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Loose Chatting, 01 June 14, 2009
“It’s been a little over a month since I moved to Jeogeot, Hucka D. Quite a month of activity!”
Hucka D.:
It’s not going to slow down soon.
bb:
I think so, Hucka D. I need to switch to other projects.
Hucka D.:
Write what you need.
bb:
To the reader: this is now what I’ve figured out. Gypsy Purse was born on the Mãebaleia continent, but she moved to the Jeogeot continent when young. Her father was part of the Crabwoo project, maybe the founder. His name: Blue Feather Douglas (not to be confused with the Native American musician Douglas Blue Feather). He is a counterpart to the Blue Feather toy avatar who organized the Jonesborough community on TILE Creek. He is most likely the one who brought toy avatars to SL, don’t you think Hucka D.?
Hucka D.:
It’s your story.
bb:
Ok. Continuing, then. Gypsy Purse went to school with both Grassy and Hucka D. at Chilbo, but before the present one. They both wanted to win her hand. This rivalry actually created a huge pocket of history in the toy avatar world, where they became enemies for 500 years and caused The Wilderness Battle…
Hucka D.:
Gypsy caused it, but it was not her fault.*
bb:
The Wilderness battle was the last battle of the last war between toy avatars and SL avatars. This took place directly north of Jonesborough, and south of a place called New Hope, also on the TILE Creek. The elongation of this huge chunk of added history allowed, somehow, Gene Fade, the toy avatar sometimes known as the last mossman, to come to Chilbo and win the hand of Gypsy Purse. He moved into the house that Grassy formerly occupied, but they never lived together, did they Hucka D.?
[Hucka D. does not answer.]
bb:
To continue: Gypsy Purse perhaps convinced Gene Fade at least, that her father’s plans for Chilbo were unintentionally warped in some way, and would cause an atomic explosion.
Hucka D.:
The explosion did take place. It wiped Chilbo clean off the map.
bb:
Let me move to Maebaleia, then. Karoz was born on The Moon of that continent, and not in Chilbo. His mother was Gypsy Purse, perhaps still is. Gene Fade went to the The Moon with her, her refuge from her father’s continental dreams of Crabwoo, for he was from Crabwoo.
Hucka D.:
He founded it. By the Blue Feather Sea named after him, or *formed* after him.
bb:
But it was destined to be a cursed community. I know that the Korean Channel of Jeogeot factors in here, or what Karoz use to call the Inland Sea. It was formed as a giant “E”, with the Xilted sim the portal to the next dimensional letter of “T”. This movement from E to T is the same as the formation of The Moon of Maebaleia, which I now think Gypsy Purse formed by herself as a reaction to her father’s plans for Crabwoo.
Hucka D.:
Her father, Blue Feather Douglas, accented a direct conduit between what we now know as Second Life and Earth itself through the body of water named after him. [There] was a holodeck involved. Conduit.
bb:
That’s, then, what Gypsy Purse reacted against in forming her Moon.
Hucka D.:
She knew of the Moon to Earth, yeah.
bb:
Karoz didn’t grow up in Chilbo, or at least the Chilbo we know today from the Jeogeot continent. He grew up in Crabwoo.
Hucka D.:
Yes. But he came to Chilbo later. Now.
bb:
Gypsy Purse kept him on her Moon as a youth. But he escaped to unite with his grandfather, Blue Feather Douglas, in Crabwoo.
Hucka D.:
He reacted against him as well, but not at first.
bb:
Gene Fade, after the conception of Karoz on The Moon, left what we now see as the SL grid and back to Earth, specifically Frank Park, where the mossmen are traditionally associated with.
Hucka D.:
Correct. He left through The Arab, found on the Gel sim. Gelsomina. Powered by the Zeppelin tube. That’s important.
bb:
Made in Crabwoo, I assume.
Hucka D.:
*Taken* to Crabwoo.
bb:
Hmmm….
Hucka D.:
You need to speak about Cabron if you wish.
bb:
Cabron is where you were from, not the Victorian house much closer to present day Chilbo. That’s just a reflection. But both are on Route 10 (Cabron is considerably further away from Chilbo).
Hucka D.:
That is correct. I still live there (smiles).
bb:
That’s where you lived, with your father, when you went to school with both Grassy and Gypsy. (pause) I’m picking up something about a Sozzy Bozo, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
As you are picking up on, Karoz created the general shape of the Korean Channel, modelled around his “E”. You are just retroengineering what he already made. He made it in the Blue Feather Sea, see. To counteract the energy of Blue Feather Douglas and his Crabwoo. Gypsy’s father, and his grandfather. He opened a gallery in it, which existed in this underwater location.
bb:
The Blue Feather Gallery.
Hucka D.:
It stretched the imagination of his grandfather, who was solidly involved in Crabwoo — on a single track of mind by that time. He was involved in the holodeck of Earth. He believed that the Blue Feather Sea, likewise created by *him*, *was* the Earth. The continent was formed around this sea. And then it happened again.
bb:
Karoz formed the Jeogeot continent around the Korean Channel that he designed. Amazing.
Hucka D.:
It is only when Rubidoo is secured by Karoz that Grassy and I will be able to return. That’s what you wrote anyhow.
bb:
What’s the real story, then?
Hucka D.:
Gene Fade had a specific reason for entering virtual reality.
bb:
He wanted to create an avatar that could safely walk Granddaddy Mtn., as you said. Hmmm… grandfather again.
Hucka D.:
Karoz found Rubidoo in Crabwoo. The Bill. Bill-as-one. Ruuster. R110. That was the secret organization to establish the SL grid, and prevent the atomic explosion at Chilbo, or what we now know as Chilbo. I knew Bill as a child.
bb:
He lived next to you? — perhaps in that lighthouse?
Hucka D.:
Salty Bill. Yeah. Yes.
bb:
The sailor, as Gypsy is a, well, gypsy.
Hucka D.:
Bill is… (pause).
bb:
Here we go. Mossman? Gene Fade?
