@adambonin there's some more suckin u can do too...on my ballz!!!! Biatch!Feeling honored, I did respond, noting with amusement that I had over three times more Twitter followers than an American Idol finalist and, unlike Clark, "I have never destroyed Americans' eardrums like he did on 'Against All Odds.' http://is.gd/kCE7Eg." Okay, perhaps I was laying it on a bit too hard in subsequently noting that "It's rare to get into a Twitter fight with someone with as long an arrest record and as short of talent as Corey Clark," and that he and I had a lot in common: "no record deal, no future in music, never hooked up with Paula Abdul."
His responses to me (here), blasted to his 496 Twitter followers, included dick jokes, momma jokes, "turd burgalar" accusations and the like, which I described as "embarrassingly obscene and unfunny, which added to 'can't sing' makes Corey Clark a true triple threat." And at that point, after he called me, Alan, Dan, and Scott Shields "deuchebags," I more or less stopped.
Yes, the leveling effect of Twitter is neat -- Mr. Clark can search the globe to find out if anyone still remembers him, and do battle with his critics in the court of public opinion. But I feel more sad for him than anything else -- both in the choosing to respond and the juvenile nature of his responses. I'd like to believe that someone nine years removed from the show was not so desperate for attention, any attention at all, and one can reasonably question whether it was a proper use of my time to respond. I guess there really is a place so far down that one should stop kicking.
I may need to adopt "deuchebag." It probably refers to German douchebags. It sounds exactly like Garrett Morris announcing Lord and Lady Douchebag in that SNL sketch.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, I'm sure there are a lot of Twitter wars in which one side has a long criminal record and little talent. Aren't those people statistically more likely to get in Twitter wars than people with short criminal records and prodigious talent, after controlling for other things (like lack of access to Twitter for inmates)? When was the last time you got in a Twitter war with, I don't know, Yo Yo Ma?
I don't mess with him. He tells a lot of Yo Yo Mamma jokes.
ReplyDeleteI resent that you're making me feel bad for Corey Clark. It's like bringing a knife to a gunfight--and he's no Brick Tamland.
ReplyDeleteI once tweeted an insult of Alyssa Milano's acting ability to test Mickey Kaus's questionable hypothetical that the Twitter search engine throttled negative attacks on celebrities -- and she responded with a very graceful and high-road tweet that made me ashamed that she noticed. And people know that I'm usually shameless.
ReplyDeleteI think it's hilarious that Twitter enabled you to have a conversation (of sorts) with Corey Clark.
ReplyDeleteAfter following that conversation, I'm sort of surprised he's not here yet.
ReplyDeleteDon't be surprised if he shows up at your house and either A) stabs you or B) asks if he can stay in your spare bedroom.
ReplyDeleteHee! "<span><span><span>Thanks I appreciate that. Should still be able to get open arms it was on the album we did that season u are followed @IsaacSpaceman"</span></span></span>
ReplyDeleteIsn't that how The Sixth Sense starts?
ReplyDeleteHilarious!
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to see if he would defend it. Admirably noncommittal.
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