You have really distinguished yourself as not only a talented actor and writer, but as a very well spoken speaker. Watch out Wil has become a tripel threat

i just have to say that i am so impressed with you. i'm a bigger fan of yours now than i ever was in the TNG days (and believe me, i was a fan. okay, i still am. geez.) i missed the interview but i'm gonna go check it out now.

hi. i just listened to the interview and i am just blown away by your creativity and humor. i just wanted to say i'm a huge fan and can't wait for your next book.

awesome interview! u're amazing!!!!! love u wil!

Oh my gosh Wil! You suck!

Just kidding, I LOVE the book, and the interview is awesome. You rock my internet socks.

oh cool! I will give this a listen.
Since I can't come to see you in CA
this will be the next best thing :)

*goes to listen to interview now

Nice interview Will - you really are a relaxed speaker/reader. Nice to listen to you talk. Pity I can't see you live. You had mentioned "problems" when working with a commerical publisher. I'd love to hear your perspective on working with O'Reilley. I've heard that they are a relatively fair publisher - compared to some.

That is really great being on NPR. I can't listen to it now, but I will later tonight. :D

Is it just me or is the anti-bot code getting longer and longer? Maybe you should use a combination of letters and numbers so that you can use a shorter string.

Great interview.

I'm also a big fan of This American Life and David Sedaris, which, combined with my taste in music and fondness for poker, must mean that I'm a huge geek on the WWdN scale. What do I get?

Hey Wil

Sweet.

I can't seem to make the file to play for me. Is the server down or something?

After searching to find your book for the past couple of months, I finally found it at Borders.

I quickly put down the series of books that had grabbed my attention and decided to read your book.

I'm so happy that I did so. I was a big fan of yours since Stand by Me, but had no idea you were going to be on Star Trek: TNG. ( even though I was a fan, starting with the first episode ) To see you on the series was great, because it was like seeing an old friend.

I was a fan of your acting work, but it's your writing that has touched me. Touched me enough were I'm battling my own inner demons. In the past I really haven't been myself and have been miserable, because of it. After reading your book, I've decided that my opinion is the only one that truely matters. For that, I thank you.

Great interview. I was glad to have to opportunity to listen to it. Like the caller who phoned in, I am one of those who found Wesley rather annoying but I also love to learn that I am totally wrong about people.

Peace

hey! i just finished writing a book report on "Just A Geek". i flipping loved that book, and i dont read much.

i laughed, i cried.... it was amazing.

i had to write an obituary for you, if you'd like to see it, email me at Devilgirly224@aol.com (yeah dont mind the SN... its from like 6 years ago... sheesh)

Much love Wil
-Em

Great interview. Thanks for giving out the easy link. It's also inspiring for the rest of us to learn the steps to your success as a writer. Keep on truckin!

Nice work Wil, that was a very interesting interview. Was it live ? You sounded very smooth and your answers all held together well...what am I getting at...the average person might have trouble giving a long answer that didn't wander offtopic, or be filled with "umm...err". You didn't do that, and you sounded confident and cool while doing it. Even though we know you're not ;)

Are you really going back to self-publishing ? Things not going well at Casa O'Riley ?

Living on the east coast (moving back soon to the Great White North) pretty much guarantees I'll never get to see you do a reading/con/book promo/whatever in person, so it was great to be able to hear a sample

Yes Wil, knowledge is great and spreadsheets are a mystery to me too.

Very good interview. You sounded very relaxed despite the cold.

I'm usually a lurker, but I've been reading your blog since the beginning, and I just have to say that I'm quite impressed with how far you've come as a writer. I loved reading "Dancing Barefoot" and "Just a Geek," and hearing you perform "The Trade" during this interview was so cool. Thanks so much for the link, and I'm really looking forward to your future books. But don't give up on acting. I would have LOVED to see you with Jennifer Garner (sorry Anne). ;-)

You mean, you're really *not* writing just for ME?? ;-) Just kidding. Great interview, Wil! I'm a huge David Sedaris fan, too. "Holidays on Ice" is a regular Christmas listen in our house! Hubby and I laugh our asses off; David is such an awesome author, and the deadpan way he reads just guarantees hilarity.

You're an awesome writer, Wil. I know you hear that a lot these days, but an author can never hear it enough. We tend to be an insecure bunch, as well as our own worst critics.

I hope you make it on "This American Life" soon. Maybe we, your posse, should start an e-mail campaign. It seemed to work with Entertainment Weak-ly. *efg*

Cheers,
Aylaleia, Goddess of Justice and Vengeance

This one's for all us Old School Geeks, Wil!