Hucka D.:
You now know what caused the rivalty between Grassy and I. Gene Fade stepped into the breach. He had a mission. Then he returned through The Arab in Gel, which is an interdimensional craft. Foreign One. 4 in 1. Finally Married. He had accomplished everything he could in virtual reality, and had to returned. He was not happy about the rapid aging here, where 8 1/2 years equal 1 year on Earth. He stayed 1 year, but never won back the lost 7 1/2 years. Grassy aged as well, but in his case it just accelerated his reincarnational cycles. He died several times while in virtual reality alone. It was quite traumatic the first time it happened, but then he just showed up again several weeks later. Back at school… back to his same desk even. I hated the bastard.
bb:
But now you are friends.
Hucka D.:
Oh yes. All that behind us.
bb:
Obviously all of this is clearing up a bit, but there’s the added complication of the time lines being mixed up.
Hucka D.:
Yes, the future is forming in the past and visa versa. Like the “E” Karoz found in the Blue Feather Sea but was actually created by him long ago.
bb:
It’s fascinating to me that the R110 group, whatever they turn out to be, seemed to have formed the Linden grid and not the Lindens themselves.
Hucka D.:
They merely found it.
bb:
Mossman, or Gene Fade, was not a Mossman when he impregnated Gypsy Purse, was he?
Hucka D.:
No. He was a sailor. The Arab. Foreign One.
bb:
Bill… right?
[Hucka D. does not answer.]
*****
* 11/10/09: Question: was Gypsy possibly a shape shifter? (appearing to Hucka D. as something like Hurla Dontbee, and to Grassy something like a female Mmmmmm? — quasi Pleasure GELF, then?)
Black Book, The June 7, 2009
A new group of toy avatars arrive in a spiffy sports goodmobile, complete with see-thru walls and neon colored trim. No plain, rusty ol’ cylinder for these trendmaker wannabes! Blue Feather and Tronboid are their names, but they also brought along, let’s see, their 5 pets: a snail, a bee, a butterfly, a beetle bug, and a flower. A flower? Blue Feather and Tronboid never travel without their beloved pets, partly because of fondness but also admittedly because they can do work that the master pair don’t wish to do themselves. Well, at least what Blue Feather doesn’t want to do, because he is the true master, and Tronboid merely a more simple minded travel companion. Tronboid truly loves the pets; Blue Feather sees them more as work slaves, as he sees Tronboid himself in that light sometimes. But Blue Feather would be the first to admit that it makes for one crowded ride.
They read about the the location of the camp in a recent article in Toy Avatar Digest. Amazing! they thought. We must visit this site in the legendary Salad Bar Jack in the River of TILE. The dark, mysterious Cave of the Alphabet with its haunting, nightly humming of a certain famous childhood mnemonic. The bridge over TILE Creek where Bill Fork slipped and fell to his untimely death. The tree where Screamer (played by Tommy “The Screamer” Benerson) died of fright in the middle of the night after hearing a deep growl in the surrounding woods. The mossy rock where Mossman was enjoying an afternoon nap in the sun when he first heard the singing of the cave. On and on and on it could go.
They set down in the middle of a clearing described in the article, and where the first goodmobile arrived in Jonesborough in the movie, carrying T-Bonz and his Mmmmmms. Sacred ground!
Blue Feather and Tronboid seal up the pets inside the flashy goodmobile and continue toward Oblong rock directly in front of them. They saw pictures of this large rock in the article, and read that the old camp the actors made during the shooting was located just behind it. They thought they’d start with that on their sightseeing tour of the area. But to get pass the rock they had to cross, nay, crawl across this slippery log-bridge. Of course they thought of Bill Fork and his deadly fall off a similar bridge in the same area. They crept very carefully, thus, but truth is that both Blue Feather and Tronboid, being much stockier and more solidly built avatars, would most likely not be harmed in such a fall, especially off this less high bridge here. But, then again, both were cowards at heart, especially Tronboid.
It looks like some of the camp remains! Not good woods cleanup management, admittedly, but both Blue Feather and Tronboid are very happy. But when they come closer, a shocking revelation…
… the colorful shapes they saw from the now safely traversed bridge are those of toy avatars themselves! Mind you, the first ones that Blue Feather and Tronboid ran across, including Snoppy and his bird friend Woodstock here, were merely hired hands in the movie. Covered with dirt and leaves, often half buried in the ground even, they appeared as if in suspended animation.
MORE TEXT SOON.
Seven Stones June 5, 2009
Seven Stones in Frank Park, near my home. A lot more than seven stones in the immediate area, but I’m mainly counting the larger ones in the meadow of the background, behind the large stone pictured here (not one of the seven?).
A view back to the same rock from the meadow. I believe I’m standing on one of the “authentic” 7 now while taking the shot.
A view down into the rather amazing bottom of the long meadow — not sure what kind of tree that is at the end (straight ahead here), but it’s quite beautiful in this setting. I’ll check on the type sometime.
Close up of some kind of caterpillar-like bluish creatures eating the locale vegetation. I mean, they are all over the place around the rocks here, and in the meadow as a whole. Again I admit stupidity over the names of the buggers (can you tell I’m not a naturalist?).
The batteries in my camera went dead, and instead of just throwing them away, or before doing such, thought I’d have a little fun with the now recharged camera and set the pair on some rust colored spots on one of the namesake rocks.
Strange thing now: the batteries, while sitting on these spots, apparently recharged themselves and created a current between them, perhaps of a supernatural nature. That’s my theory anyway.
I had left my sunglasses on one of the “seven” rocks just visited, and I noticed they were aimed directly at the batteries, although it was not a conscious intention.
I went back to the rock with the sunglasses to take some longer shots of the batteries — not moving the sunglasses in the meantime — when I looked down and saw that these two red Mmmmmm’s (toy avatars written about in other places on this blog) had just popped in from another dimension inside the space that the glasses made on the rock. An orange colored third also briefly appeared in front of them, staring the opposite way. But just for a second — I was lucky even to get him in the picture with the other two before the disappearance.
