Tom Tomorrow rules! I use him (and Michael Moore) as barometers on American Culture and Politics (I am not American myself). Two fine minds (and sharp satirists) if you ask me.

Hey Wil!!! I hope to become a regular here on your site. Hey if your donating proceeds of selling pic of yourself I am interested in buying one if it helps someone else. Lets call it one of my selfless acts this year. I'm not sure how my husband will take having a pic of you on our ceiling about the bed (joking), but he will have to deal with it. Let me know where I can get a pic.

350 bucks may seem like a good bit to help an animal shelter...until you end up buying an English Bulldog for a thousand, and then another 600 on vet bills. So what's the lesson here? Let Bulldogs go extinct, and save the rest of the canine population.

Personally, I admire Tom Tommorrow very much, and see nothing at all wrong with helping homeless dogs. But let me play devil's advocate for a moment --or just draw out the implications of your post: does this mean part (or all) of our donations to the soapbox "tip jar" should go to a similar cause? Just a thought...

hey wil! i just recently became a wwdn fan. i would absolutely love to help out with donations, so that is my next stop.

Or the lesson could be dont spend a thousnad dollars on a dog and just adopt one that needs a home....

Re: last comment by me. Never mind, I know where to go!!:)

Sent in $5 via Paypal

If I buy a picture, will you send it to the shelter, too? They should see the mug of the guy giving them $350.

tom tomorrow is a communist, america-hating wimp. just like you wilwheaton. our young people will soon be fighting to protect the usa. and what will sean penn,tom tomorrow and wilwheaton be doing? sitting around, undermining the usa. you hollywood cowards have NO answers. you want hold hands and sing for peace, while people are trying to kill us. you're liberal slime.

Thank you for providing this website, you commie bastard. Being able to post things like this behind the anonymous safety of the Internet makes me feel powerful and important.

67.24.69.249

I usually wander around my little life, muttering about how much I really don't like people lately. How I wish sometimes that some extinction level event would just wipe out human life on the planet. Let the animals have it, I say. Then I read stuff like this, and I just say "Awwww...ok, fine. Humans aren't all THAT bad."

very nice of you wil.

This "liberal slime" digs the Hearts and Homes idea. How dare you, wilwheaton, have a mind of your own? MY GOD THINK OF THE CHILDREN... ;)

Hey Comrade "Hollywood" WilWheaton (your names have been combined for the purposes of the advancement of Communism),
I would donate if I was able. I wish I could. I love dogs sooooo much. For everyone who donates, thank you.
Solidarity, Comrades!

We all know that the real Wil Wheaton is held captive in a prison, right?

Blah blah blah...

Yeah, and while I'm at it...

How long 'til someone gets the farking Depeche Mode reference, eh?

I thought that log title seemed familiar. I guess there aren't enough 30somethings around here to pick up on it.

I bought an 8x10 shortly before xmas..if you want, add it to the donations. I have 4 cats, 3 dogs and 16(yes 16) rats..all of them rescues. (i think the humane society secretly injected some sort of sucker chip under my skin that triggers an alarm whenever I am near them..and it hypnotizes me into going in..well, that's my story and im stickin to it)
Anyway, I think its a great idea.

kim

SOB! OKAY ALREADY! ... Sent 5 bucks
kp

Ugh.
As soon as I went to his blog my computer crashed. Fatal error, blue screen, then black. The whole pretty process. That's f*cked up. I'm afraid to go back to that site because unlike Bart, I know not to touch something after it's given me an electric shock.

Anyhow, I'd love to help the doggies in Brooklyn but won't donate to U.S. causes anymore (the exchange rate isn't attractive and my chocolate-auctioning experiment failed).
If I had unlimited funds I would be donating to my local humane society.

I'll try to remember to spread the word about this fund drive.

wil, i enjoyed the story of how anne saved ferris long ago, when it was originally written, and it was great again just now.

