throwin' the goat of the week
WWdN:iX readerJB wrote:
[I]f you don't read AssignBlame.com, you really should. You're the Goat of
the Week, evidently. Check it out.
Because I'm a fan of both goats and assigning blame, and because I am a huge fan of the word evidently, I headed over and took a look:
Honestly, I’d say Wheaton has been a big influence on other celebrities starting up their own blogs. Whether they’re ghost written or actually penned by the celebrities themselves, there is now a glut of Hollywood claptrap flooding the internet. Pamela Anderson, Rosie O’Donnell, Melanie Griffith, Barbara Streisand, William Fu***ng Shatner, Tom Green, Al Roker, Hillary Duff, and freakin MOBY for chrissakes -- all of them have blogs out there on the internet. All of them are spewing their “I’m so fantastic” bile onto what was once a pristine electronic frontier.
In the hands of these “You like me, you really really like me” publicity whores, the internet is going to slowly become yet another cog in the Hollywood Spin Machine. Celebrity Drunk Driving? Repentant blog post. Paparazzi caught you topless on the beach? Outraged blog post. Didn’t get the part you wanted in the newest M. Night Shyamalan film? Sympathetic, downtrodden blog post. With enthusiastic publicists and greedy agents, we already can't tell the honest, well-meaning actors from those who are just using it as yet another publicity mouth-piece.
And it’s all your fault, Wheaton.
You had to go and create something good. You had to start something that was enjoyable for people to read. You had to make something that we could rely on to provide us with a laugh, or a sniffle, or a cry of outrage on a regular basis. You had to go and TOUCH us, Wil.
And now all these posers think they can do it too.
When I saw the title of the entry was alt.wilwheaton.die.die.die, I wasn't exactly hopeful . . . but this is actually pretty goddamn cool. I would like to say thank you, and I'm sorry. :)
Comments
See what you started now everyone has a blog. : )
Let me just say, yours is better than theirs.
Madie
Posted by: Madie | November 18, 2005 07:38 AM
They can say what they want but you still have the best blog ever.
Posted by: Lex | November 18, 2005 07:51 AM
Oh, Wil, what have you done to us?! You make us love you and then you torture us. What's next: Hurt me, please me, make me write bad checks? Road to hell and all that...
KaliAmanda
Posted by: KaliAmanda | November 18, 2005 07:52 AM
Look what you did. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Pam Anderson started a blog because of you. Oh, the horror. Of course, if it's just a visual Blog - maybe that's not all bad.
But still.
Three rinses with Irish Spring for you young man.
Posted by: Nyarl | November 18, 2005 07:55 AM
It seems that your blog is the one we keep coming back to. From your political rants (which I don't always agree with), to the illness of your pets (which moved me greatly), to your auditions, to your wife and kids and your fascination with poker, your site has a reality like no other. It is what makes you real to us Wil. We hope you never turn your site into a celebrity site. We hope what we are seeing is real so we can come back day after day and see what you are up to, just like an old friend, with all the successes and failures that the rest of us have. The likes and dislikes the stability and the insanity is what keeps us coming back. You're just doing what the rest of us do...the best you can...and everyones best is different. Enough of the sentimental crap. I'm not even in your age group you young whippersnapper you..........
Posted by: Carolyn | November 18, 2005 08:04 AM
Imitation is flattery, but faux never can compare to the real deal. Thanks Wil for being you.
Posted by: scottthomlinson | November 18, 2005 08:16 AM
What he said :)
Posted by: JessHollis | November 18, 2005 08:21 AM
It never occurred to me that I could actually blame you for the fact that I'm a hack.
I'd sue, but I like your blog too much.
Dammit.
Posted by: golfwidow | November 18, 2005 08:32 AM
Ummm, Wil touched me, what states is that legal in again?
:)
Posted by: unsane1 | November 18, 2005 08:39 AM
I never knew those people had blogs. I think it's because I never actively saught out Barbara Streistand's website.
Posted by: VeronicaRobinson | November 18, 2005 08:55 AM
If you like goats, you are gonna love this. Very odd.
stiff legged goats
Posted by: Steve Conlan | November 18, 2005 09:08 AM
Wil, unfortunately I discovered your blog just about the time the original WWdN went down, fortunately iX has filled in nicely. I found you via Card Squad, as I am a beginning poker player, and I was thinking, naahhh...it couldn't be THAT Wil Wheaton, could it? It was great to find out that you didn't just fall off the face of the earth. I'm having a great time reading both your blog and your Card Squad posts. I'm on Poker Stars, but I'm still doing the play money learning thing. Hopefully I'll have my bankroll together so I can play in some of your invitationals. Keep up the good work, and I'll throw a double goat back to ya.
Posted by: iamhoff | November 18, 2005 09:11 AM
Exactly what they said. ;) Your blog is always a great read and I am glad you take the time to share a part of yourself with all of us...
Posted by: Valerie | November 18, 2005 09:32 AM
Okay, I jsut want to know why this person even knows that Barbara Streisand has one if he/she can't stand celebrity blogs.... just wondering....
Posted by: kc9eow The Great Radish | November 18, 2005 09:48 AM
Way to be such a trend setter!! :)
Posted by: amyv | November 18, 2005 09:50 AM
Wil,
I never thought of WWDN as a "celebrity blog". It's a blog written by a guy who also happens to be a celebrity.