The red Mmmmmm’s then stood alone behind one dark lens apiece, and likewise aimed their collective stares directly toward the batteries, then sparkling brightly in the sun. It was then I noticed that the glasses were about the same length as the distance between the batteries on the other rock. I thought the two pairs had to be connected now.
Could that possibly also be Shakenstein lurking down in the weeds below the pair? Oh, I forgot. It’s just my insulated coffee cup I carried along with me to the rocks. Let’s not make this story any weirder than it already is!
Then as suddenly as they appeared, the red pair of Mmmmmm’s were gone. Just afterwards, the sun went behind a cloud and all became overcast. I think the materialization, among other things, was a warning that rain was on the way again. The RL wife, at the same time, was sitting in our house with the rain pouring outside, as I learned later.
But that was a rather minor point in comparison to the fact that I now knew Mmmmmm’s dwelt in Frank Park as well as neighboring Herman Park. And they had the ability to teleport as well. This put a new spin on the old story, and I wondered when they would show up again. I decided I had to check the Cave of the Alphabet as soon as possible. Were the other toy avatars still possibly there, even after a year hiatus of filming Salad Bar Jack in the River of TILE?? I might have some time on Saturday to check; it’s suppose to have cleared up by then.
Hopefully more from 7 Stones soon!
Loose Thoughts, Chatting?? June 4, 2009
“I’m going to skip the “loose thoughts” part for now, Hucka D., and just bring you on in, if you’re willing.”
Hucka D.:
Glad to be here tonight. We still have much to solve! Much to experience.
bb:
I still don’t know or don’t understand how toy avatar Gene Fade came into the SL reality to spawn Karoz, Hucka D. I still don’t know exactly where he lived in SL.
Hucka D.:
He lived in Chilbo. Chilbol.**
bb:
In Noru, then?
Hucka D.:
Yes.
bb:
On my property? Or perhaps Olando7’s property.
Hucka D.:
On your 1st parcel you rented, but the one most bordering Olando7’s own land, which he owns btw and does not rent.
bb:
Did he live in a slum apt. building?
Hucka D.:
He lived in the Victorian house that you have on Parcel 1 now (Hucka D. is indicating that the house occupied parcel 3 as described in this recent post).
bb:
He lived there with Grassy, though? I know you said Karoz’s mom was not around. She instead lived on The Moon of Jeogeot, at least for a time. How does all this work again?
Hucka D.:
Gene Fade lived with Grassy Knoll in this Victorian house next to Olando7’s lot. But of course Olando wasn’t around. Instead the neighbor was [delete name].
bb:
I don’t think that’s possible Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
Yes. (pause) In fact, I’ll tell you that there was a sort of fight over that parcel #3. Each involved party wanted to control the central parcel of the 9 at that northwest corner of Noru.
bb:
What year would this be again?
Hucka D.;
The years up to 2001. Feel it.
bb:
So they lived in the House of Truth?
Hucka D.:
*Yes.* Up to Ruuster… when he came on the scene with his R110 project.
bb:
Ruuster lured Karoz away from Gene and Grassy?
Hucka D.:
Yes. To Sansara.
bb:
To become a jeweler, I suppose. To make the Fuchia Diamond.
Hucka D.:
Hold on… it was not to Sansara.
bb:
Mãebaleia Continent?
Hucka D.:
Right. Good.
bb:
Around the Blue Feather region, I suppose.
Hucka D.:
The Bills, but Bills-as-one. (smiles)
bb:
Was Ruuster, before he became Ruuster attached to R110, just an ordinary farm chicken? Or rooster?
Hucka D.:
That would be correct.
bb:
How does… never mind, I suppose Karoz gets from Jeogeot to Mãebaleia via resonation. Korean Channel… Chilbo to Crabwoo and all.
Hucka D.:
Right. The Chilbo-Crabwoo connection. He had to see the other side in order to progress. Blue Feather is like the Moose Sea here.*
bb:
Did the water vary in size, then?
Hucka D.:
Precisely. Deposited him on the shore. Tile “l”, as Ruuster described it.
bb:
Oh? Does Ruuster then know about SID’s 1st Oz?
Hucka D.:
He did in 2002. The years 2001-2002 represent Karoz’s time in Mãebaleia on or near Ruuster’s land there. A switch was made. Another continent exchange. Crabwoo only became Crabwoo in 2002. (pause)
bb:
Was Karoz shown SID’s 1st Oz?
Hucka D.:
Karoz *was* SID’s 1st Oz. He was the code. He was the alpha then the beta.
bb:
And these transition points (from Chilbol to Crabwoo) took place at the same time as the 2 crop circles in England? (in Chilbolton, 2001, and Crabwood, 2002)
Hucka D.:
I could not explain this, you see, until you knew about Crabwoo and The Bills there. You had to know that The Bills are really just Bill, singular, and that Bill is Ruuster.
bb:
An abstract thought: why is Mickey Mouse not The Mouse anymore?
Hucka D. (smiling):
Exchange, again. Both continue but it is understood that The Mouse is someone else now. Spider.
bb:
Doesn’t this deflate the importance of SID’s 1st Oz?
Hucka D.:
You need to start thinking about Bill Hill, Lyme. How a mountain becomes a hill. How [delete name] enters and takes over the United States (synchronicities) from, well, you. [Delete name] was Karoz’s neighbor for a reason.
bb:
So I’m picking up that everything really stopped, in the virtual reality, at the Deadly Desert and did not progress to Oz.
Hucka D.:
Time was frozen there, yeah.
bb:
Was Mãebaleia a desert at the time, then?
Hucka D.:
*Yes.*
bb:
Can you continue further?
Hucka D.:
Hurry.
bb:
What is R110, then?
