Lost ROFL

For those of you who played The Lost Experience (between Seasons 2 and 3), remember the ABC blogger "Speaker"? Well if you haven't kept up, he's still blogging! This post is from October, showing what Persephone would look like in a "TLE" CCG card. Speaker just posted this week for the premiere of season 5 to see if anyone is still following his blog, so if you want to hear more from him, go and comment here!

Following in the theme from our last posting, this is for those who are having withdrawals from the first ARG, The Lost Experience. Very nicely done.

If the first clip doesn't ring a bell, you need to see the original, the "Sri Lanka" video here.

Anyone remember the first and best season-hiatus alternate reality game for Lost? It was called The Lost Experience. One strange thing though was blatant commercial sponsorship of the game, with the likes of Monster.com, Amazon.com, Verizon, Sprite, and Jeep. This graphic by artist Ben Shannon for Exclaim! magazine illustrated the unwanted absurdity perfectly.

This is a REAL job ad at employment site Monster.com that has recently been making the rounds of Lost fansites (click for full size). At first I dismissed it as fake. However there are three reasons to think it's real.

1) An advert like this would cost nearly $400 to post at Monster.com. This is unlikely a casual lark by a random fan.
2) Monster.com was one of three major corporate sponsors for the last official Lost ARG (Alternate Reality Game), The Lost Experience. The other corporate sponsors of the ARG were Jeep and Verizon.
3) Season 4 is ending with a long broadcast hiatus again stretching before us. Now is the logical time for a new Lost ARG.

Sounds to me like there's a new alternate reality game gearing up to launch after the finale.

So what do you think, is it real?

See the real listing Here at Monster.com

UPDATE: Yes this is a new Lost alternate reality game.
See: Octagonglobalrecruiting.com, dharmawantsyou.com, and of course Booth 3529 if you happen to be at this year's Comic Con in San Diego.