The AmeriKevin Dream

Dear Mr. Costner,

We trust that you had a wonderful July 4th holiday filled with fireworks on the grill and in the sky. We here at "If I Blog It They Will Come" spent the entire holiday feeling bummed. We had made a personal promise to ourselves that we would make it out to the Swing Vote extras casting call in Belen,New Mexico on July 3rd. Unfortunately, we couldn't get our travel arrangements in order in time and missed out on our chance for our cinematic big break. By July 4th we had hoped to be cast as supporters of a 3rd party candidate or angry mob member #1, and spending our great nation's independence day whooping it up with our fellow aspiring actors while basking in the New Mexican warmth. Instead we found ourselves in rainy Brooklyn staring at the waste of gunpowder and sky over the East River and wondering what could've been.

It wasn't all negative though. Lucky for us here at "If I Blog It They Will Come" we had such wonderful patriotic films such as JFK, 13 Days, American Flyers, and The Postman to warm our hearts to the true spirit of America. Even if we can't be apart of another freedom flaunting effort such as Swing Vote, rest assured Mr. Costner, anything you do will be fireworks to us. That is why we remain ever patient in our quest to get you to send a photo of yourself looking at our blog to djayek@yahoo.com. It wouldn't be America if putting hard work and faith into achieving your dream wasn't rewarded with success.

Thanks for your time and consideration. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely,
The Patriotic Folks at "If I Blog It They Will Come"

We Won't Back Down

Dear Mr. Costner,

You may have noticed that we here at "If I Blog It They Will Come" went dark after our Mr. Brooks review post. Maybe you thought we were "backing down" from our quest of getting you to visit our blog and take a photo of yourself doing so and sending it to us at djayek@yahoo.com. That is not so. We like to take further inspiration from a character in your film The Postman. No, the character in question it's not The Postman, who so admirably held a nation together by delivering old letters...The character in question is Tom Petty, who as far as we can tell played Tom Petty in the movie.

Tom Petty once said, "You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down" (sure he also sang a song called "Time To Move On" but we have a selective memory). Mr. Costner, we've seen those gates of hell and to be honest, we weren't impressed. It's nothing compared to our own personal hell of not receiving final acknowledgement of our faithful struggle. After all, we know what's right, we got just one life, in a world that keeps on pushin' us around we will stand our ground.

Hey Kevin...There ain't no easy way out...This blog will stand it's ground until you finally come through. We have faith that you will because hey, "even the losers get lucky sometimes". Thanks for your time and consideration. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely,
The Potentially Heartbroken Folks at "If I Blog It They Will Come"

Full Slate of Costner

Dear Mr. Costner,

Keeping this site fresh and interesting requires a lot of hard work and dedication. You probably know something about hard work and dedication seeing as acting in a cinematic masterpiece certainly takes a lot of those two things, coupled with skill and a confidence in your craft as an actor/director.

In order to come up with new and exciting posts for our site we need to have confidence in our craft as writer/bloggers which, in turn, requires plenty of research. We don't just rest on our laurels hoping that one day you'll magically send a photo of yourself looking at our blog to djayek@yahoo.com. No sir, we here at "If I Blog It They Will Come" are all about using a little elbow grease. Sometimes our "research" takes us to the outer reaches of the interweb and sometimes its as simple as a Kevin Costner film marathon over the weekend. We hesitate to use the term research because, really, watching a Kevin Costner film is probably the most enjoyable "research" anyone can do. This weekend we've put together a little "research" festival consisting of some of your more recent triumphs such as Dragonfly, 13 Days and The Postman. That little bit of homework coupled with our already large memory bank of Kevin Costner knowledge should be enough to keep us going for the next two weeks or at least until you decide to send a photo of yourself looking at our blog to djayek@yahoo.com. We're like the internet version of the Energizer bunny..."still going". Keeping that in mind, we certainly wish you an excellent weekend and know that we'll still be here on Monday, eagerly awaiting a response. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely,
The Energizer Bunny of Celebrity Blogs "If I Blog It They Will Come"

