About Sherilyn Connelly
Sherilyn Connelly's first computer was an Atari 400. She worked in video stores back when they were relevant, and since then has produced shows for both public access television and pirate radio, featured at dozens of spoken word events, and acted in stage productions based on unlicensed material. Her writing has been published in Girlfriends, Morbid Curiosity, and anthologies by Suspect Thoughts and Manic D Press. She co-hosts Bad Movie Night at The Dark Room and the Queer Open Mic at The LGBT Center, both in San Francisco.
- Second Life and the Stupid White Man’s Burden, Part One: Anshe’s Ascension
We at Medialoper take pride in surfing the hemorrhaging edge of cultural analysis, so I’ll be blunt: sex sells.
Especially celebritarian sex, famous pretty people associated with products which may or may not be related to the source of their fame. I still don’t get what Catherine Zeta-Jones has to do with cellular phones, but [...]
- Second Life and the Fourth Estate, Part Two: A Stupid Kind of Benevolence
Adam Reuters née Pasick may be buried deep within the unlinked subdomains of the venerable, unclawable Reuters (sure to be alone with the cockroaches after Medialoper has faded to virtual dust), but closer to the surface of visibility is Wagner James Au. His New World Notes blog is linked slightly below the fold [...]
- Second Life and the Fourth Estate
We aren’t doing this not to be noticed.
This stuff, what I’m doing at this moment. Writing. Online. Not me, not Kirk or Kassia or Jim or Roxanne or anyone else in Team Loper’s extended tail. We want to be seen. This is not to say that we aren’t doing [...]
- Second Life, Snowballing and Solstice
I like the Harry Potter novels. I can forgive most of their flaws and holes, but the presence of Christian holidays like Christmas and Easter takes me right out of the narrative. Yes, of course, I realize those holidays are pagan in origin, and it’d be different if the characters were acknowledging [...]
- Second Life, Activism, and the Digital Arena
Someone always has to harsh the mellow, don’t they? If it’s not grey goo (ding! ding! ding!), it’s do-gooders like the World Development Movement. Yeah, I’d never heard of them either, probably because they haven’t been adopted by Bono or Sting. Their big move is to place a counter in Second Life [...]
- Second Life, Sony, and Suzanne
My initial reaction was you have GOT to be shitting me, followed closely by huh. that kinda makes sense. That’s been my chain of response to most everything about the online virtual world thingy Second Life thus far, from the basic concept to its immense popularity to the gazillions of dollars spent on [...]
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