8 Stunning, Shining Facts about Us
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Between Hawks and dinee, we done been tagged and bagged. But since Burgess is wrapping up a crazy semester, we decided to answer as a unit. Here goes.
1. We rarely discuss our SLives with our friends who aren’t in Second Life. That’s because by and large they Just. Don’t. Get it. We’ve tried to pass along our enthusiasm, the vast potential of the metaverse, the tales of the great people we’ve met and the fun and creative things we’ve done (Clockwork, DJing, Met a Stranger, blogging, etc.) yet they still look at us with the vague disinterest one might show their tax advisor whenever we bring it up. So fuck’em. Hell, I’ve even tried talking to my teenage clients about it (bonus random fact about Myg – I work with adolescents) and you’d THINK the young’uns would jump all over it, but truth is most of them don’t have machines that can handle SL well enough. I think the technology jump is still a big barrier for a lot of folks, but then we’ll leave analysis to another post.
2. Our dog Mason sleeps in bed with us every night. He’s an 8 month old black lab (8 months old today – Happy 8 month Birthday you sweetie muppeh puppeh!) Yes, I project tremendous child rearing fantasies onto Mason and I’m fully aware of that, like thinking he will somehow read that last line later tonight when I go home and he’s resting his head in my lap, trying to lick the laptop keyboard to score some burrito crumbs (bonus random Mygfact #2 – I eat in front of the laptop, all the time. I don’t recommend it, nor does Apple.)
3. We need a bigger bed. (Please refer to Stunning Fact #2, above).
4. We were brought together by rock. My then-boyfriend was the singer in Alex’s post-punk noise band and I used to go and hang out during rehearsals, quite jealous I couldn’t be in the band. My then-bf quit the band, and I replaced him as the singer. Alex was the guitarist. Later I learned to play guitar and the two of us went on to be in a total of three different bands together, the last one being by far the best. That band did release some stuff and did some modest regional touring and if we were to let you know the name, you could in fact google it and find out our real identities. We still write, record and release music with that band, albeit very sporadically.
5. In the past we’ve both worked for high-ranking politicians and then left politics, likely forever. Working in politics, for me, was so fucked up that I don’t even want to say more about it right now.
6. We are both in the middle of writing novels. (And for those of you wondering wth happened to Met a Stranger, I’m really really sorry! It had to get pushed aside for my latest endeavor for a little while. I am determined to return to it someday because it was the best thing I ever did with my SL time, but it is amazingly time-intensive, so I need to do it when I can fully commit to it again…)
7. We are both American Sailing Association certified sailors and as such can charter yachts up to 50 feet. Of course, we can’t actually afford to charter any yachts right now, nor anytime in the immediate future. Anybody who wants to pay to charter a yacht in the Virgin Islands this winter and to fly us there, we’ll be happy to sail it for you.
8. We throw a great New Year’s party nearly every year, complete with dancing, pigs in blankets, disco ball, hats and noisemakers, pj’d sleepovers and waffles in the morning, with monopoly playing extending well into New Year’s Day. We were trying to see if there was a way to stream our party into SL this year, so if anyone has any ideas on that let us know. We can and will, of course, stream the music from the party into Clockwork and all of the Mainline group land. But it’s kinda hard to be entertaining meatpeople and pixelfolk at the same time, unless I dance at Clockwork, then get a wireless headset and walk around my house like a jackass… Hey…that’s not a bad idea, except I don’t think there are wireless headsets yet for voice, are there? Anybody? I need a gadget geek on this one (please refer to dinee, fact #2). Thanks.
So there you have an interesting array of facts about the Myg-Alex complex. Those of you who were wondering, “Is that them?” could certainly surmise, by this compilation of dead giveaways, that it certainly is us, but then, anyone who reads M is for Myg wouldn’t have any idea of who us really is (with the exception of one and only one. Or maybe two. Huh…)
We decided not to tag anybody, because to be honest we’re doing this late enough so nearly anyone inclined to do it already has, and because I break all those chain emails too. It’s just how I am.
