Cool. I've been wondering when I could come see you perform. I'm excited now.

Can't sympathize with the commute. I usedtacould. I used to have a 32 mile commute from Oceanside to Del Mar, but with my new job, I have a 3.8 mile commute to work. Besides, LA is about 5 times the population of San Diego.

But, I know how you feel about traffic. I HATE IT TOO!!!!

My work compute?
20 minutes.

Oh and that is both ways.

yea, traffic sucks sometimes! i hope you have a good day wil. catherine wheel, lol, my older sis at wb, they nick-named her wheel after that. when i worked there as in intern i was the training wheel, and my little sis is the thrid wheel. just thought i'd share

Hey Wil, did I imagine it, or are you on the Invisible Man show?

Yeah, commuting in the Twin Cities is really rough, too. It took 20 minutes to go 20 miles 8-)

Of course, there is a down side. We're looking at single digit wind chills today and below zero temps tonight. At least we can get where we want to go in record time!

The Roughy show's been going on for days...weeks, months...over a year, even!

Admission: 1 piece of cheese.

Stop over.

Stoop over if you're Canadian.

HI! Dodgers baby!! Dodgers!! LOL!!Baseball is only good if you are there. Every summer on my birthday they have a game at Dodger stadium and we go to see it. Lets plan a trip to Magic Mountain. They have some wicked new rides.

Don'tcha all got no trains out there?

Go-go-gadget MetraRail!

Damn. Another reason to like you. Catherine Wheel is awesome.

I grok the commute thing. Seattle has similar traffic problems and it's impossible to live near where you work unless you work from home or happen to have large piles of cash stashed in your basement. Oh, and we have all these gorgeous-but-annoying geographical features like lakes and things that require the bottlenecking of bridges everywhere. The poor Hubby does an hour each way every day, and that's without rain or baseball games to fuck things up further.

*Snerk*
At least we don't have the smog :)

You should have seen the start to our day here! Good lord, we had to take Jeni to school, mom didn't realize dad plugged the car in. We backed out of the driveway and got a quarter of the way down the street when she noticed. Needless to say, it wasn't one of mom's cooler moments!

See, now this is when I really wish I lived in LA! See, being in good ol' Calgary Canada, I can't make it to any shows =( *sniff sniff* I have a good idea, you should come up for the Stampede! *wink wink, nudge nudge* Do some shows and enjoy us cowfolk! =D heeh! EVERYONE should come to the Stampede =D

Well I hope yer day gets better! Peace out peoples!

Catherine Wheel! Catherine Wheel!

Damn, you're cool.

:)

My BlueSox (the Cubbies!) hear your challenge, and this season we're gonna win the whole damn thing!

The drive to my work (otherwise being called a "commute") is only about 7 minutes each way. :o ) One of the upsides to living in a small Texas town of 20,000. There are downsides though, believe me....

Would love to try and see you in one of your shows sometime, Wil...you'll have to take it out on the road! :o ) Bring Anne and the boys too...I guess you could always kennel Ferris.

Take care,

Oh, and FYI...

WFS is doing a live chat today at 1:30 PDT/4:30 EDT. Through MSN.

Just in case y'all wanted to harass (and that's huh-rass. Not har-ris.) him.

I must not be music-literate enough to know who Catherine Wheel is...guess I'm showing my age here. :o )

And Penguin. I can so sympathize with that. When I lived in the Twin Cities, I was commuting from Richfield/South Mpls to Minnetonka (Ridgedale). Would usually take me an hour. (I was working at the Best Buy at Ridgedale) Then I was able to transfer to the Edina store and it wasn't quite as bad.....Driving in a parkway picnic with a stick shift SUX!

Hey, I live in Seattle, and I've got a whopping 15 minute commute in the mornings, and 20 minutes in the evenings.

'Course, that's using the Doc Martens express.

Living in 1st Hill and working Downtown has definite advantages. Until the walk home, which is 5 minutes longer because it's all uphill.

There are times I miss having a car. Then I look at the traffic conditions in Seattle...and grin and walk right by all the cars and buses, and realize that I really don't miss it all that much most of the time.

and that's PST and EST.

Duh.

So Wil, how's you cat Felix doing??? did you go to the vet?

So Wil, how's you cat Felix doing??? did you go to the vet?

There's no better way to unwind after a long drive than by going to Homestar Runner and laughing at the hilarity. Laugh at the hilarity!
http://www.homestarrunner.com

Strong Bad ownzjoo.

Hrm, a Jail-a-thon?
My boss took part in one of those. I just about had a heart-attack when the "police" came to "arrest" him.

And yeah, how IS Felix?

The commute... ahhhh the commute. Back in the days when I had to do such things it commonly took a bit more than an hour to do 30 miles into Boston from my vast country estate. Now that I telecommute, the run to work is about 50 feet.

But I do recall the stomach-acid-churning drives and the sips of coffee that did NOT help (but did taste good).

Currently listening to space music...

Baseball? Yeah. Right. Like the BoSox will do anything this year. I used to root for the Rockies back when I was a mountain lady... but no more. Now, if you wanna talk football -- the Broncos have always been mah boys.

And Wil... one other thing ... you have inspired me to create my own blog. I always had a web site, but never gave a blog a thought until I read yours.

Keep up the good work!

Funny, space writer, it's inspired me to do the same. I purchased my very own domain name today. Now I'm pouring over my "Creating Web Pages for Dummies" book so I can get started.

Next step is hosting thru logjamming.com. Once I have something to put up.

