A Question of Honour

Beautiful work by Iono Allen.

Musical Memories - Swedish Bloggers Relay

Cobra Starship - I Kissed a Boy (Music Video) from Max Welch on Vimeo.

This is a song I remember from the summer of 2008 (Yeah I know I rezzed in March 2007 but my memory is lousy about those first months - I dont think I actually found the music button until I met Ars...) This song was really huge on the SL gay scene! Ahh those were the days...

I remember them well, they were all about Ars, Ars, Ars, Ars and well Ars again and a bit of Guyke and Andrey too. I thought of Ars by day and dreamt of him by night. I hurried home from work to be with him, I stayed up too late to be with him.

Those were happy days! We worked on our house, we worked on our parcels at "Southern Charm", we hung out at "Ninth Wave Island" with Andrey, sarco, Yannis, Harley, Guyke and Orchid and the rest of the gang and their fans. We listened to all the "Sarco Sound" DJ´s as they trying out their music and sets.

Ah Yes, I Remember It Well

My little sister Millimina Salamander is reminiscing on her blog "Magasin Millimina" today, about The Killers and their song "Human". That got me thinking about this delicious jewell with Hermione Gingold and Maurice Chevalier in "Gigi".

He: "Am i getting old?"
She: "Oh no, not you!"

In Second Life 1,5 - 2 years are like 10 - 25 years in real life, but like in real life it is the women who remember the details best while we men mostly remember what we choose to remember.

Imagine John, you would be 70 today!

John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles and, with Paul McCartney, formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.

Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager, his first band, The Quarrymen, evolving into The Beatles in 1960. As the group began to undergo the disintegration that led to their break-up towards the end of that decade, Lennon launched a solo career that would span the next, punctuated by critically acclaimed albums, including John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine".

Happy imagined 70th birthday, John!

John Lennon - Imagine - For more of the funniest videos, click here


On my friend Eddi´s blog I found this great tip;
"To celebrate his birthday, visit the Imagine Peace Tower, a virtualized version of the one that Yoko Ono constructed in Iceland last year. Light shows go off every 20 minutes."

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Imagine%20Peace%20Tower/128/128/2

"Mass Immigration"

On my drive home from work this afternoon I heard a debate on the radio between Jimmie Åkesson, The Sweden Democrats Party, and Lars Ohly, The Left Party.

Did anyone hear the same debate and if so did any of you count how many times Chairman Jimmie used the word "massinvandring" (mass immigration)? Hillarious!

It really reminded me of the good old days in 2006-2007 when President George W Bush and all his cabinet members and staff couldn´t use the term "weapons of mass destruction" often enough.

Children in day care are killing me

I really hate it when my co-workers with children in day care bring their kids viruses to our workplace. I got hit with a new variety today...

As a childless man I am the most vulnerable, because I haven´t built up any resistance to their bloody infections.

Don´t they realize that the "common cold" killed millions of indians after Colombus stumbled over the Americas? And anyhow the infection I got this time must be the "uncommon cold".

Could someone please pass me the chicken broth?

One of the absolutely best thing about Second Life is you can meet people without the risk of contracting deadly disweases like the so called "common cold", by the way can we really be sure it´s not deadly anymore?

Rest in Peace, Harry

Harry Schein (13 October 1924, Vienna - 11 February 2006, Danderyd was an Austrian born Swedish writer and a major figure in Swedish culture.

Schein was a founder of the Swedish Film Institute and acted as its first Managing Director from 1963 to 1978.

He is best known for his role in pushing through the film reform of 1963, which ensured that 10 percent of the money from cinema ticket sales was handed to a central film organisation. This system guaranteed continuous production of Swedish films for several decades.

Harry Schein died sick and alone in the deepest misery after many years of severe alcoholism.

After Harry Schein's death a dispute about his will arose.  

On one side: Mr and Mrs Björn and Solveig Baldring who were Harry Scheins greedy neighbors, with whom he had little or no contact. On the other hand, Scheins gold-digging former mistress, Eva Fischer, who lived with Harry Schein, ten years before he passed away.

Attunda District Court decided in December last year that Eva Fischer had the right to Harry Schein's legacy of SEK 30 million, but the sentence was appealed by the defendant, Harry Schein's former neighbors, spouses Solveig and Björn Baldring, to the court of appeal.

The Svea Court of Appeal (Svea hovrätt) has today announced its ruling in the case. The decision upholds the  district court's ruling last year. Neighbors Solveig and Björn Baldring must also pay Eva Fischer's legal costs of around SEK 3.5 million.

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Rest in peace, Harry, the dirty fight is over!