This screen cap of the trophy appears courtesy of the contest site at www.walkenthewalk.com.

Critics have a hard enough time agreeing that the sky is blue, but a small website has found two more things everyone can agree on. First is that we need more cowbell, and second is that we do not need any more impressions of Christopher Walken. Some of the impressions are downright passable, while others sound like Elmer Fudd passing a stone the size of a fist.

Christopher Walken's rise to fame was a hard fought path, and one well documented. His rise to internet cult status is a little harder to track. Sites like Fark.com have done a lot to help, but this only goes so far. YouTube has helped as well, but what differentiates the Jeremy Piven and Frank Caliendo kinds of pavement pounding hustlers of fame from the Walkens of world, who seem to fall ass-backwards into it?

Fark has even elevated the "D-list has been" Wil Wheaton to "D-list has been who doesn't suck despite sucking and clamoring embarrassingly for his waning seconds of fame" status. Doesn't exactly fit on a business card, but still no easy feat I'm sure you'll agree.

As if to answer the age-new questions, how much cowbell is too much and how many uncomfortable hunks of metal ones can hide in respective rectums, WalkenTheWalk.com invites any user with so much as a webcam, video phone, or digital camera with a video mode (pretty much the entirety of the online world) to do their best, do their worst, and further pollute the web with Walken impressions.

And to the winner goes, according to the contest introduction video, the following wonderful prizes and benefits:

1 - A uniquely crafted golden (presumably plastic) trophy topped ever-so-disturbingly with the head of Christopher Walken For a diehard Walkenator, a term I've just made up to describe a Christopher Walken impersonator, this would truly be the centerpiece of any trophy case.

2 - Guaranteed news coverage on at least three news publications, at least one of which will be a bonafide Google News affiliate. For an up-and-coming impersonator or performance artist, this could be quite a publicity boon, and is probably the most valuable of all the prizes.

3 - The actual title of Christopher Walken, which is apparently something they have the right to bestow. Not sure how Walken's parents would feel about that, not to mention his agent or attorneys.

4 - And a movie deal, though the presenter hastily points out that this last item is admittedly beyond their power, and not an actual offering in the contest. A pity, you'd see a lot more entries if that was the case.

The rise of YouTube in the past few years has turned the entertainment world on its ear and changed more than just how we get our entertainment, but who can become successful in the world of entertainment. The industry has been controlled for a century by the men who owned the antennas, and now the consumer can be the producer as well. Although it's unlikely this one site with its one competition will revolutionize anything, or define anyone's career, it is certain to give one person a whole lot of exposure for doing something they already do anyhow.

If you are a Walken talker, give it a shot. What have you got to lose but three-minutes of your life you'd have just as soon spent doing the impression anyhow. For the rest of you, won't you join me in weeping a single tear for what entertainment has become in light of the current Writer's Guild of America strike?