Stay tuned for the launch of

www.sarcasticcheese.com

(i'm sarcastic and from WI - thought it was fitting)

Traffic = Evil
Los Angeles = Traffic

Los Angeles = Evil

I have to go to LA on occasion for medical stuff. Good thing I don't drive, I get confused by the tangle of roads and freeways and annoyed by the traffic just bein a passenger.

NOworriesmon:

I started a web site back in 95 when I was working on my master's thesis -- sort of for relaxation. All about astronomy. The blog is sort of an extension of that; easier to update (mostly because I'm being a lazy arse and letting blogspot do the heavy lifting on templates, etc. for now). I get email through the site from people who have questions about astronomy and it seems easier somehow to answer them by posting to the blog.

Kinda fun and it helps me get focused in the mornings before I sit down to my book writing or video editing (whichever comes first).

I look forward to seeing your new blog.

I know this is gonig to suck, but "Go TIGERS!!!" I have to love my hometown underdogs.
In regards to the commute, be glad that you don't have to drive in blizzard conditions.

I really enjoy your site Wil. It's one of the first sites I go to as soon as I turn on my computer in the morning, besides the news.

heck Strange, you don't even need the first two parts for that proof to be true!

Wil,

I sympathize with your commuter nightmare: I live in the Washington/Baltimore corridor. It takes me an average of 1 to 1 1/2 hours to commute 18.5 miles. I loath the morning drive. It's not so bad coming home, because at least my husband doesn't scowl when I'm late!

Two other things: check out Worth1000 - my husband did an entry today that features your site banner prominently. I haven't seen it yet, but he says it's pretty witty. The contest is "Mate Worth1000."

The other is, did you see the article on MeFi about hacking Greymatter?

Wish I lived near LA. I'd love to see your live performances.

Corky

it's so nice to live less than 2 miles away from work. only takes 5 minutes to get there (I could walk if I wasn't a lazy bastard).

My commute is 7..yep 7 minutes.
God Bless Atlanta suburbs!!!!

When I used to go to college, it would take 20 mins by car and 40 min by bus except one day it took my over 3 hours to get to college. I would have given up and stayed home except I had a very important assignment due in that day so I ahd to get t o college. Man public transport sucks. I love to drive, I don't mind getting stuck in traffic either because it gives me longer to listen to my music. Roll on the day I can afford my own car.

Spike
8.38pm GMT
26th Feb 2002

So, is there some kind of improv "Sharks .vs Jets" thing going on between ACME and Groundling that we don't know about, Wil?

Wil, any chance you are coming to the UK anytime soon. It's kinda hard to come see you when you are several thousand miles away!

Dude, The Dodgers?! The Kings AND the Lakers?! Yer gettin' too way much flourescent light. The Phillies are gonna rock this year.

Although I have a feeling that the STUPID olympic lay-off is gonna kill all the momentum the Flyers had goin'.

I have to agree with Sayre:

"See, now this is when I really wish I lived in LA! See, being in good ol' Calgary Canada, I can't make it to any shows =( *sniff sniff* I have a good idea, you should come up for the Stampede! *wink wink, nudge nudge* Do some shows and enjoy us cowfolk! =D heeh! EVERYONE should come to the Stampede =D "

Only I live in Red Deer (150km North). I also have to point out the fact that I commute 2/3 across town on my bike in, if it's not windy, about 25min ;) OTOH I'm commuting on a bike when it hits -25..-30 (~-17F) regularily (overnight).

So ya, I'm thinking I would trade my lack of traffic for some beter weather & a little lovin from Unkie Wil!

Is there anyone here that is NOT a freakin' weirdo? Just curious.

What, besides, you, Jun?

I used to commute all the time until I moved to Chicago. Now, it's a 10 minute walk to a bus stop, a 20 minute ride to the El and another 20 minutes to the Loop. I am split. 50 minutes in my onw car with my tunes, fighting traffic, vs. 50 of walking, bussing and "El"ing. I think i prefer the later. It's good reading time.

Go Cubs (I like to get my hopes up and then have them crushered--see Bears)

Wil, If things get really bad, try the environmental Rain Forest CD. It's so soothing and there's even a lion roar!

Peace.

My commute is 30-40 minutes, and I should consider myself blessed, because for a lot of it, I get to see the majestic Koolau Mountain range every day, and sometimes there are waterfalls streaming down the slopes!

Depending on the route I take, I will see the Pacific Ocean, Kaneohe Bay, or both.

Damn I'm gonna miss this place.

Jun-Would we be here if we were?

Commuting sucks.

Commuting sucks.

Commuting sucks.

Telecommuting-good. Sure wish I had the type of job where I could do that.

I don't hold out hope anytime soon that my city of Detroit would ever put in mass transit. It would bite into the auto company profits.

Not that I should complain as my livelihood depends on it.

I'll stop babbling now...

Jun: No

Oh, and now that the olympics are over...

Go Wings!

I think I've made the suggestion before, but why not videotape one of your live performances, convert it to Real Video or something (easy and cheap these days), and slap it on the site?

I can see my place of work from my window. Well... today I can't see it because... it's SNOWING!!! It's finally snowing in landlocked south-central Indiana!!! That makes this snow-belt born-and-bred girl really happy.

Of course...I paid my dues in rush-hour traffic in the 'burbs of Cleveland... they're always trying to "fix" something that isn't broken, and wind up with traffic snarls that last for 20 miles. (I remember the day it took me 96 minutes to go ten miles...TEN MILES!!!)

