The Sport of Player Hating. This week; Will Smith and Dane Cook
Twice in one week . A blogger launched a salvo at a hip young Hollywood success story. Over at Film School Rejects Kevin Carr wrote an attack on Dane Cook , and over at Suicide Girls “TheCoolerKing ” wrote his essay asking why do people like Will Smith. It’s all tongue-in-cheek, kinda.
If you’re tall, handsome, funny and still considered young-the bloggers might hate you. The battle of nerds vs. popular guys has been a long and dirty one. Although really, it’s been a pretty one sided battle up until recent times. The nerds feel resentment toward the popular guys. And that’s where it ends. The popular guys tend to ignore the nerds. After all, they’re pretty busy with their women and tons of friends and fans.
But for the nerds it’s been a battle. And until the tech boom they never had any weapons to fight back with. In the movie Revenge of the Nerds they don’t receive their come-uppings until the last 10 minutes of the movie. Proving that brains over brawn is the key to success. And in the real world that’s been the key too. Bill Gates was never, ever, ever going to be a popular guy. Ever. But today he’s the richest man in the world. But you know what? He’s STILL not popular! And that’s the way it goes. Unless you’re talking about a fantasy. If you watch the movie Transformers you know within the first 5 minutes who wrote that movie. The main kid is an eBay user with no car, fast talking his way around the “dumb jocks,” and tech stuff saves the day. Fantasy. And I’ll tell you why.
The comments pages on those two blog pieces reveal that people initially jumped on the attack bandwagon but then, in both cases, a wave of people come to the defense of the movie stars. Popular is, by its very definition, popular.
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Wow…you post THAT picture of Dane Cook and then ask why people hate him?
Why do people hate him? Well, let’s see…there is the STEALING of jokes. There is the obnoxious way he talks. There is his HORRIBLE acting. And it all adds up to why the only people who like him are hte ones who have to buy their friends and sex by joining fraternities. Time to grow up. At some point, you will be embarrassed to admit that you ever liked him.
Hi thank you for visiting my blog. I usually thank people for reading, but I’m not quite sure you read this piece. Most people who find this blog are searching for a Dane Cook picture, as I believe you yourself were.
I’m afraid I’m a little confused by your comments. I think you’re mad at ME because you believe I like Dane Cook right? Or you think I “need to grow up” because you believe I like Dane Cook. I wrote a piece about how unknown bloggers attacked successful, young guys who are considered handsome without any provocation. A couple of showbiz guys who’ve been working in the industry well over a decade each have had some success, and guys who’ve been blogging for less than 2 years wrote some very strongly opinionated pieces about them.
Popularity is what it is-I have no control over it. The photos a showbiz person takes are just photos. I have no control over that either. I can choose a photo that I believe represents the person’s appearance and attitude, but it has nothing to do with me does it? I didn’t take the picture, I’m not IN the picture. It’s just a picture.
Now about Dane Cook and his material stealing or the quality of his acting or about the tone of his voice (which you aren’t a big a fan of I gather), maybe you should refer to the article that I link to where they talk about the merits of Dane Cook, that’s not what this piece is about. And I’m pretty sure I didn’t ask anything about WHY people hate Dane Cook. If you check you might notice it’s actually quite a short piece; this response to you is longer.
Finally, this business about joining fraternities and paying for sex. Are you serious? You actually make that statement and then say “time to grow up.” Can I interest you in a mirror?
I like Dane Cook. He is really funny and he is a fine actor. Sure he maybe swears too much but that is how he is and it is just for laughs. Don’t be so hard on him!
Thank you visiting Random.
Clearly people do love Cook. This short little piece I wrote MONTHS ago is one of the most heavily visited section of my entire blog!
(not about dane)
i was wondering if anyone knew when criss angel mindfreak season 4 is on TV??
Hello Random
Website says “this summer”
http://www.aetv.com/criss_angel
They also had a youtube update here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoqYwnQYD5o
Thanks! are you a fan of Criss? i personally love his show but it is never on any more so i am anxious for season 4
Hi Random
I’ve never seen the show, but you were nice enough to come here twice, so I just looked it up.
I don’t know his work, but anybody keeping magic alive is doing good work. Even though I spent 20 years as a B actor in a lot of crappy movies and canceled TV show I started all that by doing magic as a kid.
what kind of magic did you do? I dont know any tricks at all except one that Criss showed on the program. You should also make a blog about Criss Angel. Trust me, he is super popular and i am sure you would get a lot of comments for anything said about him.
Hi Random!
Well, when I say I was a “kid” I mean an actual kid- 7, 8 years old. I saw the Houdini movie and started doing “escapes.” I had the other kids tie me up and chain me up, and I got a bunch of library books on knots and locks and put on shows and sold popcorn. Kid stuff!
Maybe I WILL do some type of Angel site down the line, I’m supposed to be fininshing a long “celebrity” piece this week.
In the mean time, maybe you could start a free blog at blogger.com and show us the kind of stuff a real fan would like to see on a Criss Angel blog! If you do come tell me the address.
I dunno, i dont think i will. I would like to but i wont- i’ll leave it to you. lol
k, so i did set up a blog. the address is
http://crissangelisawesome.blogspot.com
Congratulations Random. I’m very happy. Now you have something that is totally yours and you can do anything you like with it. I visited and left a comment.
Normally (except this past week) I write about 6 out of 7 days for this blog, but you don’t have to do that much, you can do once a week.
I have a contact at the top of the page if you ever want some help.
thanx for all your help, how do i get people to see it, and how do i put pics. on?
Ok the easy one first. When you write a “post” there is a little button thta looks like a painting. If you click it you can upload an image and stick it into the post.
And if you want to change even more things click on the “layout” button and a second window will open with lots of choices.
As for getting people I want you to join 3 free things
mybloglog.com
blogcatalog.com
entrecard.com
There’s no rush just take your time and read about them and you’ll be able to meet all kinds of friendly bloggers and they’ll visit your site too. You can also read this thing I wrote
http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/the-david-rosenthal-blog-traffic-tactics/
And when you need to just email me at dave@
welcomebackrosenthal.com