When we recently referenced Seinfeld and The Big Lebowski on Twitter, we got auto-replies back from @hellooooonewman and @TheBotLebowski. This led us in turn to  Neil Kodner, a 39-year-old Hollywood, FL father of two who has been building a mini-empire of these so-called Twitter bots.

It started with Lebowski in February and really picked up a few months later when actor Adam Baldwin began re-tweeting Kodner’s Full Metal Jacket ode @worldofshit, which barks back orders worthy of R. Lee Ermey‘s Sergeant Hartman. Kodner wound up conversing with Baldwin via Twitter, at which point the Florida database manager created another bot, @somegrenades, in honor of the actor’s weapons freak work on Serenity and Firefly.

“A Seinfeld merchandising company got in touch with me about possibly doing something with @hellooooonewman,” Kodner tells FishbowlLA via telephone. “But really, this just began as a lark, something to do on the side.”

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We were told the Boom! Studios party was ‘where everyone was going to be’. We got there — no open bar — no food. Can it be called a ‘party’ if you’re just telling people to meet you at a bar? Ron Hogan of GalleyCat says no.

Anyway, we spotted Stephen Baldwin. We didn’t actually go looking for him he just paraded around the room a couple of times. We didn’t find him on the schedule. Saturday, Adam Baldwin (no relation) is on a panel for the series Chuck. We don’t know what Stephen is doing here. Didn’t ask. Actually, now that we think of it…don’t care.