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The New Rage: Celebrity Comment Sightings

Have you been writing about rock music or baseball on your blog? If you answered ‘yes’ to either, and find someone in your comments claiming to be Ryan Adams or Curt Schilling, don’t be shocked to find out you’re talking to the real deal.

According to Gawker, Adams has been turning up in the comments section of ryanadams.org:

i find it very interesting that people, who are in their rights, to critique records, actually spend time/ have the balls to go so far as to judge the process of how records or made, or how often. As if the process and the selection of songs or the concepts were open to the listener, like a record by an artist was a collective expierence even before a record was done.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg — apparently a lack of booze and/or Parker Posey in his life has left Adams with plenty of time to write thousand-word diatribes on his unofficial fansites, even taking the time to clarify his identity:

and yes, its me. i dont fucking care. its not like i have a reputation worth protecting. really.

As for Schilling, Deadspin reports that the Red Sox ace can’t keep himself from wandering the series of tubes and participating in the comments sections and message boards — here’s a recent response he made upon wandering into the hostile airspace of a Yankee fan forum:

I’ve always looked at it from the standpoint of “If they don’t ask, I won’t answer”. Other than that the only media tag that might apply to is the radio call in stuff. Being born and raised a sports fan I admit to getting real real irritated when radio ’sports’ people spout off ‘insight’ and ‘in the know’ that I know to be complete crap. That’s certainly not a blanket analogy of sports radio, there are some good ones I like to listen to, but sports radio is designed to bring in listeners, and you do that by ’selling’ hot topics, controversy, and back and forth.

This isn’t the first time that Schilling has spoken out in a web forum — Schilling regularly makes appearances on Boston fan sites, to comment on things like fans potentially booing the return of former Sox ace Pedro Martinez. As if that weren’t enough, Schilling is a die-hard Everquest 2 fan, going so far as to have a video character of himself created for the game (pictured).

The only question we’re asking is, how does this guy not have a blog of his own yet? At the very least, Deadspin or The Mighty MJD needs to sign him up as a regular contributor.

This entry was posted by Kyle Bunch on Tuesday, July 18th, 2006 at 12:52 pm and is filed under Comments. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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