If you lived in Olympia, Washington and WANTED to be riled up, you could listen to Democracy Now on this station called KAOS, and then -- well, on Monday mornings at least -- you could *un*rile to this really cool music show from ten til noon...
(Really, the citizens of Olympia and listeners of KAOS would be proud to see that link on your site.)

L.A? L.A. rocks. I'm jealous of that comment-er above who got to be an intern, even if it was at the WB.

I can almost sympathize with the work commute thing. I live in the Phoenix area, so the freeways aren't as bad as LA, but they're getting close. You need to plan a show at our new Dodge theater so that your fans here can see your show. If I could afford to go to LA to see you I would.

My last job (first one too) was 15 miles away, give or take. When I took the expressway, it took me 30 minutes to get there, 15 if I went the same speed everyone else was going.

Then on a lark, I went down the main city road...took me 30 minutes.

What was the point of spending 70 bucks a month on the expressway when I could go down the regular road for free for the same amount of time? Granted, the regular road clogged up more often, but generally it was 30 minutes to work and about 45 minutes to get home...but I enjoyed the ride home so I didn't mind the time.

my commute is WAY too far - bed to computer. at least 5 steps.

about the only bad part is that i prefer to go out for coffee - i have to walk a whole block.

...which is something ppl frown upon whilst wearing a bathrobe....

~spoonie

I'm in Orlando Fl, btw...

We're getting as bad as LA.

Avoid I-4 during rushhour at ALL COSTS!

Ah, commuting... what fun. When I lived in the Phoenix area, it used to take 90 minutes to drive 13.5 miles (all surface streets back then). When in San Diego, the ride was 45 minutes to go 7 miles. I now live in south-central New Mexico and my shop (that place where I go once in awhile to get the hell outta the house) is in El Paso (the armpit of the planet), Texas, about 75 miles away. I usually make it in under an hour.

God, I love LA, but you can keep the traffic!

I hate having to commute. I live just across the bay from S.F. and it takes a good hour to use BART to get into the city. Of course that doesn't include the drive to the Bart Station another 15 minutes on a good day or the walk from the station to my work another 15 minutes. Why in the Hell did I move here? Don't even think about driving your own car, I don't know anybody in their mind that would want to sit in the biggest parking lot in the BAY area.
Thanks for letting me rant and rave, I feel better now.

Hey, BART is a blessing, and you don't realize it till you don't have it. I would never even THINK about driving my car into the city during commute hours. I loved taking BART because I could read, sleep or do some work while commuting.

Granted, that I was sitting in a seat. :)

California baseball? It is too laugh. let the trash-talking begin as my White Sox start their road to the AL Championship.

I have friends who tell me my hour commute to work isn't so bad. Well, compared to their commutes that is true. What bugs me about my commute is that I have to drive 1/2 hour to public transportation (the PATCO Hi-Speedline Rail, er something like that)and then get on that for another 1/2 hour sitting next to some person who hasn't bathed since the other Bush was in office. I would rather just drive my car into work -it would take about 20 minutes, mostly due to traffic- but parking is a nightmare. Even if I manage to find a spot under a few miles from work I'll end up paying about $16 - $20 an hour for parking.

As for baseball, of course I'll be cheering for th Phillies but when I look at it realistically, I don't think its going to be a fantastic season. Hope I'm wrong. Well, my true love (as far as sports go) would be hockey. So go Flyers!

Joseph, you didn't understand me.

I was talking about *real* baseball, National League-style.

Not that AL, designated hitter bullshit.

I'll trade you the Angels for...uhm...a pack of gum and 3 dollars.

Come to think of it, keep the money and the gum.

:)

*****ATTENTION*****
STAND BYE ME, ON ENCORE MOVIE CHANNEL MARCH 4th,8th, 16th, 20th and 28th!!!!!!

White Sox?

What-ever.

Oakland A's all the way, baybee. Ain't no two ways about it.

Tired of the commuter drive? Want to impress the neighbors? Scare the dog? Look really farking cool?

The future is almost here. Sometime in the not to distant future you will suddenly stop in the street, look up, and shout "The future is here!" at the top of your lungs. But not now. It is not yet the future. But it is coming.

http://www.solotrek.com/mjet/index1.html

Oh, and whoever thought they saw Uncle Willy on Invisible Man was right. He played a bad guy who messed with people's dreams so they'd be unwitting suicidal hitmen.

God, I loved that show.

Which reminds me, BART is pretty neat. Fairly handy, it is.

I understand the pain of commuting. I live near Washington, D.C. Try going 15 miles in an hour. I do that now each way taking an hour. I used to live about 30 miles away from my job... I had to leave the house by 7:30 if I ever thought of getting to work by 9/ 9:30.

Oh, and the Yankees are the best!!! Okay, I don't really watch sports and I don't really live in NY anymore, but I have to be happy that my hometown team is pretty damn good, right? Don't hold it against me that my now hometown team is the Redskins....

Go Packers.

Oh wait. Baseball. Hmmmm. Gotta go with the Red Sox here.

Then the Cubs.

I'm a glutton for punishment when it comes to baseball.

So Wil, are ya comin down to "the Q" for any of the Dodger/Padre games? 1st one is 4/12-4/14. It's Padres Magnet Schedules weekend!

You root for the Red Sox, yes you ARE a glutton for punishment...

But, as they way down at the park, 'hope springs eternal."

Hey Wil ! I definitely would like to see you perform in that show; you were talking about "this season"... how long is that in months ? You see, I live in Germany, and that is definitely NOT in or near the City of Angels...(talking of commute...) but I'm planning on coming to the States this summer (most certainly end of July), so I'd like to know if the show is still playing then. It would be cool if you could let me know about that ! ! !