Hucka D.:
It was a group Ruuster was involved in to quelch the start of the Linden grid during the 2001-2002 period. Karoz was recruited by Ruuster for this purpose.
bb:
Is Ruuster…
Hucka D. (continued):
Ruuster called Karoz Don for the first time. Kept talking about a bluebird. Blue Feather. Curses and purses. He knew what he was doing. He knew that the appearance of the Blue Feather, frozen in time as it was, was the beginning. He had to go after Karoz for he knew that Karoz needed to be a part of the fix as well.
bb:
I assume R110 failed, because the Linden grid is around.
Hucka D.:
No, the Linden grid is how it is because of R110.
(to be continued?)
* the Moose Sea is a body of water in Mythos that varied in area from about the size of the Black Sea to the size of the Arctic Ocean.
** Well… I think it’s obvious that I need to understand the more the thoughts of *actual* founder of Chilbo, Fleep Tuque a little better. Check here (yeah, that’s the same parrot I’ve been talking about recently on this blog), and here (yes, there’s a giant chicken and a cow together in the background (the subject matter of the last 3 pictures in the House of Truth), as well as a split path of rocks).
Over The Top, 6 May 14, 2009
Rented another 1024 in Noru, and have inserted another tower like the one that *use* to be in Hibdon. Yeah, I’ve already deleted it [the Hibdon version] — decided that the Noru tower is more aesthetically pleasing. The differences: Noru tower is perhaps a more manageable 10 stories as opposed to the 12 stories of the Hibdon version. The color scheme on the side remains the same (the TILE colors of red, green, blue and yellow), but for the new one I decided to rotate each successive module 90 degrees clockwise in relationship to the one immediately below it, working up from bottom to top. Since there are 5 modules (each 2 stories apiece), then the 5th module returns us to the position of the first.
As I said before, the “Where are we on that?” space is already set up in Noru, right next to some other Arcadia Asylum builds, most prominently her Bodega Supermarket. Very nifty, and the obvious inspiration for erecting the modified slum apts. there with the “Where are we on that?” exhibit inside. Now for the towers on the 2nd 1024 I just rented today: what to put in it? I think it will be more blog pictures, and as I’ve also said, I’m gathering ideas almost as we speak. Hopefully it will work out. Like the “Where…?” exhibit, I’d like to spotlight some collages of the 10×10 (4 highlighted in the “Where…?” exhibit), pointed to through the blog pics. Can I pull this off? Most likely I can. But shouldn’t the 10×10 be in the same location? (I ask myself). Logically: yes. So I may create a duplicate of the Edwardston Station Gallery there.
And it saddens me but I did receive the intuitive hunch that the Hibdon property may be the next to go. Instead of the Healy rentals. So I may keep the ESG in Healy, and set up the next exhibit in July in the Chro gallery. Maybe after that I can put some chromagraphic work there, even, making it live up to its name. I suppose I should hold onto Healy; write Kelly now and then.
Which segues into the next Hucka D./Karoz Blogger installment I might think. “Hucka D., want to talk about Kelley, with an “e”?– not Kelly Yap.”
Hucka D.:
Kelley the “Bee Man” was my father, baker b. He lived on the outskirts of Chilbo, in that house I indicated to you before and which you provided pictures of in your blog. He was a banker but more than that. He came from Kentucky. He knew Arthur.
bb:
And you said you sneaked in a picture of him in this blog already. But there he’s called a “long lost cousin”.
Hucka D.:
You put that title to it, not me.
bb:
Is he still, then, from Mammoth Cave?
Hucka D.:
Yes, we moved from Kentucky to Jeogeot when I was small. My father had the opportunity to set up a community on that continent and he jumped on it. He was the chief financier. This was Chilbo, but as [Karoz] is painfully finding out, it is not the present version of that city. It is the one with the toy avatars, instead, like Gene Fade and Grassy Knoll.
bb:
And now you’re indicating to me that you lived with Gene and Grassy on the north side of town, very near where the new galleries have been installed in Noru.
Hucka D.:
Yes, very near, we’ll say. Very.
bb:
But you grew up on the east side of town. So you knew Karoz, at least when he was a kid.
Hucka D.:
A good kid he was, too. I was kind of Uncle Doobie to him. That’s what he started calling me.
bb:
What was the relationship, then, of you and Grassy in the greater Chilbo metropolitan area, Hucka D.?
Hucka D.:
We were, ahem…
bb:
Yes?
Hucka D.:
Let’s not quite go into that now, but just say that when I was a teenager I moved away from my father’s house and in with Gene and Grassy. Arrangements were made.
bb:
You were the same age as Grassy?
Hucka D.:
Yeah, about.
bb:
I wonder if Grassy can answer some of my questions about this?
Hucka D.:
He probably can’t remember. His memories are pretty much wiped clean each rebirth. He died and was reborn, oh, probably 3 times while in Second Life alone. Gene Fade even aged a bit there. They are the fast spinning redbird and flightless chocobo, you know. Flight equals life energy. Gene’s burns very low and Grassy’s very fast. He spins through life after life very rapidly; it is Gene that acts as a constant in the relationship. They need each other.
bb:
So it was into this home environment that Karoz was born.
Hucka D.:
Karoz was born on The Moon, though.
bb:
Of Jeogeot, though.
Hucka D.:
Yes. Right where the Moon Base is now.* More reconstruction, you see, of the grid that actually came before the Linden one. The Ancients, again. Urtahra.
bb:
Did the Great Erase wipe out the original Chilbo, then, along with the original Moon?
Hucka D.:
Yes. Atomic bomb. Time shift. Probabilities.
bb:
Hmmmmm….
Hucka D.:
Yes. Hmmmmm….
bb:
Tell us more about your own mother, Hucka.
Hucka D.:
She was a queen. She died when I was quite young. Kelley, my father, struggled on.
bb:
I wonder if she would approve of Hurla Dontbee, Hucka.
Hucka D.:
Probably not.
bb:
So your father… he was a man before becoming a bee?
Hucka D.:
I can say yes here.
bb:
And he was from the Mammoth Cave area.
Hucka D.:
Correct. He was the one who taught me a bit about making beehives, beginning with the Cub hive. It was a good Run for our family, wasn’t it? In our early days.
bb:
You’re talking about your new family here. Blinks and I. And now Wilsonia and Karoz.
