Sus-Sus-Piria

Every time I see that awful woman's name on the forums, I think of that old song by Phil Collins, Sussudio, where he sings:

There's a girl that's been on my mind all the time

Su-su-sudio.

I hate the song; I hated it when it came out; Phil Collins has always annoyed me -- they used to play him way too much on MTV; now, for our sins, he is played way too much on the supermarket sound track.

So Su-su-spiria in SL is in fact named for some horror gore flick, and also has a famous Irish last name:

Suspiria Finucane.

In any event, if you've ever been on the forums (not recommended), she's one of the most bossy, suck-up, know-it-all types there, constantly siding with the Lindens, constantly telling people they should get with the program, to such an extent that you wonder if she is either a paid Linden tout or a Linden alt.

If you read the forums with any regularity -- you'll get it. If not, here's one sample -- her never-ending propagandizing of Viewer 2 -- and worse, her covering her tracks doing that, claiming that she's not advocating it as such as a Linden tout, but that she is just trying to clear up "misconceptions" about it (sounds like all the global warning and ObamaCare fascists) and she's just trying to correct "factual" errors.

What's gaspingly awful about Sus-Sus-Piria in this regard is that *she actually has a forums siggy promoting Viewer 2* and the Google SA, and saying it is "fast" and using the Google logo.

Yes. I'm not kidding.

OK, how to parse? Is this a Google tout then actually???

So if somebody says the search is crappy or slow or some other thing annoys them, she rushes to the scene to "correct" them. It's that awful grade-school hall-monitor behaviour and you wonder -- why do *adults* in a community online continue such simpering, disgusting manifestations?

If somebody says, but, you ARE promoting Viewer 2! Like, "err you banner add says otherwise if I am not mistaken ^^"

Sus-Sus-Suck-up will respond: "Many apologies for your reading comprehension disorder."

Sigh.

Could she be a paid Google shill? Does Google need to have such creatures???

No, she's not like really a paid shill. That's not likely, because she posts more than a Linden or any paid person would actually be willing to do -- she posts like a forums addict, like a no-lifer.

I went to look at her profile inworld -- and of course, no surprise, she's a BDMS domme with all kinds of instructions on how people "must" act around her and information about her subs. Sigh.

Do these people ever realize how ridiculous they look?

I loathe the BDSM personality -- and one of the reasons is that it does not do what it claims -- it does not in fact RP with consent. And this is a very good example. The coercive and imperious persona spreads to the forums telling people what to do -- and they haven't consented. Say, where's the safe word from Suspiria?!

She makes some kind of BDSM boots or something -- it doesn't seem like she's one of the six-figure kids in SL, but she acts as if she is.

Now, how did she come to my attention now? Because after brinda mentioned blog logs, I realized I hadn't looked at them in ages. Who reads this blog? I've always been amazed at how many people read this blog coming from Plurk, fashion sites, twitter, and get this -- Second Citizen. In fact, there is now a Blog Bot (!) that fetches my blog and posts it on SC so that those lazy scuts can discuss my blog without having to actually go fetch it. I'm astounded, really. That level of obsession those old freaks can still bring to bear on what I do.

In any event, this post in passing about the Hippiestock got a slew of reads. Why? Because the event was the obsession of the forums in-group for weeks on end. It got really boring seeing the organizers flog it all the time -- I really feel like people shouldn't do that with their own personal sim events, they should put it in special events and not clog up general forums. But those people feel like they own the place, they are a tight-knit loyal bunch, and they were obsessed.

I don't have anything against organizing a Woodstock knock-off, I make Woodstock knock-off stuff myself on my avatar Random Unsung, who has the Aging Hippie line. And I am something of a hippie myself and lived through that era. (I was 12 years old in 1968). It's great that somebody did this in SL and had fun with it -- just don't force it on me.

In any event, I'm uninterested in peace, love, and understanding with the forums bunch -- just not my thing. 140 people fitting on 4 sims -- well, it's a tiny fraction of SL, but to hear them talk about it, it was the center of the universe. No matter. Let them. I'll pass. I just don't like clubbing around with gangs of people, especially accompanied by mindless memes and chatter. I'm sure they had fun and good times and good music and it's all good. I guess I can't help thinking that they should put that energy not into a once-a-year festival that probably creates loads of unnecessary work in SL, but make a club that meets once a week, where more people might get something out of it, especially newbies. Oh, well, not my thing.

