Today while reading the feed, I noticed someone blogging a hair that was not well made. The texture didn’t line up at all and the prim construction was terrible.

I made a Plurk about it by posting the picture on the feed along with the caption “should not be making hair” and someone pasted this to said designer.

I am actually pretty shocked the designer of that hair decided to IM me in-world with this response, even though my timeline is not available to her and it is not public.

[14:04] T******* F******: i look forward to seeing you make something , finally.

I am not a designer, I am a shopper. Does this make my opinion less valid? Am I not allowed to comment on something when I think it is terrible?

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Events this week

8:30AM Friday meeting at the Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater
Join us this FRIDAY AM for fun sharing on the web and with heat maps as we connect great organizations at http://bit.ly/nonprofitcommons

Last week at the NPC:

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Guest Stylist Callie Oh makes beautiful music with her styling of this gorgeous outfit. I asked to send me notes for  this blog post and this is what she wrote: “I am not a blogger nor a stylist, but I do love to wander the smaller shops looking for that something special I haven’t seen before and piecing together a look bit by bit. I found this dress at  dp yum yum, added my Mandala pearls and Maitreya shoes and immediately felt like doing the Charleston all around the mall, well if it weren’t for lag I would have!”

Since her outfit made her feel the music – it seems so perfect that I decided to shoot the pictures at Cadenza.

Here you can see how beautifully coordinated the outfit style is – the socks a bold and stylish move.

The Maitreya shoes are so elegant and the details such as the little string laces are perfect.

Callie sat down at the Cadenza piano for a few shots. I like this one that shows of her gorgeous necklace and hair style.

This skin from League is incandescent and a beautiful choice.

If you would like to be a guest stylist, ...

An Emerald Viewer gets into a cab. The cab driver says "Where to, buddy?" and the Emerald Viewer says "Once around the block, please."

As I'm sure you all know by now, as it's the hot topic even in my rental group .... well a hot topic in my rental group means three people talking in group chat, but I digress, Emerald will be blocked from tomorrow, as announced here.

However, as some of you may know, Linden Lab has a new VP of marketing in the shapely form of Kim Linden, as announced here.

Now the big question, is the delay in blocking Emerald due to the guys at the lab trying to see if they can get Kim's boobs to jiggle on Emerald, because when I first saw that avatar photo on the blog post, that's what I thought of ....I'll ask Blondin for inside info, he never gives me any, but I'll ask anyway. I tried to get him to leak photos of the top secret nuclear bunker known as Lindenwold, but he was like one of the untouchables and wouldn't leak a thing.

However on a serious note, a few people have been talking of Kim's background with a gaming company, as she came from Activision Blizzard, unfortunately she doesn't seem to have much to do with WoW so my wish for being able to use curse of agony on those who annoy me will have to stay firmly on the wishlist.
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Shag – Let Me Kiss You | These Things | Breathe Me (Platinum)

Shag hair launched last year at hair fair, so it’s really great to see that they’re back again this year with even more hairstyles. I really like the Breathe Me style and the fedora hat on the These Things style. The fedora is scripted to change the Band and Hat 5 different colors.

Visit Shag @ Hair Fair

These pictures were taken with shadows enabled but I’m having such a hard time with that lately. It’s so erratic, sometimes I can do it, and sometimes I can’t

Remember the Mother Goose skins I mentioned a few posts ago? The lure of the fatpack is too strong so I ended up giving away the single I bought to a friend (the skin is sold no copy, transfer) and getting a fatpack! Yay!

This skin is not as realistic as what I normally wear, so I don’t know why I like it so much, but I do!

I am wearing the Fishy Strawberry Tube Dress and Waist Belt in this post, but there’s so much newness and colors available, I’ll have to do a separate blog post.

What I’m ...

[Kasandra Rage got in touch with me through a friend of mine because she wants to be a Second Life model. Always willing to help out where I can, I accepted her application for Post 6 and am thrilled to present to you the lovely, talented and eager supermodel-to-be, Kasandra Rage. If you are a designer or photographer or anyone in need of models for print or runway, please accept this as a ringing endorsement of her abilities and the highest possible recommendation of a very professional woman.~Timothy Morpork]

Hi Everyone! It’s a real thrill to be here on the pages of Post 6!

