Gossip

I logged in after a hiatus of log-ins being frozen to find that Karla Scorbal of KSCreations had sent over a new 10-pose pack. Like her other packs, this is only $5L, and I think this is her best yet.

It so happened I was dressed in an Indian-inspired shirt by Baiastice called Indi Yasoda. I love this clever shirt and haven’t taken it off since I got it. These photos don’t do it justice, but if you like ethnic-influenced clothing, this is a must.

So I jetted over to Bollywood to model just a few of these poses for you myself. Normally I go to Second Life Bollywood to watch a Bollywood movie that inspires me to dance around  for days, but today the movie wasn’t working. But we can still enjoy the ambiance.

And here I am pointing out some art for sale right across from the theater.

Had a bit of a tiff with the BF, and apparently he was too upset to think to send me flowers, chocolates or a Nicky Ree dress. Instead, he sought a darker solution and sent me these photos of his angst (reprinted with his permission, of course).

Stax sought out a wasteland filled with toxic gases, and there contemplated his foolish mistake - and his destiny.

In despair, feeling he could never make amends, he suddenly leapt the rail and plunged to his death!

It was not a pretty sight as the elements took what was left  of Stax.

Well I got to giggling so much over the second photo, where he’s diving head-first into the abyss, and the offense was so clueless, that I decided I better salvage the remains. So I asked my friend Devi Moonbeam to work a bit of fae magic to bring Stax back to life. (She’s a California fairy, so you’ll have to excuse her unorthodox methods.)

As untraditional as Devi’s methods are, they are effective! And here’s Stax, good as new, dancing with me a couple days later.

All photos except the one of Devi were taken at the Court of Inspiration. The one of Devi was taken in a highly secret location!

Devi’s using the Elste Handy Dandy Emoticon Wand that everyone has been raving about on the blogs for weeks and is available for free at Rivendell.

Devi is also wearing the new group gift from Evie’s Closet. Don your group tag and tp over to pick it up. And STAY in that group, for heaven’s sake. Evie’s Closet gives some of the loveliest gifts in SL, and gives them often!

Blue skirt outfit just one of many free holiday gifts from LVS. It includes the belt with ringing bells. Bunny earmuffs by Chapeau tres Mignon.

I was about to leave the house today to do a bit of exploring, when who should pop over but Second Life heart throb Evo Witte. I was dressed for wanderings on winter sims in one of the FREE holiday gifts from LVS. If you haven’t already, get yourself toute suite over to the square outside LVS for loads of phenomenal gifts under the tree from both LVS and My Dead Kitty. Ravenlynn Templar is an extremely generous designer, and one of the reasons for the generosity this season is to help raise money for Toys 4 Tots. So please look for the donation box near the freebies and spare what you can.

Back to Evo. Now Evo is good-looking, funny and probably hipper than just about anyone else in SL. Back when Evo was DJing he was the reason for catfights among nightclub dancers, and when he lived down the beach from me, the dramas played out among him, his girlfriends and his GFs’ jealous admirers were much more entertaining than any episode of The Young and the Restless. Heck, I used to make popcorn just to settle down and watch.

From L to R: Evo, Humphrey, Devi, me

But enough history. After I showed Evo around the beach house, we went out back to say hi to  Devi Moonbeam - she stops by to feed the whale in the mornings. I just recently installed the whale, because I didn’t have enough room for him at the last place I lived. I mentioned to Evo that I hadn’t named the whale yet.

Sapphire Jetaime: We should name him/her.  What do you think?

evo Witte: humphrey?

Sapphire Jetaime: haha ok, Humphrey

evo Witte blinks

evo Witte: did he just fly?

Sapphire Jetaime: I keep seeing him hurtling like a space ship into the sunset. And yet he’s still here. No doubt I have his swimming path charted too close to the edge of the sim. But I look at having a flying whale as an extra benefit.

Thar she blows! Every once in awhile a whale hurtles through space and falls off the end of the earth at the horizon - yet Humphrey is still swimming in my bay!

Want your own orca? Go get yourself one from Jerry Martin at Exotic Fish Supply. And if you’re very, very good, he may even take you to the private sims where they swim wild. Just be sure you have the space. Nothing worse than a beached whale!

• Blue skirt and holiday skirt with ringing bells belt: Free at LVS
• Stockings: Tintable stockings from Persona (from ages ago and not free)
• Bunny earmuffs: Chapeau tres Mignon (Not free but cute as heck)
• Sapphire’s boots: Minx  (Soooooo not free)
• Orca: Exotic Fish Supply

Those of you I hang with in Second Life know that I met Hammer at Toby’s Juke Joint, so it’s a little special to us. And you all know I blogged Toby’s pretty heavily lately. I get a rash if I go too long without the blues, and Hammer named his RL dog after B.B. King’s guitar. So the blues has been the backdrop to our growing relationship.

