craziest

apparently, from reading other blogs, i'm not the only one who didn't quite catch on for a bit that craziest is fictional. i thought this girl was just a freak who worshipped scrabble.  also her whole life story of her dad sending her to boarding school and then her not moving back after because he would be sad about her mom... wasn't that like in a movie or something, that storyline sounds so familiar. but i think i liked it   because 

1) it was not nearly as long as 21 steps

2)did not involve as much viewer interaction as 21 steps

3) it made scrabble into such a big deal.

i LOVE scrabble. when i was little, i used to see those family game nights on tv and beg my family to all play scrabble together, but they thought a family game night was corny. it is, but i just wanted to play scrabble. nobody else did...my mom loves it though.  

so this video definitely kept me interested.

once i realized it wasn't true, i was able to laugh at it, because it is hilarious how serious she makes scrabble out to be... and i cracked up when the old man died at the last second putting the last s down. "this man was 53, his heart was so bad he shouldn't have played" all that tension in that scene i find amazing. the game was called, i never laid down my tiles. poor thing.and  then at the end the brain is just deteriorating. 

but this made me really want to play scrabble, so i signed out the game from the front desk on wednesday and made some people play with me. i may or may not have been embarrassed to admit that it was scrabble that i rented when i told them i had a game. i think the whole digital story thing is starting to grow on me now that i see how ridiculous something can be but how amusing it can be at the same time (and how it can reconnect you with an old favorite game, scrabble. but thats a lie, no other digital story has ever done that)