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Dancing Barefoot
By: Wil Wheaton
List Price: $14.95
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Wil Wheaton--blogger, geek, and Star Trek: The Next Generation's Wesley Crusher--gives us five short-but-true tales of life in the so-called Space Age in Dancing Barefoot. With a true geek's unflinching honesty, Wil examines life, love, the web, and the absurdities of Hollywood in these compelling autobiographical narratives. Based on pieces first published in Wil's hugely popular blog, www.wilwheaton.net, the stories in Dancing Barefoot chronicle a teen TV star's journey to maturity and self-acceptance. Far from the usual celebrity tell-all, Dancing Barefoot is a vivid account of one man's version of that universal story, the search for self. If you've ever fallen in love, wondered what goes on behind the scenes at a Star Trek convention, or thought hard about the meaning of life, you'll find a kindred soul in the pages of Dancing Barefoot. In the process of uncovering his true geeky self, Wil Wheaton speaks to the inner geek in all of us. The stories: Houses in Motion - Memories fill the emptiness left within a childhood home, and saying goodbye brings them to life. Ready Or Not Here I Come - A game of hide-n-seek with the kids works as a time machine, taking Wil on a tour of the hiding and seeking of years gone by. Inferno - Two 15-year-olds pass in the night leaving behind pleasant memories and a perfumed Car Wars Deluxe Edition Box Set. We Close Our Eyes - A few beautiful moments spent dancing in the rain. The Saga of SpongeBob VegasPants - A story of love, hate, laughter and the acceptance of all things Trek.

Just a Geek
By: Wil Wheaton
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Wil Wheaton has never been one to take the conventional path to success. Despite early stardom through his childhood role in the motion picture "Stand By Me", and growing up on television as Wesley Crusher on "Star Trek: The Next Generation", Wil left Hollywood in pursuit of happiness, purpose, and a viable means of paying the bills. In the oddest of places, Topeka, Kansas, Wil discovered that despite his claims to fame, he was at heart Just a Geek.

In this, his newest book, Wil shares his deeply personal and difficult journey to find himself. You'll understand the rigors, and joys, of Wil's rediscovering of himself, as he comes to terms with what it means to be famous, or, ironically, famous for once having been famous. Writing with honesty and disarming humanity, Wil touches on the frustrations associated with his acting career, his inability to distance himself from Ensign Crusher in the public's eyes, the launch of his incredibly successful web site, wilwheaton.net, and the joy he's found in writing. Through all of this, Wil shares the ups and downs he encountered along the journey, along with the support and love he discovered from his friends and family.

The stories in Just a Geek include:

- Wil's plunge from teen star to struggling actor
- Discovering the joys of HTML, blogging, Linux, and web design
- The struggle between Wesley Crusher, Starfleet ensign, and Wil Wheaton, author and blogger
- Gut-wrenching reactions to the 9-11 disaster
- Moving tales of Wil's relationships with his wife, step-children, and extended family
- The transition from a B-list actor to an A-list author

Wil Wheaton--celebrity, blogger, and geek--writes for the geek in all of us. Engaging, witty, and pleasantly self-deprecating, Just a Geek will surprise you and make you laugh.

The Happiest Days of Our Lives
By: Wil Wheaton
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Readers of Wil WheatonâTMs website know that he is a masterful teller of elegant stories about his life. Building on the critical success of Dancing Barefoot and Just A Geek, he has collected more of his own favorite stories in his third book, The Happiest Days of Our Lives. These are the stories Wil loves to tell, because they are the closest to his heart: stories about being a huge geek, passing his geeky hobbies and values along to his own children, and vividly painting what it meant to grow up in the '70s and come of age in the '80s as part of the video game/D&D/BBS/Star Wars figures generation

Star Trek the Next Generation Ensign Wesley Crusher Action Figure - Wil Wheaton
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7th Season Star Trek the Next Generation action figure Ensign Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton).

War Of The Worlds! (Star Trek Series Cast) (L.A. Theater Works)
By: H.G. Wells
List Price: $12.95
Amazon Price: $9.00

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Listen, amazed as actors from television's Star Trek re-create the "eyewitness" report that caused a nationwide panic in 1938 when first performed on the radio by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre Company. Narrated by Leonard Nimoy of the original Star Trek series, the breathless pace and convincing details of this classic drama are brilliantly reinterpreted in this full-cast production by L.A. Theatre Works. Joining Leonard Nimoy are Star Trek actors Jerry Hardin, Gates McFadden, Dwight Schultz, Armin Shimerman, Brent Spiner and Wil Wheaton.

• Tim Kring talks 'Heroes'-Wil Wheaton
I hate to be the shooter-downer of this particular idea, but there are no plans at this time for Wil Wheaton to appear on "Heroes." As io9.com noted earlier today, "Heroes" star Greg Grunberg and author, actor and all-around Web guru Wil Wheaton have recently been exchanging messages on the microblogging site Twitter. Via Twitter posts, Grunberg expressed his enthusiasm about having Wheaton guest star on "Heroes," which of course Wheaton was excited about that possibility (as was I, I'm a big • you know? ?cherry flavored PEZ?
Contrary to popular belief, not every blog that feeds my RSS reader is dedicated to baseball card collecting. A few discuss the actual sport of baseball, several explore the Zen of fantasy baseball and some are related to the art of baseball photography. If you must know, I also follow a handful of non-baseball blogs including those related to the Albuquerque music scene (so I?ll be sure to not miss Lou Reed?s next visit), select historical and archaeological blogs, and one maintained by a frien • Two Photos of Interest from LosCon
Both once again courtesy of Tom Suter: Look! It?s Bacon Cat! In anthropomorphic form! You can?t see it well here, but this young lady?s nametag actually says ?Fluffy.? I was deepy amused. And here is Wil Wheaton and me, posing with the infamous ?Velvet Wesley,? which as you?ll recall I had commissioned. It was quite literally the centerpiece of our Wil & Scalzi Happy Fun Time Hour, which, I assure you, you are very sad to have missed. Yes, we are having fun at LosCon. Why do you ask • Leftovers
I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. We went with the Cook's Illustrated method for the turkey. We figure if you want a good recipe, get it from someone who has OCD and cooks a hundred turkeys following the scientific method. And we were right. It came out perfect. I was in charge of dessert, pumpkin pie and apple pie, both of which came out fine if I do say so myself. It's now my tradition to recap the best of Feedback on the day after Thanksgiving. This year I'll give you one list of the • And now for something completely random?
Lip-synching Rick Astley emerges from Foster?s Home for Imaginary Friends. Points for the blend of random & irony. [via Wil Wheaton]

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