Second Pride - Program

What would we all do without the help of our friends?

While I was extremely busy sleeping my dear friend Eddi Haskell published the full program for Second Pride 2011 on his blog Eddi Haskell´s Second Life

As Eddi is almost as proliferous at blogging as PetGirl Bergman used to be this is your direct link to the post with the program.

RAINBOW taxi to the Second Pride (SLurl)

The Second Pride Festival

 The SECOND PRIDE FESTIVAL
May 22nd to May 29th, 2011

Theme: International

The first Festival happened in 2005, it grew bigger in 2007 and remained a big event ever since. Every year is a different adventure as the Teams making it happen change every time, making it as diverse as our community by mixing various styles, concept and ideas each year to make every edition unique.

Making this happen in a diverse community is a challenge, especially in the Second Life virtual world as not only do people from different backgrounds meet, but to that we can add the different ethnicities, cultures, mindsets that we come across the grid which is accessible in most countries today.

Second Pride is a unique experience where we try to make sometimes very, sometimes less different people come together as one in a one week Festival of events. This is a unique human adventure to consider in advance as a thrilling roller coaster with all it's good and scary times but that everyone enjoys in the end and runs to climb back on for a second round !

Come and experience a taste of Global Pride, get out of your routine and take a shot of new things, new people, new ideas, learn to become aware of the globality of LGBT, to enjoy sharing and collaborating, setting aside self-focus, and growing to be a better person from this international sharing opportunity.

Warning To All Residents

Wild Zepp, spokesman for the McMillan household, today said that The Much Honored Bock McMillan, laird of Southern Charm, is planning his reimmersion into SecondLife tomorrow Saturday May 21st 2011 - if he survives the night. No parades please!

Residents are warned to keep their handsome male avatars, dogs and chickens indoors until further notice.

Recalculating Camping

Well, we have all heard the news. The end is nigh according to Harold Camping, it will hit us at midnight as the man-made timezones pass over the planet.

Actually the Rapture should already have started hitting in Japan, China, New Zealand, Australia and the Far East. The lifting of the holier-than-thou to heaven should already have started there and will hit Europe at midnight.

The rest of us heathens, gay and morally depraved unbelievers are going to experience a lot of earthquakes, brimstone rain, tsunamis and get to be turned into pillars of salt. All this will go on until the World as we know it finally comes to an end on October 21st.

I have been checking the Aussie on-line news papers - just in case - and there seems to be no reports of vanishing religious lunatics or any of the other signs.

Poor Harold Camping, now he must explain away - once again - how he got it all wrong. I think we can expect him to come up with a new date soon.

Czechs Test For Gayness

The European Union has slammed the Czech Republic's procedure of trying to measure the "gayness" of refugee claimants.

And just how does one measure someones "gayness"?

In the Czech Republic, officials force gay asylum seekers to watch straight porn while a doctor measures the movements of their penis. The goal is to prove that these refugees are actually "legitimately" gay.

This kind of procedure is not only indecent, it's a violation of human rights. Even the Czech Republic's human rights commissioner has called the practice "undignified.".

The Czech Embassy in Sweden tells the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan that the Czech government admitted that phallometri has been conducted a dozen times, but only rarely as a "last resort" and not as a general application of the method.

"A purely medieval method and a major violation of the right of individuals" is how the EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström describes the Czech authorities' methods in which gay men have undergone phallometric tests..

According to Cecilia Malmström, the EU is waiting for information from the Czech authorities to see if the issue can be pursued. She also notes that "We have a long way to go before we can say that we live in a completely tolerant Europe"

"Phallometry", refers to measurement of bloodflow to the male genital. The most commonly reported methods of conducting penile plethysmography involve the measurement of the circumference of the penis with a mercury-in-rubber strain gauge, or the volume of the penis with an airtight cylinder and inflatable cuff at the base of the penis.

I Owe You an Update

Well I whined publicly about my state of mind a few weeks ago so I guess I owe you an update now.

I saw my doctor today and we had a good long talk. The thing I like best about my doctor is that he really seems to listen to what I have to say. After listening to me he gives me his evaluation and his recommendations for the continued treatment, also taking into account the results of the biochemical blood work.

To sum it up he is pleased with my progress over the last year, the blood work has improved vastly and the chemical imbalances are mostly gone. He also tells me that it is not unusual that you experience a "plateau" after awhile with the medication I am on. All the same he recommends that I continue on the same treatment a while longer. He believes that a reason for my present emotional fatigue is a result of the burden I have experienced during the last year coupled with my heavy work load.

What I need is rest and a few weeks away from work to start feeling better again. I will see him again after the summer and then we will decide if changes are still needed.

Luckily I start my vacation of Friday, so I have five glorious weeks off from work!

I Love Norwegians!

I really do, but that doesn´t prevent me from making a little friendly fun of our "little rich brothers and sisters" on this day when they celebrate their 106th year as an independent nation!

Did I ever tell you all that my biggest crush as a young man in my early 20´s was a Norwegian guy named Rolf Erik, but alas he was only interested in American Jewish men - well for as long as I knew him.

Tillykke med dagen, norske venner! 



"Norway" the protest song (as translated by Bock McMillan)

It is said that one should not generalize,
and say for example that "Germany is not good"
One really shouldn´t do that, but this doesn´t apply 
to the country where Norwegians live. 

Norway, Norway,it is a rotten country. 
Norwegians, Norwegians, a fucking band of robbers. 
Norwegians, Norwegians, they fish bad cod.
So if you see a slob, and he stinks like rotten fish 
He is undoubtedly Norwegian. 

Yes, the Norwegians they are terrible,
so ugly and so small.
With ties that are disgusting with Norwegian flowers on. 
They fool around and fuss, and yodel and go on.
One wonders when one see´s them, how stupid can you be? 

Norway, Norway, it never rises "frem".
Norway, Norway, with the thousand "hjem".
Norway, Norway, you stain on our earth. 
We can feel the stench all the way down to the Dogger Bank 
from your Norwegian smorgasbord. 

We should give a real blow to Norway as a nation,
because they have so ugly mountains and have bad pensions too. 
They don´t make cars and the bikes they make are lousy 
and their only great poet, he is named Peter Dass. (Note: Dass is slang for toilet in Swedish) 

Norway, Norway, is the world's worst country. 
Norwegians, Norwegians, they should be taken care of.
Norwegians, Norwegians, the people that the Lord gave 
a hopeless mind and a forehead that is so low 
so that the hat keeps falling off"