November 2008

Well a girl can’t shop all the time, so I’ve been spending some lately at Toby’s Juke Joint Blues Club. I love Chicago blues clubs, there’s nothing like them. I used to live about 5 hours out of Chicago (pedal to the metal), but now I live on the West Coast. I’ve been here for years, and I still miss those Chicago blues clubs like the Kingston Mines.

What am I wearing? All Digit Darkes, baby!

So imagine my delight when I found Toby’s! I ripped my stockings (see above), I danced so much, but I didn’t care!

Check out Laurel and Hardy dancing behind me!

There’s nothing like the “My dog done left me and even my mama won’t answer the phone kind of blues”.

Or the “Didn’t I make you feel like you were the only man” kind of blues.

And especially the “You never even looked me in the eye while you were telling me good-bye” kind of blues. No, wait, that’s country. Sometimes there can be a fine line.

I’m not the first to say it, but if you don’t like the blues, you got a hole in your soul!

We’ve lately become enamored of [GearShift] and here you see Quest and I in front of the Golden Gate Bridge modeling the his and hers hoodies available for free to group members at the [GearShift] stores.

Quest and I at Golden Gate Bridge

Quest’s shirt is included. The woman’s hoodie says “Allure” on the front, which I’m not that crazy about, but for the guys this is a great gift. Now you know often guys’ clothes look great on women in SL, but the “his” hoodie version didn’t really work on me in this case. You’ll need to join the group and head over to one of the [GearShift] locations to touch the sign to get the goods.

And for those who are wondering, this look you see on me today is about as close as it gets to the real life me.

You may recall my buddy Thomas Divisadero, who is a rocker performing as a member of Black Label Society in Second Life. I’ve known Tom since time began (in our various and sundry SL incarnations), and recently he TP’d me over to a concert at the Red Rock music facility at Full Throttle, his wife’s sim, the wild and gorgeous entrepreneur Lacey Saule.  Yes, yes, this is a different wife than when we last mentioned Tom in a blog post. Try to keep up.

Phenomenal effects at concert at Red Rock.

The concert I TP’d into was a Pink Floyd production put on by Bobby Fallon, who you see here standing in the control booth and a couple photos down.  Note the effects where these giant figures sing phrases of the song. There’s a band, but in this photo, they are behind the wall.

Another break in the wall at faux Pink Floyd concert. In foreground, left to right: me, Thomas Divisadero, Lacey Saule and a couple unknown concert goers

In the course of the concert, the white wall was actually broken down by these giant hammers. I have to say that Bobby Fallon really takes advantage of the possibilities of Second Life to add great effects to his music productions. These photos don’t begin to do them justice.

Bobbie Fallon, concert producer

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Concert at Red Rock

Me, feeling the biker vibe. That's Tom in the background.

After the concert, we headed over to the main square of Full Throttle (love that name) where there was an event going on at the club, Wild Hogs Roadhouse. Tom rezzed a bike for me to ride around, and I promptly ran it into a wall. I’m still living that down!

If you’re wondering about what I’m wearing, the barely buttoned sweater and the cut-offs worn over fishnet stockings were picked up at the recent Sn@tch sale, which is likely over by this time. This is a Gala skin - I’ve had it forever and still love it.

From left to right, Me, Lacey, Tom in front of shopping area

Above you see Me, Lacey and Tom watching people party at the Wild Hogs Roadhouse (not shown) with the shopping area behind us. If you are of a Hell’s Angels kind of inclination, you can also rent property on this sim and live the biker lifestyle 24/7.

CONCERT SCHEDULE for Full Throttle

November 19, 8 PM SL: AC/DC

November 28, 7 PM SLT: Lynyrd Skynyrd

November 30, 3 PM  SLT: 3 Doors Down

Joel was telling me he had picked up some sunglasses at a store I recommended to him recently, and I mentioned I was going over to Whore Couture, because I thought the name was so hysterical. So of course he wanted to come along. But when we got there, it was a hall for a wedding reception, and over at the end of the path was a chapel! I thought it was a new store, but maybe I heard of it because it was closing or moving or something. Anyway,  we had no idea what the deal was, so we decided to get out of there.

Joel and I breaking up a wedding ceremony

Joel pulled out one of the choppers, and we revved our way through the wedding set-ups.  But I got tired of riding behind, despite the obvious benefits.

Feeling the wind in our hair

So he rezzed me the sweet ride in the photo below - that also flies.

Accelerating into the sun

Now a year and a half to two years ago, my friends and I were into motorcycles, but there weren’t a lot of places to go in Second Life. We went to the occasional race course, but mostly we just rode up and down the beach of a sim we all lived on. Here we are below when Second Life was still sort of new to us.

from L to Rt, Me, Kanan Hesse, Evo Witte, Cass, Shok and Lelou

Well those days are gone, though Kanan and Evo are still my buddies. Today, there are biker sims with miles of open road, and the bikes are easier to handle than ever. I changed into more appropriate attire, and Joel and I decided to head to Motorworld, a sim dedicated to motorcycles, and where cars are not allowed. You can see below the dire consequences if you attempt to rez a car!

