I’m not really qualified to talk about Second Life. I haven’t got my First Life avatar fully functioning correctly yet, so until I’m finished work on that I think taking on another one is premature.
I’m also not American, so US elections only hold the kind of interest for me that they do for everyone else… a passing concern that whoever gets in wields the kind of power that can destroy civilization as we know it.
I loved the news that Hillary Clinton is setting up to campaign in Second Life. I can’t wait to see her avatar. Will it be like her Annie Leibovitz pics and look about 10 years younger than her? Will she give herself bigger breasts and a pair of those come-to-me-daddy knee-length boots that seem kind of de rigueur in Second Life fashion circles?
I’m not sure it’s the first time Hillary has conquered a virtual world. I’ve always held out a conspiracy theory that she shares stylists with Geena Davis and that Commander In Chief could very well be a sneakily sponsored pre-play to get the American people used to the idea of seeing Hillary behind the presidential desk. I thought it was a pretty clever theory until I googled “Hillary Clinton Geena Davis” and realised 166,000 other people suspect the same thing.
Except of course for those who think that Commander In Chief is based on Condoleezza Rice.
Hillary isn’t going to get me to don my own sexy Second Life boots, but if some of the other candidates set up camp there I might well consider it. I think there’s an interesting evening to be spent having a virtual chat with the national chair and commanding general of the 1st Vampyre, Witches, Pagans Party Regiment (and national chair of Vampyres, Witches and Pagans Against Impaired Driving), Jonathon Albert “The Impaler” Sharkey.
Or an evening with Midnight Run/Alien/Brubaker actor Yaphet Kotto to learn a little more about his Vibration Politics platform seeking to bring harmony among all men and planets.
I think I’d even go to the effort for a drink with former professional Billy Sunday impersonator Gene Amondson of the Prohibition Party, who’s spent the past 20 years dressing up as the Grim Reaper with a whiskey bottle in one hand and a scythe in the other. Hey, it’s a virtual world, surely virtual drink doesn’t count.
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July 15, 2007 at 12:33 am
the long interview with padlurowncanoe is an interesting read ~ especially as it can be depressingly difficulat getting people to turn up to RL poltical events for all kinds of very mundane and excusable reasons. so overall i’m liking this movement a lot, and padl seems to be pretty sane and measured as she talks about it.