Good [appropriate time-related greeting], everyone.
I just found out that TRON is coming out on special-edition DVD on Tuesday. Holy crap!! How many of you, if you’re near 30 or so, left the theatre, got a frisbee, and began battling with your friends as soon as you got home?
When I was in 5th grade, there was this kid named Brad. Brad’s mom made him a TRON costume, by drawing blue lines all over some long underwear, and painting blue lines on a hockey helmet. I thought Brad was certain to win the school costume contest, but he lost…to some kid who was dressed up as “David”…that’s right. “David”, is in , “David and Goliath”. Complete with sling. I guess the parochial school I was attending thought that “David” furthered their agenda a bit better than TRON did. Besides, we all know that computers are sent stright out of the mouth of hell, right?
I think the only other movie from my childhood that I wanted to emulate as badly at TRON was Raiders of the Lost Ark. Not even Star Wars did it for me the way those two films did. I think it’s because there were action figures for Star Wars, so I could play with them, and, while there were toys for Raiders and TRON, they weren’t as cool.
Wow, that was one hell of a TRON tangent.
I recorded my VO for the A&E Biography of River Phoenix yesterday…it was really tough. I had to stop a couple of times, because I felt like I was going to cry. I haven’t thought about him, really, for years. I didn’t know River when he was a messed up. I only really knew him when we were kids, working on Stand By Me. I don’t know what drove him to be a drug addict, because it’s different for everyone…but I suspect that a big part of it was a desire to numb the pain that often comes with being a professional actor and celebrity. River hated celebrity, and had a very hard time with it…that I do know. There are times when I don’t like celebrity, either, but I am lucky enough to have survived my teens and early twenties, and now that I’m almost 30 (!) I can put stuff into perspective.
I often wonder what would have become of River, if he’d lived. I think he’d be giving actors like Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt a run for their money, man.
The producer told me that it should run sometime in March. I think it’s going to get noticed.
I’m having SHOUTcast problems. When my stream has been going for awhile, it freaks out, and just starts broadcasting static. I can’t seem to figure out what’s triggering this, and the help forums don’t seem to have any info about it. If you’ve experienced this problem, or know how to solve it, would you drop me an email? I’d like to get the RFB going again.
Have a great [day, evening, night, walk through the park], everyone!
Oh, if you’re bidding, don’t forget that the Star Trek lunch box auction ends tonight at about 8PM PST.

I’m sitting at work, listening to the Hi-Fi stream of the RFB.
There is something amazingly satisfying about this. 🙂
3:48 PM Well, not anymore. It’s gone to just static again. Bummer. I won’t be able to fix it until I get home.
Right in the middle of Radiohead, too.
Dang.

Good morning, everyone! I just have a minute, this morning, and I wanted to make a few announcements.
*I’ve had this auction up on eBay for about a week, and it’s ending in 1 day, 12 hours. I just thought I’d remind anyone who wanted to check it out.
*This morning, I’m going to be recording my nararation for the A&E Biography of River Phoenix. I was reading over it last night, getting ready for today, and it really brought back a lot of happy memories, and a feeling of extreme sadness…there are parts of this that are going to be very hard to get through, and I would like to personally say, “Fark You, A-hole”, to all the people who knew River was using cocaine and heroin, and didn’t try to stop him. Good job, guys.
*I just found out that my brother and his fiancee are moving really close to me!! Like 5 minutes away!! I can’t wait. My brother and I spent much of our childhoods at odds with each other (mostly because I was an idiot), and we’ve gotten much closer in the last 6 years or so, and I am so excited that he’s moving closer to me, so we can hang out more often.
*I’m looking into a permanent message board solution, that would be hosted off-site, so that we don’t have these problems, anymore, like we’ve been having with the soapbox. It’s really tearing me up, because I really want to just use OS stuff, and support that movement, but I have to find a balance between stability, my technical skills, and reliability for all of you guys. Remember how happy you all were when the soapbox crashed twice?
*Yesterday, I went down to Lightspeed Fine Art, and signed a few lithos for them. I’ve been getting lots of requests for autographed stuff, and since it looks like I won’t be able to make that manay appearences in the near future, I thought that it was a good way to get some stuff out there for the people.
*Recently, I’ve searched for my name on eBay, just to see what people are selling, get an idea of what I should charge for shipping, etc. I have seen lots of faked autorgaphs. I mean, TONS. I sent email to one seller, and they took the picture in question down, but there are others. If you’re going to be buying autographs there, you really have to do your homework. I think it just sucks that people would rip other people off, like that, so you gotta be careful.
*I also saw that Stile said that “Wil F***ing rules!” (without the *** of course. I’m trying to keep it sort of clean, here, kids. :-), and that Alex has writen niceys about me, again. Cool! (Both of these sites are NSFW, BTW)
*Finally, *I want to say thank you to everyone who’s emailed kinds wishes, advice, and support over the last 6 weeks or so. I’ve been reading all the emails, and I’m very sorry that I haven’t been able to respond. Actually, it doesn’t look like I will be able to reply to every email, now, because my time is just not there, between my new job, auditions, and trying to spend time with my family. I will continue to read everything, but replies will become the exception, not the rule. It’s not because I don’t care…I mean, it’s not you, it’s me! You’re fine, I just…well…uh…I need my space, because we’re getting older now, and, well, I just don’t want you to get hurt.
Hey, we can still be friends, right?
Have a great day, everyone. Don’t forget to check out the return of the WFS shirts, for a limited time!

