EDIT: See, I told you.
Heh. The blog world is so easy to manipulate, see Exhibit A in yellow below. Good thing I don't use my awesome powers to wreak more havoc (kidding!)
Also, I never wrote about pierced labia--I only quoted Mark Morford--which I don't do much anymore because it appears his editors or maybe the pending lawsuit, has taken away his gonads
bite.
Who is Rance, you ask? It's a common question if one is to believe the buzz being generated by his blog presence.
I came across Rance quite by accident. I check my visitor statistics, and one day last year, there he was. Often when a new visitor with a personal blog pops up, I pop over to his/her blog to check it out. Call it curiosity--possibly it's just a sort of courtesy.
What I found at Rance's then brand-new blog, was a person claiming to be a entertainment insider, a celebrity who pleaded that he only wanted to be anonymous in order to blog about his deep, dark feelings about the biz.
He proclaimed discomfort when word got around at teenage blog places like Live Journal and he was besieged via his comments section, by Dawson's Creek-type fans fervently hoping he was IRL (in real life) "the cute one."
I was somewhat intrigued, but had no desire to get caught in the crush of fan-boys and girls.
Rance sometimes went a week between entries. My interest waned. He used the now ubiquitous blogger tactic of threatening to quit because this wasn't what he had hoped it would be.
At that time, I thought blogging was a noble endeavor ("Writing is good!") and I encouraged him via a comment or two to hang in there and find his groove. Others encouraged him as well, though there were some "disbelievers" who questioned his celebrity status by making unflattering comments.
Despite the naysayers, "Rance" decided to give it another try and the tone of his blog lightened somewhat.
What vexed me is that Rance was all about Rance...and Rance's feelings and Rance and celeb gossip and more Rance. This is a real problem because Rance is not the best writer--by far. He can't spell or doesn't spell-check and he writes the way an actor of possibly average intellect writes--as opposed to how say, a writer would write.
To sum up, Rance bored me and I stopped visiting his blog even as it was becoming apparent that I was one of the more mature readers he had. When he was picking and choosing whom to address by name, mine was starting to show up.
I figured Rance was well on his way to managing his blog and had lots of adoring fans in case he felt the need for another "detour," so I deleted my link to his blog and stopped visiting.
Until a few days ago.
When I checked my visitor stats, I saw his address as the origin of several visits. Curious, I clicked over there and came up with his old posts and my comments.
His newer fans are going through his old stuff--clicking links. And now that this article has come out--there'll be a few more hits from the fan boys and girls. And maybe the people from :cough:overrated:cough: Boing Boing who are actually spending real time trying to figure out who this person is.
Oh yeah, out of the guesses of "who" Rance is--Owen Wilson sounds right in terms of not seeming very bright and so does Affleck.
He is not Clooney or Carrey. Both men have more smarts than that and I really don't think they would hide behind a blog.
Just my 2 centavos.
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Hollywood Mystery Man 'Rance' Has Internet Abuzz
Thu May 27, 2004 09:48 PM ET
By Dan Whitcomb
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - He skewers Hollywood and the cult of celebrity on an anonymous Web log that has spawned a cult following. He claims to be an A-list actor, writing under a pseudonym, but admits he may not be believed.
Who, exactly, is "Rance?"
Could he really be, as some believe, Owen Wilson, Ben Affleck, Jim Carrey or even George Clooney?
The answer may perhaps be found somewhere in the entries on his Weblog -- or "blog" -- which applies a trenchant wit and jaundiced insider's eye in chronicling the life of a Hollywood celebrity. Then again, it could all be a hoax.
Though Rance granted an interview with Reuters, he responded to questions only via email, using pseudonymous dead-end accounts for both himself and the reporter and never offering a glimpse into his real identity.
Asked if he was, in fact, a well-known actor, he responded: "Or a well-known actress perhaps. Just not Donald Trump."
In the blog's first-ever post last December, Rance introduced himself this way: "Suffice it to say I know what its like to see your picture on the magazine rack every now and again when you pay for groceries."
Rance's blog has since spawned a furious guessing game on the Internet and beyond, becoming a regular topic at Hollywood parties.
Xeni Jardin, a writer on the "Boing-Boing" blog, recently told her readers that Rance was rumored to be "Starsky and Hutch" star Owen Wilson, a claim that the actor's publicist has denied.
BEN AFFLECK? GEORGE CLOONEY? JIM CARREY?
The anonymous editor of Hollywood gossip site Defamer suggests it could be Ben Affleck -- a conjecture built around the supposed link between a cryptic quiz on Rance's blog and an Affleck tattoo.
Others have surmised that Rance is Jim Carrey, George Clooney, Benicio Del Toro or Luke Wilson, Owen's brother. And one of Rance's readers recently sent him a comment that read simply: "You are, in fact, Matthew Perry. Game on?"
Meanwhile, a Defamer reader tried to unmask Rance by researching the term "Captain Hoof," which appears in the Web address. She came to the conclusion that he was a San Francisco man who worked at an ad agency and once ran a Web site with a similar name -- possibly dedicated to an imaginary horse.
The man, who no longer works for the agency, could not be contacted for this story.
For his part, Rance offers the electronic equivalent of a shrug to the endless chatter about his identity, saying that it was never his intention to play hide-and-seek with the world...
Rance said he set up the Web site on a whim with help from a computer-savvy friend, seeing it as a "really good way to bitch about my job" without suffering any career repercussions. He chose the name "Rance" as a pun on "rants."
The diverse themes of the Web log revolve around pitch meetings and parties, the machinations of Hollywood at work and play and its fascination with sex and celebrity...


Here's what the weather guys (repeatedly during each show) broke into the season finale episodes of three of the four network shows I watch(ed), to say (one was two weeks ago--the big one was on Friday night).
***Harsh television noise to get your attention***
The meal was fabulous--antipasto appetizers, Chicken Vesuvio, and tirimisu for dessert. Oh, the decadent yumminess. We were seated by a window that adjoined the terrace to the outdoor riverfront area--spectacular views of the River North area of the city. 













I'm glad because I'm in the grips of spring fever and I tend to throw caution to the wind when I'm all giddy like this but I've been doing some serious thinking before acting, planning even
, and though I prefer spontaneity, being planful has it's distinct advantages. 