If it is one think I never have to worry about is getting rich from tips at my site

http://StarTrekLinks.net

But then it is just a resource site. Most of my wonderful (cough cough) words of wisdom can be found here at wwdn.

a worthy cause, and a great idea wil.

and for what it's worth, morons like 'joe public' are just insecure men with no mind of their own.....it's sad really..something should be done for them.

how about sending a small portion of the 8x10 money to the 'i believe everything i see on CNN and have my opinions given to me by republican spin-meisters' foundation.

actually, scratch that....

just send it all to Hearts & Homes for Homeless Dogs

it's a good cause, and they deserve all the help we can give them.

Wil,
Our contributions will never be enough but it is better than not to give at all. Dude, what is a pimpf? We never get the whole story. Somethings never change. Great cause.

FG

"Pimp F" would be a great show.

In the not too distant future... say... 1993... the Brazilian government creates a race of genetically engineered pimps. Pimps A through F. Pimp F is the best pimp of all. He can scale buildings and has an acute sense of smell. He also has a bionic hand.

Pimps A through E ex-scape the lab and travel to Galveston. But Pimp F tracks them down. He has to team up with a rookie Interpol agent who is female.

And Asian.

And Irish.

She's ex-IRA.

And she has a wooden leg.

Which allows her to fly.

Because it is rocket-powered.

Pimp F works his way through A through E before confronting Pimp G (WHAT?!). Who is even more advanced than Pimp F.

They fight.

And Pimp F gets blinded.

So the Interpol chick with the wooden leg guides him through a maze.

Made out of mirrors.

The mirrors represent all of the levels of his pimp psyche.

Or something.

At some point, J. Edgar Hoover is reanimated as a centaur and the three fight it out on the St. Louis arch...

Pimp F, Centaur J. Edgar Hoover, Pimp G, and the Interpol chick.

Whose name is Renee.

Chang.

Pimp F wins and he leads a march of 10,000 pimps into the heart of DC where the president greets them and declares every first Monday and Thursday of each month as Pimp Day I and Pimp Day II.

I suppose Aerosmith should make an appearance at some point.

On the other side of the nation in Denver, Jared from the Subway commercials is killed in an auto accident. The paramedic says: "Jared is dead. Some lucky people are going to get his parts because it says here on his driver's license that he is a donor."

So, at that exact moment the other paramedic hears the president giving Pimp F his award on the radio and the president comments on how it is such a tragedy that Pimp F has everything a man could hope for except the gift of sight. The paramedic uses a ballpoint pen to dig the eyes out of the still quivering skull of Jared and hails a cab (Incidentally, the other paramedic says to the departing paramedic: "Wait! Jared's not dead after all! Bring back his eyes!" But the other paramedic doesn't hear him as he speeds away. This will factor into the plot arch (foreshadowing St. Louis I am) of Season 2 of "Pimp F" in which Jared comes looking for his pilfered eyes, but I digress).

Four days later he arrives in DC.

The president tells the paramedic he doesn't know where Pimp F is staying, but he has a pager number. So the paramedic calls the pager number and leaves this message...

"Pimp F. Stop. Have just arrived from Denver. Stop. I have Jared's eyes. Stop. President said you might need them. Stop. Please meet me at the Subway on 43rd and Grand between 4:00 and 5:00 today if you still want the eyes. Stop. I will be wearing a red jacket, a fire helmet, and will be holding two human eyes in a Snapple bottle. Stop. Sincerely, the paramedic."

Pimp F meets the paramedic and the procedure is completed on the spot (this is the future... 1993. Stuff like that is easy).

Pimp F marries Renee and the two retire to San Diego.

On a boat.

TVsWW could play Pimp C.

All of the proceeds from my fee as executive producer of "Pimp F" will go to the Brooklyn Dog Shelter.

And Adultdvdempire.com.

My god! $35 for a Wil photo seems excessive. How about a buck and two quarters?

Just kidding, Wil! You know I love you homie! You go Wil!

Spudnets iz a looser.

