Because everyone knows broadsheet daily newspapers are the utmost arbiters of what’s hip, when I saw this article in today’s Boston Globe about a new online celebrity gossip-based version of Fantasy Football, I just knew I had to join.
It’s called Fafarazzi, and it was apparently developed by a twentysomething Boston corporate salaryqueen and his hag. In the game, sad, single women with unfulfilling jobs create fantasy team rosters of tabloid-friendly celebs (Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan are current top draft picks), who are then pitted against each other, earning and losing points based on the celeb news of the day. Celebrity gossip blogs such as Defamer, Popsugar and (shudder) Mollygood dictate the scores.
Each team has 10 celebrity players, and the teams compete in leagues of 8. There are private leagues composed of groups of friends, or public ones, such as the whimsically named Fafarazzi Whores, which I joined under the team name “pen15_Rob.” Our league has a day and a half to garner three more players, so join now, folks!
As lame as I felt for joining, I kind of can’t wait to see which 10 names are selected from my 29 draft choices, which included such relatively esoteric selections as Mark Ruffalo, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Liev Schreiber and Rachel Weisz, along with more obvious choices like Whitney Houston - ’cause, come on, with that divorce in the offing, bitch is goin’ to be up to something.
Frankly, I wish the site allowed players to dream up elaborate fantasy scenarios. For instance, if my league held the promise of Whitney using Bobbi Kristina as a battering ram in order to break into Mariah Carey’s personal jet and dose her with a dart full of horse tranquilizer, I might be more inclined to check my score every day.
C’est la vie. Who else wants to play?
Fafarazzi
Battle of the stars [The Boston Globe]
This sounds remarkably like Celebdaq, now contained under the bloated, lycra-clad gut of the BBC over here in the UK.
Still, my money’s on any ‘exhaustion’ prone slutlet or Scientologist.
I would love to join but I’m on a different sleep cycle, about 12 hours away from the east coast. Damn and this sounds kinda fun too. I guess I’d love to throw this sorta thing in the face of all those Fantasy Football guys. Lindsay Lohan is good pick but seriously though, like Psychotic_Furby points out, Tom Cruise (tabloid friendly?) seems like a good pick too just cause of the spooky spaz factor. Other notables include Madonna and Matt Dallas from “Kyle XY”? (Check out his eyes http://us.imdb.com/name/nm1678720/) Heheh.. you picked Maggie Gyllenhaal, she gives me that last picked feeling the people talk about when they were kids.