Life in a Box Chapter 15

Dutch Landscape Miniature Nail Art by E.J. Gold.

Can’t wait to get there, eh? I don’t blame ya — here’s the address:

click here to visit my nailery

Isn’t that something? I can put the most intricate things on those nails, just like I used to do with a fine-tipped pen, only these nails are SO much cheaper that I can actually hope to market them.

I also have original painted designs on Feature Nails, but they run $125 a pop, and are actually miniature paintings and ink washes.

If you really want an original Dutch Masters Painted Nail, I’d recommend mounting it in a deep frame. I do that for an additional $125 — the labor is a bitch and I wreck one out of four frames, so if you’re looking for a wrecked frame, check my wrecked frame inventory out back of the shed.

You know that you can add to this product by painting colors onto them? I don’t think it would add anything, but it’s just another way you could add value if you were strapped for another reason to charge more.

Am I Red Am I Blue Leggings — this is the best bet of all.

If I were to place a bet, it’d be on my leggings collection. Leggings are so incredibly awesomely popular now that you could start an IPO with this idea.

I’d design some leggings and then use those designs as a “Proof of Concept” and take that to the marketplace, looking for investors — what’s called “Risk Capital”.

You can also find capitalization on crowd type fundraisers, if any are left after the Corona virus has finished its work for the year — it’s far from over for the future.

Okay, okay, I accede to the applause — here’s the path to my World of Leggings:

click here to see my leggings

Blessings to All Beings Postage Stamp

I don’t know if snail-mail will still exist much longer — it’s downright dangerous as it is, and with the addition of the Coronavirus Covid 19, it can be a deadly thing to send a love letter, although it’s always been rather risky.

Blessings Stamps are a potential for this time, but we don’t know if the mail services will survive this next terrible two weeks.

It’s a race now to get done what you want to get done before leaving Planet Earth for your next destination.

“Oh, no, not this again!” is the key. You’ll find yourself saying it at some point in your transition.

“Welcome to the Afterlife, one Bardo Buck, please,” the voice will respond, and you’ll wonder what a Bardo Buck might be, but it’s already too late.

It’s not Laramie, it’s Fargo, and the one you want is neither of those — you want the capital of SOUTH Dakota, and that’s Pierre, period.

Space Strings Low-Top Sneakers

My low-tops are also for sale on zazzle, but I’ll let you find your own way there, if you’d like to see them.

The idea here is that there may or may not be shipping available, and if there isn’t, well, you can’t deliver any goods, that’s all there is to it.

So I wouldn’t put all of my stock in shippables, because you just don’t know how well or badly the shipping system is going to hold up, and for sure, at this time they’ll only accept necessary shipments of things, not whimsical stuff like ships and shoes and sealing wax and cabbages and kings.

Waxing eloquent is easy, when you’ve got the whole of a dictionary at your disposal, and that goes double if you’re a walking dictionary, which can be as great a curse as “Overqualified for Life on Earth”, which may be your favorite category in which to hang out.

this is the vehicle collector’s homepage

If you’re trying to sell a website, it might be of some help to be able to take a screenshot of something related and interesting looking for your screen graphic.

This can work with anything you can’t quite get to, like what you see here, with rare vehicles parked all over the lot.

Again, you can put things in there that would cost millions, but in pixel form costs just a few pennies expressed as Lindens.

These fancy cars cost me, on the average, $12 for the very exotic ones, and as little as $1.70 in U.S. currency, payable through paypal to the makers.

You wouldn’t want to put the hours into making these little jobbies.

Be honest — can you resist owning this hot little Chevvy racecar and racing it on our enormous High Rockies Race Track?

The rumbling sound of the XxaxX Constantine Engine made by Uncle Claude is amazingly real, and so is the feel of the drive, unless you drive too slowly.

For the chickenshit driver, this is a total bear, but for the courageous, it’s thrilling and exotic and fun and constantly challenging.

It’s close to the actual experience, especially if you learn to gear up, and find yourself in fifth gear at a scale speed of about 180 mph, skidding and slamming into curves and bouncing off rubble on the track and spinning out of control a dozen times before you reach the end of the track, if you can find it!

Online racing is a LOT harder than you think, and takes a LOT of practice to get a little bit of skill.

Once you master it, you’ll find a whole world of higher mastery up ahead of you — you’re not finished when you can barely manage to hold the car on the road at 35 mph.

Wow, is online racing exhilarating, and if you’re locked in a box, it’s doubly so!

Atlantis Magazine Cover Spread

Why not start your own online magazine? It doesn’t have to be printed and never has to be out in hard copy.

You can stage all the photos and screenshots yourself, and use the selfie to take your best shots.

You’ll find absolutely every kind of environment in Second Life,and there’s nothing preventing you from going in there and taking a selfie.

Do be careful when visiting sites outside the ashram — there are a TON of offenders out there, just waiting for some idiot to come along.

