Archive for July, 2007

M.I.A.

Monday, July 30th, 2007

I just started this blog, and it already appears abandoned. Good news, though, it’s not been abandoned, I’ve just been moving in my first life.
This time away from Second Life and my blog has gotten me thinking about other Second Life blogs, however. To be quite honest, I mostly spend my time reading the [...]

Fashion

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

marissaracecourse.com is first and foremost not a fashion blog. I do, however, love me some fashion. I have so many different “styles” that I enjoy. There are so many talented designers in Second Life. I guess I am making this post to show off some of my outfits, my skins, and all the goodies in [...]

Jumble of Convoluted Thoughts

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

What are the implications of living a life in a virtual world? Do people tend to drop out of normal society, lured into anonymous, pixelated interactions? Or is it that Second Life, and games like it, is allowing for users to not only be themselves, but to take on more desirable traits and apply them [...]

The Media Gets it Wrong Yet Again

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

I wholeheartedly believe that Second Life is so self-contained, that outsiders are unable to simply understand all that happens. Moral panics have been occuring since the dawn of civilization; it’s no big surprise that the Internet, and more specifically for my own purposes here, Second Life, has been under the conservative microscope.
My reason for writing [...]

Thoughtful…

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

I’ve been in Second Life for almost 9 months, and it’s at this point in which i wonder where my life is going. I feel as though I am having a mid-[second]life crisis. I’ve begun to reflect upon my humble beginnings, because just as what happens in anyone’s first life, my past has had a [...]