Articles by Shameless Gossipgirl

August 2008 Shameless Award Winner

I’ve decided to begin giving out Shameless Awards for absolutely shameless behavior in Second Life. Please feel free to submit nominations to Shameless Gossipgirl inworld with photos for past or present!

The award for August goes to Jonathan Tillman, who as I TP’d into hair fair, bald, primless and AOless to reduce lag, was standing there waiting like a leech to pounce, trying to sell his cars. And even rezzing them right on the spot! Needless to say, I reported him and Sasy came over and banned his butt.

The interesting thing is I am absolutely certain this is the same guy (though he was using the name Marco and another avi) who moved next to Sapphire for a week back when she and Hans had the beach house, set up a car lot (on a residential sim!) then tried to sell us his sorry cars. Anyway, here’s the conversation at Hair Fair.

[18:03]  jonathan Tillman: hello

[18:03]  jonathan Tillman: how are u ?

[18:03]  Shameless GossipGirl: Hi

[18:03]  jonathan Tillman: good

[18:03]  jonathan Tillman: do you like customised cars ?

[18:03]  Shameless GossipGirl: WEll, I”m bald, keeping down prims to keep down lag and ready to get hair..

[18:04]  Shameless GossipGirl: why?

[18:04]  jonathan Tillman: because I see perfect cars as lamborguine, spider

[18:04]  jonathan Tillman: like cars ?

[18:04]  Shameless GossipGirl: why, are you selling them?

[18:05]  Shameless GossipGirl: hello?

[18:05]  jonathan Tillman: yes

[18:06]  jonathan Tillman: i sell

[18:06]  Shameless GossipGirl: do you think it is appropriate to be jumping on people as they enter Hair Fair and littering the sim with your prim heavy cars?????

Dear Shameless Gossipgirl - Second Life Advice that’s Worth Exactly What You Paid for It

Dear Shameless:

I was reading Devi’s post about returning from vacation, and I must admit even though I’ve been SL shopping like crazy, I still have the post-vacation blahs. As you know, I’ve returned from the tropics, where everything seemed exotic, colorful and bright. In keeping with the visuals of the flowers, the birds, the lush scenery that surrounded me, I wore bright orange lipsticks, silver sandals and sarongs that seemed spun of of hibiscus and sunshine. I have become used to this exotic color, and although I love my SL wardrobe, I would like to brighten it up a bit. Yet I know I can’t keep wearing my sarong and kebaya about. They are starting to stare at me at the grocery store. I know you usually come to me for fashion advice, but I’m really jet lagged and can use some ideas.

Very truly yours,

Sapphire Jetaime, Got-the-Still-Wanna-Be-In-Bali-Blahs

Dear Got the Blahs,

I say, don’t put away those silver sandals and orange lipstick! Remain bright and sunny wherever you are. The answer is Zaara, where they “blend indian craftsmanship and modern aesthetics.” Yes, you CAN have c olor without looking like you just stepped off the boat from Goa or Rajasthan! Though nothing wrong with that either - this is SL! And you are just in time for a 50% off sale of designs that will soon be retired. But if you do nothing else, join the Zaara Update Group, so you can pick up the group gift at the main store. Though Zaara is known for color, this little number is black and gold, and I have not taken if off since I first felt the silk tickle my skin. I may be buried in it! Hope this helps, Sapphire.

Your friend,

Shameless Gossipgirl

P.S. The group gift, though not colorful, is still exotically beautiful. It has an Indian flair but you could wear it to a Manhattan book party.

Dear Shameless Gossipgirl - Second Life Advice that’s Worth Exactly What You Paid for It

Dear Shameless Gossipgirl,

Since I have returned from a long vacation, I am having a hard time getting into the swing of things in SL. Many of my fairy friends are absent from the drum circle; perhaps they are on vacation themselves. What can I do to cheer myself up?

Sincerely yours,

Devi Moonbeam, a Pixie in Peril

Dear Pixie in Peril,

Aww, Devi, if I had known you were having vacation withdrawal, I would have taken you along to Retrology. Gifts all over the sim all week long! I won’t get into particulars, as I’m sure it’s been blogged to death, but get your fairy butt over there. You still have a lot of time.

If that dress from Total Betty and all the other great designer gifts at Retrology don’t cheer you up, head on over to Kuri Style. They are having a $1L sale of some designs that will make your little fairy heart beat faster. Also some that are a real steal at $50L. While you’re there, pick up a free pose and some three-packs of poses priced at $5L and $10L.

Need more? The skins at Crave Designs are still set at $0L. Fly, my little fairy, fly!

Regards,

Shameless Gossipgirl

P.S. I’m enclosing a few pics from Kuri’s so you can see what you can get there. There is a lot more than what I will show. You already KNOW it’s going to be good at Retrology.

Sapphire tells me Kuri had this mini-dress out at $25L several months ago, and she broke a heel dashing over there.

Well now it is only $1L for a few days, and you can also get it in white or black.

Is this cute or what? This is a Kuri outfit called “The Cat’s Pajamas” and it comes with the stockings. It was a steal at $50L.

The shoes are free Mistress heels from The Dominatrix Shop, and the detail on these is killer. Choose the Mistress heels or the Slave heels - I have trouble making choices, so I grabbed both!

