Second Pride Festival, Friday June 30

Poster by Kahvy Smith

Rusty Redfield Interviews Tomais

My friend and co-blogger Rusty Redfield today published an interview on his blog with the renowned SecondLife photographer Tomais Ashdene, a.k.a. "the husband unit".

It's a wonderful interview, you should all read it!

Tomais Ashdene, photo by Rusty Redfield

Playing with the Big Boys; 100: With Tomais Ashdene at his gallery show

Zeus - The Grand Re-Opening

Yesterday was the grand re-opening of the Zeus Gay Club and O.M.G. what an opening it was! Everyone was there at some point during the festivities.

L to R: Pook Cypher, my Tomais, J.J. Goodman. me and Rylan Sirnah

The owner Michelangelo Vilota and the rest of the extremely large Vilota family and Zeus crew took the opportunity to show off all the beautiful and scenic new venues that had been created by the talented architect and builder Fran Ghoststar, a.k.a. Arteo.

I was too lazy to take pictures, except for the one above, but my friends and co-bloggers Carl Paneer and Rusty Redfield were more active and can offer you many more pictures the parties. Head on over to Carl's blog NakedCarl: Zeus Grand Re-opening and Rusty's blog Playing with the Big Boys: 079: The re-opening party for the Zeus Gay Club.

Hand-to-Hand Combat

In the presence of Emperor Stephanus and Praetor Gambit (above) a gladiators tournament was held at Romanum yesterday.

The event was a part of the ongoing GA SummerFest and in celebration of the Gay Archipelago's seventh anniversary.

 I visited the event with my husband Tomais and our friend Vexsten, we were joined by our friend Rusty (above). The rest of the audience was not large, but extremely enthusiastic.

The Rectoris Gladiatoris Austen functioned as a master of ceremonies of sorts. He explained the proceedings to those of us who were not well acquainted with such events.

There were six gladiators present. They were paired of to give us three near-mortal fights.

 

After those fights the three winners of the first jousts got to meet each other in a free for all.

 

The last man standing and winner of this fight was the gladiator Gaius (above), at least in my opinion, although the Rectoris Gladiatoris declared that the victory was shared by Gaius and Tybalt. It is true that Gaius lost consciousness immediately after he had beaten Tybalt, but as far as I could see he was somehow defeated by a gladiator who wasn't among the three finalists.

Gaius receives his due reward (above) by getting a kiss from the gladiator Januarius, whom he had defeated in the final.

The Rectoris Gladiatoris then called in all six gladiators, brought in three lionesses (who did not wish to be photographed) and joined in himself in a final fight, with all against all and the lions.

The winner of the final fight was the gladiator Tybalt (below), this time fairly and squarely knocking all of the rest unconscious and killing some lionesses too.

Slipshod Security at Second Pride Festival?

Do we need to nail Security Chair Sutry's (nonexistent) balls to the wall for insufficient security at the Second Pride Festival this year? Perhaps even the rest of the Second Pride board should be held responsible for being negligent (some of whom do have large hairy balls, I'm almost certain)?

Well, I suggest you read this truly shocking eyewitness report by blogger Rusty Redfield (picture left) concerning a possible serious security lapse two days ago and then come back and tell me what you think.

You can read Rusty's heart wrenching testimonial here: Playing with the Big Boys; "035:...".