Growing up, I always wanted to be a model in real life, but as the years rolled past and life got in the way of dreams, I moved on and packed up that dream with all the rest of the childhood. Then this summer I joined Second Life. One of the first people I met here was a model for Post 6, she introduced me to Timothy and boing! My dream of being a model is revived.

I find this whole world so exciting! I have been exploring it nonstop since I arrived, and every morning I get up and wonder what the grid will show me. I just love that there are industries like fashion and architecture and games and communities for roleplaying. I can finally be a famous model, or a queen, or a television reporter. It’s really up to me and my imagination!

Modeling for Post 6 was a lot of fun. It was great to get to know Timothy, and I appreciate all that he is doing to get me started. I would never in a million years dare to model nude in real life, so it is more than a thrill to have stripped down to just my skin for him knowing that he would show what he saw to the world! I hope you like them, please be kind!

For my future in SL, I really hope I become a model. I know it’s weird, but the idea of wearing the latest clothes and having my own face appear all over the stores and blogs of Second Life is something that I think would be supremely cool. If anyone out there can use a girl who’s willing to work, please IM me!

That’s about all I have to say. I think the pictures are great and it was an honor to be here and work with such a big time blog for my first feature. I hope to come back some day in the future, so please say nice things so they will bring me back!

Peace,
Kasandra
 

Untitled from VJ Peter Rand on Vimeo.

Double Rainbow audio is superimposed onto a gallery walkthrough of works by Donald Judd

Now that you've heard the best storytellers in Second Life, how about a break from all that excellence? It's time once again for some less-than-wholesome and somewhat deranged 100 word stories from the disturbed windup robot Crap Mariner. This event will be performed in Voice and will use sound loops, so be sure to have both turned on. Remember: If it sucks, it'll be over quickly.

Now that summer is done, I have the quiet house to jump back behind the microphone and record a new Managing the Gray for all of you.

I didn’t realize it was the 100th episode as I got ready to record today, but as you’ll hear it made my morning.

The focus of today’s show is around the concept that in order to be successful you must break your goals up into bite size chunks that you can check off much more quickly than the end goal. It works for me and it should work for you.

Links to things mentioned on the show today:

• Content Rules
• Digital Dads
• Digital Dads TV on The Pulse Network
• Me and my speaking
• Things
• FutureM

Thanks again for all the feedback and please e-mail me if you have a specific question

Kitty crossed with Snowstorm

1. My feeling about certain pointless game-like activities that I wrote about HERE. I said in part, "Humans like to do things that make them feel as though they are accomplishing something. Note the "feel as though" well, as we don't need actually to accomplish anything, just to feel that we do. That's an exploitable trait, as it turns out - and exploitable in a big way.
   
   FaceBook is absolutely chock full of pointless dig-a-hole-then-fill-it-in applications that - wait! DO have a point. All those micropayments add up to big bucks for the app developers. It's an uneven trade that I find rather sinister - coopting billions of hours of real human energy to create a programmer's robot army, in a way. Yes, it's the person's choice, but I'm not interested in one person, but in the way this plays out in general.
   
   To be addictive the dig-a-hole-then-fill-it-in ungame* has to have a "moving up" scenario, be time-based, involve sharing and gifts, and have rewards for line-toeing. To get to the point where people will voluntarily invest small amounts of money, the app has to be formed in such a way that they will invest hours of their time, a precious commodity that should be used elsewhere. Better to plant a real seed, read to your child, or if you are at work, do your job.
   
   A dig-a-hole-then-fill-it-in app can become too obviously addictive, at which point the host may cut it off at the roots. My friend Con was so involved in one (Farmville?) that one day she was contemplating rushing home because her apricots needed harvesting or something - and decided instead to stop playing entirely.
   
   I'm wondering what effect this energy siphoning-off will have on the world. There's the slight chance the applications offer in play form the aggregation of far-flung individuals, the effect of which, once realised and used for real purposes, may be key to the resolution of my no-them-only-us theory. Dunno."
2. The idea of the "game layer" that Seth Priebatsch talks about in the post below this one, which can harness human activity for useful as well as pointless activities.
3. The old saw that billionaires regard money as a way to keep score. (My pater used to say that anyone could be rich if they wanted to devote all their time and energy to the accumulation of money, which of course he didn't, being entirely obsessed with quite different things.)
   