But now they're whining that the press is bad?

The Herald story about it in fact was quite positive. To see it as *not* positive you'd have to be brain dead on drugs AND not know the Herald. It was a pretty good piece.

Ah, but guess what. It failed to do one thing: it failed to give credit to Suspiria as being "behind the scenes" organizing it all "really".

For this, Ms. Domme goes into Rage Queen mode:

That's one reason that publication gets ridiculed. Their reporting skills are mediocre at best. Seriously what kind of journalist wouldn't do research before writing an article. A lame one, no doubt about it.

Also, what professional internet media outlet doesn't use video if it's available to convey the true essence of the story? Yea, this guy's a real douche-bag.

His bias and petty hatred blurred his report of the actual event and basically turned the wonderful thing we called Hippiestock into a one-sided media circus.

Thanks for the sentiment.

You know, I wish someone would answer my question about how a forum dwellers party became Hippiestock. Hippie knows and I also want to say that nothing I say here reflects on Hippie. He would have done the right thing.

Yeah, the forums-dwellers are always putting in dumb little emoticons like that.

So wait. A blogger doesn't put a video on a story he kindly does on a community event, and she calls him a douche?! What would that make her, a ho-bag?!

Honestly, I have to goggle when I see lame, parochial, provincial crap like this. Are they daft? If their "goods times" are so good, why would a snarky article in the Herald bother them?! And they got a good write-up in the Herald. Somebody named Quinn Moroni wrote: "A fantastic write-up of the event and its lingering impact on the forum. I’m glad I was able to be there, and I’m very much looking forward to Hippiestock 2012!"

And that was appropriate.

But I guess the person didn't suck up to Her Majesty enough. She's having a rage freak-out because...she wasn't credited.

You know that saying, "There's no limit to the good you can do if you are willing not to get the credit."

I've seen this saying posted on the wall of a very great man who has done a number of very great things in precisely this way.

One thing I always find annoying about these mediocrities of Second Life is their retarded notion of what "journalists are supposed to do".

If they don't like a blog post, they begin huffing and puffing that "a journalist has not done his job". Why, he should have put the organizer's video in his post (but...why? That would be like running a company press release right in the middle of your story -- it's a craven suck-up and unnecessary). Why, he should have written this or that. He should "do his homework!" (rage, rage). Why, he didn't even interview me for the story!

Um, these people are bloggers at the Herald, not paid professional reporters. Get the sand out of your vajajay, please.

I'm no fan of the Herald and I don't think anything in particular of Simon Leominster, who wrote the piece, I don't know him, and he seems one of the least offensive of the Herald scribblers, but geez, it's as good as it gets and people are not paid and they gave attention to some minor little parochial event by an insular group in SL -- and they get a ration of shit. Be grateful! My God, this world will never grow. It's AWFUL.

But she rages on:

Viewer Discretion Advised Group: Members Posts: 498 Member No.: 5 Joined: 27-October 10

QUOTE (Kylie Jaxxon @ Feb 22 2011, 06:10 PM) Yes, I second it...I'm sure it was an oversight, not meant on purpose Suspiria Hugs to you Thanks I just can't buy into that it was an oversight. He used Maddie's picture and mentioned her thread which he read. Is it possible every person he interviewed failed to mention all the contributors? I doubt it because surely Quinn would have mentioned something and Xiulan. Also DQ subscribes to my youtube channel so I doubt very seriously she wouldn't mention a video and honestly, do you really think after reading the Hippiestock threads he never saw a video? No, it's pretty clear he did it on purpose.

Sigh.

The sheer...provinciality of Second Life. I mean, I'm all for provinciality. I'm a provincial myself. Takes one to know one. But I do have enough savvy to understand that this is really a turn off to outsiders. What makes people turn away from the forums isn't their nastiness and spleen; it's their provinciality.

That small-minded, mediocrity that you find in villages.

And then -- that touching believe that they delete comments on the Herald...

And the rage goes on and on and on...

I'm 100% on topic...

You can assume all you want, the facts are clear. His "reporting" skills are a disgrace to professional journalists everywhere.

Hmm let's see....

Pearl Harbor gets bombed...but they don't say by whom....

2 buildings collapse in New York but they don't say how....

Some team wins the world series on a Game 7, 9th inning homer but they "forget" to mention the guys name...

Yea, I would toss an insult but you're just too easy and I fear I'm taking advantage of you...

