CWalken Is Dead: Mosey Along Now
UNPLUGGED

The 'CWalken' Twitter Account Has Been Deactivated. Mosey Along Now, Nothing To See Here

ALAS, 'CWALKEN' IS DEAD.
The Internet has been all atwitter about the ironic actor's alleged tweets on Twitter, the popular social networking site.
The post that got everyone twatting (I have been dying to use that in a sentence, thanks Stephen Colbert!) and linking back to the cwalken account was posted on March 18th:
"There's a kid on a Pogo stick in front of my house. It's nearly midnight so let's assume he's been drinking. This should end well for him."
It certainly sounds like something Christopher Walken might say, doesn't it? Well it's not, and when Twitter confirmed it, it unplugged the account that had more 73,000 followers. Sorry Crabby but the "cwalken" account was an experiment set up by Deron Bauman, a member of ClusterFlock, a "group blog dedicated to pretty much everything, by people you would like to meet at a party."
Mr. Bauman has published the password to the cwalken Twitter account (morecowbell) and invited pretty much everyone on the planet to tweet something as Walken. His only rule regarding post content is "Don’t be an idiot."
It looks like the account has been twittering along since October of 2008 and there are a good number of tweets posted. Some of them almost wax poetic, like this one from December 6th:
The neighbor's cat is back at the window looking in at me. I wonder how he would describe this to other cats. If he wanted to, I mean.
Other post dig at celebrities:
Malkovich is doing the Saturday Night show this week. Keep an eye on him. He's not a menace or anything like that. But he takes stuff.
I'm not sure if it's funnier to think of John Malkovich as a petty thief or to think that Christopher Walken doesn't know the name of the show he's hosted memorably more than five times.
At least one tweeter, with no sense of humor, busted the lid off of this charade in a December 9th posting: Of course I'm not the Walken you're thinking of. I would never be on Twitter if I were that guy. I've got better things to do. Or I would.
What other Walken is there I ask you? And why should we presume he's too busy to Twitter? People Twitter on the can these days, there's always time for Twitter! That’s the point of Twitter!
Deron Bauman can't seem to help but do a little twelf-promoting (that would be self-promoting on Twitter, thank you) when cwalken links to
elimae, Bauman's electronic literary magazine in a few posts. But how can you blame him? I’' take a Walken endorsement for crabbygolightly.com any day! (Now I know better.)
Of course, I'd rather have the real Christopher Walken send people to this site but since I
don't know him maybe I’ll just make a new Twitter account for him. So far there are two tweeters claiming to be The Deerhunter actor. cwalken is pretty active but walken hasn't posted since May of last year, and that post was about hot dogs. How many Christopher Walken Twitter accounts can the site handle? Maybe we should ask
chriswalken, who tweeted once in November of last year to let the world know he's part of a vigilante gang. One can raise an eyebrow at the idea of the sixty-six-year-old actor being part of a vigilante group but its more suspect that he would actually announce it. If Christopher Walken is breaking knee-caps in the name of justice I doubt he'd announce it to the world. He seems the time who prefers his violence back-alley and on the DL.
This preponderance of Walkens on Twitter leads to just one question. Will the real Christopher Walken please stand up?
Vegas is a gambler who always loses money on craps. She spends her time in Chicago with her husband, two cats and various artistic endeavors which are beginning to take up way too much space in her house and hard drive. Visit her blog at
jensaysanything.blogspot.com.
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Comments
Mouth-watering information!! Wikileaks will release more info on this :).
Posted by: banks | July 26, 2010 08:15 PM
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Posted by: Burton Haynes | July 7, 2010 10:44 PM
close? what close? i think i get the cigar.
Posted by: Vegas | March 28, 2009 10:59 PM
Close. A wee bit more research might help you get there:
http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/2057
Posted by: CW | March 28, 2009 06:36 AM
CRAP! This was seriously the best thing on Twitter, the first I looked for everyday. A serious bummer.
Posted by: Sarah Hunt | March 28, 2009 03:41 AM