Both Hair Fair 2010 and Designers United 4 have provided a rich and varied rang of products from some of our broad range of designers. Today, I mix The Stringer Mausoleum at Hair Fair 2010 with :::LiNe::: at DU4 for an interesting look

I’m also wearing Chiffon skirt from SMS and Schmidt Boots from Eshi

Yummy Robobambie hair with robots from TSM, earrings from Mandala

How to get off this planet?

Bodysuit detail

A zen moment

Credits

Hair: Robobambie from The Stringer Mausoleum at Hair Fair 2010

Bodysuit: Amyp in black by :::LiNe::: at DU4

Skirt: Chiffon skirt from SMS

Boots: Schmidt boots by Eshi

Jewellery: necklace and earrings from Mandala

Poses: Del May

Skin: Valentina by Ugly Duck

Photographed on Mars

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The Looking Glass: Overview

One of greatest pleasures on designing Worlds is sharing with you some of the most beautiful places across the Metaverse – and this week on Tuesday September 7th, we invite you all to join us in our Northpoint studio at 2pm SLT as we explore a spectacular new sim, created by Marcus Inkpen and Sharni Azalee.

The Looking Glass: Landing Point

The Looking Glass is their brand and, in seeking to create a store – or rather, a number of small stores – where they can sell their creations, they have designed what must be one of the most stunning regions in Second Life.

We will be visiting areas ranging from a shabby city to a fairy forest, a surreal Dali-esque landscape to a stunning beautiful castle.

And we can promise you eye candy of a very high order for Marcus and Sharni don’t just create magnificently detailed builds … they pride themselves on their attention to detail too.

The results, we think you’ll agree, are amazing.

The Looking Glass: The Fae Forest

Marcus and Sharni’s creative skills are well known. Marcus is one of the artists chosen to create an immersive region for the Pavilion of Madrid at Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China – and you really should take the opportunity to visit Utopia 4 and the other Utiopia sims, as they are closing at the end of October. Sharni has won many prizes at the UWA Imagine Challenge – you can read more about the challenge in an article by Rowan Derryth in the forthcoming Prim Perfect magazine.

You may remember that Marcus and Sharni featured on our show on some of the wonderful Designer sims at Relay for Life. Their build, the Healing Hands of Eywa, was an uplifting journey through magical Pandora-inspired forests. Now it has found a new home on the ground level of the Inspire Space Park – and you’ll see images from this and from Utopia, supplied by our photographer PJ Trenton, in the course of the show.

The Looking Glass: The Tower

The show starts at 2pm SLT, but you should be in our Northpoint studios by 1.30pm to make sure of getting a seat. And there will be special gifts for all who attend the show in the studio!

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I don’t do the “Come Hither” look very well.

But, somehow I still always manage to have JBF to fall back on……..

And how was YOUR long weekend?

Style Notes:

• Skin – League – Taylor – Medium
• Hair – Denier Cri – Taylor – Blonde – from the HAIR FAIR 2010
• Top – Miao – Katerina
• Necklace – Miao – Michelle Ribbon Locket
• Eyes – Poetic Color – Lavender Field
• Lashes – Exile – Lush Lash
• Pants – Magi Take – Jeans  Skirt without the Skirt Prim

Tagged: Dernier Cri, Exile, League, miao, Poetic Color

Continuing my reviews of both Designers United 4 and Hair Fair 2010, today I have combined the Narcissus dress by Sugarcube at DU 4 with CxC from BC322 at Hair Fair 2010

This look is just heavenly, photographed at Alirium

Front view

Back view

Skin by Ugly Duck

Credits

Dress: Narcissus by Sugarcube at DU 4

Hair: BC322 at Hair Fair 2010

Skin: Valentina from Ugly Duck

Poses: Del May

Necklace: Doppelganger at DU4

Photographed at Alirium

Lupo Ellison's Golden Gate Bridge. Photo by Pj Trenton.

Today a few friends showed me a sight so absolutely lovely that tonight I had to grab our own PJ Trenton by the camera strap so I could share this with readers!