But, I think TVsWW would be better off playing the role of Young Quincy--the old doctor show that starred Jack Klugman.

DON'T DENY THE TRUTH!

May Pets Prevail on Earth.

Hey Spudnuts! haven't seen you around here for a while.

And once again it's WWDN changing the world! Very Cool.

Awww...! Well, I dropped in a buck to the cause, a minute ago. And when I can afford it in a week or so, I'll buy a picture. Hey, it's for charity. That works.... I give a little to charity causes every month. It's worth the price, if you ask me.

Roughy said:

>> Spudnets iz a looser.

Why am I a looser?

Because I have a soft spot for dogs from Bucktown or because I insist upon the clarity, fidelity, and storage convenience of the popular digital video disc format for all of my spankutastic viewing pleasures?

That don't make me a bad person.

Are you anti-dog, anti-DVD, or anti-Brooklyn? Because answering yes to any one of those questions could mean you are anti-American and that means your narrow ass gets deported to a refrigerator box on Gitmo, Trotsky.

Wil,

Thank you for doing this. I am not really into autographed photos, but because you are giving the money to a charity, I will order one.

I have always loved animals.

It's hard to hear about animal cruelty and not being able to do anything. Dogs, yes we can rescue them from the pound. I have done that several times.
I would like to help other animals as well.

The other day, I went to the Santa Anita Park in Arcadia. It was my first time being at a racetrack, even though I live closeby. I was having fun for awhile. Then, at the second to the last race, there was an awful accident (right in front of the crowd). A horse fell and rolled over several times. The jockey walked away. Later saying he just had a headace. No broken bones, nothing. I was glad the jockey was ok, but I did want to know how the horse was. I called the park the next day asking if the horse was ok. The person who answered the phone nicely said "No, the horse is not ok". Later, I found online that the horse had been euthanized. I also learned over 800 Thoroughbreds are killed in the US each year. There has to be something wrong with this. After the accident I saw, I felt guilty for even being at the track. It is really sad what some folks will do for money.

I know your message was about dogs, but I thought I'd share my story anyway.

By the way, your wife sounds awesome! A true animal lover!

I will send in my order for your photo right away. Thank you!

Welcome back Spudnuts.
We missed ya big guy!

thank you very much for the link, wil.
i posted this on my weblog as well - if that's okay with you... and i donated.
again... thanks for supplying me with the link - and thank you for helping out some of the other carbon-based lifeforms.

eric
fargo, nd

Spudnuts!!
*wipes tear from eye*

Oh, and cool idea Wil.

Huh? It reads like a pyramid scheme letter. Are they looking for people to buy them a house as well????????????

REALTORS: If you have or know of an affordable property that is zoned for business and residential, no matter the location, please call Laurie at 917 754-3537

THat's cool man.

How many of those other Hollywood types do you see taking the time to make an effort to do something for someone 3000 miles away and doing it strictly out of kindness of heart and not just to "look good"?

Happy New Year to you and your family Wil. May this next year be filled with many precious memories, happiness, and successes in all of your endeavors.

wilwheaton and clones you are NERDS. you are disgusting, limpdick, spineless geeks.isn't it true wil that you'll be on the cutting room floor of thr next star trek movie? can't wait to not see you!! i hear "The Corey's" are starting to get more work in LAmeLAme land.

Hush, child. You're embarrassing yourself.

Worthy cause Wil - I will have to save up my pennies for a pic. Just bought a "Klingon Convention Trauma" baby doll t-shirt in honour of your appearance in "Nemesis, so I'm broke. USD$20 is like, errrrr, CDN$897 or somethin'.

Spudnuts is cool. I really look forward to seeing his (which side of the chromosomal fence are you on man? XX or XY? - I assume you're a guy) postings.

In fact, before I read anything else, I usually scroll trhough everything else first to see if he's there.

