Proposing the Second Life® Games

Here's my September column for AVENUE magazine. I had a lot of fun thinking up and writing this article; the cherry on the cake, however, was Eve Kazan's quite amazing photography to accompany it.

 

As I write this, the London Olympics is drawing to a close. Much to everyone’s surprise, we did rather well this year. Third place on the medal table, in fact. Not that I want to gloat or anything, but… wow. An historic bronze in gymnastics. A gold in the heptathalon. A victory for Andy Murray over Roger Federer at Wimbledon that – following his defeat at the Wimbledon finals just a month earlier (in itself an historic event) – felt like the climax to a summer release feelgood movie. In fact, a more or less flawless games, North Korean flag incident notwithstanding. And an opening ceremony that somehow captured everything we would like as a nation to have captured about us. We even managed to help Mitt Romney make himself look like an idiot.