Why is Dr. Horrible so goddamn awesome?  Okay, so that’s rhetorical.  It’s awesome because of Neil Patrick Harris (and Joss Whedon is a genius Nathan Fillion yada yada).  And everyone and his brother has seen it already, but what can I say.  I’m just in that mood.

Fun Wesley life anectdote: a couple months ago my friends and I went to Dragon-Con and had the opportunity to get autographs from a host of celebrities from the geek realm.  One of my roommates went for Alan Tudyk, and I went for Nathan Fillion, who were side-by-side.  Most of the fanatics there went for both, but we decided to split the cost (see how I tried to pretend I’m less of a nerd than those other people?  Freaks!).

Backing it up a couple hours, we came to the realization that there was one, and only one thing that Nathan Fillion could autograph that would fulfill our raging appetites for humor and good times.  One of the best lines in Dr. Horrible occurs thusly: “These (waves fists) are not the hammer…”

“…the hammer is my penis.”

That was what we had to get autographed, preserved for posterity, so that many decades from now we would be able to remind ourselves that penis jokes are funny.  It was perfect.

So we stood in line for 30 or 40 minutes.  They were really crankin’ out the signatures by getting people’s names in advance while they waited in line, and the stars would sign a generic saying like “Stay Shiny” on the picture.  But I didn’t want to stay shiny.  When I finally reached the head of the line, we shook hands or something and he handed me the picture and I asked something to the effect of “Do you do custom signatures?”  And Nathan Fillion, hero of the Whedonverse, said “Sure, man, what do you want?”

I mumbled some sort of prologue to my request and then jumped in.  The hammer is my penis.  It didn’t go so well.  Instead of a legendary autograph, I got “That’s a little creepy, man” and a brushing off.

Positive image?  Shattered.  Awesome autograph?  Denied.  Funny story?  Okay, so I got something out of it.  Too bad he didn’t have a sense of humor.