I am not Bill Simmons.

a Tumblr by Bill Simmon (@billsimmon)

[billsimmon]

Somehow I missed this gem of a Twitter @reply from last year. Even celebrities sometimes make typos. I am not Bill Simmons.

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mylife: keeping me apprised of all the "new threats!" 

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Sigh.

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Mylife.com needs to take another look at their spam bots' programming.

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Something something LeBron something. OMG Twitter freakout!

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Sure. He got a comfy chair.

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I play pretty well with a mic in my hand.

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Registering at SXSW (where I am speaking in a session) the girl behind the counter was all "everyone is SO happy you're presenting this year. My friend is SUCH a huge sports fan!" I felt bad politely informing her that I am not Bill Simmons, and then it was a little awkward as I asked her if I could take a picture of his speaker packet before she went back and fetched mine.

[billsimmon]

Hi Kathleen,

Thank you for your interest in doing an on-camera interview with me about the subject of my SXSW presentation in Austin next week. I would be delighted to do an interview with you. However, it may interest you to know that my SXSW presentation is actually about using micro video applications like Vine and Instagram Video in the service of nonprofits and awareness-raising, which is *sort of* about "media and branding" but that's not exactly how I'd describe it.

It's possible you are actually interested in talking to Grantland founder, Bill Simmons, who I am told is also presenting at SXSW this year.

I am not Bill Simmons.

I am filmmaker, writer and media educator, Bill Simmon.

It's a common mistake: http://billsimmon.tumblr.com

Assuming I am not the person you intended to contact, I wish you the best of luck.

Bill Simmon

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Stuff like this doesn't help.

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Well, at least we *follow* about the same number of people.

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In March of 2011 Facebook gave Bill Simmons a fan page. The custom url was Facebook.com/billsimmons. He then tweeted to his hundreds of thousands of followers (now in the millions) about the page. The result was dozens of new friend requests at Facebook.com/billsimmon. Because copy and paste is apparently too much to handle for some people.

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Apparently, I am not alone in not being Bill Simmons.

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Thanks Michael Barrett.

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[billsimmon]

I was born September 8, 1969 -- 17 days before Bill Simmons (I was here first).

I am also 6'2".