I live in a place called "chester". Bible belt conservativeville USA.

Anyway, the traffic here is never bad. Worse in the cities of Richmond and Petersburg which aren't that far off.

Guess, I'm lucky.

Last time I was out I ran over the damn bushes as I pulled off at Burger King.

Brilliant.....

Someone saw a penis on Invisible Man?

...or do i have my euphemisms mixed up?

Afraid I can't sympathize with the commute. At least you have a job, which you LOVE, Wil. You have said it yourself. Lucky Bastard.

Me? I would just settle for a job. Been out of work in the SF Bay for 10 months. Gimme the commute, gimme the stress, gimme a JOB.

At the moment I live in a city that is so small that you can drive from side from town to the the other in a full 30 mins yes it's that small here.
-I However soon i will be moving to a new city that it slowly catching up with L.A's driving problem and population.
Oh fun! but I want it to happen, I am going home.
So although Commuting sucks-
Commuting Realy sucks!
The positive choice is that you get more things to chose from for movies, entertainment, Food so before you complain about how far it is to drive make a list and notice how many types of bussinesses there are between each one including food.

Rawk Mr. Wheaton.

Catherine Wheel, Ferment is among the best records in the history of....best records. Great to play really loud while driving the pacfic coast.

-Hockey- Go Stars!
-Baseball- Go Rangers- although i don't watch them much

- Football- Go 49er's sorry Tx the let me down way too much.
that's my sports take- thanks

Wil,

Here's a little love to help make the rest of your day better too.

Star Trek TNG was my favorite Star Trek, but *gasp* I never hated Wesley. Then again, I didn't hate Jar Jar Binks either, so my taste may be questionable.

I found wwdn on a cafepress newsletter link, and came here because I was bored. But, ya got me hooked. I've now spent enough time wandering the site that my company would be embarrassed to be paying me for it (if they knew), and I now think that you are undeniably cool.

So hey, that should make anyone's day better, right? To know that yet another person has basked in the glow of their coolness? Yeah... it's all good!

Man, I sure do know what you're talking about with that commute. Why, every single day I have to get up and go all the way down the stairs to my office. This wouldn't be so bad, but the coffee pot is all the way on the other side of the house, so it makes my commute a lot longer.

Yes, Virginia, there is Telecommuting.

And it is goooooooooood!

I believe this is part where I'm supposed to say something along the lines of "Neener, neener, neener," but I'll refrain out of kindness, 'cause that's just the kind of gal I am. :-)

I'm definately in for a fantasy baseball league. And hopefully my team won't suck this year like it did last year. Just gotta hope the pitching doesn't fall apart, the offense should be just fine (although I'm still mad at Juan Gonzalez... leading us along like that...)

I completely agree about the AL not being real baseball. :) I guess it helps that I root for the OTHER New York team.

Yeah.. anyway. Back to work.

-metsfan

Someone said "Catherine Wheel is awesome."

Shouldn't that be ARE awesome? Trivial, I know, but they're a collective body, not a single.

Ferment rawks, all their early cds rawk, and even the later years definitely have some gems, but #10, Fripp, on Chrome, is one that, and I can vouch for this... making a tape of that song over and over and falling asleep to it every night for like, the last 8 months... nothing beats it. pure heaven.

Baseball?
My favorite team is, um, the Bad News Bears...

I completely, wholeheartedly sympathize on the LA traffic thing. Pico has been an absolute nightmare lately, and I'm this close to taking hostages during my morning commute.

"Black Metallic": great song. My CD of that is scratched though. The humanity.

Oo...live theater...

Me too, NFLgrrrl.

Mrs. Veteran:

Those slogs over to the coffee pot are killer! :)

Getting my cat to stop sitting on my keyboard is really a drag. (But, having her help me find new keyboard shortcuts in Adobe Aftereffects is pretty cool...)

About this time last year I was filing a story via email from a ship in the middle of the south Atlantic ocean. Hell of a telecommute!! There's a "neener" for ya.

:-p

for one my Jun: everybody in here is either a freak or a geek... those like u and i are the freaks.

2: how 'bout fantasy wrestling? that's more my thing........ or basketball, if that's not ur thing.

oh and...
C: i heard somewhere that u gave up acting wil b/c u couldn't get any more parts.......... please say it ain't so!
Peace, love, and bubble-gum,
Ronda LOU (now y'all kno my real name)

Well, I readily admit that I am a freakin' wierdo, but my husband doesn't want to travel 3,000 miles just to see one show. No matter how cool or funny one of the guys in it is. So, Wil, unless you're going to come to Dragon Con (oh please!), I'm going to throw my vote in with Synchronicity. Umm, do what he said.

Let... them... play!

Let... them... play!

Let... them... play!

I'm with Spoonie... roll outta bed, go to the computer, and I'm at work. Well, I do have to feed the dog and let him out 'cause be pees on everything if I don't...

I do NOT envy those of you who have to commute. Not one bit.

Traffic here can be bad. Savannah is a smaller city but it has more than its fair share of moronic drivers. People that block the opposing green light; people that cut three lanes for a left turn; and let's not forget the famous Abercorn St.

As for baseball, I much prefer watching NL over AL. My teams in order: 1)Braves 2)A's 3) Any other NL team 4) Any other AL Team 5)Yankees.

