A New Hangout Opens

I was recently contacted by Niels Cummings, who told me that he and his partner were opening a new venue named IronWorks for gay men to meet and hang out. He asked if I could help promote it and I told him I would be happy to help them.

Atomisk, Niels, I and my brother JJ.

On Wednesday, after sending Tomais off to work, I pressed my brother JJ into coming along with me to take a few pictures while I visited with Niels and his partner Atomisk. (All the pictures in this post are by JJ Goodman.)

It Ain't Cheap To Look Good

Bock as a noob dancing at Badboy Plaza

My buddy Eddi Haskell has a new poll running on his blog Eddi Haskell´s Second Life, asking How Much Do You Spend To Look Good in SecondLife?

Take the poll, please, I am so looking forward to see the final results.

I will not share with you how much I spend, but if you look at the picture above I am sure you can guess it took some hard work, many cosmetic surgeries (with shape and skin changes), AO´s to get rid of the "duckwalk" and a more than a few Lindens on a decent wardrobe and accessories to make that hideous noob look as halfway good as I do today.

The picture above shows me in my third or fourth month in SecondLife. I had just managed to buy the Pride Flag after about 25 hours of "camping". Soon afterwards I plugged in my credit card to SecondLife and the ugly duckling turned into the swan you see today, or close.

This is the only snapshot from my early days that I have found in my Inventory yet, I know there should be some more but I haven't taken the time to go through my 2,000+ snapshots and textures yet. Unfortunately I also remember how I at one point started deleting things from my early days (I will never do that again), but I am hoping there may still be some I overlooked

Recalculating Camping

Well, we have all heard the news. The end is nigh according to Harold Camping, it will hit us at midnight as the man-made timezones pass over the planet.

Actually the Rapture should already have started hitting in Japan, China, New Zealand, Australia and the Far East. The lifting of the holier-than-thou to heaven should already have started there and will hit Europe at midnight.

The rest of us heathens, gay and morally depraved unbelievers are going to experience a lot of earthquakes, brimstone rain, tsunamis and get to be turned into pillars of salt. All this will go on until the World as we know it finally comes to an end on October 21st.

I have been checking the Aussie on-line news papers - just in case - and there seems to be no reports of vanishing religious lunatics or any of the other signs.

Poor Harold Camping, now he must explain away - once again - how he got it all wrong. I think we can expect him to come up with a new date soon.