I just learned that he was in Stand by Me. I had no idea, despite having seen it. (I was looking up when he was born because I didn't think he was young enough when he started TNG to count as a child star.)
This is a good week for guest posts!
There could be a New Hampshire thread. Because otherwise Iowa will think it is too special.
TWYRCL played a gig with a former child star (hint hint) and every detail of the after-story makes me cringe. Do addicts think their tells and affectations are covert?
My wife is a big fan of his blog and work as an adult; I've read and enjoyed his blog writing.
Wheaton been involved in some interesting projects recently; his efforts to film people enjoying board games (Tabletop) and show people roleplaying (Titansgrave) have been successful. If you like the improved selection of games at Target and other big box stores, I suspect his new shows are part of the reason they're risking shelf space.
I suppose it's a happy ending that he has an occasional gig playing himself on Big Bang Theory.
his Tumblr is one of my daily stops. good egg, that Wheaton.
The heart of mocking troll is Wil Wheaton.
a former child star (hint hint) and every detail of the after-story makes me cringe
A. That's not much of a hint, and B. I'm not sure what you mean by "after-story". Like, Lunchy's story about what happened after the gig, or the former child star's story about what happened after being a child?
I assume he was referring to himself.
You played yourself. Though, in fact, I now play myself on reality TV. The ways of the gods are inscrutable.
I really enjoy Tabletop, and usually like what I see of Wheaton in other contexts, though I have to say I don't read his blog unless someone links to it.
8: The story of the gig. As I heard it, and I may be oversensitive, the mannerisms of the former child star were one or two steps from scratching his or her forearms while asking if anybody was holding.
It's really a shame what happened to Fred Savage.
I feel obligated to know more about this stuff than I do. In some ways I'm such a huge geek, but I've only seen like four episodes of Star Trek, none with Wesley.
This reminds me, anyone seen Con Man, the show with Alan Tudyk almost playing himself? It's on our list but we haven't got around to it.
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Art thread
Degas vs Misty Copeland, realism in the age of revolution vs neoliberal sentimentalism
Life was unbelievably hard for the girls who made up the corps. One writer of the time described seeing them in the backstage rehearsal room (a favorite hangout of Degas) "exhausted, almost dead, puffing like a steam engine," their faces "multi-colored" with fatigue.But they were not only poor and half-starved, they were as often as not forced, by economic necessity, to make themselves sexually available to the affluent male abonnés, the weekly subscribers or "stage-door Johnnies" as Richardson described them, whom Degas portrayed chatting them up in areas specially set aside backstage.
But Misty Copeland's photographs makes the dancers look so much more beautiful than nasty Degas.
These times make me nauseated.
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Flying yesterday, I watched the Steve Jobs movie. Why did they make this movie? Was the guy actually like that? Kid, too? I also watched Trumbo. That guy was like that?
Flying again tomorrow. Not much worth watching in the Delta catalog.