LA is beautiful. Would I live there? No! Its Beautiful though. I like the buildings. Hollywood is even better. Being so close I have seen tapings of That 70's show. Who's line is it anyway ummm and the Wayne Brady show. I live the perfect distance from everything. The staples center, Dodger staduim, Paramount, ABC studios, NBC studios, Sony Studios, Disney hell, Magic Mountian. AND All the famous stars tape where I live. Star Trek even taped were I live. :) I love SIMI AND CALI!! OH AND GO DODGERS EVEN THOUGH THEY SUCK!!

SpaceWriter: Heh! I had to banish the cats from the office, unfortunately. For one thing, my power supply fan ground to a halt one day from cat fur sucked into the intake.

As for the commute, hell, where I live there's no place more than, say, a 20 minute drive max. My friends from the bay area say that what we have here can't even be called a "commute."

I'm sure my trek to the coffee pot must come close, tho', even if it's not somewhere in the mid-Atlantic. lol!

Intersting tidbit of Dodgers history for DaleJrBlueEyes and the rest:

"The term 'Trolley Dodgers' was attached to the Brooklyn ballclub due to the complex maze of trolley cars that weaved its way through the borough of Brooklyn. The name was then shortened to just 'Dodgers'. During the 1890's, other popular nicknames were Ward's Wonders, Foutz's Fillies and Hanlon's Superbas."

yay i'm gonna have to watch Stand by me every night it's on t.v.! i just hope they don't take out everything.

I can totally commiserate with the commuting. I thought that my hellish NYC commutes of 1.5 hours on a cushy train, across 30 miles, each way, were over when I moved to Vancouver. Silly me. During the summer it takes me 1.5 hours to go 12k over the Lions Gate Bridge -- damn tourists! Of course the tourists who cause this headache are also the ones contributing to my paycheck -- I work for a vancouver tourism company. Oh and I've learned not to listen to talk radio. You get all riled up and then nearly get in an accident because you're yelling at the radio.

I used to listen to "Democracy Now" just to get the Liberal slant on things, but Amy Goodman's "reading" of the News was just too biased for me and an Insult to Jornalism.

Amy Goodman's biggest theme is that she hates George Bush; Just gets boring after a while. She cant even say his name without an obvious disdain in her voice.

I also have to agree about the American Leage/Designated Hitter. It just ruins the game and minimizes the role of the manager as a stratagest. Its just bad marketing.

Giants fan? Really? You know me, Wil. It's all about the A's

Dammit Courtney, I was just gonna say that!

--NT

That's right, Maverick.

A's are in da hizouse.

I am so NOT ghetto fabulous.

But the A's are. Have you seen the Coliseum? Gad, but that concrete&spilled soda goodness is bracing.

I have more Cubs tickets in the bleachers than I know what to do with.

There's no cooler place in Chicago than Wrigley Field on a Friday afternoon...

I used to live in downtown los angeles last year. my commute to USC was 5 minutes there and about 25 or 30 back. I only lived about 2 miles from school too

I've got a hell of a commute right now, myself...straight down I-25 through the southern half of the T-REX project. Usually, I don't bother with the freeway and go south through the Denver Tech Center until the traffic thins out...but that's not much better. Once we've moved to our new building, I might have a good alternate in E-470 if I care to spend the money for the toll road. However, bad as it is, it's better than the commute to my last job...that was 45 minutes up to Genesee Park, with a 2500-foot altitude gain right near the end.

Oh, and better watch out, Wil...my wife's a Giants fan. Yes, still, even though we live in Colorado now. The Rockies aren't worth her attention.

Eric

*it's snowing here*

That's all I have to say

Forget Chicago - bring the show to Toronto! I'd show up. I'd buy you beer, lots of it!

Also, our transit system rocks hard.

I don't listen to Democracy Now! very often, since I don't have a radio and can only receive the MP3 streams, but I caught it today. Dick Gregory needs to breate once in a while, but man is he fun to listen to. Loved the part about going back to toss a brick through a window at the restaurant he used to work and perform at after the management ignored him - now, that's getting attention:)

im one of those people who would go to a baseball game and end up starting counting heads in the audience because i have an attention span of a 5 year old. i did watch league of their own, with the overrated tom hanks. i only liked it because of jon lovitz though. am i goin' off topic? lol.. oh well, anyhow.. here's something original- go get you a nice comedy tape/cd/mp3 and listen to it on the way. you'll go into work with a smile.

Wow, I thought you kicked ass before. I didn't realize you were a democracy now listener until today. Good job.

Sorry, NT.

My penchant for trivia got the best of me.

Woohoo, go Giants!!

I enjoyed reading that post "let them play..."
I love that scene, haven't seen it in a long time.

Still gives me goosebumps. Bad News Bears in the Astrodome, with that little bastard Tanner running around the field juking the large old guy off his feet.

Doo doo doo doo doo doo shiney night...life is loooooking gooood, for YOU and ME!

More Bad News Bears quotes:

"Hello, how are you?"(Old guy pretending to be their coach).

"Ennnngleberg!"(When Engleberg had to take a dump and when he came back the van did the pull away prank while he held his tp).

Screw the Giants. They can keep their post little stadium with perfect seating and cleverly designed bay view.

I'll take my concrete monstrosity and the ragtag team of goofoffs and self-proclaimed dumbasses any day.

Although I must say, I did have a good time both times I was at PacBell, and the games were good.

DAMN YOU, GIANTS!

When I lived in Rancho Cucamonga and had to do the daily drive down the 10 to Hollywood, I got up at 4am, drove then, worked out, and then slept in the car b4 work started. No time lost with the family or others that way as they are asleep anyways.

Never take a job that forces you to have to leave work between the hours of 4pm and 7pm, if you have traffic to deal with of such proportions as LA. Traffic jams are stress and take up time, and that cuts out wages. If the job is that important, then move by work.

