Dec 16 2001

A couple days ago, I emailed Wil Wheaton to ask if he has been to my WalMart Receipt site. He said no, so I put up two posts, one on the Receipt Site and one on Backwash. It never really occured to me that Wil might actually READ it (he's gone this far without visiting my sites), but I got to thinking: There's a lot of crap out there about what people think of me, but what would Wil think about me reacting to his email in a public forum? In his email, responding to a comment I made about his fame, he wrote:

"As to your question, I don't know what the "famous" people do, because, even when I was "famous" (hate that word), I never thought of myself that way.

I'm a bus-riding, line-waiting, star-struck-when-I-met-Cake guy, just like everyone else. "

Well, yeah, it sounds like a canned response (if I met Cake, they'd go "now what's your name again?", something Wil probably doesn't have to worry about), but he IS just a guy, probably no different than all the actors/models/singers/dancers I worked with in college. So, what gives me the right to pick on him? He probably puts up with crackpots on a daily basis, just like me (you wouldn't believe how much email the Receipt Site generates), but here I'm cracking jokes about Wil being normal, being a member of the 90% of society who hasn't seen my Site. So, Wil, if you actually watch your logs and track me down, don't sweat it - and you probably won't, because you're used to being picked on for the Wesley Crusher thing - because I mean you no harm. You actually sound pretty cool, so if you're ever in Fargo, drop me a line, we'll go out for a drink or something.