Postman's Mailbag

You know, here at "If I Blog It They Will Come" we get letters. These letters contain positive reinforcment from well wishers for our cause as well as general inquiries from Kevin Costner fans from all over the world, that only Kevin Costner can provide the answers to. Actually, we're lying we don't get letters, they're emails and our inbox isn't exactly jam packed. We finally got our first reader email today. It comes from one David Summerfield. I'm not sure where he's from but in his email he writes:

"I am hoping that this e mail gets to the proper individual. (Mr. Costner).....I have a question that I have been wanting to ask. I heard a story that sometime ago, you were a skipper on the Jungle Cruise attraction at Disneyland. Could you please let me know if that is true? If so, when was it?? I was a former Skipper of the Disney Jungle myself, and I find it interesting and fascinating that I may have shared some of the same jungle water, and corny puns as you may have. Thank you for all that you do. You are a true inspiration to the minds and hearts of many. Keep up the great work, and I wish you and your family much happiness and fulfillment in all that life may bring you."

Thanks for the email David! We here at If I Blog It They Will Come" were unaware of Kevin's Disneyland connection. However, we have no way of getting this message to Kevin Costner but the least we can do is post it on the site and if we can eventually get him to look at it, perhaps he can answer your question personally. However, we need your help. Our movement is a grassroots one. Our personal rules we have set for our site are that we will not contact Mr. Costner directly, nor will we at "If I Blog It They Will Come" bother his publicists.

In order to eventually slay this Dragonfly, we're going to need the continual support of our readers. So if you're reading this site, tell a friend, heck tell ten and keep sending your letters of support and your Costner related inquiries to djayek@yahoo.com. We hope that word of our site grows from a whisper into a roar and that he will hear of our site from growing Hollywood buzz or fan buzz and be moved to check us out and send in a photo of himself looking at our site to djayek@yahoo.com. It's a simple request, but really that's all we ask.

Again, thank you for your support and if you're reading this Mr. Costner, David Summerfield has a question for you.

Sincerely,
The Folks at If I Blog It They Will Come

Special Delivery

Hey Mr. C,
We here at if I Blog It They Will Come are celebrating our 2 Week anniversary today and to paraphrase the words of Thomas J. Murphy, your character in 3000 Miles to Graceland "Pork Chop Pork Chop, Greasy Greasy, We thought getting you to come to our site and take a picture was going to be easy easy." Unfortunately, we have little reason to break out the party hats and the noisemakers in this our 2nd week, as our web traffic is plummeting and we currently have nothing to show for our efforts but our vacant inbox. It seems that we got a bit ahead of ourselves. We thought we could do this alone. We are but a small operation consisting of anywhere from one to three members at any time. This is quite the large task for such a small group. We here at if I Blog it They Will Come have been brainstorming as to how we could salvage our effort to get you to take a picture of yourself on our blog and send it to us at djayek@yahoo.com.

Then it occurred to us while we were thinking about your 1997 epic, The Postman, a film in which the simple act of delivering the mail helped to rebuild a civilization. maybe we could achieve similiar success by opening up our mailbag to other Costner fans and delivering their messages to you, so that you might know how much they want you to come to our site and take a photo of yourself. So, beginning next week, we will open up our hearts and our mailboxes to Kevin Costner fans all over the world.

So today's message is a call to the international throng of Costner fans. Let Kevin know just how much you care and how much it would mean to you if Kevin were to send a photo of himself looking at our blog to us. We probably won't be able to publish all of the letters but we're going to pick the best. So make them good folks. Make them sing.

Mr. Costner if you're reading this, we hope that you're leaning a little further towards honoring our request. We're certainly leaning towards the ticket booth once Mr. Brooks hits theatres. We look forward to hearing from you soon at djayek@yahoo.com

Sincerely,
The folks at If I Blog It They Will Come

p.s. Our free t-shirt offer still stands.