{UPDATE: June 9, 2009...Apparently lightening DOES strike twice, cause the story below was just repeated for me. Geeze. Different circumstances of course, and utterly my fault. I miss you desperately, J.}
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by Marcophoto Upshaw
AKA: Mark E. Lodge, USA
Yesterday morning, Friday 7/11/08, I woke up bright and early, eager to see the girl I had partnered with in Second Life just two days ago. But Instead of seeing her lovely face I instead saw a notecard, "Dear Marco......" ahh shit. Yeah, one of those. A "Dear John letter addressed to me. It seems her RL husband found out about us, hit the ceiling and forced her to break off all ties with me. So while I was asleep she packed her stuff, moved out, and left me a note. What a helluva way to find out. I am done with steady gfs, this time. I really really mean it.
So ladies, Marco is available again, but not for a steady committed relationship. No, this time I am going for something shallow and fun; daily sex and no commitments.
If this appeals to you and you would like to have daily sex with me....or maybe every other day, or every third day.... let me know. If I get a high enough response, I will make up a calendar and schedule you. lol. I'm joking right? Oh of course...hhmmmm maybe. I am a male after all. A guy has to have a dream, right? Keep those cards and letters coming in girls, and I'll let you know.
I've even thought of switching to penguins for awhile, but the thought of those pointed beaks is a bit much.
One of these days I guess I ought to write a series about breaking up in sl. I've written about everything else. That might be fun. Meanwhile maybe I will write a ficticious application form we can give to prospective lovers to screen out the nutballs......and.....married people. If you have any thoughts about what to put in my "application form", please send me an IM. Let's make some lemonaide out of these lemons.
And this ties in well with the blog for today, an article by my good friend, little sister, and Vampire Queen, Evelyn Zehetbauer titled: The Sense of Second Life (or, What Makes Us Stay In SL?)
This is part of Evelyn Zehetbauer's "Memoirs of My First Year in SL"
I asked her for permission to reprint it in my blog. Eve is German, and her written "accent" reminds me of Marlene Dietrich. I think it is VERRRRY sexy :) --Marco P.S. If you wish, contact Eve directly to receive copies of her other chapters. You can find her blog by doing a Search under ALL, and then type in: "Eves Blog Group" with quotes (no apostrophe).
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The Sense of Second Life (or, What Makes Us Stay In SL?)
Hey Friends of Marco!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our first life gives us so many questions, so many things we have no answer to, like why are we living on this world and so on..... Much philosophy, much thinking..... But you never thought about such a question in Second Life , did you?
Well I did, and maybe this following letters will make you think about the sense of your second life!
So well if you ask somebody about the sense of life, her or she might answer, that it is obviously clear. The sense of life is to make babies and save the human race on this planet! Some might say practising making babys is our sense of life........ but how does that all count, if you think about second life??? Does not really match, huh?
Of course there are avis getting pregnant, getting married and somehow adopting a child..... But is this the sense of Second Life ? I somehow think this is strange....... Why do adult people play a child and there are some people playing parents and so on....... ok ok, EVERYTHING is roleplay in sl, but this parents/children thing is somehow weird..... or not?
Well practising making babies.... uhm well if you like you can make sl be a hot thing. Hot flirting, hot talk, and having sex.... but watching two avis or even more doing it? Kind of strange, too.
So we have to leave the path of the biological sense of life in sl.....
Maybe we should ask our gods The Lindens for an answer? No they would say making money is the sense of sl.......
So should we ask great philosophers like Socrates, Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, Marx, Hegel, Schopenhauer or Descartes???? Oh we have to stop here. If we are asking Descartes we will get to know that we cannot be sure if that monitor we are looking at is real..... so no answer again...... But Kant and Marx could be somehow cool for sl...... The one says if you wanna do something to somebody you must be for sure that you allow others do it to you, too; and we all know Marx who said that we should be all equal and share everything we have with each other. Oh well Linden Labs does not allow Marxism? Hm ok stop asking philosophers right here....
Still no answer.........