Hucka D.:
I need to speak to Karoz inworld soon.
bb:
Is Mammoth Cave itself a massive beehive?
Hucka D.:
Yes. Ubertemple-ish. But more.
bb:
Did your father Kelley see the original Chilbo as a hive?
Hucka D.:
Yes!
bb:
And your father was a massive Cubs fan as well, right?
Hucka D.:
Yes. That’s something he couldn’t give up when turning into a bee and entering Second Life (SL) on the second continent, for that’s what he called it. He didn’t recognize The Atoll as the second, merely an extension of the first. To him, that would be an error in your blog, then. And errors lose games.
bb:
He followed the Cubs still in SL?
Hucka D.:
Yes. He kept his subscription to the Chicago Tribune while here… there.
bb:
And as I understand he had a special tv set up where he could watch the Cubs games every night.
Hucka D.:
Yeah, Harry Caray. He loved that man as much as any player on the team.**
bb:
Can you explain the Mammoth Cave map synchronicities, then?
Hucka D.:
It’s mostly SL related. The energy is from there. Jetson, for example. Tronesis, for example. Broadway. Peewee… ooops!
bb:
Yeah… ooops.
Hucka D.:
Kelley, my father, saw an opportunity to take SL from a rural environment to an *urban* one through the original Chilbo. He saw it as a hive, yes. Bee Arthur.
bb:
Bee Arthur? Maude?
Hucka D.:
Rural to urban.
bb:
Organized, then, I suppose. Lined up in one cause. Like bees. Like you.
Hucka D.:
Hive.
bb:
Is Kelley the Bee Man just an avatar?
Hucka D.:
Er, yes. But like me my father was in SL all the time. He never left once entered. Until he decided to go back to Real Life… First Life. It was not too long after the death of my mother, although time is not the same in SL as it is for you, baker b. But he started Chilbo.
bb:
The original one.
Hucka D.:
It was called…
bb (finishing Hucka D.’s sentence):
Hucka D.:
Exactly. Chilbolton. My father left in 2001 according to your time. That would be the year of Kansas City Life as well. Ernie Banks. Just Call Me.
bb;
Is this a picture of Karoz’s mother?
Hucka D.:
Yes.
bb:
And the different DNA?
Hucka D.:
The Moon of the second continent is the key. The original Chilboltans left that way.
bb:
Did your father leave that way?
Hucka D.:
Yes.
bb:
Did your father, then, know Karoz’s alien mother?
Hucka D.:
Yes.
bb:
Care to give any details?
[Hucka D. does not answer.]
bb:
OK, so can I assume that Chilbolton was already gone when you moved in with Gene Fade and Grassy. Karoz was a youth?
Hucka D.:
2001. Lemon. Labs. Twinned. Lemon-lime. Sprite. Tyrone. Azure.
bb:
Karoz was told as a youth that he was from The Moon, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
Grassy and I… (pause)
bb:
Yes? (pause) Hucka D.? (pause)
Suppose that’s it again.
*****
“Hucka D., I don’t know if you can hear me still, but I did have some additional insights into the Moon thing. I think it’s somehow connected to the Missing Piece and the 37th marble of the Madagascar game of solitaire that you remove to begin the game proper. This is the missing piece, the 37th. Karoz’s Fuchsia Diamond in the rough contained, as it turned out, 36 prims, Hucka D. Karoz must have known about this Missing Piece, then, in some way. It’s connected to The Moon (of Jeogeot) and the Moon viruses Baker Blinker expelled onto the healing Okinu glyphs. Uniko. Uniko must be a key, Hucka. Hucka?”
*****
* It’s interesting to me that the next created continent, Mãebaleia, also can be said to have its own Moon, but off its southern tip in that case. And it is from this *very same moon* (the sim called The Moon) that the gypsy purse found at Otherland island was from. Too queer! Must be a connection between Mmmmmm thespian Gypsy Purse, since Grassy Knoll is involved in both tangles of information.
** Hucka D. later indicated to me that there was one exception to this: his father loved Ernie Banks above all others, even his mother and Hucka D., he suspected. He knew his father was then actually behind the Just Call Me Ernie Banks gallery in Cub, and the first beehive Hucka D. built directly above this space, then moved to Azure Islands.
Brief Thoughts, Chatting (?) May 13, 2009
I’ve now duplicated the “Where are we on that?” gallery exhibit — yet again! — in another location, this time in Noru of the southern continent or what’s called Jeogeot, if I haven’t made that clear. Rented a 1024 near a mall on the edge of infohub territory and almost immediately set up my standard Victorian house, like I do about every 1024 or greater rental I’ve had so far. But I knew it wouldn’t last long, and so today, w/ some spare time to kill, I just went ahead and created the new gallery with the “Where are we on that?” pictures. Now I’m thinking the Hibdon tower will hold something different… new set of pictures from the blog (which I’m working on now). I don’t know if it will be titled “Mysteries of Sansara/Atoll continent”, but I’ve got some rough ideas already.
Now for Healy. Think I’ll go ahead and make a gradual pull-out there. I believe that most visitors to the galleries I now own (if not the land they’re on!) come in through the blog or other rl tie-ins, such as this nice review Nish gave me on her site. And nothing against the building itself, but I’ve never really grown that fond of my artwalk space in Healy… colors, so on, are not exactly what I need. Maybe for someone else they’d be perfect. I’m sure that’s why I inserted the whole slum apt. thing into the center of the Chro gallery, just to change the space and environment. Well, I think it works better as a stand alone, or with galleries perhaps around it but not attached to it. And another big thing: I like a bit of landscaping around the gallery. I’m big on plants. I don’t have that, really, in Healy, or it’s not my choice of landscaping, especially around the big Edwardston Station Gallery cube, which should really be a sky box and not sitting on the “ground” as it is there. It was a nice experiment. I’ll probably move the ESG within 2 weeks, and dissolve the Healy version of the Chro gallery within the month. Time to move on. I *will* be keeping all the Hibdon property (2564) and the gallery space there, but only the Gallery at the Temple of TILE is organized in that location. I haven’t decided what to put in the new Hibdon tower directly underneath it… not “Where are we on that?” now, which is basically already set up there. No, something different, maybe this new blog picture project I’m trying to sketch out.
