FNORD.

Hoopy Frood

I saw this site in my referrer logs, and went there, expecting the usual…but it turns out that this guy actually said some cool things about me:

BBSpot recently ran a short interview with Wil that’s funny enough to make you suspect it was ghost-written by someone who studied Advanced Modern Cultural References at Harvard.

and

Wil Wheaton is apparently a geek, a practiced wielder of sarcasm, and an all-around hoopy frood in general.

Now I’m off to do the happy geek dance.

DoublePlus Ungood Thoughtcrime.

Some thoughts on the previous post, which I’d have put in comments, but the comment thread is so huge, I didn’t know if anyone would see them..so, uh…yeah:
I am horrified at the way this kid appears to have been treated. I think a BIG part of it was that he *IS* a kid, and a non-conformist kid at that. I was a non-conformist kid, and I am a non-conformist adult. I know how McWorld treats us…they just give adults less shit because adults stand up for themselves more than kids do. Maybe he didn’t handle himself well…but kids tend to react honestly to things…and I’d honestly freak out at someone if they gave me shit for the book I was reading. The authorities there clearly knew that they had over-reacted, because they fabricated a story about him making a bomb threat. Don’t lose sight of that.
Should airport security be tightened? Duh. It should have been brought into line with the EU years ago. Why wasn’t it? I dunno…but I’m willing to bet it had something to do with corporate profits.
I didn’t say that this was scary because I am against airport security. Let’s all get that straight. Remember that there was a commision formed specifically to address possible terrorism in the US, and their findings and reccomendations were ignored. Arianna Huffington has an interesting theory.
I was dismayed to read some comments that seemed to fall right in line with the “You’re with us or you’re with the Terrorists” rhetoric, seemingly heeding Ari Fleischer’s warning to “all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do, and this is not a time for remarks like [Bill Maher’s on PI]; there never is.” But I am happy that, now more than ever, we can all conduct ourselves here with dignity and aplomb, and argue ideas, not personalities.

War is Peace

This is scary.

Here Comes Your Man

Last night, I went to the screening of my latest movie, “Jane White Is Sick And Twisted“. It was very, very cool. The screening was a benefit to raise money for the American Cancer Society to benefit breast cancer research, and I hear that we raised close to 10,000 dollars. Cool!
I am always nervous before a screening…I never know what the audience is going to think, I don’t know if the movie is going to suck…it’s never a fun, relaxed thing for me. So I was very, very happy to see that the movie is indeed funny, and I think I’m really good in it. I always worry that what I prepared in my head and what I did on the set won’t make it into the final cut, which happens more often than you’d think…just read any of William Goldman’s books, to get an idea of how an asshole director can ruin a movie.
A big challenge for me right now is to convince The Industry that I can be funny…I once made some flyers for a comedy show I was in, and wrote on the back: