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If it flies, it’s going to be like the man, and the legend of the man, Johnny Cash—part fact and part fiction. Magic realism, introduced first in Germany via the visual arts, juxtaposes elements of both reality and magic, or fiction, if you will. And that’s the approach I’m taking to this experiment.
It’s a story about the Baker family. First, the fiction part: A family of four, including a mother, a father, a son, and a daughter, are asked to move from New York City to Bakersfield to participate in a reality show experiment.
For a period of one year, they will be sequestered in their newly adopted Bakersfield home, with all media outlets blocked, except for the blog communities known as Bakersfield.com and Bakotopia.com
All of their news, all of their information, and all of their entertainment, notwithstanding non-media sources of entertainment, will come from Bakersfield.com and Bakotopia.com...
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