So much more is going on now! Karoz is alive and kicking and running around Jeogeot and his supposed *old stomping grounds*. He now has a new home in Noru (I’ve set his home to there). To remind, Hucka D. says that Karoz is actually from the Chilbo neighborhood originally, and that his parents had a home on its outskirts, perhaps very near the same spot I decided to build my new gallery space (photos soon on that). But more surprises: I’m picking up that Hucka Doobie will say *Gene Fade*, perhaps the last living mossman, was Karoz’s father. I suppose that makes sense, given Karoz is a mossman himself (his facial and body texture is actually “moss”). Yes, what I’m implying is that Gene Fade has already lived and worked in Second Life, although I don’t believe he still exists there. And also I’m picking up that the most famous of all Mmmmmm’s, Grassy Knoll, was there with him in Chilbo, or at least the outskirts (!). They were “partners”; they, together, raised Karoz. But Grassy is not the mom — he’s a man, make no mistake about that. The mother of Karoz is instead an alien (avatar?), perhaps even much like, or, dare I say it, the *same* as one I took a picture of on the Moon Base of Jeogeot??? And, curiously, that’s the only picture I had in this blog from this continent until very recently, and I just grazed the subject of the Moon Base at the time. Naturally, now that he’s been resurrected, Karoz understandably wants to go see this alien, which *may* be the same as his mother, or at least from the same species.
But that’s not all. *Hucka D. himself* is going to claim he was from Chilbo, and lived there around the same time as Gene Fade and Grassy. I already have pictures of his supposed or alleged house. He claims his father was a banker, and his mother invented Windlight (I don’t think so), so he was raised as a rich, spoiled brat. How this fits in with his past as Charles Nelson Blinkerton I haven’t a clue. But the important fact is that he knew Gene Fade and Grassy and Karoz through Second Life, and that the toy avatars actually use to live there, but, again according to him, exclusively on the southern continent and not, say, Sansara or the Atoll continent.
Obviously I’ll have more to say about all this soon. Stay tuned!
Notherton January 24, 2009
The famous red patch on the Jupiter Rock first mentioned in this post. This is in the general location where Mossman actor Gene Fade was born and raised before his move to nearby Notherton, once a city of some importance to the Mossman culture.
Some pictures, then, of the what could be called the Notherton “ruins”. I let Gene explain (in my head no less!) what all this was about.
The picture below is of what remains of the center of this “city”, explains Gene Fade, a complex of what he called open floor buildings, somewhat in the style of the Gallery at the Temple of TILE. Interesting comparison. He says upon further reflection that, yes, the buildings would make up, in toto, about the same amount of space as the old Ubertemple on Azure Islands.
Also in this old central region of Notherton are a considerable number of these ridged metal slices. Fade explains they are material for aerial walkways, now in disrepair. I didn’t ask Gene at the time, but I wondered, then, why many of them appeared to be grouped in piles, as if someone had organized the slices in the meantime.
This is what I’m calling the “Lost Jar”, referring to the fact that when I first stumbled upon the location of Notherton, I, baker b., found this particular jar and became fascinated by the inner microcosm of plants. However, upon setting it aside and looking around the immediate area some more, I was then unable to relocate where I had placed it. I looked and looked and looked: no luck. Yet when I returned there just today to take pictures, there it was on the ground in an obvious walking spot, plain as day.
I may have more to say about “Lost Jar”, the microcosm, in the near future.
More artifacts from the Notherton ruins.
Then a short distance away through the woods, I found this quite queer group of 5 trees, arranged in almost a perfect pentagonal pattern. Gene Fade explained to me that, indeed, within and between these carefully shaped and sized trees use to be a huge — to them — treehouse structure composed as well of a number of open floors, as was the general style of Mossman builds. Fade also explains to me that this would kind of be the equivalent to what we call a suburban mall, on the outskirts of Notherton and a popular shopping destination. In fact, Fade admitted to me that he had a cap outlet on the second level of this building.*
A look up from the ground through the center of the 5 trees, and where Fade claims the pentagonal treehouse mall use to be positioned.
* Also in the earlier post, Gene Fade explains that he use to own a business he called a cappery, which produced what we might call baseball-type caps
Loose Thoughts, Chatting… January 11, 2009
Before I bring in whoever wants to be brought in tonight, thought I’d talk for a minute about Gene Fade, perhaps the last Mossman living in our dimension. I believe I’ve found out more about Mr. Fade, including where he was born and where he spent part of his mature life, at least the early years. He was born on or around Jupiter Rock in Frank Park, a small jut containing a large red patch of mineral on its side, like Jupiter has its Big Red Spot. Fade, in my discussions with him today, says the rock was named after the planet because of this. He also states that he owned a successful business in Notherton, not too far away (to the se). He first said it was a hattery, then quickly corrected himself, saying it was more of a cappery, since they sold what we might consider a variation of a baseball cap. I asked him if Mossmen played baseball and he said they played a version of it, but home runs are much more common, like every other plate appearance by a batter. He also said they played with 9 bases instead of 4. The more he thought about it the more he realized it was not much like our baseball at all. But he said that’s the closest comparison he can think of. Fade continues to say that he gave up his successful business to become an artist at midlife. He also began to explore and wander, especially the interior of Frank Park and RIVER. He also informed me during our conversation that Frank Park came before Herman Park, and that the latter was formed out of the former. He said he bet I didn’t know that, and I admitted to him that I didn’t. We’ll go into ramifications of all this soon.
