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'Bobism' Will Finally Show the World How Important Bloggers Are

Seems like we bloggers spend about half our time blogging about blogging. Whether it's stories about how blogging is bad for your health (so that's my excuse!), or about how bloggers are replacing newspaper film critics, writers love to write about writers. So the logline for Bobism, a film whose screenplay Variety says MGM has just purchased, made me laugh -- I'm sorry, made me LOL:

"A shy collegian learns that life 1,000 years in the future will be based on his blog."

Ha! That's awesome. And really, it's only fair. Hollywood makes lots of movies about out-of-nowhere athletes who become superstars, thus fulfilling the fantasies of legions of armchair-quarterback viewers who dream about the same thing happening to them. They make plenty of romantic comedies where women live fabulous lifestyles (usually working at a magazine) and wind up wearing the perfect wedding dress as they marry the perfect guy, thus fulfilling the fantasies of millions of female viewers. So it's about time they make a wish-fulfillment movie for us bloggers, where we get to indulge our daydreams of being really, really important!

And since bloggers love the topic of blogging, I predict this movie will be the topic of much discussion on the Interwebs in the coming months. A friend of ours who's involved in the project said "it's literally a comedy version of the Terminator. It's about a slacker named Bob who discovers in the future his dorm room blog creates utopia -- and also results in intergalactic war."

By the way, Bobism was written by Ben Wexler, who's worked in TV for the last decade on shows like Still Standing and The King of Queens. Contrafilm's Tripp Vinson and Beau Flynn, as well as Adam F. Goldberg, are producing. I hope it turns out to be funny! If it doesn't, well, you know who's gonna complain about it.

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