*Suspiria mosey's over to Prokofy's blog because I know she won't delete my reply.

http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_t...-ask-alice.html

The really sad thing is both blog posters used the malignant tumor quote... yea there's some fame for dAReck...well maybe not since the thread was yanked.

Well, ultimately, what is all this about, do you think?

I think it's a branding war of sorts. The Lindens are nerfing their forums again, and they are likely to emerge even more controlled and squeaky clean when they get done blowing the dust off in a few weeks.

So SL Citizen (ineptly named), Sluniverse, and this newer Suspiria-dominated outfit SL Offworld Forum, and likely others are flexing their muscles to see who can win the mindshare, and win the former forums-dwellers to their offworld forums. Pretty brilliant name for a forum, "Offworld Forum," eh? Where the Lindens can't touch you LOL. The Lindens themselves may have organized this. In fact, I was pretty certain that SL Citizen was organized by a Linden (or possibly prodded along by an alt of a Linden who people didn't realize was a Linden -- there's a lot of mystery shrouded around the figure "Alex" who started SL Citizen).

Why would a Linden organize an offworld forums?! Because they need to keep residents, but not have them in the view. So they siphon them off. It's a technique. They did it in TSO, outsourcing deliberately to Stratics. Get it away from the corporate space and make sure nothing falls on the eye -- nothing to frighten the horses, as it were -- not only the prospective buyers, but the newbies. Makes sense.

I can't help thinking once again of the humdog's famous essay about the Board Ho, what a fascinating discussion it all was then, how I thought then (and still thing) that humdog was just too Marxist in her analysis, despite having some very helpful things to say. I realized that Suspiria, consciously or not, is doing that corporate bidding. Picking a fight, banging on people, angering them, getting them to express more and more and more, all for the data-scraping. It really has an icky feel to it, this stuff.

Many people have had the feeling the forums are manipulated by Linden corporate forces for a long time. I don't mean just Amanda "I'll delete you!" Linden. That's normal stuff. She takes out stuff that doesn't fit the corporate look -- understood. We get that. It's a game; we play it.

I mean the more creepy stuff of touts and inciters. People coming on not as open Lindens, but covert Lindens or hired marketers or manipulators to push things a certain way. To prime the public for bad policies. To get some people so incited to anger that they then get pushed off the forums, after leaving a trail of interesting data of who is for a certain viewpoint and who is against.

I realized that one of the reasons I don't go to the forums as much as I used to is that it has that creepy feeling of being watched by people manipulating it -- the feeling you used to get from going into a peace movement meeting and seeing the guy in the back of the room whose tie-dyed t-shirt and jeans looked a tad too pressed to be authentic, who was probably the FBI plant. Or that feeling you got in a Soviet "youth" conference when you realize that there's all these men who have to be like 35 in suit and ties...

Why the Lindens would *bother* with social manipulation like that on their tawdry forums is beyond me. But they get 1,000 reads routinely and 700 comments on some stuff so maybe that's why.

I don't have the patience to sift through all the stupid videos, photos and clips from previous posts to analyze this and prove my point. Others who spend more time there will likely agree -- others have said outright they feel like the forums has been played like a violin -- especially during the era of Pink Linden and the SL Marketplace changes.

One of the particular annoyances on the forums is a relatively new avatar who is obviously an oldbie alt named Han Held. That sort of griefer persona who is writing tripe much of the time and harassing others (and also obsessing about Prokofy, which is usually the hallmark of only certain old SL sects, because most people don't feel any need to do that) -- they are up to no good.

But why? Boredom? The desire for power over people?

Yes, that takes people very far and wide in SL.

 

Comments

[Rene Erlanger]

Oh man, that Lady has serious issues! IMO she should be permabanned from SL official forums. She's a compulsive liar, stalker forum troll type, cheat & deceitful.

Can't we open a JIRA banning her? rofl :) (would be interesting just to see the votes)

[Han Held]

As they say, Any publicity is good publicity.

Thanks for helping to promote SL Offworld. :)

[Prokofy Neva]

I have no opinion on whether she "lies" because I just don't have the stamina to track all those forum discussions. I've come across her in different threads and found her to be offensive and outrageous at times.

In the history of my life in online game or world communities, I've never seen a FIC type or suck-up or sychophant go so far as to *put the company in their forums siggie*. In Suspiria's case, she's put an ad for Viewer 2 and the GSA *in her forums siggie* with a phrase also about seeing through the Hubble instead of a straw -- which I suppose is a reference to seeing this issue through her, um, vaunted and broad perspective instead of through this or that user grievance perspective. Despicable.

