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a recording of my set from w00tstock 5.0
At this year’s w00tstock, I stepped way out of my comfort zone and did about 30 minutes of story-based standup comedy. It was really, really fun and the audience seemed to like it. Luckily for me, it was recorded by Alpha Geek Radio, so if you want to listen to it, now you can.
Please note that this is profoundly NSFW, and if you’re planning to come to any of the Wil Wheaton vs. Paul and Storm shows this fall (and want to be surprised) you shouldn’t listen to it.
because it’s the recliner my nephew deserves right now
When my sister found out she was having a boy, she and her husband decided not to tell anyone in the family what name they had chosen. I had to agree with this course of action, because I know how … strongly opinionated … some of the grandparents can be about things like names and also everything else in the world.
But I didn’t feel right just calling him “the baby” or “your baby” or “the tiny human growing inside your body”, so I decided to call him BATMAN.
Amy pointed out to me that if they named him BATMAN, she and her husband would probably end up shot behind a theater. I was pleased that she knew the history of The Dark Knight, especially since they are decidedly not nerds like me (they’re sports nerds), but had to correct her. “That would happen to you if his name was Bruce,” I said. “BATMAN is pure awesome and that’s what I’ll call him for his whole life.”
By wonderful coincidence, one of her friends got my nephew his very first easy chair for his 1st birthday last week:
He’s probably watching the show with the creepy talking tractor who talks to farm animals, because that’s my nephew’s favourite show that isn’t creepy giant rats who sing and dance. Seriously, you guys, what the shit is going on with children’s programming? Are they trying to capture the Stoner/Burner/One-Year-Old market all at once or something?
No matter. He’ll be ready for Doctor Who and Star Trek and Firefly soon enough, hopefully before he outgrows his chair.
next time on tabletop: star wars x-wing
My editors at Geek & Sundry are amazing, and work very hard to turn hours of footage from several cameras into an awesome episode of Tabletop.
This is what the timeline looks like for next week’s episode, Star Wars X-Wing.
You can click that to embiggen and get a closer look. For those of you who do editing, you are probably going O.o right now. For those of you who don’t, each one of those boxes and lines represents a cut or a graphic or some other thing my editor, Steve, had to do to create this episode. I think he spent about 40 hours on this one episode.
All creative work for television and movies is a collaboration, and everyone is working together in service of something that’s bigger than all of us individually. Everyone works hard on their specific part of the process, and if we’re lucky, it all comes together to be something awesome.