Live in the city if you work there, help the environment, fight the suburban-urban gap, and save time. Do it for your country.

Of course, this is just my own philosophy.

Hey Wil, are you the guy that played Wesley on Mr. Belvadere?

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tee hee!

really makes me wonder if I want to move four thousand miles across the Atlantic, to face the hustle and bustle of New York just to get to work in the mornings...... I mean... I LIKE the fact I have a 20 minute walk in the mornings and evenings.... nice and relaaaaaxiiing.... yup yup yup

Ok, forgive me. I read the About section. I had heard Wesley mentioned somewhere regarding Wil.

I apologize, I've never seen more than a few episodes of Star Trak. It's a good show, but I'm impatient and it always takes me awhile to get into an episode.

I really like this blog part of the site though. It's pretty damm sweet.

I had a nightmare of Mr. Belvedere awhile ago, and it even contained Mr. Belvedere's voice using the tsk tsk British bastardized tone of "Wesssley" and all.

Haunts me at times.

Burn in hell Belvedere.

I was looking for a blog for my site, and saw this one had the blog of the year award at moveabletype.

I'm going to use it. I like it. And since I found Spudnuts here and I like most of the posts so far, I believe I may stick around. Wesley seems pretty cool, I like his writing well enough.

I might have to beat the shit out of Bob Ueker tomorrow though.

{Fade out Mr. Belvedere music}

Bwahaha, commuting...*snort*.

Where I live, if it take longer than 15 minutes by car, then it's too damn far.

If there's ten cars ahead of me at the turn light, it's a traffic jam.

And I would have to agree with Ayingil with the fantasy wrestling thing.

Although my idea of wrestling would involve less clothes than the conventional way.

Non sequitor.

You liked State of Emergency for the PS2?

Yipes.

Not one of the better Rockstar games...at least in my humble opinion.

When we (the roomies and I) first heard about the concept of the game we were VERY excited. Visions of GTA3 dancing through our heads.

But the execution of SOE just didn't cut it for me. Too vertigo inducing for my taste.

Speaking of PS2. Did anyone else in the universe find Tron to be "problematic" when trying to view the DVD of it on the PS2? Right around the Tron meets ROM section in the electronic cells everything went utterly wacky and green and pixilated.

Thought it was just a bad DVD....turns out it looks more like a bad DVD production (with specific respect to the PS2 platform).

PS. - Love your site Wil. And as a Canadian...thanks for your gracious olympic hockey perspective. I'll remember it next time the US whomps us (pray it be not too soon...well...Free Trade Soft Lumber?) and try to be nearly as galant a sport as you have been.

Well i'm going to throw a spanner in the works by saying I think all sport should be banned!

My reasons:

1. At school if you were not good at sport you were made to feel useless and crap as if you were a sub human and not worth living or knowing.

2. There is way too much money sport. It should be about fun and health.

3. It's way too competative and people take it way too serious and thats when hoogalism happens. Yes I know it's only a minority, ut I know people who fall out because if the results of a sports fixture.

4. What's the big deal about sport anyway?!

I know this will cause people to get upset, and I appolize but I wanted to get my two cents worth in.

Spike
1.40pm GMT
27th Feb

Erbo,

You commute south through Denver! Agh! We used to live in Denver until a few years ago, and I commuted from Sloans Lake area up to CU in Boulder every day. I watched for 8 years as the US 36 corridor became more clogged, with more ticky-tacky houses being built along what used to be open meadows -- now when we go back it's as bad as anything I've seen in LA or NYC or Boston. We had given some thought to moving back to the area (we grew up there and lived there until we moved here to Boston area) but now that we can go anywhere we want, we've elected to stay here in "rural" Massachusetts for the nonce. Denver Metro has a great airport, but that's about it now.

And, I don't envy you the commute to Genesee. We nearly bought a house there and then decided against it.

Wil-

Why don't you take some video's of your shows, and put them up on the site so everyone who doesn't live in California can see them? Maybe just once in a while? I'd love to check one out but can't affort to take a week off and drive 2000 miles!!!

Just a thought,
Thanks.
Troy

Dang! I'm going to be in LA for that weekend to hang with a buddy of mine before I go to San Francisco for work, but I'm not coming in until Saturday. Sorry Wil, looks like I'll miss it. We were thinking about going anyway just to check it out. It'd have been cool to catch your show, though.

I have a 60 mile commute (1 way) that takes me @1hr 15min. Good thing I am commuting from rural MN to the Twin Cities instead of thru it. People think I am crazy from driving so much but after doing it for the last 3 years...I don't mind it so much except when the roads are icy.

Well I live in the UK and my 40 minute commute comprises of country lanes, fields and the odd deer. Usually it is most enjoyable.

Les wrote:

>Well I live in the UK and my 40 minute commute comprises of country lanes, fields and the odd deer. Usually it is most enjoyable.

If you see the odd deer, the next one's the even deer.

--NT

So, during all these hellish commutes, what music gets played on the car stereos?

Back when I was a highway warrior, I'd play just about anything to keep my mind off the mayhem going on around me. My favorites were things like Orb, or Eurythmics, stuff with some beat to it. Although I did go through a Beatles phase...

GO YANKEES!

Right now my commute is, at most, 10 minutes to, 10 minutes back. I did the long commute thing and hated it! Never again if I can avoid it.

