I’m trying to decide who is ultimately responsible for this, Google Translate or the Russian media, but I got a laugh out of it either way. I was looking at the statistics page here on the blog and saw that someone got referred to the website via a link from vk.com. Apparently, back in July of 2010, someone in Russia made a folder with a bunch of pictures from our season of Beauty and the Geek—mostly the promo pics showing the couples, each participant, a few production shots… I’m sure you could find all of them in various places throughout the Interwebs.
In this case, the link was in the comments below the picture of Scarlet and me. Several people were lamenting the fact that she had been murdered, something that which I addressed with a “Live In Peace” post around that time. It apparently relieved a lot of people and still does to this day—in the last two months, that post has averaged about three hits a day. That may not seem like much to you, but given how little traffic this blog sees on a regular basis, it’s significant.
But the important part isn’t the fact that so many people have been concerned about my partner’s death (or lack thereof) since the show aired in Russia—it’s the name of the folder where that picture was posted. If Google was right when I clicked on the Translate button, the television producers there decided to turn the title “Beauty and the Geek” into “Cheeky and the Freaks.” That’s awesome.