When my alarm went off this morning, I was in the middle of a dream. I was talking to Jean Stapleton, but she looked exactly like she did when I worked with her in “The Buddy System”, and she was a teacher at my elementary school. I was about to tell her something really important, and the alarm went off.
So the first thing I thought was, “damn. I was in the middle of a dream.” The Bangles did the rest, without any prodding from your humble writer.
My first day at G4 was awesome.
I was so scared on my way in, I can’t even tell you. I was absolutely terrified that I would mess up, or do something wrong, or crash the network, or just not fit in…but everyone there really is amazingly cool, and really made me feel at home. It’s weird…I’ve never sat at a desk before. Usually, for me, work means that I go to a set someplace, get ready, then sit around and read a book for a while, or play a game or something. I actually “work” for just a few hours out of the day…so I was really out of water, to say the least.
But it really worked out well. I had a couple of meetings, got used to my desk, watched a huge structure fire in Beverly Hills, ate lunch with my friend Travis, who was instrumental in getting me this job.
[Tangent: my friend Travis has really been amazing in my life since we started the whole “Mind Meld” thing for Vega$. That show would never have worked without his help, because I so didn’t know how to produce anything, and Travis did. He kept me sane and made that show come off without a hitch. Without Travis, the holidays would have been so much worse than they already were. The short version is, I owe Travis more than I will ever be able to repay, and I am eternally grateful for his friendship. If you have a friend like Travis, and if you do, you know it, consider yourself one of the luckiest people alive, and make sure that friend knows how important they are to you. Travis also has the coolest girlfriend, ever. She watches him play video games. For reals. Okay, end Tangent]
After lunch, I played my first ever game of Counter Strike…and I must say, I can’t believe that I’m getting paid to play this game. It is awesome. Yes, I know that I am a bleeding pacifist, but it’s just a game, folks, and it is REALLY fun. Especially when you’re playing on a LAN, and you hear the computer next to you errupt with gunfire, and across the office (we have the whole top floor of this building) you hear somone yell out, “Aw shit!”
Finally, I watched a beautiful sunset. There is something wonderful about watching the sky turn from silver to gold to red and finally to indigo and black. There’s nothing between our building and the sea, too, so when the air is clear, I get to watch the sun sink into the Pacific. I think I’m going to be really happy here. The only thing that I don’t like are the absolutely awful flourescent lights that sit above my desk. I had a headache in my eyes by 11 am. I’m told that everyone hates the floursecent lights, though, and I think we’ll be getting rid of them shortly.

ACME

The ACME show was awesome on Saturday night! All the sketches just killed, and I got, as Ed Marques put it, “sitcom-style exit applause” whenever I left a scene. A couple of people who read this site actually came to the show!! Kat came with Alex, and Dawn came with a whole OC posse. Dawn doesn’t have a website, and you’re sorry she doesn’t, guys. Dawn is a babe, and really nice, too.
I really, really miss the show that we did last summer. I made such great friends in that show, and things have been so busy and stuff since then, I haven’t been able to hang out with them at all, and, since haven’t been in the last two shows, I haven’t seen them every week. If you’re one of the pussies (that’s what we were called, like the “sweathogs”, but you can’t say it to your mom…sorry mom.), I MISS YOU GUYS!!
My friend Debra also came to the show, and she brought her cousin, who gave me a stile project T-shirt, which I wore proudly to the new job today. It was very funny to watch people look at it, and realize that they knew what the website was. I’d say the recognition was split about 50-50 between “That site is SICK!” and “That site is FUNNY!”
After the show, I went next door with the cast, and had a beer. We laughed like crazy, complimented each other on the great show, and talked about how much we needed to all get together.
I don’t know what’s more sad: not being able to get together, or saying we’ll do it, knowing that it’s not going to happen.

Return

By popular demand, I have brought this back. It will only be available for a short time, though, so if you’ve been beating yourself up about missing it last time, now’s your chance.

Wow. I found this via Pyramid at Steve Jackson Games.