I visit WWDN daily because what you right resonates with me, it's insightful and funny and often touching. It's real. I'm leery of "celebrity blogs" because they reek of "Look at me, I'm just like you little people! But don't get too close to me, let's not forget I'm extra-solid-gold-special and you are all my minions. Now read my trivial thoughts that my publicist wrote."
And, by the way Wil, yours was the first blog I ever read and I read it for a year or so before I finally took the plunge myself. So, thanks for the inspiration.
Posted by: Steph | November 18, 2005 10:23 AM
right=write
Posted by: Steph | November 18, 2005 10:24 AM
Great lines we'll never hear but should.
Chef - "Wil Wheaton influenced Pamela Anderson AND Rosie O'Donnell AND Melanie Griffith AND Barbara Streisand?"
Kyle - "Yes."
Chef - "At the same time?"
Posted by: fred | November 18, 2005 10:33 AM
I have read other celebrities' blog, and I don't find them interesting. At first, I feel funny that you are a celebrity and you have a blog, but as time passes, I find your blog to be remotely interesting, funny and insightful. You just make me want to read your blog daily :)
Posted by: Iceriver | November 18, 2005 11:03 AM
I've been reading WWdN for just over a year, but today's post prompted me for the first time to register and comment. I too, thoroughly enjoy your writing, whether it recounts a poker hand or a shared moment with your family. I think what draws people to return day after day is your honesty, something that all the other "celebrity" blogs certainly lack. Please keep up the excellent work. It is appreciated.
Posted by: Scott | November 18, 2005 11:34 AM
I've been a huge fan of WWDN for many, MANY months... even going back and reading the older blog entries... I'd created an id for that site, but never responded...
I've always been thrilled with visiting there and here in Exile.
Wil, from an older fan, way to go!
Matt
Posted by: matt | November 18, 2005 11:38 AM
I like Fred's comment. I'm sad I didn't think of it.
Damn you, Wil for making us read your blog every day! Jesus!
But seriously, while I also check out Margaret Cho's blog as well (she's got a hotlink to your blog, in case you didn't know) your blog is the only one I visit every day and certainly the only one I comment on. Not to suck up (well, hell, why not?), sure, you're a celeb but I'm always very impressed by your writing, humor and insights. That's why I keep reading.
Posted by: love2all | November 18, 2005 12:19 PM
"Or the number of times I’ve run into my housemates and one or the other of us has said, “Did you see what Wil posted today?”"
that happens every day in my house heh. only we call you wheaton cause we feel weird calling you Wil, like we know you heh.
Posted by: i_bleed_magenta | November 18, 2005 04:37 PM
I just Found this site after being bored at work and clicking on your link at startrek.com. This is a great site wil and just for the record, I would rather be dragged over broken glass than read pam andersons mental ramblings. you may well have created a blogmonster
Posted by: lamunky | November 18, 2005 04:49 PM
Doesn't it bother you that your blog is broken? It's been over 50 days.
One day we'll look back and say "09/26/05 was when Wil went from wired to tired."
It's not too late to get your pride back.
Posted by: daha | November 18, 2005 05:26 PM
For the record, I think that moby's blog is pretty great. It is certainly written by him, and features some pretty interesting, if slightly stream-of-consciousness, stuff.
WWdN[iX] it is not, but it should not be lumped in with Pamela Anderson's blog.
Posted by: Josh Glover | November 18, 2005 05:37 PM
But... but...
I don't care about a blog from Pamela Anderson or Rosie O'Donnell (&etc). This blog, and its currently-unavailable predecessor, which will be back any day now I'm certain, are, and I'll set it apart for emphasis:
(a)Well-written entries
(b)In a language I understand
(c)Without that creepy feeling that I'm being cultivated as part of A Following to be used to preserve or further a career.
I even read the poker stories, and I don't like poker.
Who else is going to actually be interesting?
Posted by: maura | November 18, 2005 08:30 PM
David Byrne has a great blog/journal at davidbyrne.com. Of course, I think one prerequisite for having a great blog is to be able to talk intellegently about something other than yourself. That excludes 90% of celebrities right away.
Posted by: Debbie | November 19, 2005 05:33 AM
Oh Wil, it's ok we still I
Posted by: morgan | November 19, 2005 05:38 AM
Wow, that is actually a *really* cool article! :D
Posted by: Mitch Malone | November 19, 2005 05:42 PM
Yours...is...s-superior.
Sorry, watched ST:II TWoK last night. That seemed to fit. I needed some nerdosterone after a weekend of manual labour.
Keep on bloggin in the free world.
Posted by: ShaneSerack | November 21, 2005 06:14 AM
Only fangirls and boys will read those crappy celeb blogs, we read yours because it's good (even though some of us happened upon it originally because we either thought you were really hot or because we were jealous that you got to kiss Ashley Judd and wanted to be you). I don't even consider you to be a celeb. I consider you to be an awesome nerd like the rest of us who was/is on TV and in the movies sometimes. It certainly doesn't define you, you've got way too much personality to be defined by that.
Posted by: Lady Kairuka | November 21, 2005 08:51 AM
I will truly blame you when Kevin Costner starts a blog.
That will be as fun to read as watching bread mold.
Posted by: adena bailey | November 21, 2005 05:56 PM
Weather you like it or not, you have 75% of the “Goat of the Week” vote.
Posted by: griff | November 22, 2005 11:30 PM