Something very important just occurred to me:
If I left my house right now, I could be in Vegas by 2:30.
That’s with a stop for A&W rootbeer in Baker.
Just sayin’, is all.

Once again it comes scrollin’ back — scroll buttons get ill like a heart attack! (with apologies to Strongbad)
A WWdN reader wrote:
: So your advice to get “The Dark at the End of the Tunnel” worked out ok, so
: try this one…
:
: Can you rank the Radiohead albums from “best” to
: “don’t bother”?
:
And I wrote back:

Yes. I’ll also rank my favorite song from the album:
KID A – The National Anthem & Idioteque (tie)
The Bends – Black Star
OK Computer – Paranoid Android & Airbag (tied)
Amnesiac – Knives Out
Pablo Honey – Thinking About You
This is more ranked from “Listen to it all the time” to “Listen to it not as often,” because there isn’t a Radiohead album I could refer to as “don’t bother.” I ranked OK Computer third, even though it’s my favorite, because it’s not very accessible the first few times you listen to it. It’s one of those albums that really “grows” on you, because it’s so, well, ‘full’ is the best word I can come up with. Kid A is first, because that’s the one I use to convert^H^H^H^H^H^H introduce people to Radiohead.
I ranked Pablo Honey last, because it’s thematically different from the rest of them. It’s cool to listen to it, followed by The Bends, and then OK Computer (the order they were released) and watch their evolution.
Let me know what you think when you give them a listen.

Here’s a page of Radiohead listings from the WWdN Library, if you’re one of the 6 WWdN readers who doesn’t already own all their stuff, plus the Imports. 😉
If anybody needs me today, I’ll be out burninating the peasants in my brand new TROGDOR T-shirt that just arrived!

Guess who got mentioned in USAToday’s hip clicks?!
Holy crap!!

lit clicks
Wil Wheaton, everybody’s favorite blogger/actor, has written a book. I’m all over the essay about “a few beautiful moments spent dancing in the rain.”

This is so awesome. 🙂

I kicked ass on the audition, according to the CD.

She told my manager that I was “amazing,” that I had “just incredible energy when he walked into the room” and that I “‘got’ the character — something we’re really having trouble with.”

I guess nobody who reads this character groks him, and I did. That’s cool.

But I’m too young. I play late 20s and this guy is early 30s.

So no job for me . . . but a great audition, and a good impression made on a big time casting director.
A year ago, I would have been all torn up about this, but I got the news, and was like, “Oh, okay. I’m going back to work on Just A Geeknow.”
I have even more exciting Dancing Barefoot news:

• We’ve added all sorts of cool stuff to the Media Kit: an excerpt from the book, including a scaled-down illustration, a collection of some of the reviews, and updated banners and stuff. The Media Kit page is designed for other bloggers who want to help support my book, by linking and stuff. You can also use the downloads to convince your significant other that it’s worth buying the book, or to show your local indie bookshop owner why they should stock it. 🙂
• We’re very close to finalizing international shipping. This has been a real pain in the ass, but I think we’ve worked out the best balance of cost vs. shipping time. We should have something set in digital stone by the end of the week.
• I have gotten two more awesome reviews, and I share them now:

It goes without saying that Wil Wheaton is one of the great geek
stories of our time. But who’d have thought he could DELIVER some
more great geek stories? Well, in the pages of Dancing Barefoot, the
man behind Wesley Crusher does just that. Full of humor and humanity,
Dancing Barefoot’s writing style is packed with the kind of easy,
natural, honest quality that is so in evidence on Wil’s award-winning
Blog site. Touching, genuine and funny, these are true-life stories
you don’t have to be a dork to enjoy. Deeply impressive, I can’t wait
for his next book!
-John Kovalic
Creator, Dork Tower

Holy.
Crap.
It’s like Bob Gibson telling me, “That’s a hell of a fastball you’ve got there, kid,” or Patrick Stewart saying, “That was some nice acting there, Wil.”
*beam*
I also have a review from the great Kibo himself:

Wil is a great writer, and the proof is in the way he makes you smile so
easily.

Ferris and Riley seem to think that the best place to play (and by play I mean wrestle, with the snarling and the barking and the jumping and the flaven) is immediately underneath my desk.
Unless I walk to the kitchen to refill my coffee. In that case, the best place to play is running tight circles around my legs. I guess there are bonus points if they knock me down.
So the big news in my life is the stunning success of Dancing Barefoot. Since Thursday, when we took the Monolith Press website live, we’ve had over 10,000 unique visitors, and I’ve taken orders for over 200 books! 200 books in four days, man! Without any real advertising beyond the Internet! How cool is that?