Well maybe the Lindens are right and it is all about making money...... and yeah this could be a point, while running through a camping sim, where people dance or sit all night long for a few linden dollars, or those who have an sl job, spending time in business.... having no friends anymore except your business partners, but where is the sense for those who use their payment infos? So well no point here, and if you see the sense of secondlife is making money, well then get your payment info and your vision became true....
nope.....
Well, what about becoming the perfect avi, exactly like you want it? It is a lot of work, and somehow we all go shopping to upgrade our avis, somehow. But well what if you are completely upgraded? Made your avi like you wanted it to be??????? You quit sl directly? No you do not..........
We have to find other things.... there must be a sense of second life.... somewwhere...... maybe it is to explore!!!!!!
I started to explore second life very very early. I´ve seen so many areas and sims, met so many people, tried out so many things, but hey we all come back to our favourite places.......
again no answer............
So I had no choice; I had to ask one of my best friends Frenz about the sense of sl......
[3:24] Evelyn Zehetbauer: would you please answer me one question hunnybun: What is the sense of sl?
[3:27] Frenz Bailey: For me it started when the tv kept on boring me and someone told me about sl. I went on, just as you, to see what it was all about; to find out if I would like it. But right from the beginning I met some great people, who I would have never met in my rl, and I had fun and nice times with those people and that's why i keep coming back. All the things along the side--like shopping and renting a house--are just stupid. But since you have made some good friends here, you actually consider this as "a life," too. So I think that's why you also shop here and rent.
[3:27] Frenz Bailey: have I answered your question?
Yes she had. Thank you. I think that´s why I´m still here.....
Let´s be addicted together,
Eve
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Sayyyy, if you liked this posting today, would you tell a friend or two? Just copy/paste the paragraph below to a friend. Thank you so much!...
Wow, you gotta read the crazy, funny stuff this guy writes!
Read all about it today in Marco's SL Humor Blog at: http://marcosslhumorblog.blogspot.com/
P.S. There are two surveys at the bottom of the page. Would you take a moment and fill them out? Just scroll aaaaaaaaaalllllll the waaaaaaaaaaaaaay down to the very bottom of this page. Thanks!
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Last September, the girl who was my friend for 6 months and who wore my collar for 2 months came into the club one night wearing jeans with a "biohazard" symbol on them. I told her it was cute and looked like she was wearing my brand. She said she'd like a slave tattoo with my brand on it.
I forgot about this, and a couple days later, she reminded me. "No tattoo for me?" So, in a rush, I had a friend put something together. I let her decide how it would be captioned. It was a biohazard tramp stamp, captioned "Property of (my name)" (Symbol) "Trespassers will be shot". I gave her this on a Thursday, and she said she loved it.
Friday I went out in RL to see a band at a bar. Saturday I log on and she has something like this in her profile. "You freaks, you know who you are. Take a Valium, hell take the whole bottle. Do Second Life a favor and go play WOW"
I was going to ask her who the freak was, and intended to chew that person out.
When she logged on, she asked me what my RL gender was. I told her. Her response was "Oh fucc", and she never spoke to me as a friend ever again.
My RL gender was not a secret, I shared it freely with her and many others. I'm as male as can be. I'd already told her about all the RL drama I go through if I were to be seen doing the deed with her in SL.
I believe she left because of the tattoo. Coincidentally, this was 2 weeks after she asked me if I'd become her partner and I agreed to. This was to be the night I'd make her my partner.
Since that night, September 13, 1998, I've pretty much sorted out the RL drama but I've never come close to partnership again. It's not for lack of trying. I've since given up the hunt. I took classes, I learned skills. I became adept at scripting, learned how to use GIMP passably well, learned how to use Blender somewhat poorly, learned how to build much better. I also learned how to stream music and have been somewhat in demand as a DJ. I've also learned how to pretend that I don't really want a partner, and I've fooled most people who don't know me very well. I may eventually fooled myself.
I don't know if I can call this a happy ending, but I have survived the day I call "Freedom Day". So, on the thirteenth day of every month, I wish people a Happy Freedom Day. SL life is short, and holidays shouldn't come once a year. If you can't live and love, live and succeed. Success is the best revenge.
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