Her notion that her beloved Hippiestock, where apparently she worked in order to get street cred and rep points if not boot sales, was somehow ill-served by the Herald or even by me is simply at odd with the facts. Her banging on poor Simon is disgusting. It's not every day I need to cross the street to protect a Herald scribbler -- they're offensive as a class, by and large -- but this is a larger matter of principle -- she's just being an asshole.

She's able to be an asshole because no one can call her out without getting banned from the forums. People like that always get their hooks in by literalist interpretations of the rules. They are like bed bugs in that respect, hard to eradicate.

But the way forward is to keep exposing their bad and outrageous behaviour outside of SL until their grip is loosened. It can't be loosened if in fact they've got the company on their side. And I guess that's what I seek more informed opinion on: are the forums infiltrated with deliberate active Linden ages? Or are those just freelancers serving Linden interests?

Han Held is also a recent multi-drug-resistant infection of the forums who is somebody with an old account and old grievances, not sure who, who subtracts at every turn and never ads and also obsesses about me, which is always a signal of a certain kind of sectarian faction.

[Prokofy Neva]

And to explain again why I would never take part in Hippiestock: because the notion that there is some "peace" or "temporary accord" or "day when we put aside our differences" is reprehensible to me when you have bad-faith actors like Suspiria, or Darrius Goth, or Dartagnan Shepherd maliciously exploiting the forums for their own personal and business gain constantly.

As long as you have vipers like that, you don't pretend that it's merely about "our differences" or that "we've agreed to disagree" like persons of good faith who just have different beliefs or approaches.

No, it's about one set of people in these struggles in profoundly bad-faith actions creating drum-circles to falsely put people together when in fact they don't need to be, and shouldn't.

I'm not goint to sit with this bunch and share tye-died t-shirts and drum circles with them when they behave in bad faith as they do. If they had a belief that Viewer 2 worked better for them; if they were happy with the Lindens deleting all freebies from SL Marketplace to get rid of their competition, I wouldn't agree with their views or support them, but if they merely stated them, even forcefully, on the forums, I would accept that.

But they don't. They work overtime to spread lies, confusion, and hate, and behind the scenes are buttering up Lindens and abuse reporting other people.

Unless you are on a level playing field with such people, where they can't manipulate the rules of a restrictive forum to their advantage, you can't win and can't beat them.

What's appalling is that the offline forums are just as bad. No one is standing up to them there, either, and instead giving them *hugs*.

[Storm Clarence]

I think your comments on Hippiestock are a tad extreme. I attended, said some hellos, listened to the music, and enjoyed myself. It was a 'positive' and healthy event. You are probably correct to state "it should have been listed in Events."

I seem to infer from your words an indictment of any/all that attended, The 'politics' around the event and the event itself were not considered (by me) until in the SLO forum Suspiria demanded credit. (At least I did not recognize the politics until her posts)
This was not, in my eyes, Suspiria's event - it was Hippies - and others contributed. Suspiria is now making it *her* event and kind of ruining it for others that attended and contributed. (I don't give her the credit you do in establishing and maintaining a conspiracy perpetrated by 'inner' SL types. I just think she is a little self-centered)

Please excuse me as I am still getting use to your writing(s). Many of *us* new people to SL do not know or understand the SL *history* underlying most of your posts. I find it interesting, but somewhat hard to wrap my head around - I am learning.

The other *stuff* in your posts are usually spot-on.

[Argus Collingwood]

HippieStock was a fun event and a great opportunity to meet GD forum users avatar-to-avatar, share the fun of dressing in theme, listen to live music, take photos, chat a bit, crash a lot [for me at least], decorate a space, and feel a sense of fellowship/shared experience. The opportunity to extend the concept though adding folks to the photo is unique and brought a furthered sense of fellowship. All in all it was a very positive experience. You really should have come and I hope in the future you will. [as to any personal disputes and issues that is another matter and one that is best addressed by those involved]

[Prokofy Neva]

Storm, you're one of the insular provincials I'm talking about. You *do* realize that nobody in the wider world cares that 140 of you from the forums who could fit on 4 corners went and had a hootenanny? Truly, it's not the center of the Metaverse. It's fine for what it is, but let's not exaggerate all its love and peace.