I threw in 5 bucks. Wil and Tom Tomorrow are two voices of reason in the insanity that is today's world. And, let's face it. I just wuv da widdle doggums, yesIdo! Who's a good puppy? Who's a good puppy!?!

Hmm, lets see. I could donate money to Andrew Sullivan, whose independent reporting and tenacity (along with one other blogger) almost single-handedly brought about the downfall of the scum-sucking-pig-dog Trent Lott, or I can send money to dogs in Brooklyn. I think the choice is obvious.

Before we go and bash Andrew Sullivan because he is not a "Democrat" take a minute and think about the effect he is having on American society. I think we are all better off without Trent Lott, then with a few more mangy mutts in New York. Yeesh.

Happy New Year to everyone! :D

BTW the communist comments really disturb me. Just because you don't approve of certain military actions, doesn't mean you don't want the best for the country and the people.

Sent ten smackeroos via Paypal. Hope this does some good. Oh, and for all of you negative nancys trolling the box, get lost!!!!! If you don't like it, don't read it, you nitwits.

See you in Gitmo, Trotsky, Spudnuts.

I know who you are. You're going down with me, too.

QUIT STARING AT ME WITH THOSE FORSAKEN EYES!

donated $50. thanks for posting the link, wil.

My wife and I are the proud "parents" of two wonderful rescue dogs. (DINK life RULEZ!!!) We support our local no kill shelter and are happy to help another one across the country. However, since my wife thinks I spend to much time reading your website already, I'm going to skip the picture and send my cash directly to them.

Thanks for the quality site.
L8R,
-Chad

Hi Wil!

Two things I wanted to mention. I just read the story of Save Ferris and I loved it! I adore animals and I think your wife and I would have lots to talk about. Do you think you could post a current picture of Ferris on your site? The story of the kitten on the freeway had me in tears and I'm sitting here manning the reception desk at work. Not good timing!

The other thing I wanted to mention was what my husband Andy said about you the other day. I've been talking you up ever since I discovered your website several months ago (though I've always been a fan!) and I've gotten Andy to watch you on Tech TV, Arena, etc. and had him read some of your best posts. Last week he said to me that he used to think you were nothing but a Hollywood Brat. However, he said he's since changed his mind and now has a great deal of respect for you. In fact, he thinks you should co-host Screen Savers regularly. (Though he worries about your friendship with Chris on Call For Help. He thinks Chris is a weirdo.)

Anyway, just wanted you to know you have a new generation convert in my husband!

Happy New Year!
Tracey

Oops! Forgot to also tell you I'm going to donate to Hearts & Homes.

Tracey

Wil

I wish i could help you with this great cause, but (yes there is always a BUT) the economy really sucks the big one. I'm only working partime, and money is really tite. But when my taxes are done this next month, i will throw some your way.

I wish you, your familly and all the readers of Wilwheaton.net a very happy new year

alrighty, if tip jar rattling is acceptable, I must make the following proposition...

Just this morning I added a tip jar to my site, because I'm seriously in the red on my rent and me and my seven year-old are street-bound. Donations are great, but I'm not really comfortable with the "something for nothing" deal, so I'm selling prints of my photographs in exchange for donations over $20. This is not my only plan to stave off homelessness, but I'm reaching for straws here.

Wil, you have an amazing audience. A huge and powerful audience. I want to help the little doggies with their Scorsese accents, and I want to keep a roof over my head. For every photo I sell from my website I will donate $2 to the doggie fund.

Hope I haven't overstepped the boundaries. Feel free to contact me directly to confirm my story. Thanks.

Nice photo's, but how about 8 x 10s of the will with blue hair image???

I went and donated directly, but I'd buy a signed 8 x 10 of that image, even if it just came off a color printer at kinkos.

Hi Wil,

Being new to WWDN, I haven't yet made it through all your blog archives, so thanks for highlighting the story of Ferris (and really just how cool Anne is).