The skin I’m wearing in these two photos (in case you didn’t know, the blonde above is Sapphire), is one of the currently free skins from Crave Designs. This one is Glam skin Mistress makeup -Light Skin - the Mistress theme went with the shoes!

Another $50L dress from Kuri. Love it!

As a follow-up to our report on the real life plans of Thomas Divisadero and Ariana Petrova, our research dept. has found a photo from a few weeks ago when our own Sapphire Jetaime (left) and Ariana Petrova were caught dancing at a Second Life club where Ariana was DJing. Sapphire is wearing a flip-up flexi leather trench coat by dp Fashions.

A reliable source has informed Second Life Shameless Gossip that enigmatic DJ Ariana Petrova and SL rocker Thomas Divisadero are planning to meet for real. Apparently the popular Second Life jet set couple will ring in the New Year together - and not in Second Life.

Shhhhh! You didn’t hear it here!

The Limits to Supporting a Second Life Shoe Addiction

Dear Shameless,

I have made my virtual living working in Second Life nightclubs as a Second Life exotic dancer for over a year. I’ve worked in many clubs in SL, from Arsheba and Elements at Goddess of Love to smaller ones. As you can imagine, this is a hard row to hoe (so to speak). But I do my best, and smile and chat up the customers. I’m good at what I do, and I make the club owners much more money than most. I will confess to you that I’m a Second Life shoe addict, and I need to support my shameful habit.

But here is my problem. Every time I log into SL, I get a stage call to come in and work! I mean it is unrelenting! One small club owner used to even IM me directly, not through the group channel, demanding I come in to work, when I had only logged on to check my mail! If I do not go in, I am still expected to answer. Now that in itself is intrusive. What if every time you were cuddling up to your honey or at a movie, your work called you and you had to take the call and talk to them? I mean EVERY #%@$!#!&*! TIME!

I’m also worn down by the demands that I not only host events but that I provide the prizes! I should pay to work? They don’t seem to care about my seasonally heavy RL work demands and threaten to suspend me if I can’t host events AND work at least an hour a day taking off my virtual clothes!

Now I don’t know how YOU pay your RL mortgage, but I can’t sink that kind of time into SL to make a few linden and lose thousands in RL income.

What to do? Must I give up my SL lifestyle?

Seething Second Life Stripper

Dear Seething,

Hahahaha! Are you kidding me? Honey, you need to get out of there!

Although if a club hires you, they do expect to see you now and again, please remember that there are some Second Life club owners who have no lives and are living in trailer parks on welfare. (I didn’t say all, so don’t send me letters or start handing torches out to the villagers.) To them, their Second Life club is the “be all, end all” of their lives! If I was on call 24/7, I’d be charging one hell of a retainer, and it sure wouldn’t be paid in linden! So if you have real life work to do, get to it and leave SL for play.

You may want to consider leaving your virtual life of sin to design Second Life clothes or shapes or pogo sticks. At least you can do it when it’s convenient for you. Or open your own club, then you be the one who treats people like slaves!

As for your Second Life shoe habit, it’s not shameful! Be shameless like me! Flaunt your love of pixelated shoes!

That’s all the Second Life Shameless Gossip advice for today!

Best of luck to you!

Shameless Gossipgirl

I popped into SL this morning to pick up the daily holiday freebies, and the Hey Girlfriend! group was buzzing about a hunt over at Nicky Ree’s… 25 little gifts and only one of each. Now you know I am pretty much a freebie girl myself, and the ONLY thing I have ever bought myself (after much angst) was a marked down Nicky Ree gown for $100L. Sapphire may throw her linden around on the designer wear, but I’m just a working girl. (And no, I don’t mean THAT kind of working girl!) So you can bet I zipped over there as fast as my comped designer shoes could carry me. To hell with my real life work! This was a chance for another Nicky Ree hanging in my inventory!

After searching the store I flew back to the beach where I heard people chatting including Nicky, but I couldn’t see her! Anita Cassini assured me she was there, and Nicky said,”Oh, I just take time to rez!” But they all seemed to be giggling a lot. Convinced I had taken too many drugs at all the SL nightclub openings, I was really beginning to doubt my sanity.

Nicky offered me a drink at the bar to calm me down (of course it could not have been to get me away from her proximity), so I gladly headed for the margaritas. As I was staring morosely past the salted rim, there it was! A little, bitty, red package! Well, you can imagine my shock! I’ve never been lucky. I’ve never won a thing in my life. But here you see me in my stunning prize, the Divine Sisi Svelte Gown in pink. A mouthful of a name, but a drop dead, gorgeously detailed gown. Anita and Alicia Cyr, observing on the log behind me, assured me it was just perfect for my coloring!

Invisible Nicky (honestly! she’s lying on one of the sun chairs behind me!) said she was heading for the store, so I grabbed my photographer and followed hard on the heels of the flying name tag. (Honey, I always travel with a photographer!) We ran up and down the aisles, and finally we cornered the harried designer who had hoped to escape the ever-persistent paparazzi. She graciously posed with me (well, I guess my burly photographer was blocking the aisle!)

If you hurry on over, there may still be a few gifts that are as yet unfound. And if not, Nicky is having two concerts today, one at 12:30 pm SLT - 1:00 SLT with musician harpo Jedburgh and one at 5:00 pm SLT with Takamura Keiko. Head for the concert stage behind her house on the other end of the island from her Tropical Orchid store. Her last concert was packed, so get there early!