I suppose we should move into the whole new land/new shack/new skybox thing. Well, not much to be said yet, except it’s a *perfect* place for a fishing shack. Great view, nice land. Now I have to make a decision whether to keep it long run, or give it up in favor of the AI property. I don’t think a shift of the Ubertemple in its present form would be possible. My thinking is that I’ll eventually have to sell the property, if I want to keep the Ubertemple in SL. But I’ve certainly been wrong before in my guessing. Again and again and again. It should be fun, whatever happens. Blog fodder, you know.
“Let’s bring in Hucka D. now. Hucka?”
Hucka D.:
What nice land baker b. I envy you. But of course, I’ll live there too, ha ha.
bb:
Very close to Hurla Dontbee. Are you sure you’re comfortable about that?
Hucka D. (clearing throat):
Hey, don’t worry about that.
bb:
I want to ask about Bee’s Nest Mountain more, but perhaps not tonight. Let’s talk about this Wheeler Island/Planet instead, one of the reasons I bought the land. Unless you have something else you want to chat about…
Hucka D.:
All’s I can say is: keep going there. Measurements are important.
bb:
I’m not really tempted to put something way up in the air now, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
And that’s important in itself. Good enough reason to buy the land there, setting aside money issues.
bb:
What about [delete name], the alien hunter?
Hucka D.:
He has accomplished his mission. To get you to that planet/island. And, a bit, to bring you to Otherland.
bb:
I think I’m going to start at the se corner of Otherland and begin exploring the islands one by one, in a logical fashion. Avoiding that nudie beach I know will pop up shortly after starting the…
Hucka D.:
We must talk of Wheeler more now.
bb:
Should we bring him in again?
Hucka D.:
Errrrr, yeah, why not.
Wheeler:
Hi again baker b. Nice night tonight, isn’t it?
bb:
Sure. Hi to you too. Thanks for showing up. (pause) Do you have any information about, well, this Otherland, Azure Islands, Mainlands triangle I’ve formed now?
Wheeler:
Mainlands is gone. See ya. Azure Island: Hello!. But then… Otherland. Paradise potentially. Better than Azure Islands. But Ubertemple on AI. What to do? You take the easy way out, he he, and have land on both places. You have your cake and eat it too presently. But you must choose eventually. Which way to go away from the mainlands? There’s always been that dichotomy in your stays on Azure Islands. You just didn’t realize it until now, or it remained [largely] latent. You have to be on the largest island of each, the one closest to a continent. Small islands do not necessarily appeal to you, even those of several sims. It has to be big and diverse enough to hold your interest. So the spots you pick in each estate landship are similar. Now you must weigh. Now I have my druthers on this, but I don’t have to live there, work there. Not really, anyway.
bb:
Are you an avatar in SL, Wheeler?
Wheeler:
No. Not yet.
bb:
Will you be?
Wheeler:
That depends on you, really.
bb:
Can you talk about RS7 tonight, if I just use the acronym?
Wheeler:
Um… a little. (pause) This is what Hucka D. is worried about.
bb:
Hold on…
*****
bb:
Yeah, it’s probably too early for that.
Wheeler:
And dangerous! (pause) Hey baker, enjoy your house!
Hucka D. (quickly coming in):
Fascinating person, isn’t he? So much help already for us.
bb:
I suppose that’s it for tonight.
Hucka D.:
Suppose. We’ll see.
bb:
Thank you.
Loose Thoughts… November 22, 2008
Strange… logged into my blog and found out I now have a total of 444 posts and 222 comments. Probably means something.
Maybe something about Ozmo.
Hucka D., are you there?
Hucka D.:
I am. Ozmo is here as well.
bb:
Baker Bloch?
Hucka D.:
No. Someone new.
bb:
Before we get into that, Hucka, actually just let me summarize my feelings at this point about the blog, galleries, Nautilus City, and so on.
Hucka D.:
Go right ahead.
bb:
So reader, I’m really pleased with progress on this blog, the galleries, and Nautilus City explorations, although I consider all a work in progress. I really like the new tunnels of the gallery… now they’re lighted, btw, and I also lined up the pieces of pipe better with each other. Or I should say Hucka D. did, since he owns them. Whatever happens with the gallery I don’t think I’m going to give up those pipes, and that probably means the intertwined Arab will stick around (note: make The Arab a blog tag). But I have no plans to get rid of the Rubi gallery now (Gallery at the Temple of TILE). In fact, I’ve made an impromptu website on the subject through liberal use of tag/category “Gallery at the Temple of TILE”. Check it out here.
http://bakerblinker.wordpress.com/category/gallery-at-the-temple-of-tile/
I also noticed in passing through that SL gallery list owner Sasun Steinbeck has an interview published on the front page from Crashnews, an Italian news show. Looks like some very interesting information and historical notes, and I’ll check it out this weekend. Dropping the link in here.
http://sl-artgalleries.blogspot.com/
And also if you haven’t seen the kiosk map she cooked up it’s quite nifty! I use it pretty often for gallery hopping purposes.
Getting back to that interview, that’s the kind of thing I’d like to do with several people/avatars I’ve met in Second Life: record their history and memories of SL, how they got interested in the virtual world in the first place, how they’ve developed in that world, and where they want to go with it.
(it’s Nov. 22, 2008 as well, 11/22)
(I wonder if Ozmo is here just through these number synchronicities?)
Anyway, back to the review. So I’m thinking of first interviewing Edna Blinker, the avatar of the RL wife. Now Edna has little inworld experience, but her art (photography) is what the Gallery at the Temple of TILE revolves around. So we probably have a lot to talk about in that respect.
Then — an idea — she could interview me, in turn (?)
Then moving out from that center I would like, at some point, to interview Headburro Antfarm, who, perhaps strangely, most definitely by fate, has been my friend since almost the beginning of my SL experiences this past winter. We connected at first through the Forest of Kahruvel owned by the legendary Salazar Jack (who I *might* have met *once*). It’s not like I see HBA every day. In fact, we’ve only met in SL a handful of times. I think we connect more through our blogs, and we’ve also developed a rapport outside of SL via email, which I think is important to do to really get to know someone. Interacting solely within SL, fixing a certain personality to a certain avatar and then interacting with other such “fixed” personalities, is not a primary focus for me.
