Sponsored Event: The McMillan Ball

Poster by Kahvy Smith

Tonight's the night, you have waited for a whole year. It's time again for The McMillan Ball, a formal dance at Second Pride. Tartan's are highly encouraged for this event.

Ballroom dancing until your feet fall off to music by DJ Kahvy Smith and charming hosting by Garrett Smith.

This event is sponsored by Bock in SecondLife.

Second Pride Festival Starts Today

The Second Pride Festival 2016 starts today!

This is going to be so fun and exciting! I'm sure it will be "the best Pride ever", somehow that is mostly the feeling I walk away with at the end of every festival.

Just being there, meeting the people you like but still haven't seen much of since last Pride because our timezones are different and our circles don't overlap. Every year it is also exciting to make new friends - who may become "Pride friends" but, with any luck, closer.

Bock in SecondLife is going to be there - of course - and I will eagerly report back to you almost everything I encounter, but perhaps a bit more sparsely this year as I will not start my vacation until Midsummer's Eve, which is next Friday.

To celebrate the Pride Festival I have made a blog header of my own, I forgot to consult my clever and talented husband Tomais in time. I am graphically challenged but it will suffice for the coming nine days.

I hope to see you all at Bock in SecondLife's booth at Second Pride South or at the blog's event on this Saturday, 2-4PM SLT, when I and Kahvy are starting a new tradition - hopefully - with this event.

Millimina Approves!

I am studying my beautiful loved ones and trying to guess what is going on between them

Dimi & Mark Tarantello, DJ Sarco, Tomais and Millimina

Yesterdays SP Winter Ball took place in the beautiful ballroom that the amazing Jak Calcutt, SP Build Director, has set up in a magnificent castle over the Second Pride sim.

Jak must have had his little helper Karl Kalchek, SP Community Relations Director, polishing the floor for weeks. It was so shiny in fact that I was relieved that I did not go commando in my family tartan, which had been one of my clothing options for this illustrious evening.

Dej and I

Tomais and Guyke

My sister Millimina dropped in unannounced and unexpectedly to give Tomais the third degree. Both parties were extremely discreet, however Millimina later informed me that my chosen lover had been vetted and met with her approval. Jubilation!

Lights, Music & Dance!

Big Momma's Ballroom had its season opening yesterday. The beautiful place is owned and operated by my friends BM Oh and Kahvy Sands.

The venue was filled with dance enthusiasts who had sorely missed this entertainment since the venue closed at the beginning of summer. As an added treat we had live entertainment provided by the awesome singer Chi (Inchino Melson). 

A picture says more than a thousand words, so let me tell you about the rest of the wonderful evening in pictures!

Kahvy gets dipped by his partner Thomas

My old friend  the gorgeous and daring May Llewellyn with partner Valter

Chi

BM and her lover /dance partner handsome Chad

My regular partner Jayde has found an amazingly stunning
and charming new dance partner  by the name of JB Goode

JB, Jayde, BM and Chad

I found a charming new dance partner and friend in the sweet, but naughty, Eeva Rasmuson from Finland

Oh I almost forgot the best picture captured of me yesterday by the paparazzi Kahvy himself..

BM and I go at it early in the evening
Photography by Kahvy Sands

Ballroom Dancing with Jayde

I had received an invitation to the Christmas Dance at Big Momma´s Ballroom from my friend Kahvy Sands. Well "invitation" may be too nicely put, it was more like a command but I was looking forward to the dance anyway, I always have a good time there.

Due to a nap that lasted too long I was late getting there but my initial sleepy confusion was made up for by the fact that the beautiful Jayde was there. We have met and danced before and she always makes me look good. We had an absolutely wonderful time!

I had a small altercation with Guyke about my use of the word "francophone" in a previous post. He made it quite clear to me that his native tongue is Dutch although he speaks French well. I responded that I am a well educated man with more than a fleeting interest in and knowledge of many things in the world and that I was well aware of the difference between the Dutch-speaking and French-speaking populations of Belgium and having know him for five years also of the fact that  he is Flemish and not a Walloon.

Well, what is a little tiff among family members, I love him and he loves me anyway!

Bock Comes Home

Oh what an evening! I started my reentry much later than originally scheduled due to an unexpected maintenance nap that lasted longer than planned and left me dazed and believing I am going mad. (And I can already hear the snickering "Did he write ´going mad´, that dude has been mad as a blind hatter for years!") Anyhow, I may tell you about that in a post sometime.

The evening started with my friend Kahvy Sands reminding me that I had been invited to a ballroom dance that evening, and was late.

I felt like young Anton Hysén floating all over the floor like I had never done anything else. It was of course my dance partner Ms Jayde who made me look good, with some help from the Intan dance ball.

After the ballroom dancing I had a quick smoke and then a change of clothes to get my little ass over to the fundraiser for Second Pride 2012 at the French Le 5eme Élément Club.

The club is owned and operated by my old friend Helyo Mendes (we met at Second Pride 2008) and his business partner Lilou.

I was joined at the club by my wife-for-a-day Iendi Laville. We danced and chatted away in broken French and English to the great Techno Trance music of the cute and awesome DJ TITAZ. And you are correct, TITAZ is a bit blurry. We could not find anyone who could help translate the term "rebake" to French.

DJ TITAZ

Iendi

Iendi left me at a late/early hour but I was still not finished, so when I saw the notice from Kharissa Indigo that Wesley Spengler was having a set coming up at The Tribute I went there to round off my evening.

The room was packed with hunky and funny men chatting away like crazy in local, Wes and Khar are good at keeping the chat going in local and all the old-timers and the newcomers fall in.

Khar and Larz Kaz

 I had a wonderful time all evening, and it felt like coming home again.

Ballroom Dancing

The first time I met Kahvy Sands was in the summer of 2007. Already back then he was living together with his husband Rick and their friend BM "Big Momma" Oh. I went to a few parties the three friends arranged and always had a good time.

We lost touch a bit after I got together with Ars, but we kept on talking once in a while and sent each other cards for the holidays. I was invited to them today for a ball room dance to celebrate Big Momma´s rezday. The huge ballroom was full of beautiful women in gorgeous gowns and men in dreary tuxedos which they still managed to look dashingly handsome in.

I haven't danced ballroom in a while but with the directions from Kahvy - who was also the DJ - about which dances to choose on the Intan I must say I danced like a God and made my all dance partners - and myself - proud. 

Here are a few pictures.

Kahvy and I

Big Momma and I

Wannahave Ferraris and I

Finishing off with Kahvy again

It is amazing how easy it is to reconnect with old friends sometimes and to make some new ones too. I had a good chat with Big Momma and I must say she is nowhere close to the diva that I thought she might be when I first saw her. She is a really fun and kind woman and very genuine ("echt"). It was a pleasure to get to know her.