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Celebrity Blogging

04/14/05 | by Jamie | Categories: Links and Articles


What do these people have in common?


Lately I've been getting a little tired of only reading the ramblings of my fellow utterly unfamous ESL teacher friends. Sure, many of them are really good writers and have interesting things to say, but honestly... why should I care what some lowly English teacher has to say about anything? They've never acted in a blockbuster film, had an album go platinum, or even appeared on a crappy reality show. That's why lately I've been reading celebrity blogs. They are just like regular blogs in content and form, but since they are written by famous people they are thus vastly superior in all possible ways. Here are a few noteworthy ones:


Wil Wheaton: The mother of all minor celebrity bloggers.

Rosie O'Donnell: Not for the faint of heart or stomach.
Adam Sandler: More of a video blog really.

Rupaul: A perfect example of what a celebrity blog should be like.
Rob Zombie: The scariest looking celebrity blog I've seen (aside from Rosie O'Donnell's).

Dave Barry: By the syndicated columnist that many people seem to like, but I've never read.
Moby: Big surprise, Moby has a blog.

Elyse Sewell: Great cynical musings from an Ex-America's Next Top Model contestant, booted for being too smart to be a model. (Thanks Kate)
Bare Naked Ladies: Dorky Canadian band, with obligatory dorky blog.

Matthew Good: Same as above, but with more political mumbo jumbo.
Dave Navarro: Jane's Addiction guitarist, and boyfriend of Carmen Electra.

Al Roker: This blog by NBC's rotund weatherman is the antithesis of Rob Zombie's blog in almost every way imaginable.


I found various other blogs by the likes of William Shatner and Melanie Griffith, but they don't seem to get updated regularity enough to be worth visiting more than once. The fine folks at Diarist.net who gave me their Best Use of Multimedia Award also have a list of their own. I haven't tried all the sites on their list, so it's possible that some of them might be fake. These blogs truly bring to home what US Weekly has been reminding us for years... Celebrities, they're just like us!


Update: More Star Blogs:
Tom Green (Thanks Hugh)

Noam Chomsky
Son of Sam

David Byrne
Mick Foley

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9 comments

Comment from: Hugh [Visitor]
HughYeah, Dave Barry. Never read his stuff, probably because of Hans.
04/14/05 @ 16:56
Comment from: Jamie [Member]
JamieYeah, I definately have also resisted due to the Hans factor. That and the way Dave Barry puts his contorted ugly face on everything he sells.
04/14/05 @ 17:20
Comment from: Hugh [Visitor]
HughBy the way, Tom Green's blog is in the news lately, surprised you didn't include it.

http://tomgreen.com/blog/blog.html
04/14/05 @ 17:22
Comment from: Jamie [Member]
JamieBy the way, Hans if you're reading this.. I'm sorry, but your taste in comedy has always been somewhat questionable.
04/14/05 @ 17:24
Comment from: Jamie [Member]
JamieCool, never heard of it before. There are probably still lots of good celebrity blogs out there I haven't come across yet. Post the links if you got them folks!
04/14/05 @ 17:25
Comment from: Dave [Visitor]
DaveAren't Dave Navarro and Carmen Electra married now? Didn't they have that stupid show on MTV or something? Not that I would know...that's why I'm asking...I don't watch that...oh shut up...
04/14/05 @ 23:19
Comment from: Cody Hobbs [Visitor]
Cody HobbsI remember hearing Tom Green ripping on his little sidekick for blogging way back when he had that talk show, then I see him on Tech TV 3 years later promoting his blog. It seems like a video blog, although I haven't yet studied the technicalities of what the differences between a blog and a video blog are... I've just got a hunch.
04/15/05 @ 07:42
Comment from: Jamie [Member]
JamieHere's a really extensive list of famous bloggers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Bloggers

Be warned, lots of them are crap, never updated or belong to people that don't even qualify as C List celebrities.

I'll keep updating the list in my article with the good ones I find for the next day or so.
04/15/05 @ 12:55
Comment from: Cendrine [Visitor]
CendrineHi, nice blog you've got... Would you happen to know if the actor Vincent D'Onofrio (Law & Order:CI) has a blog?
05/15/05 @ 16:52
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