Meeting Millimina

My beloved sister in SecondLife Millimina Salamander and I have not met much during the last few months. We have had different schedules and both of us have also had first life commitments to deal with. We have kept in touch by occasional e-mails but it is still not quite the same thing.

During the time we haven't met much, Millimina and the other Swedes living on Solace Island were, with short notice as always, evicted when the owner decided to shut down that sim. Three of the refugees from Solace Island,  Millimina and two of my other Swedish friends Apmel Goosson and Kandinsky Beaumont, in that situation decided to get their own homestead - Mount Whitney - and share it between themselves.

Yesterday I got a surprising Instant Message from Milli, who was in-world to pay her share of the monthly tier before some "very important" football match (that's soccer for you Americans) started on television. She asked if she could come by to talk a little and see my new home. I of course gladly welcomed this possibility to meet her again, even if it was only a brief meeting.

As it always is with old close friends we quickly caught up with what had been going on with each others life's and I showed her my new chateau. She of course loved it thoroughly, she also completely supported my decision to make the change and was not at all surprised that I had finally reached the point of no return. It felt good to have her support in this matter as some of my friends have been worrying about my somewhat "dramatic" and "surprising" decision to tear down the old home I had had together with Ars and put up this new building in it's place.

After a tour of my new home we teleported over to her new place so that I could take a look at it. It was quite a change from the place Millimina had previously owned at Solace Island but I fell in love with it. You can follow what she is made of the new place on her blog "Magasin Millimina".

As opposed to many "hausfraus" or even silly gay men in SecondLife (read as me, myself and I) she has understood that one does not need a house with a bathroom, kitchen bedrooms etc. in SecondLife. You need a place you love that is designed after your own liking which you can use as a starting and ending point, entertain friends at and rez stuff in. She hired a wonderful and talented landscaper Kaja Lurra to work with her on her vision of a place based on the word "abandoned". It has become a wonderful little place in a run-down and deserted sort of way,

However, I am maintaining that Millimina has built a bedroom and all the other rooms in some of the many containers that are standing in her abandoned harbour, these are of course also where she has stored her vast collection of sex-gens. I don't care if she denies it, because thats my story and I am sticking to it!

Our meeting ended with reciprocal assurances that we must meet more often in the future and that we would invite the other to a housewarming part as soon as possible before Millimina had to log off to see that oh so important football match on television. She is a complete and utter sports freak!

What Are Words - Chris Medina

I thank my sister Millimina Salamander for pointing me towards this song.

"What Are Words" - lyrics by Chris Medina
Anywhere you are, I am near
Anywhere you go, I'll be there
Anytime you whisper my name, you'll see
How every single promise I keep
Cuz what kind of guy would I be
If I was to leave when you need me most

What are words
If you really don't mean them
When you say them
What are words
If they're only for good times
Then they don't
When it's love
Yeah, you say them out loud
Those words, They never go away
They live on, even when we're gone

And I know an angel was sent just for me
And I know I'm meant to be where I am
And I'm gonna be
Standing right beside her tonight

And I'm gonna be by your side
I would never leave when she needs me most

What are words
If you really don't mean them
When you say them
What are words
If they're only for good times
Then they don't
When it's love
Yeah, you say them out loud
Those words, They never go away
They live on, even when we're gone

Anywhere you are, I am near
Anywhere you go, I'll be there
And I'm gonna be here forever more
Every single promise I keep
Cuz what kind of guy would I be
If I was to leave when you need me most

I'm forever keeping my angel close

BIL & Bock Teaser

Andrey Messmer, my darling brother in-law (BIL), and I will be celebrating our fourth rezday in SecondLife together on Saturday March 19th, 2011.

Everyone is welcome to celebrate this momentous day with us so you better be there or be square!

This party starts at 12:00 PM (noon) SLT (20:00 CET or 07:00 PM GMT) and goes on until next weekend or some point before that when we all get too tired.

I know there are a lot of other huge Swedish and International events going on at the same time, so it´s totally understandable if you cannot come or just drop bye for a glass of champagne and a piece of birthday cake.

For more information and updates please visit my sister Millimina Salamander, our party organizer together with my son Guyke , blog "Magasin Millimina".

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I have already been asked several times what I wish for my rezday and my answer is always: "Something you made yourself!"