And this would go for another important contact of mine in SL, who I’ve known for a considerably longer time, even. I’ll withhold her name for privacy purposes but I think that she’s obviously a candidate for the interview process I’m thinking of. Our connection is through “synchronicity” and all that entails. I was very pleased that this friend became interested in exploring SL this past summer and extending her RL interest in synchronicity into that realm. And we now own property in the same sim, even.
Other friends I’ve met (again, I don’t really see their avatars that often — at all — but I still consider them important contacts for sure), well I won’t give out their names, but 2 of them also “live” quite close to me in Rubi, and another was my landlord when I first moved the Edwardston Station Gallery back to the mainlands (Atoll continent, where I still am).
In comparison with some, and HBA would be an obvious one to point out here, I don’t do a lot of socializing in SL. Again, that’s not a focus. My two primary interests are building and exploration.* Also my SL experiences, as I’ve described it to yet another friend (forgot about him — will get to that in a minute, then), are very blog driven. Or it could be said that my SL experiences and blog post creations are two sides of one overarching experience, one not more important than the other. The blog, though, really goes beyond SL into other fields such as RL photography now, which I had little interest in until I started taking snapshots in SL. My interest in RL photography stems directly, then, from SL photography. I use the former mainly to develop another “virtual reality” I’ve concocted having to do with “toy avatars”, such as Salad Bar Jack (and the Mmmmmm’s), T-Bonz, and Gene Fade (and the Mossmen). Although I haven’t given the toy avatars as much press as the SL avatars (Baker Bloch, Baker Blinker, Hucka D., Esbum), I’m not so sure that they aren’t just as important.
So that’s a quick summary of where I am with the blog and the SL contacts. I am very happy with the contacts I’ve made and which continue, although I choose not to do a lot of inworld socializing.
Let’s bring in Hucka D. now… Hucka?
Hucka D.:
Good to get that out of your system, baker b. Well done.
bb:
I didn’t mention our many talks in the outline, starting way back with my phone calls to the desert and Charles Nelson Blinkerton, while he was still living.
Hucka D.:
He still lives.
bb:
Also interesting is possible ties between toy avatars and SL avatars, and I specifically think of what you’ve deemed as a friendship with Salad Bar Jack, the famous green Mmmmmm of shows and movies. You said you knew him through a Yahoo board.
Hucka D.:
Well, it’s not SBJ but Grassy Noll. He’s a good friend. He’s good at playing two roles in one film. Most famously as Salad Bar Jack — you even confused the two and you created them! He’s like Gilligan/Bob Denver, then — stereotyped. Like Miss Jane or Mary Anne also from Gilligan’s Island. Or Gary Coleman. And so on. You were a black child star at one time, weren’t you? You know the pitfalls.
bb:
I also played Little Ritchie Cunningham on the Dick van Dyke Show.
Hucka D.:
Har har. But back to Grassy, yeah we hung out in the real world for a while. Arkansas mainly, at that campground near Gilbert.
bb:
I’m still not understanding how you met and interacted in the real world, my real world I mean. So you got to know Grassy through that Yahoo board?
Hucka D.:
Well… yeah I think. We found out that we were old enemies, but we’ve buried the hatchet… sort of.
bb:
This has something to do with The Wilderness and the Battle thereof.
Hucka D.:
Yes. The Wilderness between New Hope and Jonesborough on the TILE Creek. That’s where our, ahem, direct ancestors met on the battlefield. And that was the last battle of the last war ever held in the toy avatar realm. War ended at that point. We just have to remember that fact and we get along famously.
bb:
But there’s still some underlying tension at times.
Hucka D.:
Yeah. And it’s come up in the Arkansas-Missouri debate. We should review that whole tension again, because you are directly involved. And [delete name].
*****
bb:
Doing some proofreading Hucka D. Please continue.
Hucka D.:
You and [delete name] are directly involved. In that battle, in that tension, in that war.
bb:
Hucka D, are you talking about reincarnation here? As in you and Grassy have interacted in the past — in this battle — through different bodies. Same soul, different body.
Hucka D.:
In a word: yes.
bb:
When did this battle take place?
Hucka D.:
1525? [he answers this like a question]
bb:
Were you both the leaders of your militias?
Hucka D.:
Yes.
bb:
Was this, though, just in a movie?
Hucka D.:
No. But it could be a movie if you want it to be.
bb;
So I think I remember that your army, your militia, was stationed somehow in New Hope, which is to the north of The Wilderness, as you’re calling it. And Grassy’s men were in Jonesborough [to the south]. Is this, then, a dividing line between toy avatars and SL avatars who have made some kind of transition to the RL?
Hucka D.:
Good question. The portal system set up by the Mossmen is on The RIVER. They are very old. Mmmmmm’s live much shorter lives. Grassy is only old as an acrument of lives, then. He remembers other lives. That’s how we became friends. The board we first interacted on was called… was called…
bb:
“I See Dead People”?
Hucka D.:
It was at the old Azure Islands house. When I first started using the laptop in the basement room you created for me. About the time I started hanging at Afar. The pools. That’s also when I was watching Tronesis almost nightly. I was thinking about robots a lot. Turning into one. Then I realized that I am Tik-tok from SID’s 1st Oz, the first robot of literature, some say. Tik-tok is directly associated with a bee — The Bee — in that synchronicity.
bb:
We’re getting a bit off the subject…
Hucka D.:
Tik-tok is the “y”, you see. When wound up. He’s the world clock. He’s the ground of it all. No more red-green-blue up-in-the-airyness. Mt. Airy.
bb:
Mt. Airy?
Hucka D.:
Let’s end here.
bb:
Thank you.
* by “building” here I mean mostly collaging together stuff that other people have built, like master builder Arcadia Asylum. Safe to say that if I didn’t run across AA and all the free stuff she’s offered up to this Virtual Reality, my own creative structure collaging would have come to a halt sometime during my Azure Island period