GO YANKEES!

my commute was about the same back when I lived in North Jersey and commuted into the City. that's why I moved to DC where my commute is 20 minutes each way. eerily enough, the move also saved my life. my Path train station at the WTC was destroyed on 9/11. I can't even imagine what my commute would be like now if I were back home.

o_O Work? I think I missed something. What are you doing now for work, Wil? Oh, and I went over to Sears today... I broke down and decided to buy one of those food sealing devices. YOU know. Where you put the food in the baggie, and then put the baggie in the sealer, where it sucks the air out and then seals it so that you can (theoretically) save it in your freezer for 1 year, and then open it like a bizarre time capsule and magically, it's still good? Those things.

Well, I haven't had a chance to test it yet, and the reason I got one anyway, is because the secondhand one I got, doesn't suck the air out anymore. In fact, the secondhand one, just plain SUCKS, and not in the good way. So that's why I decided it was time to go to Sears and get the new one.

Of course, they have the much lauded Tilia Food Saver, that you see when you have insomnia and are desperate to watch ANYTHING, including HSN. But there on the shelf next to it, was a brand-new, and cheaper by about 30 bucks, knockoff. Made by Kenmore. Now, I had checked with epinions.com first, and there was nothing written yet on this product. But as most of you know, Kenmore makes good ovens and washers. So I figured, ah what the hell. I got that, and I'm going shopping Friday. So we'll see how it goes. PS, Wil: my friend Craig from England was just telling me that TNG was playing on tv earlier today... which I think is cool. Oh, and I was talking to another friend of mine, a nurse. Turns out scientists have actually made a VERY small amount of ANTIMATTER. Sobering thought. You may be on the Enterprise for REAL, in your lifetime.....

Lmao
Right this guiy is this little dude off of star trek, and he like uses sweary words,
Im 14 and i swear all the time,. but i mean you just dont imagine The little boy off of star trek to swear aigh? oH THIS is soooo confusing
What! 1am? Ive got school
shi...........
Oh wait its 1pm.... HUH. I should be AT school, hmm i wonder where my AAF album is.
Oh yeah its saturday
doh

Whoda thunk it? Wil Wheaton - Catherine Wheel fan...and listening to OLD, circa 1992 Catherine Wheel at that!!!

Party on, Mr. Crusher...er...Mr Wheaton. And please let it never be said that you lack good taste in music.

Giants!? Come on wil, you lived in Kansas for a while. How about a little publicity for the small town Royals instead of your big market california teams that can buy a world series trophy anytime they want it.

Well, MY commute was 100 miles to my blacksmithing job, uphill, both ways, in 10 FOOT DEEP SNOW!

My commute is not so bad...burb to burb on West side of Greater Cleveland so we don't get as much snow as the Eastside does. Depending on how many trains I cross, I'm usually not more than 20 minutes by main streets.

Kendoka mentioned the bad traffic here. It's mainly in the city at the inner belt that is the major hassle...but then again, Ohio's state flower is the orange barrel! *LOL*

Of course there is the issue of snow...we got a blast of snow yesterday and another today. Cars that aren't moving are sliding and hitting the walls (must be near the lake)...people forgot how to drive in the snow and accidents are happening all over the freeways. Last traffic report I heard part of 90 was closed in PA due to the number of accidents...YEESH....

I mainly listen to the radio and cd's during my commute. My current faves are Disturbed, Staind, Linkin Park, and Saliva...just to name a few.

Giants rule! Anybody who has been to a game at Pac Bell knows what I mean. They're the one sports team I can get behind and support all the way so anybody who wants to dis them will have to get through me!

wait... why is everyone so damn impressed you listen to Catherine Wheel.

I guess they really do think you've been out in space.

When I was a young 'un, I walked 200 miles in the SNOW, BAREFOOT to get to the farm... carrying 3 donkeys and a chicken.

The chicken was whiny little stinker.

Lenna, my commute was that awful stretch of I-71 near the airport... all I had to do was get from American Greetings over on Tiedeman, near the Plain Dealer printing facility... to the Strongsville Pearl Rd. exit... ten miles. But because they felt the need to expand the road by one lane there, they managed to tie up traffic for three years... and it still hasn't solved their rush-hour problems.

Of course, now I'm in south-central Indiana... where we don't get snow, but we sure get traffic. The Bloomington city planners wanted that "small-town" feel, so all of the roads on this campus of 37,000 students are one lane in either direction. On any given afternoon, I could "race" a car as I walk up 10th street for a mile...and win.

Oy.

Drive down I-10 west in Houston rush "day". I dare you!

Speaking of AG... I had a flashback to my days at the world HQ... all of the gift wrap displays that I helped to develop are now up... and here I thought I'd seen the last of those wedding and Easter endcaps... ack!

note to self... avoid kmart...

Ok, I had the worst commute while I was a consultant. At one point while I was working in Arizona, I had a 200 mile drive to get to a client, had to drive through the desert. Had to bring a roll of TP with me since there are no toilets in the middle of the deserts. I have left several turd droppings throughout the Grand Canyon State. Good, fertilized land. :)

black metallic is one of my favorite CW songs, good job wil

Wil, I know what you mean. LA traffic sucks the big one! You know what is kinda fun for long car trips other than thumbs? Books on tape. Especially for those of us who still have to do book reports. Listen to them and rent the book from the library.
I cant wait to see you on the J. Keith van Straaten show. I am a huge fan of Beet the Geeks. Good luck!

-Quinn

quote of the day, "Nothing good can come from staying with normal people."

I guess now's not the time to mention that I can see my office from my front door...

I have long commutes when idiots decide that they want to pull out of their parking space in front of me. It extends my 5 minute commute to about 5 minutes 30 seconds.