Here are a few suggestions
- a sonnet in my honor or to my beauty, boldness or whatever,
- a poem declaring your love,
- a picture of yourself (nudity is optional) or
- a colored ball or a cube or anything else you have made yourself.
Just keep it personal.

seeing spOts, being dOts

Synopsis "Let us suppose that we're all just a temporary mishmash of dots on a screen. All of our energy, personality and uniqueness is just a collection of bouncing color dots creating seemingly meaningful patterns we call a virtual world. Zoom in and you are a sea of dots with no form. Zoom back and you're just a spot on the map."

Credits Visual Art - Juria Yoshikawa (Lance Shields) Sound - Nnoiz Papp (Tobias Becker) Videography - Evo Szuyuan (Brigit Lichtenegger) --- Go to my sister Millimina Salamanders blog Milliminas Magasin to read her interview with the awesome musician Nnoiz Papp.

Well What Can I say?

That´s it folks, with two pictures I have tried to sum up my whole experience for you - because I am speechless here still!

My sister Millimina blogged about it tho "Magasin Millimina" (in Swedish, but use the Google Translator).

Ah Yes, I Remember It Well

My little sister Millimina Salamander is reminiscing on her blog "Magasin Millimina" today, about The Killers and their song "Human". That got me thinking about this delicious jewell with Hermione Gingold and Maurice Chevalier in "Gigi".

He: "Am i getting old?"
She: "Oh no, not you!"

In Second Life 1,5 - 2 years are like 10 - 25 years in real life, but like in real life it is the women who remember the details best while we men mostly remember what we choose to remember.

A Wonderful Post

A part of my blogging ritual is to take a look at what other bloggers have posted.

One of the blogs I always read is my dear friend Millimina Salamanders blog "Magasin Millimina".

Today there is a wonderful post about showing feelings, you can read it here. Do not miss the video there either.

The athletes´ public letter to their fans

Way to go, guys and girls!

In English the appeal reads something like this:

Open letter to our fans

We have many times represented Sweden, stood up for the national anthem and watched the Swedish flag being hoisted in honor of our country.
Sport is about brotherhood, to fight for every victory, but to always respect each other and never ever look down on anyone because of their color, their origin, their name. Racism and sport do not mix, sport is about that everyone can compete on equal terms and without discrimination. The same should apply in the rest of society.
Therefore, we wish to appeal to all of you directly, who have supported us and stood up for us.
We ask you, for Sweden's sake, do note vote for a xenophobic party in the elections on Sunday so that they enter the Swedish parliament.
Stand up for the values that sports, and our country, stand for, that which makes us all proud, that all humans are of equal value. Stand up against racism and xenophobia."
(Ughh the translation isn´t really worse than the original. I have tried to stay true to the original but I haven´t seen so many parenthetical subordinate clauses in the past 20 years. Lets let the good intentions count!)

And when you have read this you should go look at this video on "Magasin Millimina" and listen to what a few other Swedes have to say.

Miss Wigstock 2010

I had a fabulous time last night!

I went to the 4th annual finals of "Miss Wigstock 2010" at the Marduk Theatre on the Pride-sim with my friends Millimina Salamander, Guyke Lundquist and Janttu Winkler. For a short while we were joined by one of the most handsome men in SL, the charmingly flirtatious Loch Wolfhunter.

The sim was soon filled to the limit and the lag was rough, but that has to be expected at popular events like this. Unfortunately I crashed on two occasions, but succeeded in coming back in, so I was still happy.

My main reason for going to this event was to support my brother in law Dejerrity Mycron, who was one of the finalists.

The nine contestants were all amazingly beautiful with gorgeous gowns and outfits, all done in a tongue-in-cheek way. The hairdos were particularily interesting and amusing.

Each of the contestants performed a party song and a torch song. The "Mistress of Ceremonies" was the always charming, but self-admittedly somewhat confused, Queen Edman. Queen was the one who brought the contest to SL from RL four years ago.

For a full and objective account of the occasion please go to Milliminas blog, "Magasin Millimina", because I only had eyes for Dej. For both songs Dej had chosen the classicly sublime gowns and hairdos that reminded us all of the glory days of Joan Crawford.

Dej was supported on the stage by his own back-up boys the always stunning Jeb Nicholls, another of my brother in laws, and the hot Protactinum Thor. (Alas the beautiful green gown did not rez properly for Millimina.)

The winner of the contest was MJshotboy Skytower, but I still think Dej was the best (but I admit I am not impartial in this matter).

