Enigin – Are They All Fruitcakes?

Sponge cake, angel cake…..fruit cake?
What’s the likelihood of pulling a lasagne out the oven if you’ve followed a recipe for fruitcake?
Low for normal, intelligent people who haven’t come across Enigin?
High for Enigin partners?
Or maybe low if you’re an Enigin partner with the proper instruction, right ingredients and correct recipe for a fantastic Energy Saving Business Read more…

Debt Monkey is a new reality show concept from production start-up Mefisto Media. In a Truman Show-esque departure from the familiar format, this show will choose one member of the public and subject him or her to constant surveillance, subsequently edited and broadcast in bite-sized chunks on the internet.

The phrase “it’s an ill wind that does nobody any good” would appear to be most apt when applied to this ‘entertainment’ since its launching point relates to the current fiscal oomska the world’s economies seem to be paddling around in. The unpleasantly voyeuristic nature of the show is tied-in with money matters in such a way that the eventual audience (the show is set to launch on Jan 19th) will find themselves balancing genuine empathy with infinitely more primeval emotions. The Debt Monkey is yet to be announced as the producers sift through what appears to be thousands of applications but the ‘lucky’ winner, in having their debts written off, will then be at the mercy of a show which creator Sophie Brookes-Parker promises to be hugely entertaining.

It is all set to be a morally relative exercise reminiscent of the Dance Endurance contests held throughout depression-era America back in the 1920s, immortalised in the film “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” Indeed, complaints have already starting filtering in from various sections of society’s media-interested members concerned that magicking away an horrific bank balance does not grant anyone the automatic right to ‘own’ another individual. Reality Shows are finding that they have to constantly evolve and push ever more controversial buttons to attract an audience but many are wondering where wp_posts.blog_id=77 and the lines will be drawn. Just as the death of Michael Lush in 1986 whilst rehearsing for a stunt on “The Late, Late Breakfast Show” prompted a very sudden backlash against endangering members of the public in the name of entertainment, so it is hoped that the enslavement of a financial unfortunate will sound the death-knell for the whole reality tv franchise.

And yet that seems unlikely to happen given the public’s insatiable demand for goldfish bowl ideas. It challenges each of us to examine how far we would go to alleviate our fiscal woes. More complex still is the notion that many people applying to be the eponymous Debt Monkey would do so WITHOUT any monetary incentive, such is the perceived allure of celebrity status. ITV’s hugely successful “I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here” seems to prove the fact that if something is worth having, it’s worth suffering for. Who in their right mind would volunteer to eat kangaroo penis just to guarantee tabloid column inches? And yet, as Debt Monkey demonstrates, there are a vast number of people who appear willing to sell their soul for few quid and bask in the glories of being in the public eye.

The Victorians used to spend their weekends laughing at the mentally ill in asylums across the country. If Debt Monkey manages to harness the global potential of the internet, then perhaps we are actually reversing the progress of evolution and regressing to a pre-Victorian stage of human development.

I’ve just been reading Remote brain and I was shocked to learn warhammer online is having massive subscription problems. I brought warhammer online when it frist came out and I was over the moon about it. But I played it for about a week and then was sitting their thinking hay haven’t I played this game before?

And then I relised, yes I had I’d played world of warcraft. This game is just too similar I feel like I’m starting again. I played the LORT version too, I just feel these games haven’t really push any boundrys. They seem slightly pointless, I’m kind of getting sick of the who MMORPG games. They just fall in to such a repeatative rut without an end. And add to that they are slow and require ongoing payment.

The benefit of having loads of other people online in the same game is so little these days. They just seem to get in the way and offer very little improvement. Surely so clever API would be able to be better than this.

Okay Sara & Marley. I’ve done it I put together the blog before the party all so that I can post the picture up on the real internet, not your clicky face book that all the cool kids are on now. I’m going to keep this as my own personal blog and publish details of my life, and i’m not going to do a Shazs. I will keep your names no specific and I won’t get fired for publishing personal information (Sara your the exception).

So please after the party please send me the photos, don’t make me have to chase you for them or join the horrible face book monster. I won’t do it damm it, you can all go to hell!

So everyone, I will try and update before christmas, but if I don’t Merry Xmas and a happy new year!!