#Bock3000DaysInSL

There is reason to celebrate today, because it's my 3,000th day in SecondLife!

Bock on May 12, 2007, dancing alone at Bad Boy's Plaza

Who would've thought that fateful Monday more than eight years ago that I would still be here so very many years later?

I came out of inquisitiveness, only intending to check out what all the rave was about and why Sweden was opening it's first virtual embassy here. I spent my first weeks on Arrival Island, or whatever the place was called, trying to get my ugly noob avatar to look better so that I was fit to be seen. I'm gay after all, you have to at least try to look your best at any given moment...

As this was back in the day before Linden Lab provided us with the beautiful starter avatars and I lacked the necessary talent I finally gave up and ventured out into the world.

The first thing I looked for when I decided to venture away from Arrival Island, was anything related to Sweden, the second thing was anything to do with sex, preferably the gay variety. The Swedes ignored me completely, while the gays used me for mutual sexual gratification. Within an hour of leaving Arrival Island I was equipped with 10-15 dicks of various sorts, one of which took me far into the skies when I attached it.

After having used SecondLife for quick satisfaction and pixel-sex for a month or so I actually started talking to people before, during and/or after the quickies. My visits started to get longer and I started to make acquaintances, well more like fuck buddies but anyway...

Someone took pity on me and showed me where and how I could get my avatar to look better and where I could meet people for more than sex. I was introduced to Boots Gay Beach and the Devil Inside club (the "only" gay club to be for a while before it was destroyed by drama). I met good people, kind people and of course my share of assholes. I fell in love with Ars, we moved in together and built a life and family together at Southern Charm. Ars died and I seriously considered dropping out of SL, but then there was Southern Charm. I just couldn't leave it, everything there was a reminder of him and I did not want to lose it.

A little before Ars passed away I had reached out to the Swedish community again, with better luck this time. My countrymen and my SecondLife family were extremely supportive throughout my whole grieving process and involved me with community events, with parties and with people etc, etc. And my saga continues from there with a new love, new friends and new involvements and obligations.

So I came to SecondLife out of curiosity, I returned for the sex and continued for the the people, all the wonderful people I have met here.

All in all, it has been an amazing experience and I don't regret it for a second. I now know I'm going to stay here until Linden Lab pulls the plug in San Francisco, hopefully with a new and improved world waiting for me, my love, my family and my friends.

Happy #Bock3000DaysInSL to you all - and may we have many, many more!

Wesley´s 5th Anniversary as DJ in SecondLife

So this night I set my alarm clock to 2:30 AM local time, because I sure as hell was not going to miss the surprise celebration of Wesley Spengler´s fifth anniversary as a DJ in SecondLife.

Me and Wes go way back. I think the first time I heard him was at Devil Inside, when it was the "only" gay club around, or at least the only place to be if you wanted to see all the beautiful male avatars assembled in one place.

Back in those days Wesley still used to do a set on a Euro-friendly time. Nowadays he is mostly on between 7 - 9PM SLT which is in the middle of the night for us. I only get to listen to him spin when I am on vacation.

I am happy I managed to get up tonight to catch the celebration. Armed with a pot of freshly brewed coffee and a pack of Marlboro´s I was ready to teleport to the Pavilion, Wes´s own wonderful club in SecondLife. The Pavilion is really one of the most beautiful clubs in SecondLife.

The venue was full of old-timers and a lot of "fresh meat" also, everyone in an excellent, chatty mood. As always when I have finished a teleport I move out of the way - so as not to block any newcomers entry and end up with avatars on my coiffure. As all of us know, moving when nothing has rezzed is a bit of a risk but this time I was lucky and ended up next to Ziggy Starsmith and Larz Kaz.

Larz Kaz showing off

Ziggy

 

 

 

 

 

Jeff Ellsworth dancing

Larz and myself, grooving

Vaan Astin in the mood

Wesley shows us his moves

 

I am so happy that Kharissa Indigo remembered to invite me to this party, I loved being there and crawled back to bed again after two hours of fun and partying. I slept like a log.

Dekho Dekho Bollywood Stars

Look, look at all the Bollywood stars having fun...

Pic of Panta found in Google Images

I used to have a friend in SecondLife, Pantaiputih Korobase, who used to have an Indian pop radio channel streaming on his sim. I always loved visiting there.

I met Panta at the Devil Inside Gay Dance Club, which in my early days was the only gay club that counted.

It was a fun place in those days, not an IM-heaven like most places seem to be nowadays, where the only people that talk to you are the owner/host or the DJ. Mostly if anyone else speaks to you they do it in IM and then only when they are hitting on you. And if you speak to them they think you are hitting on them (sigh)

We all had fun together and the banter in local chat at the DI-club was inspired, humorous and hilarious. Yikes, I must be getting old and nostalgic.

Sadly I lost contact with Panta after I hooked up with Ars. Panta has since moved on to OpenSim so I never see him these days.

Today Was Ars Rezday

October 25th, 2006, was the first day the avatar named Ars Northmead rezzed into SecondLife. Today would have been his fourth rezday.

As many of you already know Doug, the man behind the avatar, passed away on March 12th, 2010, after a battle with double pneumonia, so Ars will never again rez into SecondLife.

Ars was the most loving, caring and tender man I have ever known in any world. He was also among the most intelligent, warmhearted, creative, fiercely loyal, humorous, pig headed and stubborn men in both worlds. Hell I could throw all the positive adjectives in the dictionary at you, and some of the negative also - of course.  

But I am not impartial concerning Ars and never will be.

When I first came to SecondLife, I very soon received a few advances for partnering, setting up house together and what have you. People told me they loved me after an hour´s conversation, or four days acquaintanceship or - in the slow cases - three weeks.

I thought to myself, "What is wrong with these people? What the f**k are they talking about? I am never ever going there, they are crazy!" All that skepticism ended when I got to know Ars.

I remember the first time I noticed him, long before - well, a few months before - I ever dared speak to him personally. It was at the Devil Inside Club. The DI was at the time "the only" club to be for most of the gay men in SecondLife. I was shown to this club in the summer of 1997 by a friend named Drizz McMillan, who has since left SecondLife. 

Ars was wearing the cutest hat, which was what first caught my eye. After awhile I understood he was the DJ and I heard his voice and laughter - and I was charmed senseless.  

This was when my "Stalking Ars-period" started. I joined the "sarco sound group" and actually went to any and every set the DJ´s in that group ever played that were possible in my time zone. That finally ended when Ars and I started talking with each other. Then I was caught - forever. 

I have been rummaging through my overladen inventory for pictures of Ars. I found several hundred, here I would like to share a few with you all.