The Alphaville Herald

Sleeze! Sleezywood Contest Brings out Dregs of SL Society

by Alphaville Herald on 08/08/05 at 9:27 pm

by Trailer Park Prok

Sleezywood, a highly-popular building contest for the trailer trash set, opened to wild applause yesterday at high noon game-time for judging. Clutching clipboards, hard-hatted Jamie Otis and mush Caldera, owners of the private island and sponsors of the contest, announced winners (see below) and started shopping car races by 3:00 p.m. Forty avs, many slinging back Buds and bulging out of their spandex and low-slung jeans skins created for the day, packed the sim for a huge SL party, replete with trash-can fires, a large mound of smoldering tires created by Max Case, fornicating deer lawn statues, and at least one resident, NiQty Fox, who pointed to her expectant large tummy and said she was “hoping to have twins with Cousin Jeb.” Her partner, who had donned a group title “will trade twins for beer,” declined to comment.

Seeing Ravi Zuma swivel her silver-lame hips as a 400-pound Trailer-Trash Rose and Barnesworth Anubis as a 80-year old Granny Hooker were alone worth the price of the lag.

Contestants could opt to copy and paste items out of the Sleezywood Junk Yard, an amazing collection of SL prim and textured flotsam and jetsam in the trailer-park vein. Many selected the broken-down black leatherette or orange vinyl duct-taped couches or chairs sprouting wires and foam; others put out Port-o-sans in the back yard and deployed either a passed-out Pa with a moonshine jug or chickens scratching in the yard.

Sleezywood’s contest has been one of SL’s most creative explosions, drawing not only SL’s top architects but intense first-time creators in love with the familiar tacky themes.
Asked if she expected to win, place, or show, Katykiwi Moonflower, laughing at her chickens and the credit card sign on her corrugated metal shack said, “It’s just a lot of fun.”

Jamie Otis said he was inspired to make SL’s Sleezywood by a short-lived trailer-trash theme park that he and others had in There. TSO refugees like Barnesworth Anubis and Ingrid Ingersoll also lept at the occasion to relive some of their more unsavory moments from Alphaville.

A particularly ominous abode was the residence of Sansarya Caligari. Underneath a considerable number of empty Bud cans in the garbage can out front, a reporter found a large, bulging black trash bag. Asked if her trash contained a dead body, Sansarya said “lol, could be–my “ex husband” is missing u know ;P”.

Random Unsung’s entry features a mailbox with a freshly-delivered rolled-up copy of SL’s premier always-fairly-unbalanced tabloid “The Second Life Herald.” Inside Random’s lovely pink trailer home is one of SL’s finest collection of Velvet Art reproductions; his table included a touching arrangement, underneath a huge angel-fireman’s velveteen portrai, of an ultra-rare tiny earringed Jack Linden bear; a Bible; a wrapped Trojan; and a Player’s casino card.

More than one sleazoid delighted in showing the kiddy game called “My Own Meth Kit”. Some mutely expressive scenes pointed to the rich mystery of Sleezywood life, whose depths we’ll be plumbing for many months as Jamie and mush plan to rent out the sim plots next week. A child’s lost winter boot under a trailer was a kind of poignant poem; an inner tube circuling lazily in a wooden tub bespoke the joys of summer; Forseti Svarog’s beached “USS Dolly Parton” with the toilet bowl on top echoed dreams of long-lost SL ports. South Paris’ stupendous Louvre may sit empty this weekend but Sleezywood is bulging at the seams with the teeming imaginations of people living their second lives.

1st Place went to Sanity Karuna
2nd Place was tied with SteveR Whiplash and Marak Coral

Honorable mentions went to:
Ella Rockwell
katykiwi Moonflower