Lupo Ellison has built a stunning replica of the Golden Gate Bridge that must not be missed.  The texture and detail are fantastic, and it is definitely a shutterbug’s dream.  Not only can you walk up over the bridge, you can actually  ‘borrow’ a horse and ride across too (although they are a tad touchy on the reins!).

Photo by PJ Trenton

As a former West-coaster, I can say with some experience that Lupo’s surrounding landscape felt very much like wandering the paths of Golden Gate Park, or numerous other place in the Pacific Northwest (one spot reminded me distinctly of Cannon Beach, Oregon).  There is also a charming little lighthouse to be explored.

So grab your camera (and perhaps a sweetie – it is quite romantic, just like the real Golden Gate), play god with your sky settings, and enjoy this wonderful build!

Photo by PJ Trenton

See more of PJ’s photos here.

Dadjunk.com shared a DIY project for making a cheap and fun case for your Kindle e-book reader, using an old book. Irony alert! I decided to try it out this weekend and here's the results.  Check the pics and a quick video of how it went for me.

I'm a complete spaz when it comes to crafty projects, so I'm sure you could do much better!

Here's all the complicated tools you need to create your own e-book case:

Funny story: When I was at the Strand Bookstore looking for the right book to make into the Kindle case, I was walking around holding up my Kindle next to various books to size it properly.  Another guy saw me doing this and pulled out his Kindle from his pocket. "I'm doing the same thing you are!" he said, smiling. "Check out the poetry section. The books are pricier, but they size much better."

Thanks for sharing this, Dadjunk.com!

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Hot and sexy but very classy new outfit creation just released at Fashionity called Caroline.
Comes with sculpty mini jean’s skirt combined with pants suits and fashion shiny tank top.
Available in five colors as Deep Black, Royal Blue, Forest Green, Sweet Pink and True Blue to fit with all your daily moods.
Find them all at Fashionity Main Shop.

Shape : Self-made Shape, not available, creator : Saku Koltai
Skin : Rihanna Bronze Skin  *REDGRAVE*, creator : Emilia Redgrave
Eyes : Rihanna -Multicolor- *REDGRAVE*, creator : Viola Leigh
Hair : Ava-Tare DELIGHT – GoldenShiny, creator : Catinca Aldrin
Jewels :Sirvart Dark Earring , creator : Alienbear Gupte
Fleur de Lis Diamond Necklace, creator : Alyssa Bijoux
Shoes : LaRosa Wachiwi Stilettos, creator : JuciOh Oh

Fashionity Web Blog
Fashionity Main Shop
Fashionity on Flickr
Fashionity on XStreets SL

I gave myself a budget for the three big events going on right now: Hair Fair (sims 1, 2, 3, and 4), Designers United 4, and Project Donate with Unicef. I shopped until I dropped, and came out with some amazing items! I’ll be working them into my outfits for a long time to come, I expect. Here’s a starter:

I feel so springy in this outfit. It’s a shame that it’s almost autumn, eh?

Outfit Details:

Skin: &Bean – hounds of love LIGHT Hjort 1 brow
Hair: [kik] hair-Ovis aries A(dark) {Hair Fair}
Lashes: [kik] lash for Ovis aries {Hair Fair, comes with Ovis hair}
Dress: Fishy Strawberry – Silk Gauze Dress Down – Coral
Shoes: [PM] Jori 2 – Mint – R – AM 2.0
Tattoo: JM:Mai Skin – DU narcissus tattoo {DU4}
Collar: [W&B] Neelia Beaded Yoke Only JADE
Necklace: [NSD] Mirror Necklace {DU4}
Headpiece: tram -Narcissus dress 02 -Hair accessory {DU4, part of outfit}
Leggings: tram – Narcissus dress 02 -Leggings {DU4, part of outfit}
Poses: don’t freak out! – pick me. choose me. love me. {DU4 exclusive set} // Glitterati – Model Pack 11

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A few days ago I wore a Rosi skin group gift from Bella di Notte, and now the full line has finally been released!!

The new Bella di Notte skins has 6 lipstick choices, light and dark brows, 12 Eye-makeups (sold separately), Blush, Freckles, and Cleavage (all are on the tattoo layer). I really like that more skin designers are making use of the tattoo layer to allow us to create our own look.