It's a public relations gambit at some level, and one designed to put peas in the pot of some of the forums worst manipulators.

The politics indeed entered with Suspiria trying to volubly and disgracefully get credit -- but she wouldn't be struggling so mightily for this credit if it were what you all claim, just a nice get together and not, in effect, a merchandising opportunity (for the merchandise of the reputation game, not literal merchandise, although that can be the case too).

I don't know Hippie; in fact he's not the one I saw touting Hippiestock -- it was the other girls around him that did. But so what? Some people do the work, some get the credit. This disgraceful display from Suspiria should lead to 100 people saying "you're impossible, this is too far, you're outrageous" and putting her on mute and boycotting her store. That will concentrate her silly little BDSM queen's mind wonderfully.

Instead, some community people are giving her hugs and saying "awwwww we know how hard you worked.

Doing what? Others chatted the event up much more and used very creative occasions to raise it, i.e. to the new CEO in that thread, etc. Why not? It was marketing.

Suspiria is just a dysfunctional persona, a board ho. She should be clobbered on this one, but people need board hos more than they'll admit, I guess.

As for the conspiracy thing, there is a very long and very sordid history in SL of very conspiratorial doings, indeed. Where once people thought I was a crank for pointing this out when I saw only some people get free sims and some people win the contests and some people get fielded for the RL press interviews, in time this was so blatant and so institutionalized that they had to concede it.

Today, when Blake Linden baldly announces that she is picking only some merchants for a closed focus group and may rotate others in later, no one really blanches. They should. A few do; most merely rush to sign up for the next rotation.

Today, when Jack Linden told us there is an Atlas program of discounts for some larger buyers but not as a given for all if they wish, nobody questions this.

Today, when the Lindens sent out by email an ad for only one pet breeder, people raise an eyebrow, but they don't protest en masse.

The forums is where the struggle for new FICification takes place. Somebody like Suspiria hopes by her bullying on the forums to come to the attention of the company and become one of their people and put in Destination; the library; an ad campaign; a press opportunity; whatever.

NDAs are passed out like candy, and that suborns the population too, so that people are always happy to stay silent, never criticize, and rat out others because they might get into an NDA themselves.

Some people have already seen the new forums software; we haven't. Some people saw mesh before it was ready for beta; we haven't. Some people got to test Havoc 4; not all takers. Some people got invited to the beta test for the ad system; it wasn't something everyone could ask to sign up for. And so on and so forth -- hundreds of little power plays like that all day, every day.

It's the culture of the software industry and California business in general; it's not the culture of the heartland or the East Coast. That's my conviction about it.

[Prokofy Neva]

No, Argus, I won't be joining your marketing campaign for a forums power grouping. It's discusting. ANY campaign involving events that involve sitting down and breaking bread with a figure like Suspiria is out of the question.

That's not a "personal dispute". It's not "cultural". It's about *principle*. You don't play peace with people who are at war. You don't pretend you can "put aside your differences" with people who advertise viewer 2 in their siggie and browbeat and harass and bully others who question you doing that and dispute your findings.

I can sit and smoke a virtual pipe with someone who favours viewer 2. But not somebody who favours it and runs the company's ad campaign in her siggie and bullies protesters. That's like sitting down with FBI informers and Nixon Administration flunkies. There are principles here.

[Treasure Ballinger]

Interesting post. I read your blog, Prok, because I learn stuff here. There's a lot in the forums I don't bother with; I very, very rarely look at someone's profile inworld, that posted something in the forums, even if I respond to it there. Of course, I"ve seen Suspiria around the forum threads, don't think I"ve ever responded to anything, can't remember and really don't much care though. I do agree with Storm that I, personally saw Hippiestock (admittedly, from afar, as I wasn't part of it at all) as Hippie's event. Maybe I didn't do enough sleuthing, again, didn't care enough, it wasn't going to be my thing, so just saw it in passing. So now I know that Suspiria has a BDSM connection, according to inworld profile; Ok......meh. Again not my thing, so, ok. (my thing was more Angela Davis and power to the people, than free love and flowers to all. As for viewer 2, I understand enough to log in and use it if I need to. Sometimes I DO need to, I have a board in my service center that uses a screen you can only see on Viewer 2, so it has it's uses for me. I"m fluent, it's just not my favorite language. Sorta like a second language, for viewers, lol. Nothing Suspiria or anyone else says is going to change that opinion, because, it's my opinion from my own personal experience. I'd think everyone has one of those, and that very little prodding, or even insulting, anyone else, can sway them when they have an opinion based on experience. Rambling, I KNOW, here, sorry. Call me if anybody organizes an Angela Davis lovefest.

