"Everyone Is A DJ..."

Ars, who himself was a DJ, often used to say "Everyone is a DJ in SecondLife!" As the years have gone by I have found that his assessment is close to the truth. Surprisingly many of my friends or acquaintances have on some occasions tried it.

Recently I learned that my friend Mirco, a.k.a. Schatzi by me, has a regular set every Saturday at The Midnight Museum region with music from the '80s. This evening I had the pleasure of being there.

Mirco at the deck

Now I am eagerly awaiting the day that my sweet husband Tomais will inform me that he also wishes to start DJ-ing.

New Line of Men's Underwear

Mein schatz, my friend, my squatter and the famous SecondLife designer of underwear Mirco Dinzeo yesterday told me about a new collaboration he has begun with Castello Sands in designing underwear for men with the Niramyth Aesthetic body under the label "CM".

He sent me a few samples and I thought I should share them with you. (Which forced me to do a long overdue update of my Niramyth mesh body)

The boxers are modeled by the world renowned runway model Bockalicious (All those famous people only go by one name, you know!)

When Dej Disappeared (Update)

I haven't been able to see my brother Dej at all during the last week, not even his tag. I couldn't figure out what had happened or what was wrong.

Everyone else we asked saw him perfectly well, but not I. 

Dej in a screenshot when Mirco shares his screen on Skype

What I saw on my screen

With the help of Mirco and his friend Miro Collas, we finally figured out what it was and then I understood when, where and how I had messed. I feel like such a noob!

Tomais, Dej and I visited The Men's Department a week ago for some serious shopping. 

As always the place was full of eager shoppers, so I did what usually do in those laggy circumstances, with one fatal exception. I marked all the other shoppers and derendered them, but instead selecting to do so temporarily I selected permanently. 

So my poor beautiful, meshified, albeit much older brother ended up being blacklisted on my screen. It was a great relief to finally see his sweet face again.

Thanks for the help Mirco and Miro!
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Update 8/13/2017
If you are using the Firestorm viewer my friend Anonymous has a nifty trick for you on how to derender all avatars at a busy event and then to render them again later with only two clicks.

I may have learned this once upon a time, but had since then managed to forget it. There is no better way to remember things than by repetition, especially if you are a forgetful and absentminded person like yours truly.

A Scent of Man

My brother Dejerrity Mycron, the well known philanderer and man eater of SecondLife, is of course renowned for his humility, devastating charms and his non-Mesh beauty.

His longtime admirer Mirco Dinzeo, owner and creator of Dinzeo™ in SecondLife and first life, is now releasing a line of men's care products in celebration of the iconic Dej.

First in line is this perfume. "...the scent of Excess, Desperation and Gin. Available at Macy's and Home Depot. ", as my sweet brother - with his usual self effacing humor - chose to describe it to try and cover his pride over having a perfume named after him.

SP Hugs 31 - 35

Kane Hawksby

Mirco Dinzeo

Tomais Ashdene, my love, and JJ Goodman standing by showing off some of his best assets

JJ Goodman, with hubby checking that nothing untoward happens...

Kane Hawksby

The Over The Rainbow Tribute For Ars - Event Pictures by J.J. Goodman

Hottie B Lockjaw

Kharissa Indigo

The Disco Biscuits, with guest star Kharissa

Bambi Flores, Hottie & Kharissa

Hottie & Bambi

JJ Goodman & Fordis Flores

Jeb Nicholls

Miss Pieni, my niece

Syllie Whitfield & her Royal Majesty Queen BM Oh

Mirco Dinzeo

Dejerrity & Tomais

Cayson Triellis & Jay

The Smith Boys (Kahvy & Garrett) with Syllie & BM

Kahvy

Kane Hawksby

Shutterbug niece

BM

Challenging the Venerable Ms. Oh

As I was busy cleaning up a part of Southern Charm yesterday in preparation for Mirco Dinzeo moving in, my client the scary Ms. SaveMe Oh snuck up on me and almost made me soil myself.

For those who do not know Ms. Oh, or do not know off her, she is an extraordinary performance artist, machinima maker and general nuisance in SecondLife who has gained a reputation for getting banned and ejected all over the grid by meddlesome busybodies who do not appreciate her outspoken manners and her attempts at "invigorating" exhibitions, concerts and events that fail to meet her high standards by taking over with one of her own ad hoc performances. For some reason the two of us have, however, always gotten along famously and she has honored me by appointing me as her legal counsel.

At first we said nothing at all, as SaveMe first walked around me in circles pretending not to notice me and then tried to hide from me while I was busy keeping an eye on her activities. Finally I broke the silence and bid her welcome back to Southern Charm (She had been there the evening before for a concert by Ultraviolet Alter in a sim-covering and colorful installation by Betty Tureaud).

She was telling me about her trials and tribulations in the narrow minded art world of SecondLife and that she was now contemplating making one last dramatic manifestation by hanging herself in one of my - according to her - far too many trees.

I was moved by her story and after having begged her to find somewhere else for "the final performance" I sent her a hug-request, which she - after several questions, much hesitation and me calling her out as a coward - finally accepted.

During our encounter my Tomais had snuck in unnoticed and was sitting and watching us from the gazebo. When I saw my lovely husband I ran up to him and happily greeted him with a hug too.

Tomais and I had a busy day scheduled so we said our goodbyes to SaveMe and left her to her own devices at the skating area. She seemed quite happy and was entertaining herself with a light show.

(You can read SaveMe Oh's own account of our encounter on SaveMe Oh's Weblog: Hiding At My Lawyers (url).)

"It Gets Better" in SecondLife

 

The It Gets Better Project (url) was created in first life to show young LGBT people the levels of happiness, potential, and positivity their lives will reach – if they can just get through their teen years. The project was initiated by the gay activist, syndicated sex advice columnist and author Dan Savage together with his partner Terry Miller to inspire hope for young people facing harassment.

I was happy to note, during my wanderings at the Second Pride festival sims yesterday, that this worthwhile project has now also spread into SecondLife. Although in a different format, posters instead of videos, the message resounding from them is loud and clear and will hopefully help young people in SecondLife that they are not alone and that things actually will get better.

You will find the It Gets Better booth in the Buenos Aires shopping district.

Here are a few of the individual testimonials.

The Yifus

Ra Deemster

Mirco Dinzeo, fabulous underwear creator (among many other things)

The always delightful Kharissa Indigo (SP2012 board member)

DJ Cupric "The Coop" Router and Jagger Naughton

Last - but not least - my brother in-law Jeb Nicholls, making the family proud