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The Girl from Ipanema

I recently discovered (or re-discovered) The Girl from Ipanema while listening to Pandora.

According to Wikipedia...
"Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema") is a well-known bossa nova song, a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s that won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. It was written in 1962, with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes. English lyrics were written later by Norman Gimbel.^[1]
The first commercial recording was in 1962, by Pery Ribeiro. The version performed by Astrud Gilberto, along with João Gilberto and Stan Getz, from the 1964 album Getz/Gilberto, became an international hit, reaching number five in the United States pop chart, number 29 in the United Kingdom, and charting highly throughout the world. Numerous recordings have been used in films, sometimes as an elevator music cliché (for example, near the end of The Blues Brothers). It is believed to be the second-most recorded pop song in history, after Yesterday by The Beatles.^[2] In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.

 Continuing from Wikipedia...
The song was inspired by Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto (now Helô Pinheiro), a nineteen-year-old girl living on Montenegro Street in the fashionable Ipanema district in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.^[5] Daily, she would stroll past the popular Veloso bar-café, not just to the beach ("each day when she walks to the sea"), but in the everyday course of her life. She would sometimes enter the bar to buy cigarettes for her mother and leave to the sound of wolf-whistles.^[6] In the winter of 1962, the composers watched the girl pass by the bar, and it is easy to imagine why they noticed her—Helô was a 173-cm (five-foot eight-inch) brunette, and she attracted the attention of many of the bar patrons.

When I hear this song I sometimes think of Second Life. Each of us girls lock ourselves into our ageless avatars of perfect skin and shapes. We are "The Girl from Ipanema" every day we login.

Do ALTS have more fun?

Consider this, thinking aloud...

I'm a moody-sort sometimes. It runs deep in my family.

Second Life is a fun and enjoyable pastime... sharing fun, exciting, and at times sexy activities with good friends. But what do you do when your alt has more fun than your main account?

The avatar Zoe Connolly has become an administrator for groups, offgrid social media accounts, and a manager of land and Linden Dollars. Zoe has become The Banker. Ugh!

This was not supposed to happen. This is what alts are for, yes? Zoe should be the exciting girl, the adventurous girl. The hawt Girl with Guns who does amazing things. She flies across sims to defeat evil, and is soon back home to kiss her favorite avatar of the month.

I created an alt to do the heavy lifting. Immediately, I ran into the irresistible urge to make her...well...fabulous! In a short time, I logged into my alt more often. I savored the anonymity that an alt allows, but then a funny thing happens... Your alt becomes popular too, with her own experiences, friends, and loves. You find logging into your main account an absolute chore, and you LOVE being your alt. You want to be your alt like the early days when you wanted to be your first avatar morning, noon, and night. Savoring those same feelings you had when you were happy in your main account. It's almost like falling in love. In a way, you ARE in love.

Yes, it's true. In this strange world of Virtual Identity, I've found myself in love with my avatar creations.

But what of Zoe? I still love her. She's a part of me. She IS me! I want to be happy being Zoe, again.

RL lives evolve in ways never expected. SL lives are more planned but on occasion go in unexpected directions. Zoe will continue her journey in the metaverse and prosper. She will love and be loved. But the direction she takes will change soon. It's a normal part of life in both Universes.

I'll soon decide what to do with my land in Caledon Penzance (Connolly Aerodrome) and my Royal Caledon Air Force group, with more changes to follow.

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What about you? How do you feel about your main avatar vs your alt(s)?

Do alts have more fun?

State Your Influence!

State Your Influence!

What influences your avatar, your character, or even your roleplay in Second Life?

The Fictional Influences for the character of Zoe Connolly (Part 1)

Eladrienne's Other Life!: Elle's Avatar Influences

The Journal of Dr. Darien Mason: Avatar Influences

Through the Filter of a Victorian Aesthetic: The Fictional Influences for the character of Edward Pearse

Influences for the character of Zoe Connolly (Part 2)

Pop Culture Influences on the Character of Zoe Connolly - The Avengers Revisited

Pop Culture Influences on the Character of Zoe Connolly - Lara Croft

Influences for the character of Zoe Connolly - the femme fatale

Robot Sale - Discount on ZCT Model E 223

Zoetrope Cryotank is an art deco design digital neko personal robot.

This ZCT - Model E unit 223, manufactured December 2025 at the Neko Robotics Assembly Plant in Auburn Hills Michigan.

Cosmetic damage to upper right arm and shoulder. Arm is still fully functional.





Further specifications available upon request to....

Neko Robotics, Inc. World Headquarters, Detroit Michigan



The next generation ZCT - Model F series will be available Autumn 2026.



Don't miss the next Detroit Android Show in January 2027.

Weekend Photographs December 6th and 7th

Zoe'z in ur offis chekin ur statz....



Oh dear this cannot be good! Alts are unhappy and in need of some Grid time!



Zabrina gets new "Shupah-Shpy" employment in swinging 60s London! More on this in the near future.



Zoe makes a new friend and goes back to Steampowered Nuts for a great new outfit....and guns!



Yes, I said guns! Yay!

