason I only take my son on day trips to cons.
Good lord, Wil. You can retire now, can’t you? I mean, haven’t you pretty much achieved all of your career goals in one day?
Speaking of awesome stuff that you do, Wil, is there an ETA on the extras from the Happiest Days audiobook that you said you’d make available (for free!) so that those of us who bought the paper/ink book wouldn’t feel left out? Thanks.
You know. For my birthday, I thought, “Hey, I’m taking the day off work. I should play on the PS3, read Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, do some analog-world stuff. But don’t look on the web, you’ll just see something to bug you…OK, maybe XKCD, Sluggy, and Wil Wheaton’s blog. Nothing bad could be there, right?” And what do I see? I see that for my birthday, Wil get’s to see Watchmen. To paraphrase Leroy Jenkins, “At least I’ve got Sunken Treasure.”
I worked at cons for 5 years, so I took my son to an anime con when he was like. 3 months. Totally not freaked out by the costumed people, but whenever they tried to get near him, he uh. Emitted a noxious gas cloud to defend himself. I haven’t taken him back since.
In the time it took to read this, I missed five woot-off items. Curse you, Wheaton!
I have to turn all my extra material in to Subterranean Press by the end of next week, and then I’ll be able to break out my mic and record the additional material.
It will be up to Sub. Press to decide when and how to put the audio online, but I’ll make some suggestions to the appropriate people about the order and schedule that’s best for releasing them.
In other words: I’m not sure, but it’s real soon now.
I know I shouldn’t validate that, but I actually use that phrase enough that I’ve accidentally had that dream. The pickles really tend to sting when they hit you.
Where’s the laser?
.. It’s coming.
It’s coming? HAH. I don’t even see it breathing that hard.
All right, Wheaton. How do you spell the name of your podcast character? I listened to that section 4 times to try to figure out what you were saying. And on the podcast page they took the coward’s way out and listed you as “Al”.
Well, the rest of the gang kept teasing me and calling me “Al” and “Alf,” because they knew I’d worked so hard to come up with a cool Eladrin name. But on my character sheet, it says “Aeofel Elhromane” I made up all these glottal stops and weird blurry sounds though, so it’s actually pronounced a little bit different than it looks as written, because that’s how I decided Eladrin speak.
Hey, I’m a geek. It’s what I do.
Wil — fantastic for you! I just read a post on Time magazine’s Web site that I think sums up everyone’s anticipation about the movie by a guy who got to see it, too.
http://nerdworld.blogs.time.com/2009/02/16/my-own-private-watchmen/?xid=rss-topstories
This will be one of the few movies I go to a theater to see (I wait for Netflix because there’s very few movies I feel deserve that level of experience) this year. The other one coming up soon, of course, will be Star Trek.
Who Watches the Watchmen? We do!
Oh yeah, you have to enjoy going to the cons in the first year when they’re still portable and somewhat content to be dragged around! Even with the occassional smell, it’s alot easier to take them at that age than when they start toddling – that’s when they get bored easily. I think bored toddlers have alot to do with the proliferation of Cuddly Cthulus, plush Skulls, stuffed Adipose and the like.
I’ve never said, “Oh my God” so many times while reading one blog post. Good on ya, Wheaton. Have a rockin’ time at Watchmen. We’ll all try not to be too jealous.
thats freakin kewl, so glad you are getting the recognition you so rightfully deserve, now the world will know what we know…just don’t forget about us! lol…the geeks of the net