I really like these shadows (tattoo) because they’re transparent and can work with other skins much more easily than lipstick on a tattoo layer.

Visit Bella di Notte

Friday – Sasha | Fiona (Thoughtful Brown)

These two new hairstyles from Friday are available at Hair Fair! Be sure to check out the third hairstyle while you’re there; some proceeds of that style is donated to charity.

What I’m Wearing:

Friday – Sasha, Fiona
Bella di Notte – Rosi skins (all)
Reek – Daily Hoodie (Pink) Asthmatic Dept.

Here’s a slide show featuring many of the short hair styles you can find at Hair Fair 2010. You can look at the pictures on Flickr as well.

****STYLE NOTES******
All Hairs are available @ Hair Fair. Some have been provided as promotional copies.

• Poses: Reel Expressions
• Skin: PXL Creations Dafne
• Eyes: Poetic Colors
• Lashes:  Lelutka Diva Prim Lashes
• Jewelry: Dark Mouse for Project Donate

Tagged: Dark Mouse, PXL Creations, Reel Expressions

Vitabela Dubrovna is participating in Designers United 4, with her dress ‘I Love Yellow Me’

This dress come in short and couture length

Teamed with new hair from Dernier Cri for Hair Fair 2010, Saddie

Background from Scribble, flowers also by Boudoir

Jewellery by Dark Mouse

Credits

Dress: I Love Yellow Me by Boudoir at Designers United 4

Shoes: Ribbon Slingback by G Field

Hair: Saddie by Dernier Cri at Hair Fair 2010

Flowers from Boudoir at Designers United 4

Background: Scribble at Designers United 4

Skin: Valentina by Ugly Duck

Poses: All poses from Del May

Jewellery: Dark Mouse

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Today is a day to put doom and gloom, sadness and woe, misery and catastrophe, behind me.

Wearing the beautiful Narcissus dress by Tram at Designers United 4, you can’t help feeling the world is a great place after all

The dress, collar and head piece are included

Dress detail

Hair piece detail

Credits

Dress: Narcissus by Tram at Designers United 4

Umbrellas: both umbrellas shown by Weather Or Not

Shoes: c.edo by Truth

Skin: Valentina Opheliac by Ugly Duck

Poses: all poses by Del May

Hair: Kira by Dernier Cri at Hair Fair 2010

Dernier Cri – Taylor | Camelia (freebie fatpack)

Dernier Cri has an amazing new hair collection out at Hair Fair. I’m really impressed with these styles, they’re so kawaii and I’m just in-love with the light pinkish texture.

Dernier Cri – Saddie | Kira

Dernier Cri – Dove | Aya

I really like that Dernier Cri hairstyles comes with a HUD to change the hair colors. This reduces inventory clutter and also makes it super easy to mod a style once and just recolor vs. having to modify several hairs to fit. However, I think in laggy sims, the re-color process can take awhile and I’ve noticed that sometimes I have to do it several times before the script recolors all the prims properly (again… probably lag, not really an issue with the hair).

Dernier Cri has only released hair once this year (I think I bought most of them) but I really hope that Asuka Martin does more!! These are probably some of my favorites from Hair Fair this year.

Also, as much as I adore Dernier Cri hair, I really wished that the creator’s head shape is more like my own. When I resize the hairstyles, I’ve noticed ...

I haven't been paying much attention to the Second Life Marketplace migration, I've been keeping half an eye on it in case there are any wild curveballs but it's a migration, it will take time to get right and it's new so has a whole set of new issues.

However a couple of interesting points have been raised this weekend, prompted by a blogrum post from Ann OToole, who highlighted an issue whereby not only can anyone flag an item as not as advertised, but also that when this happens, the merchant isn't notified. This has been followed up by Brodesky Linden who has created two Jira's about these issues, which is good to see, although some of Brodesky's comments on that blogrum thread rubbed people up the wrong way.

There are five offences that an item on the new marketplace can be flagged for:

• Item not as advertised.
• Listing not flagged as adult.
• Spam or disallowed listing practices.
• Non-Item Listing.
• Infringes my intellectual property rights.

