"There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start."
-Charles Baudelaire

I think Chuck was talking about TV dinners, but that's reside the point. It just occurred to me I've had this blog for over a?year, almost a year and a month, actually. Funny to look back and see I still like using the Georgia font, with the exception of occasionally choosing something else for variety's sake. A lot has changed with me, though. As I've written before, I started this blog to expound on music, but it's ended up being dominated by my Second Life. There's been a plan, but at the same time, no plan whatsoever. With a v4.0 of my preferred blogging system on the way, I'm looking forward to wonderful things.

I'll drop this for reference and note that shortly before I was to go to bed the other day, Hiro Pendragon TPed me over to take a look at the new revision of his Colt .45 gun, which he is adding feature after feature to (and I don't just mean matrix mode, lowercase). It is very cool to see it in watermelon at last — the schema is one of several different selectable themes; some of them remind me of lo-fi vidgames, in fact. Hiro is working hand-in-hand with Abramelin Wolfe as far as custom animations for gun holding and walking around are concerned. It's a shame SL doesn't have better crab-walking/strafing because I want it. Altshot.

Yesteryesterday, I attended the SL Future Salon event to discuss the future of stuff held at none other than the SL Public Library. I got to speak beforehand with SNOOPYbrown Zamboni, who is very nice and has a really cool SL name. I asked what it meant, and he explained to me it was like a hybrid of Charlie Brown and Snoopy. Which makes me ponder, if they mated, what sort of children would they have? Would Schroeder play their lullabyes and Lucy be their godmother? Maybe?a cruel, woefully abusive one? That, I do not know. And oh, Skyllar Skidoo has a nice nose and a nice website which I've been to before. You can see me resting at my Jadey's feet like a good cat does. <3>

Club Elite is back. Latest Clubel sighting (where for art thou, Bel Muse?). *breathes*

Midnight City, the island edition, is NOW OPEN to the general public — come visit, Residents of SL. It's not just a shopping experience; it's an experience! Stores are still being set up and Launa is not well so her park needs to?be textured — get well soon, Lau! — but I must have visited four times in one day. You can see a Snapzilla photostream here.?A realistic cityscape with really fine people who have class and ass and sass, all at the same time. Of course I am totally biased… yay me! Which rhymes with Aimee, as in Weber, who is a principal builder of skyscrapers. There are docks, a sort of slum,?and taxis advertising The Lion King (the Broadway edition)?for some?inexplicable reason.?Check out the San Franciscoesque view here: I used to play Mean Streets on the Amiga and Deus Ex on the PC, and I am getting vibes that I haven't had in years. It's not quite a return to my childhood, but it's nice to know setting daylight and twilight at the same time allows for enwondrous contrast.

I am wearing a new dress by Aestival Cohen right now. FRONT | BACK. Her creative outlet is called the Aetherstyle Boutique @ Grange (149, 61) , and she really specializes in a lot of cute anime things with sort of a thick-edged contrast and lotsa fun. Just so happens that as I was going to do a "Hard Knock Second Life" routine as a steps,?that madman Rickard Roentgen almost ran me over with his jeep, with?Aim and Pommie Zaius in the back seats. I just had to ride along.?Looks like trouble.?The terror. THE SHEER TERROR.?BEATS 4 FREAKZ.?Harooo??And just when it couldn't get any better, it did, and Rick started trying to scale the Trumpian skyscrapers in some sort of politically-motivated statement against the height tax. Oh, wait, anachronism. That wasn't the best part though, 'cuz when the ride finally stopped, Rick had a problem getting out. Aim had to come and fine him for his egregious trespasses against jeepkind. Officer Aim has a kinky taste for the unusual.

Soon enough, Morse Dillon beamported me to check out his new HQ, it's called SLiced and built on Magenta, one of the classic colored sims. Looks like the region has been burgeoning in recent times. Morse has a keen eye for detail, something I can relate to, and he's been careful to texture each and every one of his steps subtlely and differently. He explained to me he is going for a sort of department store look grounded in realism, and he shared what I believe are some great ideas if he can pull it off. A whole line of casual "Morse menswear" from him might?be very promising!

Besides Emote-A-Ramas, Siggy Romulus also has a new anti-blog blog called blogshite?and a clubby club dubbed Club Micro. Compact, space-efficient, and fully usable: has a VIP section with primfficient chairs, a disco ball, and even tabledancing. You've got to see it inworld for yaself. Ask Siggy! Clubs are lonely places without any friends to dance with, so it's fortunate that Jauani let me know of a new "event" that was taking place called Feted Critical Mass something-or-other. Reverse frame. Don't feed penguins (or do).?Gratuitous colorboxing.?Eheheh.

Why has Blobbus been dancing over 8 hours?

And that's a wrap.