{"id":42236,"date":"2014-05-27T23:01:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T05:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/27\/i-love-you-wil-but.html"},"modified":"2014-05-28T07:41:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T13:41:55","slug":"i-love-you-wil-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/27\/i-love-you-wil-but.html","title":{"rendered":"I love you, Wil, but &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Watched the premiere episode of the &quot;Wil Wheaton Project&quot; on Syfy tonight. There were fun, laugh-out-loud moments, but there were also too many moments that reminded us too much of Tosh 2.0. My daughter&#39;s comment was, &quot;Is he really that mean?&quot; Or my wife&#39;s, &quot;He&#39;s channeling Evil Wil Wheaton too much.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, it was a first episode. I&#39;m giving it a certain measure of break.<\/p>\n<p>But, yeah, <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108176814619778619437\" oid=\"108176814619778619437\">Wil Wheaton<\/a><\/span>, recapping the week&#39;s geek news, and having some fun while doing it? Cool. But don&#39;t try quite so hard, lest you come off as that guy in the group who tries to top everyone with a joke that&#39;s just a bit <i>too<\/i> off-color. Enthusiasm for the subject will be more impactful than enthusiastic mockery, amiright amiright. You have a good eye for this kind of thing, based on your writing &#8212; trust yourself, not the lines-for-yocks.\ufeff<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-8QVR8vup1O0\/U4VspurJWeI\/AAAAAAACu7s\/ztXpLCjDMyw\/Wil-Wheaton-Large%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=1024' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/egMBWZiN9Dq' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watched the premiere episode of the &quot;Wil Wheaton Project&quot; on Syfy tonight. There were fun, laugh-out-loud moments, but there were also too many moments that reminded us too much of Tosh 2.0. My daughter&#39;s comment was, &quot;Is he really that mean?&quot; Or my wife&#39;s, &quot;He&#39;s channeling Evil Wil Wheaton too much.&quot; To be fair, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/27\/i-love-you-wil-but.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I love you, Wil, but &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,75,40],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-performers","category-media-tv","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Wil-Wheaton-Large[1].jpg.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43472,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/10\/wil-wheaton-and-schrodingers-nielsen-box.html","url_meta":{"origin":42236,"position":0},"title":"Wil Wheaton and\u00a0Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s Nielsen Box","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 10-Jul-14 2:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been enjoying The Wil Wheaton Project.\u00a0It's loosened up quite a bit since the first episode as Wheaton has relaxed, which is all to the good, and the routines and segments have gotten a decent measure funnier and less forced. \u00a0It's still a hightly idiosyncratic offering, and plenty of misses\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":584,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/09\/14\/the_answer_cour.html","url_meta":{"origin":42236,"position":1},"title":"The Answer&reg;, Courtesy of Southwest Airlines","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 14-Sep-01 6:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Answer\u00ae, Courtesy of Southwest Airlines I would not have thought that anyone as \"famous\" as Wil Wheaton would be so cool and human. 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