Three of those, listing not flagged as adult, spam or disallowed listing practices and non-item listing should be able to be flagged by anyone, I shouldn't need to purchase an item to flag a listing for those offences. Infringing one's intellectual property rights should only be able to be flagged by the person whose intellectual property rights have been infrnged, and an item that is not as advertised should only be able to be reported by someone who has actually purchased the item, how else would someone know the item was not as advertised?
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This video is not new, in fact I learned on Wikipedia that the Nokia Morph concept was unveiled in February 2008. It’s pretty amazing stuff, but then again, the morphing is meant to show what might be possible. “Some” of the imagined features could become reality by 2015. The video popped up again on Facebook – maybe it’s just Nokia trying to enhance a high tech image while the company suffers from the very real world Apple and Android competition.

Anyway, it was the first time I saw the video and I thought I should share it here, because at least it makes us realize what disruptive changes we should expect in the years to come.

This device concept showcases some revolutionary leaps being explored by Nokia Research Center (NRC) in collaboration with the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre (United Kingdom) nanoscale technologies that will potentially create a world of radically different devices that open up an entirely new spectrum of possibilities.

Roland Legrand

Big events opened this weekend, including Hair Fair 2010 and Designers United 4 – Narcissus. . I’ve combined a few things to make a Serenade on Mars

Beautiful Narcissus dress from mijn.t. This dress has multiple optons included

Accessorised with frilled socks, Hair piece and narcissus flowered chest piece. Shoes are c.edo by Truth

Emmie Hair from Amacci at Hair Fair 2010

Credits

Dress: Narcissus from mijn.t at Designers United 4 – Narcissus.

Hair: Emmie by Amacci at Hair Fair 2010

Skin: Valentine Opheliac by Ugly Duck

Shoes: c.edo by Truth

Poses: All poses by Del May

I thought I had something to live for but I was already dead.

Or so, that’s what was on Cranch’s bald mind yesterday. The prognosis wasn’t good — to strip all fat out of words, it outright sucked. The corruption had spread to the extremities of Cranch’s limbs. Even his stubby big toe (one was, one wasn’t). A year to live, maybe more, maybe less — but being the daredevil risktaker he had always been (a shade more subtle now, perhaps), he didn’t want to leave that up to chance. Without hesitation and offered the option by the Docs, he scarfed up the amakielmesef, or as it was more popularly known, the “year-long comfort suicide pill”. Any suffering due to lateral corruption would be completely nullified, in exchange for an irreversibly predictable, inevitably painless death. Unless something else (like a meteorite strike) happened, you’d know your day and minute of passing (what a crap euphemism) a span of months in advance. Given the short-frame uncertainties many were given — Cranch included — this was a superior alternative path to the generic eternal dirt nap. And since he’d tragically resigned himself to never finding the magical milk and eggs he needed to prolong a life well-lived, this is how it must be.

Khwooofaaaphoooooooooooooooooom!

At least a thousand soda pop cans exploded in vocal agony, their turpid frothy insides spewing onto their shoddy paper-box-homes and the contents of every aisle in proximity. “One last adventure fo’ ol’ Cranchie!” he chuffed in a gruff voice, hands manipulating the comically touch-sensitive screen of this incredibly destructive tunnel-drill that had burrowed by the Walin-Peake’s bridge and made its grand exit here, before aghast shoppers in Consumer Central. Cracked checkerboard tile spit into chaotic spirals, recursive diminution freaking out one single mom-and-cub, who, after she was decked in the head by a particularly jagged bit of eggshell-textured textile, decided “GTFO!” was the command of now.

Not something you see at a fucking ultramarket everyday, no sirree. Cranch chomped down on his objube, decked out in an uncharacteristically bland wifebeater with sweat stains on it, the result of the subterranean adventure that had transpired some moments earlier. Time to let my hair down, as bald as I’ve become, he figured.

Just outside, a couple physically-contrasting figures (because that’s what all the great duos are like, right?) watched from their hippy-dippy van while Consumer Central’s neon sign fizzled, then fell, making shopping carts go 2D. That would pess off the Morridge Porridge Empire. The more slender of the pair waggled her beak and turned to her green-and-pink companion, incidentally dressed in the same clothes Cranch was. But they were merely observing; knew it would go down this way, and after nonchalantly watching the self-implosion of franchise #543 all around, they sped off with an oily flame trail into the next destination they needed to hug.

From Dream Journal 1… because 2 is here