I'll Show Up Anywhere Bill Wants

I know Bill is a busy guy with movies and TV shows and horses and sci-if conventions.

So I'll make it easy; I'll get myself to wherever Bill wants to meet up for beer*. I'm my own boss so within reason and with a little time for planning, I can give myself a couple of days off. Bill, just tell me where.

I'll even bring the beer.

* Disclaimer: it must be on planet Earth. I can't afford space travel.

Bill Has A Big Announcement Planned

A big announcement? Could it be having a beer with me?

Probably not.

Guess we'll know next week.

Update: The announcement wasn't about beer.

I'm Not a Trekkie

Bill wouldn't have to worry about me being a fawning fanboy, bugging him about Tribbles or anything like that. I might want to talk about Evil Lincoln (who doesn't), but I don't believe Evil Lincoln had anything to do with the original Star Trek. So while Evil Lincoln might come up (OK it's highly likely to be a topic of conversation), it won't be fanboy stuff.

Sure I watched Star Trek reruns when I was a kid. There were only 7 channels and it was easily the best thing on at 7pm. And it was a fun show.

But I didn't realize how slipshod the procedures on the original Enterprise were until I made it half way through the boring first season of Star Trek the Next Generation. What sort of quasi military organization would let the captain, the second in command, AND the ship's doctor routinely go down first to unexplored planets with ravenous bugblatter beasts running around? The answer is an organization that knew what made for good television.

I do wish I had seen Star Trek Deep Shit Nine when it was on, but I had better things to do. I am pretty sure Bill wasn't in that one. If he was, I would have watched it.

I am Not Crazy

I think it's important to let Bill know that I'm not crazy. I wouldn't want to scare him off from having a beer with me.

OK I am a little crazy.

Having a blog called "I Want to Have a Beer with Shatner" sort of proves that. I might be a little crazy but I am harmless. I've never been arrested, let alone convicted.

After their correspondent submitted an extremely detailed series of reports on me, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy recently doubled their entry for me. The current entry is "Still harmless". I was hoping the Guide would include something about my garden, but whatcha gonna do?

An Interesting Development via Twitter

Today my phone alerted me:

fixgear RT @TechCrunch: Illogical? William Shatner Gets Booted From Google+ tcrn.ch/qzP8eU by // here goes a hot lead @scoats

So Bill was on then off and now back on Google+. What to do? Could this be a way to communicate directly with the Shat or a handler one removed?



I didn't add Bill to my Friends circle, that would look like I was stalking him (and I'm not), so I added him to my Following circle.

I'm not ready to contact Bill directly yet. I want to be a few blog posts in first.

Less than 24 hours into the quest and things are moving along.