DJ CoolJ Hits First Life

This past weekend, “DJ CoolJ” played his first gig in First Life, DJ’ing the wedding ceremony and reception for my RL brother, David, and his longtime companion, John.  (Yes, it was a same-sex marriage.  This happened in California, where such things are legal, at least for the moment.  Any flames about the morality or lack [...]

Sometimes, Dreams Have This Way of Coming True

As you might have guessed from my last post, I was still kind of adjusting to being single in both First Life and Second Life. I am privileged to say now that both of those conditions have been successfully altered.
Back in July, I was hosting another one of my “Big 80’s Party” events. [...]

The Coming Disneyfication of Second Life

In the wake of the conclusion of the Second Life® Fifth Birthday Celebration–and especially in the wake of the remarks made by Linden Lab® board member Mitch Kapor on the 7th, as well as certain other announcements–one is left with an impression that more changes are in the works for our Second Life virtual world…not [...]

Odd Lots

I’m taking a breather from campaign-related posts for a minute to just talk about a couple of things on my mind.
First of all, congratulations to Chelle and Danielle for scoring a couple of the DJ slots at the Second Life Community Convention.  I don’t know whether these will be RL performances, SL performances, or both, [...]

No, I Haven’t Dropped Off The Face of the Grid

There have been many twists and turns in my Second Life of late, which will probably be of interest to very few, but which I offer up here by way of explanation for the lack of new content at this address.  Some of this, Danielle has already written about, so you can consult with her [...]

Important For All You Music Fans…

I try to steer clear of First Life politics here on this blog, because this is supposed to be a Second Life blog, and I have plenty of other outlets for political bloviation. However, an issue has come up which is, as I see it, of critical importance to the Grid as a whole.
Currently [...]

A Christmas Greeting

After a day spent in RL, opening presents, eating, and doing all that typical Christmas stuff, I logged into SL to take care of some errands like tier payments. While I was there, chatting with Danielle and the Stovalls, who had also logged in, one of our friends, Cat Gisel, sent me a notecard [...]

Your World, Your Imagination…And Now Your Award, Too

TIME Magazine has just announced its “Person of the Year” for 2006. And that person is…you.
Yeah, you.
And we of the Grid get a good mention…
And we didn’t just watch, we also worked. Like crazy. We made Facebook profiles and Second Life avatars and reviewed books at Amazon and recorded podcasts. We blogged about our [...]

Leavin’ On A Jet Plane…

Family matters necessitate that I travel out to California for a few days…during which time I expect that I’ll be out of touch with even quotidian Web sites and E-mail, let alone the Grid.  However, hope springs eternal, and I’ll be bringing the client install files for Windows and Mac OS X tucked away on [...]

Disaster!

I was over at the Cutlass Club helping them fix their music changer when I got a call from Danielle…her house burned down. As a result, she’s cut off from SL for a while, possibly indefinitely. While there is Internet at the hotel she’s at at the moment, one of her computers is [...]