Bare Necessities

Adam Hickman: "The great thing about being a dancer AND security is the look on somebody's face when they realize they're being ejected from the club by a naked guy."


Solomon Devoix: "I know it has to be the geek in me, but I can't stop wondering... how do you keep the lollipop from sticking to your fangs?"

Tools for the Well-Spoken Second Life Citizen

Ismelda Alonzo: "Sorry, it seems I have a lack in vocabulary today... I don't know essential words... 'pedophile', 'zoophile', 'satyrs'... very essential words in SL..."

Tell Me A Bedtime Story

On Saturday night, Club Reese's held an event with a 'fairytale' theme. A LOT of innuendo flew around that night; this is just one example:

Solomon Devoix [as a satyr]: "So your name is 'Chalice'? Have you ever been... drunk?"

Chalice Yao: "Um... no?"

Solomon Devoix: "Would you like to be?" [licks his lips]

It's a Jungle Out There...

At Club Reese's: "Naked purple vampire kitty fairy DJ in the house!!"

Alister Redgrave: "How many people can unbotton their own pants with their tail?"

Fashion Jihad

Misha Corleone: "Misha Corleone vows to smite all clothing standing between naked bodies and her appreciation of the nude form."

Alyson Rosmer: "What you see, and what I feel, are two different things."

Horseshoes and Handgrendes

Okay, I said I was going to put a few of the things I've heard in Second Life here for other people to enjoy, so let's get started with that.

Maryld Althouse: "Maryld Althouse fondles her breasts, runs her hands down her tummy, back up her butt, and over her grenades...."

Misha Corleone: "No painting the orange vampire."

S. Smalls: "I'm your basic gender-flipping, now-and-then-septagenarian, kung-fu-fighting werewolf. You know the type."

Solomon Devoix: "Of all the things I expected to see in life... Second or Real... a naked, breakdancing Ventrue was not one of them."

Overheard by Katar Supercharge: "How can I fly to you with my cock?"

Ariel Maloney: "Life is like a dick; when it gets hard... fuck it!"

Dear Diary...

With the simplest of thoughts, I unfetter myself from the surly chains of gravity and hurl myself skyward, becoming brother to the clouds. The land itself answers to my will, valleys appearing and hills being born at my command. Items, machines, even entire castles are summoned into being by a thought... and banished back into the void the same way. There is no construct so great I cannot shift it, no height so great I cannot overcome it.

My name is Solomon Devoix, and I am a god.

My name is Solomon Devoix, and this is my Second Life.

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Okay... Olympian generalities aside, if you're reading this, you probably already know what Second Life is. If you don't... in short, it's a huge, shared virtual world. Unlike games like World of Warcraft or City of Heroes, most of the content in Second Life is created by the inhabitants. It is not a game in the traditional sense... there are no "missions", no levels, no villians to bash or monsters to kill and loot their bodies. Second Life is just what the name says... a second, albeit virtual, life. Check it out at http://secondlife.com/

In a way, a lot of what can be done just as a matter of course in Second Life feels like the things that the gods out of myth were supposed to be capable of... hence the title of this blog and the opening paragraph. Overblown? Probably. But it just seems so completely appropriate...

Now, as awesome as Second Life is... it's not without its problems. Many of these are ongoing, frustrating, and most residents have the impression the Lindens (the true gods of SL) care nothing for the inhabitants... only for driving up the "total residents" number to attract backers (advertisers) no matter how much this overburdens the system for the paying residents and long-term (paying or not) residents.

Still... this is NOT a case of "I come not to praise Caesar, but to bury him." While the problems of Second Life are many and vexing... I feel that it is worth enduring for the other benefits, and have seen some hopeful signs from the Lindens of forthcoming improvements. Only time will tell.

Mostly I started this blog to record "choice" pieces of conversation I've heard in Second Life -- things that I think are funny, witty, or just out-and-out wierd. I'm also planning to eventually add snapshots of myself (in Second Life), my fiance, and other friends and such as time and energy permits.

Until then...