Girls with Guns 10 August 2008

I took several photographs during and after the video-capture for my test machinima. Once I was done, I noticed Phin was online and promptly dragged him over to help me. He made a great Girl-with-Gun in his female form. Thanks, bro!

The Perils of Zoe Connolly - Test Video and photographs

Special thanks to Baron KlausWulfenbach Outlander for giving me the poseball animation for this scene....






Video captured in Second Life by Zoe Connolly: Just testing an idea for an adventure story. Part Hitchcock and part Indiana Jones....

Quality Time and Societal Norms

My schedule is very busy with all the 19th Century sims I cover in my various blogs, and sometimes I don't have a chance to spend time with friends or have a romance. Tiana is both my good friend and....well....much more than that. I can say we've developed SL love and are exploring a relationship. Although we have plenty of friends and acquaintances, SL relationships are still quite new to both of us. And to be honest, I am a bit apprehensive seeing another woman while I spend my days in the 19th Century. I fear being an outcast at times. Perhaps I'm feeling a little of what 19th Century women must have felt in regard to their forbidden love - counter to societal norms.

All that said, I was pleased that we were able to have some quality time together throughout the weekend, and my time with Tiana was the most romantic experiences I've had yet in SL.

Attracting Men

In my various roleplays I've taken to smoking. I even have cigars for my hard-hitting, hard-drinking "Calamity Z" Wild West personae.

One thing I've noticed which I find fascinating. When I "smoke" in SL I find a greater number of males addressing me than before. Why is this? I consulted RL BF on this one. Phin's reply was...."...because it's rather phallic in nature..." followed by..."will you be smoking in RL now?"

Hmmm, I've heard this before and no I wasn't about to take up RL smoking, but as a curious librarian-type, I must know more!

I consulted Google of course, and found this tidbit of information...

Looking Cool

There is no object on earth that looks and feels as much like an erect human penis as a well-made, hand rolled cigar. Sigmund Freud, the pioneer of psychoanalysis, is quoted as saying, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar," implying that most of the time a cigar is a substitute for an erect penis. Think of the diameter and length of a Churchill or double corona cigar. Then visualize the veins in the rolled tobacco leaves. Now add a cone shaped head which is radiating heat. Finally, put that image between a beautiful woman's lips, which resemble vagina lips, and let her suck on it a bit. See the way its cone-shaped head glows, sparkles and gives off even more heat as she sucks? Now, as she parts those soft, warm, moist, pink lips, her mouth is filled with a thick, creamy white substance that flows like fresh semen. This is why polite society strictly forbade women to smoke from the time of Columbus until the Twentieth Century. Watching an attractive woman savor a good sized cigar is about as close to watching her have sexual intercourse as you're going to get without seeing the real thing.

Watching an attractive woman smoke a cigarette is a similar experience, but with one added feature. When she delicately holds her lit cigarette between the tips of two perfectly straight fingers, it looks like an exceptionally large, erect penis between two legs, in miniature. Then you can watch its head glow brightly as she sucks on it as well. If she follows that with a pop inhale or a French inhale, you get to see that thick, creamy white stuff that filled her warm, moist, pink mouth as well. It just doesn't get any better than this.

Needless to say, women who smoke have always been classified by society as "bad girls". A lit cigarette is an essential accessory for any prostitute or topless dancer who wants to make money. "Good girls" don't smoke, but a girl who smokes always has a "dark side" lurking somewhere. Combine the phallic appearance of a lit cigarette between a woman's straight fingers, and the hypnotic relaxation of watching drifting smoke and you often have an instant, uncontrollable erection. The sight of a "bad" mother teaching her young daughter to be "bad" more than doubles the effect.

Plus....

Smoking is often used in literature and cinema to help depict a character as dominant or aggressive. Smokers are the predatory villains of many books, plays and films. Some classic examples are Disney's Cruella DeVille, Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct, and just about any role ever played by Sean Penn or Nicholas Cage. Even nine year old Tatum O'Neal smoked cigarettes in Paper Moon to show her dominance over adults. Many men fantasize about being dominated by a woman who smokes.

SheckShay!

Victorian Steampunk is Sexy!

Amazing Avatars :: Rael

Let's see, first I had a noob IM me for SLex without really reading my chat. Then a woman IM'd to persuade me into having a webcam sex session for some "hot horny guy" she "kinda knew". What the frak?

So I was pleasantly surprised when I received a compliment on my avatar appearance from Rael. Now here was someone interesting who didn't mention having SLex in the first few sentences. She was delighted when I asked her if I could take a few snapshots for my blog. She appeared to be a very fascinating Goth-Alien. I'm not sure if she was going for that exact look but it certainly looked great to this goth-scifi-steampunk fan.

Chat of the Day...

[4:12] unidentified noob male: hi
[4:13] Zoe Connolly: hello
[4:13] unidentified noob male: how r u?
[4:13] Zoe Connolly: great, how are you?
[4:14] unidentified noob male: great
[4:14] unidentified noob male: u?
[4:14] Zoe Connolly: i'm great, as i said before
[4:15] unidentified noob male: good
[4:15] unidentified noob male: i want to make sex
[4:15] unidentified noob male: i am look,ng for free
[4:16] Zoe Connolly: good luck with that

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