6 years ago, a skinny, scared cocker spaniel ran in front of my car in traffic. I nearly got in an accident saving her, but fatefully, I did & Mei-Mei (my mom wouldn't let us name her "Roadkill") thrived (especially under the care of my brother). Unfortunately, she passed away this year. In Chinese, Mei-Mei means "little sister," and losing our "lil sis" this summer was extremely difficult for our family. (Perhaps someday I will share the horrendous story of her passing, but not now.)

We are still coping with her loss and have thought often of getting another dog (our Peke Chu-Chu is lonely and misses the Mei), but we have been lucky that every dog we've ever had has found us... but should we ever go out to *find* another doggie for our family, we would only adopt.

Thanks for doing such a great thing on your site and encouraging folks to adopt animals... look at how many people donated from being inspired by your blog entry!

Cheers to a wonderful 2003,
Jocelyn

Dublos - I so totally second that. Blue haired pics would sell like hotcakes, Wil! Think about it!

Happy New Year Head Monkey Dude!

Message for Stacey

Times are tough, but only donating $2.00 from a $20.00 pic is outragous. I will admit, my income sucks the big one, but what you are doing sounds like a big scam ala ENRON. I think, you should start watching your soending, and quit spending beyond your means. I also would strongly suggest you cut off things you do not need.

Terry,
You have some very valid points and I don't want to get into a back and forth on Wil's comment space, but if I could respond to them this once...

I was selling the photos on my site anyway, as a way to raise money. Since they are being printed archival-quality it costs me around $5 a print for paper, ink and shipping. I'm trying to make money in an honest fashion in order to extricate myself from my mess. In order to do that, I need to make a profit. The price is similar to that charged by Noah Grey and Dawn Mikulich, so I thought it was reasonable.

Tom and Wil's cause is a good one. I'd like to help. So I'm donating some of my profit toward their cause. What do I get from this? Well, maybe some folks who have never seen my photos will come check them out. It's a fair trade.

Enron stole money for innocent folks and lied and broke the law. I'm just broke. You can disagree with me, but you don't have to insult me.

I was out of work for a while and I've cut back on a lot and I'm trying to make up the difference using my skills and talents and I don't think that's a bad thing.

Skepticsm is a good thing, Terry, but cynicism will kill your soul.

Grasshoppers,

What's with the mean-spirited attacks on this last day of the year? Wil's trying to do a good thing here, as is Stacey, and a million others of us who do what we can to make things better for others. Call a moratorium on the personal scud missiles here for a while and let's just revel in being alive and human, eh?

Wil, best of the season to you and your family. It's been a pleasure reading you this year and I look forward to visiting here regularly in 2003!

Long-time reader, first-time poster...
I wish I had the money to donate. I truly do. In fact I'd just posted about wanting a signed picture of you, Wil, when I read this post. Now I'm really tempted to get one...but what if I'm not one of the next ten? How can I be sure my money goes to the charity? I can make the purchase a lot more appealing to my girlfriend that way! ;)

Did I mention how doubleplusgood Wil is?

This is kinda OT from your post, but I was just watching the Trek Marathon on TNN (ST IV is currently showing) and was wondering about your "5 assed monkey people" comment.

Wil, this is why you are so amazing. I'll always remember something you said on your blog once: "I defy anyone to tell me that we don't have the power to change the world."

Thanks for being such a beautiful person. :)

Just felt like posting again to say:

WIL FARKING RAWKS!!!!!

Dear Wil
This just to wish you a Happy New Year to you and your family.Also,is this the year we get to see a little one from you and Anne.
Cathy

Sent in five bucks. Good for you Wil. You can do some real good with this website.

FURY OF THE FIVE-ASSED MONKEY PEOPLE!
Fucking classic.

another great way people can help an animal shelter is by adopting a pet...these days many people are obsessed with getting a pure-bred pet with "papers"...the best pet i ever had was no pure-bred...she was, close as we could figure, part collie, part german shepherd...and she was my friend for 15 years...suzy was dumped in our neighborhood by someone who didn't want her and she adopted us...many of the animals in shelters would be wonderful pets...a good pet doesn't need to be a big investment in money...but it can be a big investment in love...and that is something money can't buy...so buy wil's pic and help the shelter...or help a pet shelter by adopting a pet...or do both!

