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    On W00ting and W00tstock (versions 2.2 and 2.3)

    DateThursday, June 3, 2010 at 3:24PM

    A couple of weeks ago, first in Chicago and then in Minneapolis, I got to do one of the things I quite love, to sing onstage and make an ass of myself at the same time. This time it was with with my Rifftrax cohort Bill Corbett, as part of the growing W00tstock Nation.  

    To share the stage with these gentlemen above, the W00tstock Four - Paul Sabourin, Adam Savage, Wil Wheaton Storm DiCostanzo, well was about as much fun as you can have on a stage.  The audience came to laugh, and did so consistently for hours.  Laughing with the ever-growing W00tstock Army, people  like John Scalzi, Molly Lewis, My old cohorts Bill and Trace, Peter Sagal, Tim Cavanaugh, Bill Amend, Tim Bedore, Len Peralta, Jason Finn.  I mean what the hell am I doing up there?

    Easy.  I was up there to have a good time, hopefully help you have a good time, meet all these people, act like an ass in front of a crowd primed to have a good time.  

    Backstage was just as much fun, but in a way I didn't expect.  I ought to have expected to see Adam Savage comparing physics notes on superhero powers with physics professor Jim Kakalios, who gives a hell of an entertaining lecture on that very subject. I ought to have expected to see Neil Gaiman hanging out backstage not merely for his closing number cameo, but for the whole four-plus hours of the Minneapolis show, simply because he likes these people.   I certainly didn't expect to close down Grumpy's Bar with drummer Jason Finn.

     

    That's Bill Corbett, Paul and Storm and I singing Bill's ode to Admiral Ackbar, "It's a Trap."  

    I might have expected at least one or two of these folks to act like prima donnas, but no.  Gracious to the last, bearing far more social skills than one might expect from the stilted stereotype of a geek or a nerd.  No, see I've been to show-biz soirées and tony book shows and encountered various degrees of asshole, people who are so bad at simply being nice they no longer pretend to be.  It's one of the reasons I ran screaming from the TV business.  

    But these guys?  These W00tstockers?  The word avuncular was designed for them.  Gentle folk all, whose only motivation to be there was to make a good time better.  And not a clunker in the lineup. And I thank them all, because they agreed to do this:

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    My husband and I drove 8 hours to Minneapolis to see the show (and the Dead Sea scrolls due to my history addiction) and adored every minute of it. We laughed so hard we were sore the next day. I even added your and Bill's bit to youtube if you feel the pressing need to watch yourself again. Thanks for all the laughs and making a great vacation.

    June 24, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterIntrovertedWife

    Sadly, I was unable to attend (being in the far state of Ohio and all) but I did spend a lovely evening with Youtube watching the clips from the Minneapolis show that some lovely audience members graciously posted. It not only made me laugh but made me supremely jealous of the lucky people who have gotten to attend the W00tstocks around the country.

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