Me at MotorWorld

And here you see us riding off into the sunset, but I think I like this biker lifestyle. I’ll probably show you more motorcyle sims later in the week. In the meantime, head to Motorworld. There’s a lot more there than what you see here!

Second Life open road

I added the talk bubble. Tom talks in local chat.

Tom the Insult Turkey is BACK at Eolande, he’s FREE and he’s worse than ever! Touch Tom and hear 20 horribly awful insulting lines, like

“One more step and I’ll peck you in the cranberries,”

and

“You don’t have the giblets to baste me.”

These are a couple of the milder insults, as Tom is a bit R-rated. I won’t spoil it for you!

Too bad he’s not trans, ’cause this would be a great way to send a message to that special someone.

This particular photo is a store ad, not me

Want to take Tom with you? Wear him for a hat for only $100L. As Eolande says, “Same ‘fowl’ mouth, only wearable.” Tom’s only available at the main Eolande store. While you’re there, check out Eolande’s accessories and hair jewelry. You know you want them!

In the photo above, I am having a conversation with Tom at the store. The little bugger pecked these rips in my fishnet stockings!

When I spoke with Eolande Elvehjem, she was a bit under the weather, so we hope she feels better soon!

We don’t discriminate on styles here at Shameless Gossip, so I doffed the piercings and tattoos from my last blog post in order to show you this free 18th century gown from Wunderlich’s historical garb. It is modeled after a dress seen in the movie The Duchess, which is about the life of Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806) who was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales.

The cameo necklace is from Caroline’s jewelry and was a gift some time ago, but if you are looking for cameos or any other kind of jewelry, this is a wonderful shop, and Caroline Apollo is a lovely person. First photo was taken at Straylight and the second over at Devi Moonbeam’s house.

Zip over to Cipria Coutoure for what they are billing as their Trendy Tartan Classic Cut Pants. Walk into the store past two lucky chairs, head for the back to the right and on the wall you will see two rows of pants. They are in the top row, second from the right, on display with all the other pants.

These look great with the [GearShift] group gift you probably already picked up (in group notices since Nov. 2). I’m wearing them with highrigger boots from Jeepers Creepers (not free), facial piercings from Flipside (not free), wrist band from ETD (not free) and tattoos from artilleri (not free, but don’t you just love artilleri?). Below is a closer photo so you can see pants detail. This dollarbie offer is only good through Sunday.

Okay, fashion peeps, this is going to be a really fast post, ’cause I got my iPod faves playing and Carolina by Shaggy is coming up soon.  When that plays I have to get up and dance in ways that would have put my avi to shame back in the days when she was a dancer in SL. Didn’t know that about Sapphire? Well, so sue me.

Whimsy in sepia from Dani's

Despite my love for brightly colored ethnic influenced clothing such as that created by Zaara Kohime, I love, love, love brown. If you share that inclination, run over to the Urban Shoppers by the Sea shopping mall at Dubya City for their Anything Brown Sale.

Despite the fact I’m standing in front of the PixelDolls sign, I picked up this cute little number from Dani’s. Here’s the list of participating designers  that was released:
* Pixel Dolls
* SD Wears
* Calla Hair
* (nova)
* Dani’s
* Loser Designs
* !mpossible

Sale ends Sunday.

Anyone who has spent any time in Second Life at all has gone to a slew of Second Life weddings. I probably get at least two invitations a week. Of course, almost without exception, those couples aren’t together anymore. I knew one couple who booked a Second life honeymoon get-away (yes, indeed, there are businesses that cater to this) and the marriage failed when the bride didn’t bother to show up for the 5-day honeymoon for which the groom had shelled out big bucks.

What strikes me most about SL weddings themselves, though, is the deadly SERIOUSNESS of them. One would think people would have a little fun, and these things would be a bit tongue and cheek. But in fact they are usually about 500 times duller than the real thing. And let’s face it, most real life weddings are not really wing ding times. Though I’m going to admit here and nowhere else that I secretly actually like doing the polka. If you tell anyone, though, I’ll have to kill you.

I’m not naming who the people are in these photos in order to protect whatever it is I’m supposed to protect by not divulging their identities.

Above is one of the many weddings of probably my oldest friend in Second Life. God knows how he got anybody to even go with him for coffee with this look. I got to admit I “crashed” on purpose at this wedding, cause otherwise I would have had to strangle myself at the seriousness. Sorry, hon, but you know i wouldn’t say this if this wasn’t like three wives ago! I’ll give you a call when I pass through Chicago RL in a couple weeks and buy you a beer to make up for it if you’re still speaking to me after this post.

One of the invitations I received for a Second Life wedding this weekend does show some promise. This is a vampire wedding, so maybe they’ll sacrifice a virgin or something and add a bit of spice to the ceremony.

My ex informed me he can tell when I’m online by looking at my profile. Oh, great. Trying to figure out how to make that bit of info go dark. IM me in world if you know!