Friday, May 13, 2011

Blogger Cockup

Well that was awful, Blogger screwed up during a scheduled maintenance, and now we are all suffering from withdrawal symptoms.

Some of my friends seem to have lost many posts also, or atleast they are not back yet. I haven´t noticed that problem on my blog though, but that could be because I have a poor memory..

Here is the explanation given by Eddie Kessler, Tech Lead/Manager at Blogger on Blogger Buzz today.


Bad things sometimes happen for no particular reason, we all know that, and sometimes when it starts happening it just piles up into a big muckheap.

Hopefully we can trust the promise that the lost posts will be restored during the next few days and that this will not happen again.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

12 Hours to Stop Uganda´s Anti-Gay Bill - Update May 13

In 12 hours, the Ugandan Parliament may vote on a brutal new law that carries the death penalty for homosexuality. Thousands of Ugandans could face execution -- just for being gay.

We've helped stop this bill before, and we can do it again. After a massive global outcry last year, Ugandan President Museveni blocked the bill's progress. But political unrest is mounting in Uganda, and religious extremists in Parliament are hoping confusion and violence in the streets will distract the international community from a second push to pass this hate-filled law. We can show them that the world is still watching. If we block the vote for two more days until Parliament closes, the bill will expire forever.

We have no time to lose.

SIGN PETITION HERE :
http://www.avaaz.org/en/uganda_stop_homophobia_petition/?cl=1054574191&v=9041


JUST DO IT!

Update: May 13, 2011, from Avaaz
Great news -- the bill has has been shelved! Together, we've won a major fight for equality and justice. Over 1.6 million of us signed the petition opposing the anti-gay bill, tens of thousands of us called our heads of state, and we helped make the attack on gay rights in Uganda a major international news story -- and it worked.


Today, under intense global pressure, the Speaker of the Ugandan Parliament blocked the anti-gay bill from coming to a vote in the emergency session. Now Parliament has closed and the bill has been wiped from the books. It's not necessarily gone for good, but to be considered again, it would have to be reintroduced as a new bill and go through the whole Parliamentary process -- which took 18 months last time.
Our global outcry made it clear that the world is watching, and demanding that human rights be respected everywhere. Today, we can join our friends in Uganda in celebration of a victory that could save thousands of lives

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Too Hard and Too Thick

This is not a picture of the traumatizing bedding

...and no, don´t you even go there, this post is about nothing other than hotel pillows, but you are otherwise correct in assuming that those two specific objections were never going to come from me.

The primatar of the Much Honored Bock McMillan, laird of Southern Charm and CEO of the BMcM Corporation, spent last night in a substandard hotel bed in real life.

In the hotels that he usually frequents guests are always offered a selection of at least three different types of pillows, not so in the one he stayed in last night. There were two pillows, but both where the same - way too hard and too thick. The laird - as any other gentleman - prefers flat, soft and downy pillows.

After some anguish, pain and rolling around half the night he finally fell asleep, only too wake up in the morning feeling like he had broken his neck.

The laird is now seriously contemplating turning over this matter to his legal staff for possible action against the hotel, but perhaps a good nights sleep on his own pillows may make him reconsider.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

It´s A Boy

Here we see the beautiful Kicki Springflower with her newborn son in her arms and her dazed hubby Hercules.

Poor Hercules had to be there while the baby boy was born, thats what you get for being a modern man.

According to all reports the mother and child are doing well. It is more uncertain if the father will ever recuperate fully from this traumatic experience. The doctors seem to avoid questions about this matter!

The newborn son is named Simon.

Sweet Memories - UPDATED

YMCA-dance 2007 (Jerrod 1st from left, Drizz 3rd, me 4th, the female DJ 5th and Andrey 6th)
Today I read an interview with Jerrod Rodenberger which was published on the Gay Archipelago Blogs yesterday. You can read the full interview here: VIP Interview Jerrod Rodenberger by Hunter.

Jerrod is an old friend from my earliest days in SecondLife. We met on the friendly and caring Boots Gay Beach which was a safe haven and school for everyone, but gay noobs in particular.

At Boots Beach we partied, but we were also thought the basics of how SecondLife works and all the do´s and dont´s; What settings to use to get a more beautiful life. Where to shop for anything you needed. How to build. How to fit clothes and hair. How to script (advanced classes which I did not take I am sorry to admit today) and yes a few also got lessons in good manners and etiquette if it was needed. In short we got a run through everything that is needed for any fashion conscious gay man or boy in-world. I should think the closest comparison to what Boots Beach did for us would be to say it was like a Swiss Finishing School for young women.

Jerrod Rodenberger
In the interview Jerrod reminds me of a wonderful and funny evening we shared once when we were following Ars around the gay clubs of SecondLife.

That was way back in the days when people still talked in local chat, so suddenly someone commented on that a few of us looked like different characters in the Village People. Then someone said we should do the YMCA-dance and handed out the dance animation. I do not remember who the female DJ was but she started playing the song for us over and over again until we finally gave a reasonably synced rendition (it was my fault of course that it took awhile, but they were all very patient with me).

I laughed so hard my stomach ached and we all had a wonderful time. It was one of those truly magical moments in SecondLife when everything sort of connects, everyone is included and love of mankind reigns supreme.

Sadly I could not find the pictures when I did a quick search of my Inventory, but I have probably just not labeled them correctly.

Thanks for reminding me, Jerrod, and thanks so much for that great picture, I will treasure it!

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Shit happens

Ohh the terrible tricks that SecondLife plays with it´s residents sometimes! This is how I saw one of my bosom buddies at Ewa Aska´s party yesterday...

A cute ass and great boobs that any woman would be proud of huh? The only thing is that Apmel is a hunky "heterosexually challenged" man.

The absolutely worst thing about being "ruthed" is that one usually doesn't see it oneself - but everyone else does.

I Am Going To a Monastery


Well only for a party and only for tonight... the theme is RED I am told.

Landmark to the nunnery at Alvastra.