Even in Second Life, a little social distancing is in order when you’re out in public, and the public servers are definitely where the victimizers congregate.

Like grampa says when you cut the “dead man’s hair” off him down in the family crypt while trying to save a magician who got enchanted into a raven’s body, “Beware”.

The reference is to a film, “The Raven”, with Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Jack Nicholson and Vincent Price — it’s worth the price of admission and one of the funnier black comedy horror films ever made, with the classic villains themselves!

Why not watch the film I recommended? You now have plenty of time, and don’t thank me, thank the invaders from Planet Barbizon.

Once in the air, it’s easy to acquire a target.

If you’ve ever wanted to fly a combat helicopter, this baby is IT — only problem is, if you make a tactical error or lose control of the aircraft, it WILL crash and burn, or sometimes, as is the case here, it burns first, then crashes.

There are easier choppers to fly, but none more fun than this HIND helicopter, and challenge is the word you want.

It is singularly the most challenging flight simulation system I have ever flown in Second Life, and I bet you can’t take off and land without crashing and burning and blowing up the first time you try.

Go ahead and prove me wrong.

It’s kinda nice & quiet after dark here in the Mortuary.

You’ve heard the expression “Die before you die”, but did you know you actually CAN practice dying at our Prosperity Path Virtual Ashram.

In the Mortuary Workshop, one event is to have your Avatar die and come back to life, something that’s a LOT easier to achieve in virtual than it is in actual, but even there, it can be done.

What I mean to say is, if you switch the positive to the negative and the negative to the positive, it could work!

(HAIR EFFECT) [SOUND: ROLLING THUNDER, LIGHT: FLASHING ON AND OFF]

(MUSIC: UP AND OUT)

That is, of course, a reference to “Young Frankenstein”, a modern movie deliberately filmed in black-and-white, for which Mel Brooks lost several production companies until he found one that would let him do it the way he wanted to do it, in black-and-white, to mimic the original Frankenstein film.

Now that you have the time, you could watch both the 1931 Frankenstein and Young Frankenstein.

It is a matter of some wonder that the original lab equipment was preserved and used in the modern film, something that my friend and author’s agent Forry Ackerman made happen.

Out of Body Workshop, 1972, required that you hop on a plane, bus or car and get to the workshop with your body, then lie down on the floor and go out of body.

Why not eliminate the middleman?

So put on your ZOOM and point your camera at the floor, then lie down and get out of body, simple as that.

It’s a lot safer than lying around in a cluster these days, and you’ll do better lying down in your own home.

You could even put the computer by your couch and lie down there, but do remember that you’re in public, at least visibly, so don’t do this in your pajamas or boxer shorts, okay?

Take pity on the rest of us.

If you’re a decent photographer, get out there with the best camera you can muster up and take some photos of your hometown, but do it totally safely, the way I did it.

That’s right, go out there at the break of dawn.

I went a step further and waited for a drizzly rainy day, so I’d get some reflection on the streets, and it worked.

Going early kept me away from contact, but it also gave me GREAT light for my shots!

Then you post these and hopefully you can figure out some way to turn that into a local business — if nothing else, get a website going and charge $10 a month to be featured on it.

All your business should be done on the phone or by email, message or prompt — don’t need to visit anyone, and with the situation the way it is, businesses will be more apt to get online and the ones that already are, will want to grow their commerce and you might be able to help them do just that.

Knowing how to generate and use images is what the 21st century is all about.

Do you use wooden matches? If you do, you’ll have a LOT of matchboxes around, and if you do something interesting with them, they can produce income, however slight it may be.

These handpainted matchboxes are produced with a Posca pen and they sell for anywhere from $20 to $50 a pop, depending on what’s on it.

These are the $50 variety — they’re just better.

The very best ones I save for a show, but that show will now never be in person, so I can photograph those and put them up for sale without ruining the show.

It’s all virtual now, the world has gone virtual, and you’re not yet in it. Time to shag ass and get yourself in gear, get in motion, take the first step in a journey of a billion billion light years.

It’s not your imagination — the journey has gotten longer.

Here’s a shelf-full of handpainted glazed pottery that I produced a number of years ago — they’re not for sale, but I would consider selling them to get them into good homes.

You can contact me about my ceramic pottery if you’re interested. They used to sell for upwards of $1500 apiece in the old days, and Yanesh actually made a very good living selling my pottery pieces.

If there were a way to get to a fair, you could do the same right now, but that’s not how it is anymore.

Well, enough chit-chat for the moment, I gotta get me some shut-eye after six solid hours of typing — like I said, it’s a race to get this done before the world goes up in smoke, and it will, believe me, it will.

In the meantime, we transfer as much data as we can into the Quantum World, the digital framework of this universe.

I have other universes made on other plans and in very different platforms, but that’s not important right now.

What you really need is a mask.

Get to the the next chapter before it’s too late!

See You At The Top!!!’

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