Of Human Bondage

A surreal moment from this weekend, was standing with two people i met on second life, who played mythical creatures on a simulation, along side my vampire..... watching a video by Cao Fei about her second life Aviator (china Tracey).

My friends and me in SL:










Mali and Arse (she's a nice girl from Jersey, he's part Apache from New Mexico irl)

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my female friend's alternative character (alt) Kym.

this is my main char being a weirdo on a friend's property (she lives down the block from her too on a beach sim) she spans allot of styles and looks. She's been so many things.





China Tracey/Cao Fei....is it wierd that in a textual context i think of her by her assumed name? anyways..her videos:





another funny aside, a man was standing next to me and my friends while i had the head phones on watching the video. I made the typing motion a SL aviator makes when it types (and you haven't shut off that animation) to answer my friends questioning eyes and smiles. we all laughed. the man didn't, he looked scared. Then my friends boyfriend leans in, touches him on the collar in that friendly quick male way and says "we all three met on second life" the man then looks at my friends with wonder, then over at me with a request for confirmation in his eyes, i just smiled and nodded.
he stepped back, i think he was afraid. was it a fear of a world he only had a hint of, a world he didn't know? that something seemingly so fake and distant could bring 3 people together in front of a video in the real life? or was he over whelmed with the wonderment and beauty of it? i hope all of it. fear and wonder in one day, what a rich day for his emotional state. maybe he had to go play. maybe he already did. that's the fun of secret lives and worlds. it's for your heart alone if you choose it.
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The new museaum was wonderful. best exhibit i saw all weekend. and alllot about blurred lines. I also saw local Texas artist Paul Slocum WTG Paul. I know everything you've done you have fought for, and it's good to see one of us Texans doing so well. Maybe being from here isn't such a stigma. Right Mr Rauschenberg? right Mr Schnauble? RIGHT!? ah.
I also saw the Whitney Biennial, the Guggenheim, central park, the empire state and crystler buildings, china town, little italy, soho, the Brooklyn bridge, and the statue of liberty waaaay off in the distance. not bad for only two full days in town. I'll show pictures when my pal's send them.


I will fully undergo the transformation to my newly aquired self on April 1st. I finaly picked my own last name. well with help from step mother. I'm proud. It's a kind of rebirth.
and not this isn't going to turn out to be one really mean joke i setup. though that would be an amazingly thought out and well executed joke on my part. I'm not that clever though.

____Now for your ASCII reward for my ramblings. Good arting!____