Bum Rush the Charts

I’d meant to post this ear­lier, but bet­ter late than never, I suppose:

Todd Goldman (of David & Goliath) = Art Thief! D:

Yep. Appar­ently he’s copied/traced/stolen/etc. art from quite a few artists (and made money from it).

Please read about it here and here.

Cur­rent Mood: Angry

Of Death and Graduation

Cur­rent Mood:  curious

(FYI, I’m a teenager — so I’m on the Teen Grid, or TG.)

I’ve noticed that on the TG, grad­u­a­tion (when a teen becomes old enough to move to the MG, or Main Grid) is often seen as a kind of death.

Sure, many TG mem­bers look for­ward to their grad­u­a­tion… but once some­one has grad­u­ated, peo­ple say that they are “gone.” They don’t say, “oh, he/she grad­u­ated” or “they’re on the MG now.” Peo­ple in the TG just say that their friends that have grad­u­ated are gone, as if those peo­ple have died.

In a way, I sup­pose this makes sense. After one of your friends has grad­u­ated, you are no longer able to com­mu­ni­cate with that friend via SL. Sure, you can con­tact them out­side of SL if you have their con­tact info for that, but it just isn’t the same as it was before. They’re gone.

R.I.P. Shelley

She passed away on Thursday.

She was about a year older than me, and had been with me all of my life.

She’ll always be my Queen Shelley-cat.

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Sex Ed Links

This as a response to a com­ment I recently received on another post. I decided to make it into a post so that more peo­ple would see my response (just in case they had a sim­i­lar ques­tion). Here is the com­ment I’m answering:

“Its need a pri­vate place to get infor­ma­tion about teens health, growth, and emo­tions. Where I can get doctor-approved info I need to under­stand? WBR LeoP”

I am not sure what you mean by “its,” but I do know of a cou­ple of excel­lent sex-ed websites:

• Scar­leteen: sex edu­ca­tion for the real world
• teenwire.com: Sex­u­al­ity and rela­tion­ship info you can trust from Planned Parenthood

(I also link to these two sites on my Links page.)