But it's like that because the place was available and I was tired of my long Atlanta commute. And I've seen New Yorkers scared of Atlanta driving.

SpaceWriter, I do what I have to. The job I'm working at now (down south) comes after 5 months of being unemployed because the folks in Genesee Park decided they didn't need me anymore. Commuting is about eight hundred and ninety-seven times better than not having a paycheck.

It's less of a commute now, really. 30 minutes from home to the office, maybe stretch that by another 5 when we move into our permanent building in 2 days. Compare with 45 minutes to Genesee Park. (I interviewed for a job in Boulder, but that would have been even worse...at least an hour, one way. The Boulder Turnpike is just a parking lot at rush hours these days.)

Most of the southbound I-25 slowing in the mornings is from about Hampden south to Belleview. I just go south on DTC Boulevard/Yosemite, and get on the freeway at Arapahoe, where it's thinned out from there south to County Line and Lincoln Ave., and bypass that area.

Of course, on Monday it was hell. Snow overnight, snow pack and ice on the roads, traffic at a virtual standstill. I wound up about 20 minutes late for work, but so did everyone else...Friday may be bad, too.

Eric

SpaceWriter, I do what I have to. The job I'm working at now (down south) comes after 5 months of being unemployed because the folks in Genesee Park decided they didn't need me anymore. Commuting is about eight hundred and ninety-seven times better than not having a paycheck.

It's less of a commute now, really. 30 minutes from home to the office, maybe stretch that by another 5 when we move into our permanent building in 2 days. Compare with 45 minutes to Genesee Park. (I interviewed for a job in Boulder, but that would have been even worse...at least an hour, one way. The Boulder Turnpike is just a parking lot at rush hours these days.)

Most of the southbound I-25 slowing in the mornings is from about Hampden south to Belleview. I just go south on DTC Boulevard/Yosemite, and get on the freeway at Arapahoe, where it's thinned out from there south to County Line and Lincoln Ave., and bypass that area.

Of course, on Monday it was hell. Snow overnight, snow pack and ice on the roads, traffic at a virtual standstill. I wound up about 20 minutes late for work, but so did everyone else...Friday may be bad, too.

Eric

Catherine Wheel...

Cool.

Know what's better?

Cheese Wheel.

want some cheese with that whine

Damn this traffic jam, but where else would i listen to certain radio shows?

Erbo,

I hear ya on the paycheck. I hear ya about the parking lot on the Boulder Turnpike.

When we lived in Denver we had a project going on that required us to go down to a video production house in the tech center. Only once did we ever ask for time during the day -- the drive always seemed to happen at the same time as some major pileup at south I-25. After that, we'd take after-hours time when the traffic wasn't so bad.

Telecommuting isn't too bad, once I got used to it. Sometimes it feels too easy, other days it's hard to get motivated. One thing about a commute is that when you finally get to work, you know you're at work.

I kinda miss the wide-open skies around Denver. Here in Mass. we live out in the country, but there are these danged trees all over the place.

:)

My ten minute commute every morning kills me. Traffic in this town sucks to high hell. I bet it has something to do with the Al Quaeda Network.

LA traffic is insane, isn't it? I am glad that I walk to work. I did the Blue Bus commute for a while and it drove me insane, but it was better than driving myself.
You're an SF Giants fan? I knew you were cool. (Well I know that you are anyway since you actually care about issues and aren't Hollywood plastic, but now you are even cooler.)

I say we leave Drew until he becomes somebody's bitch.

I think that it's really shitty for Wil to not update his site everyday.

Bitch is a bad word.

Coming soon to a 'blog near you.

Hey, Devon, Wil's got a life, you know. He has a regular job, plus acting and auditions, and a wife and two kids. Yet he still manages to come here and entertain us *almost* every day. I agree that it's a bit disappointing to come back and find nothing's changed, but there's no need to get nasty about it. Why not go to the Soapbox and check out the WWDN drinking game? :)

This is my good bye to Spud since he's leaving us for whatever exists outside of this website.

I loved B5.

bwahahaa...

Hey T'Sai Amanda, I understand that he's busy. But let's not pretend that none of the rest of us are either. I just want him to write everyday, at least once. For someone who has a blog, and especially a blog that has won awards I don't think that's too much to ask.

Anyway. I wasn't being nasty. I want Wil to write more because I love his site and what he says.

The Yankees will rule again this season (especially with Giambi), and i'm totally down for destroying anyone in fantasy baseball. I won my league last season, and I can do it agian.

...too far down, too late to make a difference, but ah well...

Two things:

1. Los Gigantes de San Fransicso are now, and will always be, a class act compared to Chavez Ravine dwelling swine.

2. I gotta say that Brazilian music will make any commute better. Actually, you may look forward to the commute after listening to some Joao Gilberto or Cetano Veloso. Give the Putamayo label's disc "Brasileiro" a try and see what that does for you next time you are in traffic. Trust me. This music heals even the most bruised souls of traffic.

Peace.

Used to have a 2 hour commute each way into NYC. Changed jobs to The Island years ago and now it is 11 miles and twenty minutes. Very reasonable.

As for baseball season, THANK GOD (I am not religious but I still thank it anyway) it is upon us. Fantasy baseball rules!!! Here come the Mets again this year, the second best team money can buy. (Unfortunately the hated Skankees are still #1)

I wasn't exactly looking for a reason to watch, but I'd do anything for a Catherine Wheel fan!

All CW fans should hit this site -> http://www.cwlivearchive.net

Commuting can be a pleasure if The Wheel is on.

Peace.......doc

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