So, see you tonight for Hawks’ set at Clockwork, alright? 6-8pm SLT! SLURLÂ
“. We rarely discuss our SLives with our friends who aren’t in Second Life. That’s because by and large they Just. Don’t. Get it. ”
Jesus Christ…tell me about it!!
I was trying to explain to my roommate’s boyfriend the other day that I roleplay in SL in a place called Midian City, and he simply couldn’t wrap his head around the idea of roleplaying within a virtual world…and this guy is a geek! Total comic book nerd, into gaming, and I’m sure has done plenty of traditional rp.
My roommate also scoffed at me for djing in SL =P (in Midian City, by the way.)
I haven’t even bothered to tell my parents about SL…I really don’t think they’ll understand it, or they’ll read about all the bad stuff associated with SL. My dad is pretty tech-savvy, my mom, not so much.
Woot, awesome! I know it is a pain to get tagged, but these are a lot of fun to read, so thanks for filling it out! I soo want a signed copy from you both when you finish your novels! And I knew the dog was spoiled, but in the same bed??
I wouldn’t wanna get licked by an extra wet sloppy tongue when I was least expecting it, unless it belongs to Jelly… that could throw the timing off a bit. 
@Tobie: I know, right? What’s with these people? How did they get to be our friends and family in the first place? What gives?
@Hawks: The puppeh kisses are usually lavished at even less opportune moments, like when getting out of the shower and he then decides he must reclean all your toes with fresh puppeh spit. It tis teh gross, to be sure. As for the bed, he actually sleeps far more soundly than we do, through *anything* (I meant thunder storms, gah, we do have a crate you know…) and while he does make little cute puppy noises in his sleep, luckily he’s not a real sleep humper (see Orchid, fact #6 for more details…)
Thanks for the tag – it was good times!
Holy *cats,* you guys are interesting!!
And I *so want* both your books, I’ll even bite my lip and deal with missing “Met A Stranger”!
Bwah ha ha!
Sleep humping is a great excuse for ‘the alarm is gonna go off in an hour’ sex.
And sometimes is an awesome way of annoying your sleeping partner without realizing you’re even doing it. I always find it funny to wake up to Bebop rolling me over and mumbling something about being attacked by a drugged up bulldog.
I’m going to start sleep humping! Even if I have to stay awake…
I have to say, both of you are two of the most interesting people I have met in SL. I loved reading a little snippet into your real lives. I am a tad embarrassed by the nonsense I chose to disclose, but MEH. Thanks for sharing!
Oh Gillian, spend a week with us and you will find that we pretty much do nothing other than sit in front of our laptops and walk the dog. But thank you! And as far as your facts, it was a hard choice to cut your picky eater disclosure, which had me giggling terribly at the office yesterday! It was just nosed out by Tobie’s excellent Violent Femmes reference…Plus you know we were all about the horse stuff. We should start a horse chat night at Clockwork!
If my real life friends had a choice
between hearing another SL tale or
bad news from their tax advisor, I
think they’d rather listen to the
tax advisor. Maybe that’s good…
I enjoyed reading this! Haha… after listening to the detailed (and seemingly endless) stories of all my sister and brother in law’s characters in WoW and now City of Heroes, I think my mom welcomes my groanings of lag and griefers and my triumphs of a new product or success! Though it is fun to shock her with the occasional story of meeting a furry or hooker! LMAO Since my sis and bro in law told me about SL.. they know a bit about it. Though I must say I do not appreciate that they often turn their noses up at it as less than the worlds they are into.
About your New Year’s Party…I recall reading an article by Jason Pettus/Miller Copeland about some mixed-world events he held. Maybe this will help with ideas.
It’s strange…reading these things about the two of you. Now the Myg and Alex I thought I knew have become different people. Not bad…just different.
Anyway, thanks for sharing. ^_^