Photos courtesy of Millimina Salamander, I was to busy to even think of taking pictures.

Lär er mer om livet som spermie!

Läs Millimina Salamanders blogg "Magasin Millimina" och använd er sedan av SLurl:en som hon tillhandahåller!

Det är fan inte så enkelt att vara man som vissa kvinnor tror, ja vissa män också för den delen...

Nakna avatarer i SL 74

Annabella Lundquist har gjort sig känd som en oersättlig kugge i varje större event inom svenska SL. Hon har en välutvecklade känsla för utsmyckning och arbetar flitigt tills det blir som hon vill ha det. Dessutom  kommer hennes oerhörda omtänksamhet och vänlighet till nytta som värdinna på både hennes eget café i SL och som värdinna vid de event där hon medverkar.

Dessa talanger överträffas dock vida av hennes skönhet, som ni ser av det bidrag hon har skickat in. Det påstås av Annabella vara från den tid då hon "var ung och oblyg i SL", men vi vet alla att Annabella är en strålande skönhet!

Läs mer om Annabella här på "Magasin Millimina"

Jadå, ni är fortfarande välkomna att skicka era bidrag till mig antingen inworld eller till min mejl lundamats@gmail.com

Yes, you are still welcome to send your contributions to me either inworld or to my mail lundamats@gmail.com

Nakna avatarer i SL 68

Min vän och allas vår Wildstar Writer, mest känd som Wild, är en av SLs mest framgångsrika singer/songwriters i countrygenren. Han är sedan några veckor även delägare till en alldeles egen "live music venue" som heter "Wild and more". 

Vad jag inte visste innan jag hade läst "Magasin Millimina" och själv besökt "Wild and more" är att Wild även är en mycket duktig fotograf i både RL och SL. Besök gärna hans utställning på "Wildstars Art & Photogallery", den ger verkligen mersmak.

Här nedan visar Wild oss två underbara exempel på sin fotokonst, fast med just det läckra motivet som hans egna hunkiga avatar utgör hade det väl svårt för någon att misslyckas.

Jadå, ni är fortfarande välkomna att skicka era bidrag till mig antingen inworld eller till min mejl lundamats@gmail.com

Yes, you are all still welcome to send your contributions to me either inworld or to my mail lundamats@gmail.com  

Marsdeb på återbesök

Jag var på OrmDrickas söndagsparty i full - nåja - läderutstyrsel när jag samtidigt fick IM från Guyke och Millimina om att nu hade Marsdeb loggat in, den avatar som Ars RL familj skapade för att delta vid hans minneshögtid. Det blev ett hastigt klädbyte! (Längre fram på kvällen noterade Guyke, att jag hade två olika skor på mig, dessutom var en svart och den andra brun...)

Nu kom alltså Marsdeb (genom en av Doug´s systrar) på återbesök i SL. Jag samlade snabbt ihop de SL-familjemedlemmar som fanns inworld. Underbara som de är kom de genast trots den sena europeiska timman. Det blev Guyke Lundquist, Janttu Winkler, Millimina Salamander och jag själv. Ars bror Dejerrity Mycron var inte inworld när vi började men anslöt på slutet

Efter att inledningsvis ha visat delar av hemmasimen igen och det nya underbara och permanenta minnesmärket som Tymus Tenk har skapat på Mirromere, så tröttnade vi på Marsdebs "noob-look", särskilt hennes "duckwalk". Vi beslutade oss därför för att ge henne en radikal makeover!!!

Det följde några roliga timmar men till slut hade vi ändå gjort om Marsdeb till en "Foxy lady".

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Marsdeb på Southern Charm efter makeover

Foto: Millimina Salamander

Jag var själv alldeles för upphetsad för att dokumentera det hela - i vanlig ordning. Note-to-self: Remember you have a blog!

Nu hade vi turen att Millimina Salamander hade mer sinnesnärvaro så ni kan läsa mer och se bilder, hos Magasin Millimina

Nå eftersom modeoraklet Millimina inte berättar i sitt inlägg vart shoppingrundan gick kan jag ju göra det här:
Shape & skinn från Hank Larsons "PXL"
Hår från Carina Larsens "Amacci"
Skor från - naturligtvis - min vän Adrina Welders "AW Design"
AO från "Vista Animations"

Kläderna minns jag inte, det får ni fråga Millimina om...