Subject: I Was Geeky When Geeky Wasn't Cool
Posted by: slyfoot.
Time: 1:28 am.
Link: http://www.livejournal.com/community/ubergeeks/257636.html

[...]

I Was Geeky When Geeky Wasn't Cool

I remember wearin' real thick glasses,
Checkered shirts even when they weren't in style.
I remember singin' with old Weird Al,
In the classes of my high school with a smile
And I was readin' Douglas Adams
When all of my friends
Were diggin' Stephen King or Sartre or Proust--
I was Geeky when Geeky wasn't cool.

I remember sittin' in the lunchroom
Snackin' up and smackin' down tight code.
I remember when no-one was lookin',
I was ridin' where the Rohan riders rode.
I took a lot of kiddin',
'Cause I never did fit in.
Now look at everybody tryin' to be what I was then.
I was Geeky when Geeky wasn't cool.

Ohh, I was Geeky when Geeky wasn't cool.
I was Geeky, even way back in high school.
I still act and look the same:
What you see ain't nothin' new.
I was Geeky when Geeky wasn't cool.

They called us nerds or dorky for hackin' unix roots,
I'm just glad we're in a country where we're all free to choose
I was Geeky when Geeky wasn't cool.

Hey, I was Geeky when Geeky wasn't cool.
Yeah, an' I was Geeky, even way back in high school
I still act and look the same:
What you see ain't nothin' new.
I was Geeky when Geeky wasn't cool.

Yeah, I was Geeky when Geeky wasn't cool.

~Slyfoot

Great interview, Wil. This website is a treat for those of us who have been fans for 17 years. Keep up the excellent work.

I don't know if anyone here has ever heard of the comic Voices in My Hand ( http://www.voicesinmyhand.com/ - very Far Side-ish strip), but this week (January 10, 2005) has a reference to Wil...

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Picture - Person talking to frustrated alien:

Person: Say, after the probing...could you get me Wil Wheaton's Autograph?

Alien: That's It!! Deploy the damn weapon!

Caption: When one person asks, it's funny. When tow people ask it's irritating. When 36,371 people ask, it's destruction on a plantetary scale.
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In the email version, Bill Charbonneau states:

"As for the the Wil Wheaton reference... that was just because I needed a geeky sci-fi name to drop in there and who better than everyone's favourite acting ensign-turned writer?"

And provides a link to this site.

The caption should have read:

Caption: When one person asks, it's funny. When two people ask it's irritating. When 36,371 people ask, it's destruction on a plantetary scale.

- I really need to add the spell check thing to Firefox.

hi. you have probably been asked this a million times but .. do any of you guys from the TNG crew still hang out from time to time? for a movie? for drinks maybe?

I'm really looking forward to the next book you referred to. I especially enjoy your stories about your family, so a whole book of them would rock.

Ok, I just have to say it...I sat thru Python this weekend to watch your performance...all I have to say is LOVE the hair...it was fun...and did you ever sell that house...HAHAHAHha Dragon

Sorry, my bad, I guess you got eaten by the big snake before you could sell the house...it was gettin' steamy there for a minute though..nice hands. Dragon

Hey Wil,
Thanks for posting up the link to NPR. I got JAG for Christmas, and I've been enjoying it very much. It's delightful to read your progression from Dancing to JAG. Thanks, as always, for sharing.

Cheers,
Deirdre

Great interview, Wil. Always love any chance to hear you read from JAG and DB. Also, it was cool to hear you talking about your voice work and how that whole process began.

Maybe you're the next Frank Welker or Steven Blum, eh? OK, sure, Welker does the cartoony voices, but Blum, he does some serious stuff (Cowboy Bebop is a great example)...

I got through the first 19 minutes of the interview and then I had to go to class. (I am in college for the second time) So I tried to finish listening to it just now but my connection sucks at the moment and won't let me.
So from what I did get hear so far, I enjoyed very much. I hope I can get the interview to work later because I really enjoyed listening to you talk about your book.

Wil -- I'm the loser who was your first caller on that show out of WSKG -- I thought it was great that my local NPR station managed to get someone other than the usual dry-as-dirt authors they usually have on (usually local college profs talking about books they've written about history or bugs or the history of bugs).

Also, I have to admit, I do public speaking all the time, I'm not what you'd call a shy guy... and yet I was a stammering idiot by the time I started talking to you on the air.

But it was nice to get a chance to say hi and ask you a question, anyway. Stay well.

