in which a proclamation is made

I seem to have come down with some kind of post-PAX flu. It's not the Swine Flu, but I am coughing so much even I have grown tired of saying "my god, it's full of stars."

I can't really focus long enough to write the PAX post I want to write (it's at about 30% completion, I guess) so please allow me to share the proclamation I made before the concert on Saturday night:

I'm not going to lie to you, Marge: it felt pretty awesome to do this, and I think my fellow PAXers had as much fun hearing it as I did delivering it. Woo!

Thanks to spectre4545 for recording and uploading.

72 thoughts on “in which a proclamation is made”

  9. Awesome!
    At least one person is out of the office today from PAX related illness. I skipped all of the concerts to go home and sleep. I’m crediting that rest and lack of exposure for my current well being. Good trade? I’m not entirely sure, but the video above tips it towards my favor. Thanks for posting it.
    Hope you, and everyone else who picked up the PAX flu, feel better soon.

  10. I’m really sad I didn’t get in to see this show. I’m also really sad that I didn’t get to meet you, Wil, but I know that it doesn’t mean that Wil Wheaton doesn’t love me.

  11. So sorry you got the inevitable Con Crud. 🙁
    However, get thee to a GNC store and get some Grapefruit Seed Extract.
    5 drops per 1 tablespoon of water 3x-4x/day should help to clear it up much faster as that it’s a really good immune system booster. (Apparently it’s like a natural antibiotic.)
    Glad that you had such a fun time – hopefully you will make it to such locations as St. Louis for Archon one year or possibly even Memphis to Midsouth Con. (I know there are folks on the Midsouth Con forums who put your name on their “wish list” of folks to see.) 🙂

  13. Ach — I thought the proclamation would relate to the imminent availability of Memories of the Future! DAMMIT! DADDY NEEDS TO FILL HIS READ-HOLE WITH DELICIOUS STORIES!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Feel better, and watch some Mighty Boosh while you’re laying low. “But I’m in the mindset of an executioner now! I won’t be able to sleep tonight! I’ll be lying there twitching, Mrs. Harrison’s going to go mental! This, my friends, is an outrage!”
    gabu

  16. Mmmm yes most of our group of 12 have come down with the mysterious paxflu. Coughing, sore throat, cruddiness. I mean, I know we all felt a connection @ pax and we all love one another but seems we were really sharing things. Now that’s love.
    Hope you feel better soon. 🙂

  17. I’m feeling the fluish. But I’m waiting to see. *fingers crossed, Harry Carrey* “Here’s hoping!” I’m trying to show this to all of my non-PAXing friends, but I don’t think they get it.

  18. When I first read your post, I thought you wrote, “My god, it’s full of SARS.”
    Which is funny. And yet, not.
    On a side note, I am presently watching your episode of Leverage on the TNT website and enjoying it very much!
    Take it easy and feel better!

  20. Yes, that’s what I figured. I hope you (and all the PAX folks) get well soon, because after the stars comes the 15-minute laser light show tunnel… and nobody likes that.

  21. That was just way too funny! My family and I laughed our asses off watching it. Too bad we could not attend in person.
    Take care of that flu, though, there *were* confirmed cases of swine flu at Pax. Don’t make any assumptions, man, you are too funny to be getting that crap!

  22. It’s the living-a-lifetime-in-a-white-room-in-just-five-minutes that I’m not looking forward to.
    The Starchild thing, though, sounds pretty sweet.

  23. So say we all! I completely geeked out at that point.
    I am the only one of our group of four that did not end up with the nasty cough, no idea why though. I may quarantine my husband in the hopes of keeping it that way.
    Thanks for posting the fun and saving me the trouble of searching youtube for it.

  24. Wil I was there, the proclamation was epic. I couldn’t be leave that almost the whole room answered back the “So say we all”. It was amazing. Thanks for a very memorable PAX.
    I hope you and everyone else who has gotten sick get better soon.

  25. You’re sick too? I saw on Twitter that Mike Krahulik and Scott Kurtz also came down with something.
    This sounds destined to go down as The Year Everyone Got Sick.

  33. Aww, Wil. You’re sick? Too bad you don’t live here in Colorado. If you did I’d make you a mean chicken soup that is a cure for the crud. (I was a sous chef for a gourmet catering company.) If you don’t get better soon, go to your doctor. You never know what sort of bug is floating through the air these days.

  34. That was most awesome! I also want a “Dept of Geek Affairs” t-shirt. My Wheaton Woot shirt gets lonely sometimes.
    I am also suffering from The Wrath of Con, thanks to Dragon*Con. It feels like a Balrog of Morgoth has set up camp inside my lungs, and if I use any more tissues, I may have to replant some rainforest to make up for the damage.

  37. Ahh… I pondered the stars comment and just couldn’t figure it out. But I often feel lost with people from the internet, so I let it go as another riddle I wasn’t meant to understand.
    That must be some cough! Take care of it and feel better soon. (And no – I’m not just thinking of the delayed podcasts this may entail – I’ll be traveling for a few weeks and won’t hear them until I get back anyway.)

  40. Dang, and I missed all the fun concerty stuffs… next year..
    4 of the 8 people i came to PAX with are down with the flu, and a 5th is feeling the signs. 2 of those have been told to quarantine themselves for a week. Luckily, I still feel fine. *knock on wood* Looks like we may have brought it back up to Canada with us..
    Feel better soon!!

  43. I hope you get well soon, Wil! I’m sure this is a pretty common thing for anyone who goes to a convention. It’s been a couple of days and I still feel fine, so I’m hoping I didn’t catch anything there! :0)

  44. Can I get an OK to design a “Department of Geek Affairs” t-shirt? 😀
    Yeah, I was ordered to stay away from my office (my lead, who sits next to me, is an older gentleman who recently finished cancer treatment, so he’s vulnerable to any infection) until Monday. Thankfully, I had already scheduled off Tuesday, but, I hate burning through vacation days.
    Though Wil, have any other thoughts about what the young woman said about PAX (regarding it being the one place that many of us are allowed to be ourselves)? That actually seems like a really good conversation waiting to happen.

  45. It’s already been done! There’s a link at Paul and Storm’s blog to their cafepress store, where you can buy it.
    There’s a thread on the PA forums about feeling at home at PAX. That’s the conversation you want to read.

  47. Didn’t you have the ConSARS last year after PAX too? Maybe you’ll hafta start wearing a breath-mask when you go out, just like MJ… ;P hehehehehe…

  49. Shirt is currently on order. >_< I couldn't get a Woot Wil Wheaton (the real WWW?) shirt, but this will have to do for next year. You better believe I'm wearing that to your panel next year. Do you mean this thread? (http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=100141) I posted in it (Cybit is my handle on the PAX boards). Only one I could find with a quick glance…then again, I am stuck at home with H1Nerd1, not too much better to do.

  50. Yeah, that’s the thread.
    My favorite quote: “We arent a demographic, We arent a target audience; Were a brother/sisterhood. Were brothers/sisters in arms. We are the Penny-Arcade Army.”
    So say we all.

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