I’m in Toronto for a couple of days, working on a show, before I go to Ottawa later this week.
I’ve had a nice time while I’ve been here, though I wasn’t prepared for how profoundly lonely I would feel after just 24 hours away from my family. I guess after months of spending as much time with my wife, kids, and dogs as I want, I’d grown accustomed to their faces.
To help ease my loneliness, I went for a big walk all around the city today. I took a lot of pictures, and I shot a lot of video, with the intention of making a short thing that I could put on the YouTubes about my day and the stuff I saw. Being creative while I was also being a tourist engaged my brain and my soul in a very good way.
Toward the end of my adventures, I wandered into a train museum thing by the CN tower (TRAINS INTO TUNNELS…) and I got inspired to make this really stupid-but-amusing-to-me thing:
Not bad for something I put together in iMovie in about 15 minutes, I must say.
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Being easily amused myself, I found that very amusing.
Somehow I knew exactly where that was headed and yet I still clicked play. Nicely done, oh fellow easily amused one. 😉
I live here. Do you have coffee or lunch with people who tweet at you sometimes? My treat of course!
Wil i have a GoD Daughter in Canada up in Grande Cash and she is Growing Like a Weed.
Your too much. Thank you sorry u miss your loves. Great vid. Lol
That’s great – especially since we watched Stand By Me a few weeks ago. Thanks!
Well it made me laugh. Is this the train thing by the brewery? I live in the city and have never been.
Brilliant
Awesomeness on rails.
So handy that you kept the shoes…
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Very fun!
Life is more fun when you’re easily amused and you can amuse the rest of us who are similarly inclined.
Also, thanks for the Frantics reference!
Thank you, from a reader in Baltimore.
This is the most genuinely funny thing I’ve seen all day!
Please do something similar for Ottawa…….very amusing!!!
Canada clearly brings out the best in you.
Being half the world away from my family, in Korea, I definitely hear your feelz. Thank you for channeling them constructively and oh-so amusingly!! Definitely cheered me up on day 4 of a week-long staycation. As an Ottawa native, I highly recommend amusing yourself with a snack of Beaver Tails and a walk around the Byward Market (Let us know if it’s as cool as it was 15 years ago)
Wil Wheaton + train. How fun to see a remake! As someone who is more than easily amused, I was quite amused by the occupant of the last train car … he sort of has this “don’t pay any attention to the man behind the curtain” look on his face…
Can I tell you my “stand by me” story? When I was around 12, I read Stephen king’s “the body” a few months later I watched a movie on tv that reminded me of a book I read & realized after I predicted the plotline it was based on my (still) favorite Stephen king short story. Flash forward many years and I learn of wil wheaton & that he’s in a movie called stand by me. I watch stand by me and realize it’s the same movie from my childhood 🙂
Oh, that was a delight!
God dangit Wil, I just spit orange juice on my laptop. That was funny.
Pretty good, Wil!!! Great way to start my workday…with some humor. Thank you.
That made me chuckle….and with the current chest cold, that was a serious threat to my ability to continue breathing….but so worth it. Keep ’em comin’ Wil!
The fact that you used a Frantics reference there makes me smile. On a road trip to Vancouver, many eons ago (Vancouver…beautiful…VanCOUVER…BEAUTIFUL), I went out of my way to search for anything by them, since you couldn’t get them in the states. I managed to score a single Boot to the Head record (yes, on vinyl). Even though, once we got back home in SoCal it was slightly warped, I loved having it. I got a good transfer to cassette off of it, at least 🙂
You should hit up the town crier pub while you’re up here. Also Snakes and Lagers. I cannot imagine a place more created to your interests.
They’re looking at me funny for my laughter. I don’t care. Best scene reenactment EVER!
Love it! Please DO do something similar for us when you’re here in Ottawa, and I second the recommendation to stop in the market and have a beaver tail… they’re truly delicious. And as someone else asked up above – do you ever meet your blog followers when you’re in town? I’d be delighted to treat you to a beaver tail when you’re here if you do. I’ll be at Comicon on the Saturday with my kids, hope to catch a glimpse of you there so I can do the fangirl squee thing and embarass myself completely.
Sorry you are missing your family, but very happy you are coming to Ottawa Comicon!
Would loved to have seen the expression on the people’s faces.
Haha, brilliant!
Color me easily amused, too, and thanks for the laugh this morning.
Hilarious, Wil! Thanks for sharing it.
Stand by Me was one of my favorite movies when I was a teen. It’s such a great take on boys coming-of-age in ways that have little to do with sex, much to do with embarking on a quest, facing their fears, allowing themselves to be vulnerable, and confronting the concept of mortality.
I must also be easily amused, as I watched it twice!
All I could do while watching that was laugh along with you and affectionately say in my Aussie accent, “You big dag!” I hope you know that is an Aussie term of endearment, because you definitely are a dag in the best way, Wil. 🙂
BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Good one.