Hey love the new book, I just started reading, yet I can't put it down, a must read. Also I loved your last book dancing barefoot. Now to be honest we are reading your weblog almost every week now. I hope you the best on your journey of life.

your friends at http://casecomics.com

I got being proud of being a geek is hilarious

Only got half way though the interview before I had to go to work, but good stuff - with audience participation even!

For those few of you who are off-put by the RealAudio format (or just want more Wil on your iPod) a tool called Realaudio-to-Wav Recorder [ http://www.geocities.com/rawavrecorder/ ] - followed by WinLAME [ http://winlame.sourceforge.net/ ] should work the trick for you.

Peace.

I really enjoyed the interview and the book, which I ran out to buy after I heard the interview... But shouldn't it have been in the Essay section of Barnes and Noble, ya know, with the Sedaris and Vowell, instead of in the Science Fiction section?

wow a creative beast

YAY the computer Gods have been kind and let me finish listening to the interview.
That was a wonderful interview. I really enjoyed that and I really enjoyed listening to you read from your book.
I am also very excitied to hear that you are working on two more books :)

Wil,

I just listened to your interview about JAG on NPR. It was a great interview. You made one comment about a Star Trek fan who criticized JAG because it did not contain enough gossip about the terrible things that happened to you while you were Wesley Crusher. That fan may have been I. After reading JAG I remember sending you a comment saying "I was expecting more details about the (and I quote you) 'tons of people who booed me at conventions until I cried'."

I was happy to hear you admit in this interview that these 'tons of people' were actually a statistically insignificant number of fans. I knew we all loved you as Wesley. I also know that the few critics hurt you deeply. Of course this is all ancient history, but the interview brought back lots of memories of times past.

Freeman :)

I don't mean to get off topic here
but I was roaming around Amazon looking at some movies and I ran across Secret of Nimh.
I had no idea you did a voice for one of the characters in that movie!! Secret of Nimh is probably one of the best animated films EVER!!
I grew up on that film,lol.
Okay sorry again for getting off topic
but finding that out totally made my day :)

Sonia: Yes. It should be with the Essays, or the biographies.

I'm sure it's with the SciFi books because of, you know, all the laser beams and robots and spaceships and stuff.

And maybe the Soylent Green.

Glad there is no longer a pox on yer house!

Hey, Thanks for turning me onto Something Awful. I stumbled into your web page somehow and started kickin around.

Weren't you in "Stand By Me"? Just saw that 2 nights ago at like 1 in the morning. That was cool.

Peace Y

Thanks for the link, Wil. SKG is my local NPR station and I'd meant to listen to the show at the time, but life did not cooperate. Now I get an instant replay. :)

so apparently you are my famous blogger twin, as per www.blogthings.com!!

I am very happy to see that your book is out and once I'm done with the writers residency I am at in wintery Vermont I'll return to sunny Hawaii and purchase it.

I enjoy your blog very much and wish you continued success in all of your endeavors.

Gejopr - is that the right spelling of your name - not much fiction for awhile except the DaVinci Code which someone gave me, hardcopy. I didn't make it to the end but I don't think it's as bad a book as people think. Who cares.

I started to try yours because I keep trying genre. I finally found a murder mysteries series I could manage. Sci Fi -- er...

Bye

Well, bye bye.

Hey Wil,

I find you talks so funny, witty and entertaining. :) Will you even get to the east coast, specifically MA to do one of your talks? Let me know as I want to attend. :)

You suck Wheaton, and that's why I check your site everyday and have spent hours listening to you read. It's why I bought JAG, and it's also why I just put that interview on my iPod so I can listen to you later. So in summation you suck.

very cool interview Wil - you sounded great and I couldn't help but relate to "The Trade" - brought back a lot of memories from childhood... i had completely forgotten about the landspeeder's dashboard sticker. :)

take care

Thank you for doing the interview for my hometown station in Binghamton, NY.

I've heard about this site. I liked a shirt you were wearing. I'm blogging this. I think thats the one. God. Sorry. I must sound stupid. This is because I am stupid.

wow... i just spent the last hour listening to your interview on NPR. i recall reading your excerpt from The Trade on this blog a long time ago, but i have to say, that the way you read it REALLY made it that much better! it's interesting to hear it the way it's meant to be heard. you've got an excellent reading voice, and it does show your voice acting talent!

i haven't gotten around to reading Just a Geek yet, but a friend of mine recently got an autographed copy from your recent signing and it has reminded me to pick up a copy. i think i'd prefer to hear an audio version with you reading it though. :)

I've been listening to NPR recently but missed that interview...thanks for posting the link. I'll go listen tomorrow. (btw I read your posting about installing red hat and etc. - you're such a geek!) :-P says me, from one geek to another.