March 23, 2009


A Brief History of Christopher Walken

Andrew put together a good history of the Christopher Walken accounts.

In April of 2008, Clusterflock decided to try a PostSecret type account and open up the readers to contribute to our blog. There was some debate about the name (it was Garrett who suggested Christopher Walken) and we put it to a vote. Deron, I guess, felt that Christopher Walken was the most compelling of the names: we just kept finding ourselves riffing off it. So, Deron created the account for the blog, not the twitter account.

Around October of 2008, twitter began to become popular with Flockers, so we all exchanged our twitter account information and took the sardonic irreverence to the twitterverse. The next day it struck me that a Walken account on twitter was a logical extension of our twitter presence so I created it.

You’ll notice, however, that the last link is cached. Turns out, after the account was fallow for a few weeks, somebody clusterflock-related took control of the account, changed the password, and started posting hilarity.

posted by Deron Bauman in history, internet 

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12 Responses to “A Brief History of Christopher Walken”

  1. Andrew Simone on March 23rd, 2009 at 10:38 am

    The man beats me to posting my own post. Sheesh.

  2. Deron Bauman on March 23rd, 2009 at 10:40 am

    cha cha cha!

  3. Andrew Simone on March 23rd, 2009 at 10:59 am

    I wrote this because all the high profile blogs that were covering this seemed averse to research. Makes a guy sad about the state of the blogosphere.

  4. Deron Bauman on March 23rd, 2009 at 11:17 am

    it was kind of buried, but I’m glad you uncovered it.

    I think we all owe Garrett a beer.

  5. Andrew Simone on March 23rd, 2009 at 11:21 am

    You might be right.

  6. Andrew Simone on March 23rd, 2009 at 11:22 am

    about Garret. The other stuff was just an email away.

  7. Sheila Ryan on March 23rd, 2009 at 11:27 am

    Two beers. Live it up.

  8. Kyle Wegner on March 23rd, 2009 at 2:26 pm

    I’m glad this has been clarified. I’ve had a few debates with people already, claiming that I had FOR SURE seen the login info posted on clusterflock. Now I know why all of the tweets are so uniformly hilarious.

  9. For those in the dark about @cwalken : clusterflock on March 26th, 2009 at 1:53 pm

    [...] is my biography, which Deron posted earlier, and this article about the fellow who isn’t Christopher Walken he just sorta plays him on [...]

  10. Garrett on March 26th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    Wait, what’s that? I’ve been working too much for the last few days and completely missed this.

    If it makes y’all feel better, though, I’ve supplemented my extreme work ethic with plenty of beer. And have discovered a new found respect for making martinis at home.

  11. Andrew Simone on March 26th, 2009 at 3:16 pm

    Martinis at home are key.

  12. dirty, dry, delicious : clusterflock on March 26th, 2009 at 9:31 pm

    [...] I felt inspired. [...]

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