Joe Essid directs the Writing Center at the University of Richmond, where he teaches courses in writing and literature. He is a Richmond native who attended the University of Virginia and earned a Master's and PhD at Indiana University. His research interests include technology in the classroom and Southern literary humor. His academic writing has appeared in Computers and Humanities, The Writing Lab Newsletter, and anthologies about technology and writing. He is a contributor to Style Weekly and has appeared in Eighty One and RVA. Ignatius Onomatopoeia is the "avatar" who represents Joe in the game-world Second Life. Ignatius will be wandering the virtual terrain of Second Life while his creator writes here about what may be either "the next big thing" for the Internet or the latest darling of the cyber-hip... the reader can decide.
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Location: Pappy Enoch’s Still, Guzzling Shine

Can you manage it, Tenchi Morigi?

First of all, the women on my SL friends list—Cynthia and Di—have impeccable fashion-cred.

But Tenchi has set up a service, Styles by T, for shoppers who have an idea but lack time to put together the perfect look.  She’s available as an expert shopper.  Let’s see HOW expert.

I will pay Ms. Morigi’s fee if she can figure out how to transform Pappy Enoch into the spitting image of James Dean, as shown above in a scene from the epic film

. And the photos will run here. Can we do it for under 2000 Linden Dollars, Tenchi??

Pappy becomes “Jett Rink”?  Wait and see, gentle readers…there’s real money in this for you, Tenchi!

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