Author: Wil

Author, actor, producer. On a good day, I am charming as fuck.
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Star Trek Day: 2021

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Star Trek premiered this week, 55 years ago, and tomorrow we will celebrate all things Star Trek, past, present, and future with a live, free, global streaming event that I can not believe I get to co-host.

I’ve read the entire script, and I’m about to leave for rehearsal, so I know most of the OMGAREYOUSERIOUS stuff that will be revealed. I’m not going to spoil anything, but I will tell you that if you love Star Trek the way I love Star Trek, you won’t want to miss it.

I mean … look at this:

 

I’m co-hosting with my dear friend Mica Burton. We’ll be coming to you, live, from the Skirball Cultural Center, starting at 5:30pm Pacific / 8:30pm Eastern. Star Trek Day will be streamed on Paramount+, YouTube, Facebook, and via Rutherford’s cyborg implant.

Current Affairs

and a hearty fuck you to facebook, too.

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I posted this comment on my own Facebook page, on a post about the horrifying assault on women in Texas, by the Texas GOP. I’m unclear how a general statement like this, not in reply to anyone or even on someone else’s page, is harassment or bullying.

Facebook gave me a choice to either accept this, or dispute it. If I accept it, it goes as a permanent strike against me. If I dispute it (I did) they’ll … eventually get to it, I guess. Either way, I’m in Facebook jail for three days. It feels real authoritarian and arbitrary to me.

I just want to reaffirm my contempt for Texas Republicans and the white women who voted for them. They are fucking garbage humans who deserve to fall into a well filled with vomit, never to emerge.

Also, the bullshit Facebook decides is out of bounds makes no sense to me. Facebook is totally fine with domestic terrorists organizing violence, and anti-vaxx liars spreading lies that get people killed, but you tell Texas Republicans to go fuck themselves, and that’s just too much for Facebook’s delicate sensibilities.

What a bunch of bullshit.

Edit 9/8/21: I am confident this whole thing was triggered by a White Fragility brigade, and I’d like to invite those delightful people to suck it.

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Happy twentieth birthday, WWdN

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Twenty years ago today, this website, which I built myself from the <head> on down, went live for the very first time.

It was SUCH a big deal. It was the culmination of an incredible amount of work, the successful summiting of a very steep learning curve that I’d only begun to climb a few months before. I was and am so proud of all that work.

Today, I am not feeling particularly celebratory. I mean, have you looked at the world, lately? Not a ton to celebrate at the moment, if you ask me, so what ought to be a big party … isn’t. That’s okay. I’ve done this nineteen times already.

Even though I’m not feeling it, I want to wish a happy birthday to WWdN and say congratulations to young me for having the courage and commitment to examine his life, and write about it in public. Everything I am doing today, in a life that is more successful and filled with more joy than I ever thought possible, is built on the shoulders of that work. None of this is possible without all of that, and I’m just so grateful to everyone who believed in me and encouraged me along the way.

Here’s to another twenty years, a few more books, and whatever cool stuff is just beyond my event horizon.