Heaven Around the Corner

Happy hour means more Mauro Scocco, this time with Lisa Nilsson and Driftwood. Enjoy!

As my loyal readers may have guessed by now, Mauro is one of my favourites...

Shocking Philip

I woke up in the middle of the night and went to my computer and there I found this shocking news on "The Second Life Blog". It´s an announcement posted by my favourite interim CEO Philip Linden on Oct 19, 2010 4:28:33 PM

"After about four months as interim CEO, working closely with Bob Komin, the management team, and the board, we've decided we are ready to start the search for a new CEO. I'll be leaving day-to-day management of the company and continuing in my role on the board, including helping in the search to find a great CEO. I will also be continuing my work with my new company, LoveMachine. Bob will lead Linden Lab while we conduct the search. It's been an intense few months of transition, and we all feel like we are in a better place now, with a clearer sense of direction and more focus, and are ready to bring someone new into the mix as a leader."

Philip, my darling Philip, how could you do this to me! I should think Bob is a great man, but I do not yet have the same trust in him as I have in you - and now you make the trust I placed in you seem totally misplaced.

My trust in Philip cam from him being "the original dreamer", than man who made my beautiful Second Life possible. I counted on him to understand who we - the day-to-day users experienced our world and what improvement and changes were necessary to make our experience better - more fast, fun ad easy.m I really do feel a bit betrayed, Philip, I also know the OutWorldzers and "Bastians" will ridicule me now for my belief and trust in you, that makes it even more heavy.

I don´t know Bob Komin at all, he really may be a perfectly decent guy, but I have no hopes stuck to him yet and no trust. I have to try sleep on this terrible news...

Swedish Blogger Arrested By Police

 

...but it wasn´t I, even if some people would wish it was! 

Unverified rumours say it is this blogger corruptio and the blogger has allegedly threatened a policeman. 

Some say the blogger is an ex-policeman, who has fired from the police and has since been condemned for some weapons-crimes.

The blogg  he has is said to mainly concern itself with "uncovering misdoings withing the police and defence forces.

The man is 43 years old and Lives in the town Landskrona with a wife and two children. The police have supposedly removed all the families computers for examination.

SDS
Nyheter24.se

Beautiful Boys, Beautiful Men

Richard Wulff sings his own beautiful song. (To lazy and tired to give you all a translation right now - sorry!)

To Coin a Phrase

'To coin a phrase' is now rarely used with its original 'invent a new phrase' meaning but is almost always used ironically to introduce a banal or clichéd sentiment. 

Well today I did invent a new phrase and I want myself and you all to remember it (Why does this suddenly make me think of "Los 33" quarelling half a mile under the surface, I wonder...) 

The auspicious momernt occured whe I was writing a a comment on "Tinas universum" where we were discussing shapeshifting. Someone had mentioned the phrase "Birds of a feather, flock together" and that set me off...

"Birds of a feather flock together" is an archaic and essentailly rural way to relate to the world I think.

There is so much more fun if we come together with all our idiosyncrasies and differences and different experiences.

Today I would therefore like to coin a new proverb; "Birds of different feather flock together, and also have more fun"

(Remember it was I, today and on this particular blog when the Swedish Academy's Dictionary Editors or other etymological scholars ask you where you saw it first!)"

Well I am a gay man who mostly prefers the company of a mixed nature rather than an all gay scene. I am also a Swede that has never had a Swedish lover (uhmmm well to be perfectly honest there have p-e-r-h-a-p-s been a few one nighters...) and I could go on, but will stop here. 

Oh while I am at it, just let me add one more thing. I am totally bored by Swedish bloggers saying "the Swedes" with a frown on their up-turned noses and suggesting that themselves are better, cleverer or brighter.

It´s only true that we may seem alike from a great distance, and as Swedes yourselves you simply don´t have that distance so don´t try to fool me, buster!

On Shapeshifting

Shapeshifting in Second Life - or other less important virtual worlds - is on some blogs sometimes presented as if it was an unheard of occurrence in human imagination.

It is by these bloggers portrayed as something so dramatic that only a few heroic, imaginative and openminded dare cross "the line".

Well it´s not, far from it...

The thoughts, myths and fantasies have been around for thousands and thousands of years. Not even shapeshifting between the sexes is new.

With the advent of Second Life I have at times heard it said that at least 40 percent of the female avatars are controlled by men, while the figure is a little lower for male avatars controlled by women.

I cannot honestly believe many would raise an eyebrow or feel provoked by this in the least. It´s funny, it´s entertaining but not really original anymore, in Second Life we more or less do it at everyother party, in less evolved virtual worlds perhaps more rarely - but I would not know much about that.

Read more about it here: "Wikipedia"

DJ Marathon for Second Pride

There is a Second Pride fundraiser today, twelve hours of the best DJ´s in SL.

Wooohooo I found the SLurl on Tainted boys blog Take me to the party! (Well Trace17 Junkers is on the Second Pride board so...)