The
Red Square and the
Vasilij Cathedral in
Second Moscow looked calm as usual from afar yesterday, but if you got closer you could see that there was something out of the ordinary going on.
A handful of women and three men had gathered outside the cathedral. One of the men was The Much Honored
Bock McMillan, laird of Southern Charm, prince of Cascade Falls and sovereign ruler of The Southern Enchantment Region with Outer territories. All of us wore the brightly colored knitted balaclavas that have become the trademark of the Russian feminist punk rock protest group
Pussy Riot.
Pussy Riot is of course well known for staging unauthorized provocative guerrilla performances in unusual public locations. Their lyrical themes include feminism, LGBT rights, opposition to the policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom they rightfully regard as a dictator.
The gathering had been - or so I believe - organized by
Vanessa Blaylock, virtual world artist and blogger, today going under the name
Yoko Ono. We were there for a Pussy Riot Solidarity manifestation and I was also there to protest the infamous and homophobic Russian
"gay propaganda" laws.
We started crawling all over the place, some of us assembled on a statue while others somehow managed to get up onto the roof of the cathedral itself. A while later I jumped up on the roof of a police car parked nearby.
When my buddy, the sexy, sublime, brilliant, humble etc., etc.,
Butch Diavolo arrived I started using him as part of my protest by pointing at him and shouting:
"Look at Butch Diavolo, he is the incarnation of GAY PROPAGANDA!"
I was at the manifestation for an hour and 49 minutes and had loads of fun. However, my bosom buddy
Apmel Goosson, who was there in the guise of his alt
Ms. Apmelina Slingshot, reports on his blog
"My Avatar's Name Is Apmel" that the real fun didn't start until after I had left. Apparently all the protesters and the Moscowites that had joined them were thrown off the sim and banned.
It seems totally unfair to me that Apmel always gets to have all the fun. That man has been banned in more places than the infamous performance artist
SaveMe Oh, whom I for some reason am starting to suspect is non other than Vanessa Blaylock, but it may be my post-election paranoia playing pranks with me.
Update 11/12/13: The video is taken down by YouTube with a peculiar statement of reasons.
Pyotr now faces up to 15 days of administrative arrest for disorderly conduct.
