Further Rance

Well, on the one hand, it's still fun reading and commenting on Rance's blog. On the other hand, some people have completely gone overboard in their need for attention - there's some sort of fight or war going on, but it's hard to tell if it stems from a complete misunderstanding, or if a person or persons unknown is employing sockpuppetry to foment conflict.

Meanwhile, another blogger with a similer moniker on another Tripod blog pretty much "outs" Rance as George Clooney, and captainhoof as Keith Thomson. A new detail - there was apparently a party in the Hamptons at Jerry Bruckheimer's place at the same time Rance was sending a postcard from the Hamptons party with the 5 pound lobsters.

Good thing I didn't shoot my mouth off just now about the Amazing Race - weird, but I was suddenly curious, if "Rance" is truly George Clooney or another A-lister, if he'd ever been recruited to appear on a reality show. And on The Amazing Race Television Without Pity boards, people are grousing about "recruits," who tend to be boring models and beauty queens. And a commenter on Rance's blog, having read the "outing" blog... yadda... gets openly mocked. Not so fun. People are going to get hurt if they don't lighten up and stop taking the whole lark so damn seriously.

And it's a little hard to believe that the whole thing could be for the purposes of promoting Oceans' Twelve, though I can definitely get on board with it being for blowing off steam over idiotic Hollywoodiana. After all - hello - that was actually stated in an early post. It's difficult for a well-known person to be a part of a support group without crap hitting the tabbies.

This linksblog continues to be more or less private - although someone could still stumble upon it. If they should, well, it's hard to explain. It's an Internet thing. It's a perfect storm in a teacup.

And over on the Gus Overshaw "whale-killing journal" that was "recommended" by Rance, all the fun and costume-party make-believe is about to come crashing down because someone who was role-playing got hurt when someone else apparently role-played a little harder than expected. I expect it's because some people either can't take a joke, or that once again the lack of non-verbal communication has farked over the meaning of words meant in jest into something that was perceived to be abuse or aggression.

But I have to say - it's fascinating. And most of my comments make it through on both blogs, so they must be entertaining enough to the person or persons on the business end of both.

And damn! It's fun. I'd be sad if it all blew to hell.

And now, back to news links and crap to look at after work, with the occasional excursion into imaginary realms of Bloggerland.