Life in a Box Chapter 5

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One way to make a living in a box is to write interviews with famous people. Although I knew the boys well and saw them pretty much every day for a couple of years, the Monkees were nowhere around when I interviewed their instruments.

The rumor was that they didn’t actually play their own instruments, and in fact, they didn’t. Most of the tracks were laid down in Nashville and they were on tour totally elsewhere.

All they added were the vocals, and it was that way for a long time. They actually finally got to play at concerts without double-up backups behind stage, but not for long and not until the very end, long after the series had ended.

So I set about to interview their instruments — what better witnesses could you get? The novel idea caught on, and from then on, that was my style of output, and I never did a live interview of a rock star again, although I produced hundreds of articles and interviews.

Just spell the name right, and they’ll let you publish anything. Continue reading →

Life in a Box Chapter 4

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You want sports in a no-contact world? Nothing could be simpler or safer than a virtual stadium, and that’s what I’m building right now in our WORLDWIDE Virtual Ashram, where anyone from anywhere can join us in our celebrations!

Little Jenny here is examining one of the bigger and more difficult performance venues — it’s the Ultimate Concert Stage which can be reached by “Green Globe” travel, just outside the Temple.

Jenny is a great judge of spaces, and she heartily approves the sports colosseum I’m working to build up in the Roman area — what better place to hold a sports event than in the Colosseum or one of the gaming stadia in the wealthier homes.

I have one of those, plus a grand sports colossus for auto and motorcycle racing.

You’d be well-served if I also mentioned that the motorcycle rezzer is now installed and you can use it anywhere — it poofs when you get off the bike.

Jenny is very fond of concerts — what young spirit guide isn’t? — and we’re planning a worldwide folk festival to be held in the ashram, with a limited public attendance due to the limitation on the number of Avatars we can have in-game, which is maximum 100, as I’ve mentioned before. Continue reading →

Life in a Box Chapter 3

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Well, heck, looka here. If it isn’t the old Norton Street Contact Orb! I made this back in 2014 as a backup in case for some reason Second Life failed, but it didn’t. It’s quite healthy, with over a million users a day, and double the number of landowners from last year.

Still, it’s a nice backup, eh?

Thing is, you’d have to learn, actually LEARN, how to use it, how to set up a base and most of all, how to defeat your online barriers, of which there are plenty, not the least of which will be your server.

If you have a stable IP, you might do better, and I’d strongly advise it anyway, if you ‘re planning to make a living online, which if you don’t do, you probably won’t live very long, as a result of illness or starvation.

What good is a payroll tax deduction if you don’t happen to be on anyone’s payroll?

Contact Orbs are great for staying in touch. You can use the text messaging already in place, or you can add voice with a number of different options for vocalization.

Most folks prefer the texting, and I’m definitely in that camp. Continue reading →

Life in a Box Chapter 2

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There’s only one absolutely safe way to attend church these days, and that’s in a virtual cathedral, of which we have several.

I have one working in the virtual ashram, but there’s a Godd™ Orb that you can get that has a cathedral space — as a matter of fact, you can get the Heaven version, which has a chorus of angels all around, from lower to higher choirs.

The online experience is slightly easier to manage in the ashram, because it doesn’t require a download or skills at online hookups.

As a matter of fact, in Second Life, the less you know, the better, in general. It’s build for total dum-dums like you and me. The smarter ones have to go to the back of the line.

So what can you do to make a living when you’re stuffed into a box?

To begin with, you’re not trapped and you’re not alone. You need to establish that fact in your overly taxed brain before going any further, so get into the ashram and find someone to talk to.

If you can’t find anyone to talk to, it doesn’t mean they’re not there. If you run into me, for instance, I won’t respond, because I’m typically busy doing something intricate and delicate in there, and need to concentrate on what I’m trying to do. Continue reading →

My Life in a Box Chapter 1

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How am I out of Hell? Why, Faustus, this IS Hell, nor are we out of it, and what’s more, none but Lucifer knows that Hell IS Hell.” Well, Hell, THAT’S a relief — I thought I was the only one who knew that Hell is Hell.

