Score one for the little blogger.
By Burbanked on Sep 4, 2007 in Blogging, Celebrities, Movies | 882 views |
I’m wearing kind of a stupid grin today because one of my favorite oddball blogs If I Blog It They Will Come has scored a major victory for niche blogs across this great wide Interbloguverseyweb of ours.
The premise of If I Blog It is simple, but inspired: to consistently, and with a sense of youthful optimism unmatched in my travels across the blogging world - let alone my own increasingly cynical view of Hollywood celebrities - reach out to Kevin Costner and get him to send the blog a picture of him - Costner - reading If I Blog It. I’ve tracked the progress of this quest for the eight or nine months that the site has existed, and it’s a wonderful blog; oddly humorous, appropriately off-kilter, but it’s such a fun look at celebrity and movie-making that, for me, it’s been a must-read.
Well, today the site can claim victory, because Kevin Costner has sent them a handful of pictures of himself reading their blog. Sure, Costner looks like he just woke up and had an assistant shove a laptop into his hands. Sure, it’s also possible that he was holding, say, some hedge clippers or perhaps an infant and some well-meaning publicist simply Photoshopped the laptop into his hands. But I don’t care. I’m going to call it a Big Win for a delightful blog that deserves it. And as someone who was once cruelly c-blocked (that’s “c” for “celebrity”, you naughty monkeys) by Costner’s staff at Warner Bros. when all I wanted was an autograph on my VHS copy of Dances With Wolves for a frigging Christmas present for a family member, I can certainly appreciate If I Blog It’s rollercoaster-like high of celebrity attention that they must be feeling right now.
Congrats to everybody at If I Blog It They Will Come and kudos to Costner for being a great sport.
Dedicated screenwriting 101 here: From an interview with Harrison Ford on the MTV Movies Blog in which the inevitability of another Indiana Jones movie is mentioned:
How do I get out of this? I love going to the movies with my boys, opening up their minds to the great pleasures of cinema and all that, but this is a hard one. Please help me: do I suck it up and just go, or can anyone out there provide me with a plausible, kind-hearted, permanent way out? (
© Copyright
Piper | Sep 4, 2007 | Reply
Holy schnikes that’s sweet. Thanks for turning me on to this blog. It’s great. But now what do they do?
Burbanked | Sep 4, 2007 | Reply
Piper - I left a comment on the site that hasn’t appeared yet asking that very question. I’m thinking that the two main options are 1) pick a new celebrity or 2) badger Costner until he shows up at your kid’s birthday party.
Ray | Sep 4, 2007 | Reply
Awwww … that’s nice.
Now that Kevin has responded to the entire purpose of the blog, I suppose the only thing left for its author to do is commit suicide.
How sad, yet how fulfilling.
http://www.therecshow.com
Burbanked | Sep 4, 2007 | Reply
Ouch, Ray! Are we feeling extra-special cynical today?
Piper | Sep 4, 2007 | Reply
My comment hasn’t shown up either.
Once you’ve had Costner respond to your blog, there isn’t time to review comments on a blog. There are parties, and contract negotiations, and script re-writes.
Great White Snark | Sep 4, 2007 | Reply
Wow, that’s huge. I’ve been considering ways to get Kristen Bell to visit my blog, and I guess now I have the answer. Nine months of somewhat-innocuous stalkerism.
KC | Sep 5, 2007 | Reply
Yes, as much as they are celebrating over there, it will eventually hit them that it’ all over. There’s nothing left to live for!
Over at The Rec, we’re working on a plan to get the animated Angelina Jolie(NOT the real Jolie)to send us pictures of her reading our blog. It’s a work in progress.
Burbanked | Sep 5, 2007 | Reply
KC - You’re going to the trouble of contacting the animated Angelina Jolie and all you want her to do is read your blog?
And you call yourselves degenerates?