Always happy to see a Depeche Mode reference...

I live in Brooklyn, and know this rescue well. They are good people. Their dogs always make my neighborhood walks a treat, and it's terrible to hear about their building. Real Estate in Brooklyn, especially Park Slope, is outlandishly expensive. I hope that they can find something.

Thanks for participating in something that makes a difference in my community.

I went ahead and donated $10.00. I wish I could have donated more to them, but I figured that giving a little something is better than giving a big nothing.

Thanks for helping them out Wil! My dog (Chief, a Black Lab) is from an animal shelter as well, and I've never had a better animal friend in my life.

:)

Echoes SpaceWriters comments LOUDLY!

Never posted here before and aside form the usual pop-in make fun of Geeks idiots who sometimes post here, the comments seem especially harsh for people who seem to have relatively the same value system. Living at or even slightly below your means, and doing something other than soul-sucking convenience store work is difficult at best, impossible most of the time. One should not criticize if one does not know the full extent of ones condition.
/rant off

And Wil....great cause, worthy of support as soon as I get some spare buckage, I will donate to both, photo notwithstanding.

Let me relate a little story that just happened last night:
My son is the sweetest person I have ever met....period. We recently started giving him an allowance to start him on the track to better money management (something my Mother never taught me, and for that I paid dearly) So I hopped out of our car to grab some essentials, and left my wife and son in the car. When I returned I found them both in deep conversation with an obviously downtrodden woman asking for money for medicine for her son. Now I'm no dummy, I used to live in New Haven CT, home of Creative Excuses for Acquiring Illegal Drugs Inc. And I am well aware that through my jaded 35yo eyes this woman was probably looking to score.

Well anyway my boy, Mr. Giving, decided that he would give her his last dollar, she initially refused, but he insisted.

Now I’m pretty sure that woman was crack house bound, BUT in the deepest recesses of my soul I hope that that small token of kindness might be remembered and maybe even used as a reason to turn her life around. Probably not but one can hope. As far as my son was concerned the act of giving selflessly helped him. He is a humane boy, more so than most, and giving to this woman gave him a certain satisfaction that nothing else at that moment could give him, not even his mother and I.

The point is (and there is one…really) that here is this woman in need, obviously talented and people are calling into question her dilemma, even with the evidence of a website. Besides the simple fact that there is evidence of her talent, when is just giving a small amount of money or help to someone else become such a huge intellectual exercise? Has everyone forgotten the simple joy of giving with no hope of receiving anything in return?
Now if my son can give his last buck to a woman with no credible evidence of her situation can’t someone who can spare it help a sister out?
Hu?

I have nothing whatsoever against animals, and I think that helping out a group like this one is a fine undertaking.

But Mr. Day-before-yesterday's snideness about Andrew Sullivan simply reeks of typical Liberal.

Andrew's blog is simply excellent, and he deserves to be paid. Perhaps what the insipid Progressive cartoonist is most upset about is that the nearly six-figured figure came from VOLUNTARY donations. I doubt any group of people would be so generous to him, and I'll bet he does too.

If Tom Tomorrow wants to raise cash for some New Yorkers who rescue animals, did it occur to him to, rather than slagging Andrew, ask him if he'd like to help the effort? Picking on him for saying "no" would at least have some *relevance.*

THIS is why a former long-haired spliff-smoking rock-n-roller (me) wound up a DittoHead. Not only are most modern liberals mean, they're dishonest on many levels and entirely too blinded by hate to be very smart, overall. After looking over all sides, I've concluded that Conservatism without Jerry Falwell and his bothersome ilk is the best our silly species can do for itself for the forseeable future. Tom Tomorrow is, infact, so very yesterday...

...but I wish all of you luck with saving the critters.