But "Wil Wheaton" Doesn't Scan

OK, so a few posts down there's a playful song on a topic suggested to me by my friend Rick Marshall. In his professional life--as the song indicates--Rick works for a publication covering the world of comics. So, the song incorporates a smattering of comic-culture references, including a mention of the above pictured fellow: Wil Wheaton, a writer.

In an earlier phase of his career, Mr. Wheaton gained some fame as an actor in a TV show with an unusually--even legendarily--devoted following. So, he is known to a number of people best under another, fictional, name--a name by which I referred to Mr. Wheaton, a writer, in song.

Now, my friend Rick one of Rick's colleagues, Chris Ullrich, recently had the somewhat rare opportunity to interview the media-wary Wil Wheaton, a writer, and they discussed this phenomenon. Turns out, it drives Mr. Wheaton, a writer, right around the bend to be referred to by that other name.

In fact, Mr. Wheaton, a writer, granted the interview only because he had confidence in the publication, in Chris and, by extension, in Rick, that he would not be so pigeon holed.

So, it could conceivably cause Mr. Wheaton, a writer, some frustration to be so characterized, were he ever to hear the song; and it may cause Chris and Rick some professional embarrassment to be associated, albeit only in silly verse, with such glibness and disregard for Mr. Wheaton's, a writer's, evolution as a real individual.

For the record: The views expressed in "I'm Not That Guy" are solely those of its author, and may not be shared or condoned by "Comic Mix," Chris Ullrich, Rick Marshall (any of them), the law enforcement communities of the state of California, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo or the Sleestacks.

Now, get ready for my prog-rock opus, "I Saw Spock Thumping Melons at the Food Circus."