New Littering Laws

Photo courtesy of Bengt Nyman, Stockholm, Sweden

Sweden gets new legislation against littering on July 1st, 2011.

According to  the new law dropping cigarette butts, spitting out chewing gum or sachets of snus (Swedish moist snuff) and leaving beer cans, used condoms or hamburger and kebab wrappings in the park can lead to a fine between SEK 200 - 4 000 (which is approximately USD 30 - 650).

The new law has been adopted because it was found that the existing legislation on littering was not effective against such petty littering.

As I understand it there will be no exception for champagne corks or confetti but spitting will still be allowed.

The King Speaks

His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, has been making headlines recently for entertaining bare-chested "coffee-girls" at strip clubs and for having close friends who don´t know better than to contact organized crime to try to get hold of the pictures that supposedly exist.

Well yesterday the king finally deigned to let himself be interviewed on the issues by the largest news agency in Sweden. What he said was in essence “I know nothing – and there aren't any pictures to prove it anyway…”

That statement kind of reminds me of the Spanish waiter Manuel, in John Cleese´s old sitcom “Fawlty Towers”. Manuel was constantly running around saying “I know nothing!” in a terribly charming but stupid way.

The king of Sweden has no real power within Sweden itself. He is mostly a decorative and ceremonial adornment to the otherwise parliamentary democracy that is the rule of our nation. However by public international law he still retains certain powers given to any head of state that cannot be removed by national law. 

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According to my personal ethics infidelity is a total breach of the trust that is the foundation of any true marriage or partnership, but I certainly know better than to impose my own ethics on other peoples relationships. After all the sexologists tell us that more than 50 percent of the men and close to 50 percent of the women commit adultery. 

I do not really give a damn if the king has extramarital affairs or looks at the boobies of women young enough to be his own daughters. What I do expect though is that he handles his business discreetly and doesn't expose himself to the possibility of being blackmailed; we pay him well enough for doing just that.

What I most assuredly also expect from my head of state is that he chooses his mistresses with good judgment so that they aren't publicity-craving C-list celebrities and to find close friends among people with enough good judgment not to seek out criminals to try to cover up for him.

After the kings statement yesterday I think we may expect the press scuffling to try to get their hand on the "non-existent" pictures.

A Human Pretzel

If you want to see more uncensored pictures of this human pretzel you have to head on over here.

Awesome and funny pictures of a co-blogger clowning around!

P.S. Yeah, yeah, I know I don´t usually censor a naked body, but I did it this time so you would go to the mans blog for the full frontal view...

Second Pride 2011 - Satisfaction Survey

The organizers are asking us to do a satisfaction survey on Second Pride 2011. Please click on the picture above to get to the survey!

I have a few views which I have already shared in doing the survey.

It was a great party and the DJ´s were awesome. I had a lot of fun and met old and new friends but

• I would have preferred if everything had taken place in the same area
• I missed the opening and closing ceremonies
• I missed the opening and closing parades
• I missed the live acts (below I mention a few that I am sure would have loved to be there)
• Bara Jonson
• Strum Diesel
• Jaynine Scarborough
• SOAR
• Junivers Stockholm and the Cardinals and
• DJ Elfay Pinkdot with her Coffee and Pajamas Jazz show

The Four Bloggers Dance at Second Pride 2011

My friend and co-blogger Eddi Haskell just posted a video on his blog "Eddi Haskell´s Second Life" in it you can see NakedCarl, Jeff Ellsworth, Eddi and myself ("The Four Bloggers") moving our asses to music to satisfy the crowds.

Be among the first in the world to see it, go there NOW!

Eighth and Final Day of Second Pride

The last day of Second Pride was finally here. I had planned to go to the Folsom Fetish Pride party since I saw it on the calendar. From prior experiences following Ars around the gay clubs in-world I was certain I would meet some of the best looking male avatars SecondLife has to offer.

The gay leather men are the most stunning guys in SecondLife if you ask me. Most of them are big sim owners, club owners, designers and store owners as DJ Hotboy pointed out during his awesome set.

 

 

 

Zim Gunsberg always looks amazing

 

 

 

 

Artsy huh?

Me showing off some moves for Wendell Thor

Bric Dorchester & Voyager Paragorn

Cooper Drammond

DJ Hotboy

Ramses Mistwalker - poledancing

Stan Storno

Blogger Torro Spyker watching Kip Ashbourne´s ass move

Trooper Anton and Folsom Carter

Wendell Thor

Jamal Beaumont & Zim Gunsberg

Oh there was a contest there, perhaps I forget to inform you and guess who won it?

Let me just say that I am sure the guys were just being nice to a newcomer, but still it gives me the opportunity to say to the "Quadruplets" and especially AngelOf: "The hottest looking men in SecondLife voted and I won, eat your hearts out!!"

Shame on Moscow

GlobalVoices reports: "The May 28 Moscow Pride event - banned by the city authorities on May 17 - did not go smoothly: according to news reports, at least 18 gay rights activists and 14 of their opponents were detained by the police, at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Manezhnaya Square and, later, in front of the Mayor's Office on Tverskaya Street. This was the sixth attempt to hold a gay pride parade in Russia's capital. 

A number of foreign gay rights activists were arrested in Moscow on May 28, including a former U.S. Army officer Dan Choi."

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It is totally disgraceful for Moscow and all Russians that a pride parade and festival cannot be held in the capital of Russia in 2011 without being banned by civil authorities and without violence and intolerance.

Shame on you, Moscow!