You know, I’ve been a Kings fan since the purple and gold days.
So you’d think I’d be used to this.
But goddammit! They showed such promise in this series…but here’s the thing: you don’t score 4 goals on Patrick Roy in a game 7, ever. Forget the empty-netter. Longtime Kings fans saw that one coming.
On the other hand, it is strangely reassuring and familiar to have the Kings eliminated in the first round of the playoffs. And that meltdown in the third period was vintage.
Oh well, at least we have the Dodgers.
Oh, wait.
Nevermind.

April 26th is here, doo dah, doo dah.
Hey! My Los Angeles Kings beat the Colorado Avalanche in OVERTIME last night, to keep their playoff chances alive!
GO KINGS GO!
Nolan wants the Avalanche to win, because he always plays them as his team on PS2, so we had much fun last night, watching the game and cheering for our respective teams. Ryan isn’t that crazy about hockey, but he did watch the first period with me…then I hammered him in USA vs. The World mode on NHL 2002.
I really treasure things like watching a game, or playing PS2 with them. Nolan even tried to work the “Hey Wil, since this is such an important game, can I stay up past my bedtime to see what happens?”
So of course I didn’t give in…not. I let him stay up until the end of regulation, which was about 9:30…his bedtime’s 9, so that wasn’t too bad. When the Kings won in overtime (YEAH BABY!) I jumped up from the couch and gave one of those victory screams…you know the kind, right? I mean, unless you live in Chicago…or Sacramento.
Well, I gave one of those screams, and ran into the back of the house, not realizing that Nolan was probably asleep…until I got to his bedroom door, and saw him, lying on his bed, eyes shut. Without even opening his eyes he deadpans, “Kings won, huh?”
I love it when he deadpans stuff like that. I think he gets that from me.
So, I’ll be away for the weekend with The Guys(tm). There won’t be any more updates until Sunday night, or Monday night, depending on how crazy the weekend is.
I hope everyone has an awesome weekend, filled with magic and illusion!
/doug.henning

This is one of those updates where I say, “I don’t have time to update!”
I’ve got ten billion things to do this week, so I don’t think I’ll have time to say much of anything here.
However, if you live in Sacramento, you may want to come out to Boomer and The Dave Day tomorrow. I’m coming up from Los Angeles to hang with them, and play dodgeball against Tiffany.
Yes, that Tiffany.
It should be hellafun.
Ah, incidentally, I have heard this Ashley Judd rumor, and it’s news to me.

Hey! It’s Friday, and that means we’re all struggling to figure out what to do with our weekends…
Of course, if you live in or around Los Angeles, you can hop on some of our clean, safe, effecient and reliable public transportation, and come over to the ACME Comedy Theatre tonight, and catch me doing The J. Keith vanStraaten Show. Our lead guest tonight is David Carradine, who played Cain on Kung Fu!
Farkers know that this weekend is Fark Fest LA, and there are hellacrazy Fark opportunities. Should be Super-sized fun.
Now, seeing as how my wife and kids are out of town, you’d think that I’d be out this weekend drinking and enjoying some fine entertainment…but you’d be wrong. I’ll be writing all weekend, and playing GTA 3, because I am that lame.
G4 made an announcement yesterday about our programming lineup. I’m still not allowed to say too much about my show, butI think I can safely say that we filmed two episodes yesterday, and I’m really, really happy with how they turned out. I’m really proud to be part of this show.
There is a message board that G4 has set up for all the shows (this link goes straight to Arena), and you can login and talk about my show with me and some of the people behind it…now, I heard from this magic talking donkey that the folks at my network are watching the traffic on the board to guage interest in the new shows. So if you’re interested in Arena, and you want G4 to know, log in and tell them!
Finally, I found out something pretty cool yesterday: WWDN is ranked number 20 on the all-time top ten list* at Blogdex. I just thought that was really cool. This website has really grown over the past few months, and I love it that so many people are reading it. 🙂
I hope everyone has a great weekend!
Thought for today:

“The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.”
-Albert Einstein

*I realize that you can’t be number 20 on a top-ten list. Sure, I could change it, but it just illustrates my lameness in a beautiful way. 🙂

Hey! Check it out! I’m the Arch Enemy of the Week over at Dogbus.com!
Something Awful also has a really funny story about $cientology today, where they take the now-familiar “space nerd Wil Wheaton” jab at me.
I love those guys.