A Web Reality Show

ĵeleo kaj marmelado

This is the abridged version of the planned title for this entry, done in Esperanto because the English was both appreciative and rude. I know that, since the contestant lives in a metropolitan area that has its own Esperanto society, I might end up getting grilled like a hamburger patty.

reality show

I have been watching episodes of the Penny Arcade reality show Strip Search. I normally avoid reality shows because I think ill of their premise — reality show is an oxymoron, right? This is true even of the one reality show I was more than happy to watch, MTV's Pimp My Ride, as revealed (unwittingly) to reporters of some German auto magazine. Anyway, reality shows tend to pick whackos for their contestants. (One of those whackos tried to run for governor here in Indiana on the Libertarian ticket last year. He was defeated by another kind of whacko.) Or maybe I am thinking about Real World, the dumbass series with the real stupid whackos that started the reality show trend and ran MTV's cartoons and remaining music videos off the air.

twelve webtoonists in a box

Anyway, the premise of Strip Search is that twelve Web cartoonists are chosen to live in this well-appointed three-story box on a lakeshore — with no telephone and no Internet. Yes, they are trapped … with each other … the prototypal reality show premise. They compete with each other for the chance to work as a Web cartoonist at Penny Arcade for one year. The competition has so far stressed the following points:

  1. You do your own public relations.
  2. You have to work with other people.
  3. You have to use Twitter (and other social media) differently.

bildstriista belulino

Inter la konkurantoj estas ĉi tiu kurioza estaĵo: Malalta belfigura kaj belvizaĝa junulino kun infaniĉa hararo. Desegninte dum ŝia infaneco, la bildstriisto nun havas sian vebejon (Phuzzy Comics) de 2011. (It would have been earlier but her folks forbade her art for two years.) She has gone professional now, having graduated from college, and is looking for more chances to develop her skills. One of these is her first printed book of comics (for which I contributed funds to its publication through IndyGoGo). The other is Strip Search.

Ŝi estas tute vigla!, citante la vebejon Strip Search. Tiu viglo estas evidenta en ŝia vebejo, pro la leĝado de la tuto de kiu mi perdis multan dormon.

Miavide la artisto estas jena:

  1. Ŝi estas ano de la fratinaro de la lululemono.
  2. Ŝi ne povas teni ŝian tekilon.
  3. Ŝi havas specialan kuracon por la nazkataro; la kuraco nazkatara de ŝia blonda amikino ne funkcias por ŝi (vidu №2).

However, you would not know that from watching the current episodes: The poor girl basically has been slogging through the nine episodes that I have watched so far. Dum la intervjuo kun la ĵuralisto, ŝi montris sin kiel klare kolera je la intervjuo, kun nesolvita demando pri ĵaluzo.