But wait a moment — if none but Lucifer knows that Hell is Hell, and I know that Hell is Hell, who am I? But then, if we ALL know that Hell is Hell, who the Hell are we?

And if this comes as no surprise to you, who the Hell are YOU?

More importantly, how are you going to make a living in Hell? I define “Hell” as “a Place with No Business Opportunities.” Continue reading →

My Life in a Box – Introduction

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What does an online gathering look like?

Actually, there are literally thousands of different ways to interact online, but I’m going to show you just one method of gathering online, one that allows you to present yourself as you’d like to be or as you REALLY are, and at the same time, you can interact with action and movement and speech with others from all over the world.

Honestly, it takes a bit of practice and some learning skills plus a good instructor to really get the swing of it, but once you master the basics, you will discover a whole new world, literally a world, in which you can live a life, interact with others, even conduct an online in-person business without ANY physical organic contact whatever.

The whole idea is that in the Ashram, anything you can do in the organic world can be duplicated quite cleverly in the virtual world, and the illusion becomes more powerful the more you use it and the more completely you master it.

You can fly, drive, eat, drink, entertain and be entertained in the virtual ashram, but wait — there’s more! Continue reading →

Anti-Social Media & Social Distancing

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Truly, this IS the time, Kato.

For about fifty-five years now, I’ve been touting Full Cleansing Practices, which looks to most people like a frantic attempt to scour oneself of all germs — it’s actually a disease, but that’s not what we’re doing.

The Cleansing Practice is a daily — make that hourly and even minute-by-minute — practice that has its root in deep antiquity.

You’re about to see the collapse of the world economy, albeit only temporarily, and it won’t be pleasant for those without resources, and it takes more than money to get through this particular dense thicket of thorns.

First of all, you’ll need some money, particularly if you don’t typically have any extra to spend on trinkets like survival food and gear. Continue reading →

Corona is a Cigar

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Remember when “Corona-Corona” was a fine Cuban cigar? Probably not — it was before Castro even played baseball. The virus doesn’t know borders and doesn’t respect bullies. It goes where it will, and when it will.

One of those places was evidently someone in or around the President and Vice President during yesterday’s festivities at the CDC, and they tested positive.

This doesn’t necessarily mean anything — the test can be wrong, lots of other factors, but it puts us in mind of the fact that if those two old bastards in the Oval Office aren’t careful to observe “Social Distancing”, we might end up with a woman President — Nancy Pelosi — think about it. If they get too sick to do their jobs, she steps in and wham! We have our first woman President, if only temporarily until the two elderly gents recover from the flu.

This is of course pure speculation having little basis in fact, but it IS possible, and therefore the PRUDENT businessperson takes note of the possibility and prices it into the market, however improbable it may seem. Continue reading →

Safe Gathering Space

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I wonder if it occurred to you that our virtual ashram — for which we pay hundreds of dollars per month to keep open worldwide — could be used for meetings during the coronavirus covid19 emergency, which will be about 8 months, total, with a dip sometime in May-July, after which it will return with a vengeance.

Okay, so one thing you can do about it proactively is to stay out of crowded spaces, mobbed malls and jammed elevators. Continue reading →

Virtual Vaccine???

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WOW! Are We In Trouble!

Holy shit, it’s for real this time!!! Not a wolf — it’s a teensy-tiny little virus, not even a bacterium or nothin’, and it’s coming to get YOU!

I don’t know if you read my recent books “SlimeWars” and “Trump is a Four-Letter Word”, both of which accurately predict — not hard to do — a major pandemic sometime around 2018, 100 years after the Great Epidemic of 1918, which wiped out millions of people around the world.

Viruses adapt, they transmute and re-invent themselves over and over again, and they have rapid spans of many generations, all of which are wildly mutating with the flux as things go wonkier and wonkier.

The Coronavirus is working its way rapidly toward us, and it’s gaining momentum every single day, as the spread spirals out of control. Continue reading →