Dancing to the blues on the deck at home

Now Toby’s is pretty much my regular hang-out (when I manage to pry myself away from the beach house), and since we met there a few weeks back, Hammer and I tend to pop back fairly often. It’s comfortable and feels like home to us.

This has been a difficult week real life and today was the most difficult of all. So I was not amused when I walked into Toby’s tonight, and who was there but my ex and his GF. I know he reads this blog; he knows I hang there. And I know he completely learned about Toby’s Juke Joint from this blog, because he has never, so help me, had an original idea on anyplace to go in Second Life. Ever.

Space Park in Second Life

So needless to say, I didn’t stay. I went out RL for a few hours (I’m a firm believer in the time-honored Friday happy hour tradition), and met Hammer back at the beach house once I was in a decidedly better humor. He wanted to stop by Savoy Jazz Club, which we did, but the dance balls were kind of out of sync. So we did a bit of shopping, and then we decided to head out to the Inspire Space Park, as he hadn’t seen it yet.

If you have not been to the Space Park, cancel all your other Second Life plans and GO. It is beautiful, spiritual and relaxing. We started out having a glass of wine, and could have been happy just sitting there lazily chatting and watching the shooting stars. You see, the sky changes, and you can never be sure what you will see next.

Floating weightless above the Space Park

We walked across some small asteroids to what appeared to be a dance floor. But when we clicked the dance ball, we floated off into space… all very 2001 Space Odyssey.

After awhile, it was time to float back down. I thought a bit of meditation might be in order. I was quite amazed at the calming effect of SL mediation as the platform I sat on slowly rotated among the heavens. The animations were familiar to me, as they are similar (though certainly not exact) to prayer rituals I have practiced so many times before at Hindu temples over the years RL in Bali.  Hammer was feeling a bit under the weather with a stomach bug RL, poor dear, and he said it made him feel better too.

Obviously, I wasn't expecting to be meditating when I put on this skirt!

Hammer and I communing with the universe

While we were chanting, I got a message from Tom Divisadero about an Ozzy concert over at Wild Hogs on the Full Throttle sim, so we did a complete about-face (the sublime to the ridiculous) and headed on over. This is SL at its best perhaps; a pulsating slate for artistry of all types. That, and the fact that Second Life allows us the opportunity to switch gears and attitudes at the speed of light.

Ohhhhmmmmmm

So I guess it is good to get out of your rut, even if you’re forced out of it.  Outer space, even when virtual, can make human idiocies seem small.

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?????

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!

As you know, yesterday I was searching around for Second Life locations relevant to the U.S. presidential elections. I found one I hadn’t seen before, and when I TP’d in, I found myself on the White House lawn, with virtual French President Nicolas Sarkozy dancing half-naked in front of me on a bed.

Apparently it was some kind of demonstration that had to do with the French president stepping out with his current girlfriend. I’m not particularly political, so I frankly missed the whole point. Real life gossip meets Second Life gossip?

I walked around to the front of the White House, cause you know in RL the current administration probably wouldn’t let me near the place, and posed on the steps.

Emboldened, I snuck inside and crept up to the Oval Office, where I began writing this blog post.

I decided to explore a bit more, walked out past the still gyrating French President and out of the White House grounds. I turned around to see this sign. If you can’t read it, it says, “U.S.A. Do not expect any intelligent design beyond this point.”

Well, this was a lot of negativity before I had even had coffee, so I turned to head over to neighboring France (this is SL, anything can be next to anything). The sign upon entering France was even worse!

I wandered around France for a bit. I tripped over a guillotine (I’m serious!), but fortunately did not lose any vital parts.

I then apparently made a wrong turn and ended up in China.

Finally I made my way back to the White House lawn to try to get some answers from the dancing French President as to what exactly was going on here! I noticed his actual avatar’s name (under the name “Sarkozy”) was Chrisophe Hugo, the same as the land owner’s.

Sapphire Jetaime: …Can tell me more about this sim?
Christophe Hugo: hi saphirre - let’s just keep the magic intact (do you prefer to see old Melies movies, or to hear about how penniless Melies ened his life selling toys in front of a train station?)
Christophe Hugo: i saw you take a couple of pictures, but I know from experience that Mr. Sarkozy’s eye expression is not easy to capture. So here are a couple of pictures for ya. Take care and happy Holidays
Sapphire Jetaime: I just want to know if you are sellling anything or if this is strictly for satirical purpose? Do you sell avis?
Christophe Hugo: more to come in 2008…
Christophe Hugo: watch the media
Sapphire Jetaime: oh, yes, I’ll do that with baited breath. *rolls eyes*
Sapphire Jetaime: have a good day

Needless to say, I didn’t use any of the close-up photos with which Mr. Hugo provided me. And your interpretation of this little bit of SL gossip is as good as mine.