[Derek Torvalar]

Nice piece Prokofy
The individuals antics on the GD forum have been reprehensible and she deserves to be called out and sanctions imposed. I try to contribute to the awareness in my own special way but some would rather smiles through a mouthful of shit.
Derek Torvalar
Vicomte de Vitriol

[Storm Clarence]

I don't know what to say Prok (I hope you don't mind the abbreviation of your name.) I am trying to figure out if you just dissed me and told me to get my head out of my rectum. Maybe, but I don't feel dissed. I don't know if what you wrote in your response was a compliment, either. Oh well.

I don't read the SL forum in the same light that you do. This does not make either of us wrong - it does make the statement that I am less than 1 year in SL and you have a lot of history.

I, too, am a board ho' I participate because it furthers my enjoyment of SL. I also like to share in laughter. To me it's all entertainment.

You have enlightened me with several of you posts, but I am not a fool when it comes to understanding the 'motives' of several forum participants. They don't trouble me as I *do* realize that in the whole scheme of things, outside our little world, there isn't anybody that really cares.

I look forward to reading more of your essays/blog posts.

[Darien Caldwell]

Hey that Herald story didn't mention that I had *nothing* to do with organizing it!

Obviously on purpose!
What a douche!

:)

[Argus Collingwood]

That's fine, Prokofy, but guess what, it was not a Marketing Venture [let alone MY anything], it was a party, no more, no less. To spin it your way, one should never go anywhere in SL at all because there are folks logged in that you do not want to associate with might happen to be where you go. Your World, Your Blog, Your Choice.

[Venus Petrov]

The only unfortunate thing about Suspiria's bombastic fumigation was that it was done in an even smaller forum as the SL GD forum is read-only now. She railed in a smaller vacuum. Interestingly, all of those she was certain would have mentioned her name to the reporter never directly responded to that assertion. Well, one did couch it in terms of responding to the writer's direct question and that was all.
Suspiria's attempt at bullying others without seeming to bully them into admitting something failed.
Suspiria asserts that the GD forum is 'entertainment' yet she wails when she thinks that someone is bullying her. It must have come as a surprise to her to read that I do not read every post there, much less all of hers, so I did not know the genesis of her dislike for being called 'Sus'. Oh, I am sure she thinks that I knew all along but I did not. She needs a reason to call me a bully and so now she has one.
/me shrugs
I attended Hippiestock. I will not claim to know all who were involved in setting it up and making it happen but I do know that if no one had come, it would not have 'happened'. It was a fun event.

[Amanda Dallin]

I skim the GD forum occasionally but somehow entirely missed Hippiestock. The first I heard about it was here. Sounds like i didn't miss much. I attended several parties this week that I'm sure I had more fun at than I would have at Hippiestock. Funnily enough, they aren't the center of the SL universe either.

I still prefer V2 to V1 or the tpv's. 2.7 is even better with both pay and delete in the first level menu when you right click an avatar. It's a shame it takes LL this long to figure out basic things like that though. Even though I like V2 I'd never tell anyone else they should. It's just personal preference.

[Raul Rehnquist]

My Disclaimer: Raul Rehnquist has never been or ever wants to be a Linden. I was never at any time paid by the Lindens to start the SL Offworld Forum. Although if they want to pay me, I'd gladly take their money. Just to re-coup the money I've spent all these years in SL.

I started this forum because I was pissed off at the Linden regime and how they were running their forum. I named it the SLOffworld Forum because I wanted to make sure no one could confuse it with being a part of SL. Because it deals mostly with the issues and people of Second Life. "Where the Lindens can't touch you" is just a built in bonus feature of not being associated with SL.

I did attend HippieStock and it was a wonderful event. I hope to attend it again next year if it comes to pass.

I read Simon Leominster's article in the Herald and think he did a good job on the piece. I've publically stated this in the thread on the SLO forum.

[brinda allen]

Damn! I was too stoned to get across the country (and broke) in the two days notice prior to Woodstock.... and now I missed it's replay here?
And to top it all off like @Darien I wasn't reported as not being involved!

I love it... great laff.
/me wonders how cold it is in some basements?