Oh shit. I just hit publish, so the email already went out, and I am not going to send another. I can’t believe I forgot to even mention that Lego revealed a whole lot about the Enterprise D set that drops later this month. Can you believe I forgot this? It’s been such a full and exciting day, this got eclipsed like Darth Cheney finally joining Kissinger at the War Criminal’s table on Tuesday.
I woke up to a flood of text messages from friends who all wanted to make sure I knew about it (I love my friends so much) but my favorite one said “new contact image for you just dropped” with this image attached
I am beside myself. I’m a minifig, you guys! And I am so so so so happy that they chose this version of Wesley, specifically. Way to go, buddy!
Okay, I now turn you over to me from about ten minutes ago:
I should have posted this yesterday. My bad! I’m working all week on a narration that I have wanted permission to do for years. YEARS. Every night I go to sleep super excited to get back to work, and every morning I wake up excited that I get to do this.
That said, it’s been hard work, and I’m exhausted. You’d never believe it was possible to get exhausted, I bet, sitting in a chair and reading all day. And you’d probably be right, if that’s all I was doing. In fact, I wouldn’t have believed it, myself, if I didn’t have firsthand experience. But it’s performance, if you’re doing it right, and performance takes energy. Four straight hours of performance is a lot of performance, it turns out.
To be clear: I love that I’m exhausted. It feels earned and it’s satisfying. It’s also, uh, exhausting. I am entirely out of mana at the end of the day, and I didn’t think reaching into hit points for my blog was the best idea.1
I don’t know when I can get into the details of this — I have such a story to tell about today’s work — but I hope it’s soon.
Oh! This is SUCH a good excuse to put in my subscribe thingy. If you don’t want to miss that post, or any other post, you can do that here:
Nice.
If you follow my Instagram, you may recognize that I’m working in the same booth where I record It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton. Allow me to use THAT to now fulfill the promise of the blog title, and tell you that a new episode dropped yesterday.
This week’s story is The Odyssey Problem, by Chris Willrich, originally published in Clarkesworld Magazizne. Ohhhh it is so good. I’d love to hear what you think.
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Oh! Oh! Reminder that Corey, Jerry, and I are coming to a city near you2 with a 35mm print of Stand By Me. Tickets are available for three screenings:
December 5 at Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, New Jersey
December 4 at Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, New Hampshire.
December 6 at Lynn Memorial Auditorium in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Everything you need to know, including how to buy tickets and VIP packages is at stand by me live dot com
Hey, hasn’t it great to wake up yesterday and finally have the day you voted for? It feels good, doesn’t it?The beginning of his end is upon us, friends.
- Actually, I can confirm this, as I just realized while proofing this post that I am currently dipping into hit points. ↩︎
- Offer valid if you live near Red Bank, NJ, Concord, NH, or Lynn, MA. Offer void in Iceland, for some stupid reason. ↩︎
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Oh I wish the SBM tour was coming to Oregon! I hope you have a wonderful time. BTW, I listened to “the Odyssey Problem” this morning on my run and I thought it was fantastic! Definitely makes me want to read more by the author.
I think we’d all love to come to Oregon. Eugene would be ideal, wouldn’t it? Pair it with a walking tour of Brownsville?
If we can make Oregon happen, I expect it would be Portland. Fingers crossed!