Gay Anthems for Second Pride 3

Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy

SP2012 - Day 2

Lets start at the end of my second day with a few hunky men, it always makes me feel better. 

Above and below you see the three hunkiest men of the day at Second Pride, it´s DJ Cupric "The Coop" Router and his host Jagger Naughton with a companion doing their SWAMP THANG. Whatever that was it was leisurely and sexy.

I took it very easy Day 2 and gave it an early night because I knew I had to be up by 12 AM (midnight) SLT for Elfay Pinkdot´s Coffee & Pajamas Jazz Show and an hour after that my mate DJ Sarco Halderman´s set.. 

DJ Wesley Spengler grooving and blogger Jeff Ellsworth checking him out.

 The rest of the day I spent checking out the Ruthenium sim, where parts of the celebration rakes place.

I found the exhibition of quilts there, beautifully displayed and in a calm setting. Strangely enough there were quilts from 2003-2009 and none at all for 2010 and later.

The buildteam for Second Pride, under the lead of my friend Levi Ewing,  have done a really great job, with beautiful sets imaging the streets of
Buenos Aires (SLurl), 
London (SLurl), 
San Francisco (SLurl) and 
Sydney (SLurl) 


On Ruthenium there are a couple of beautiful streets from a few block in Buenos Aires. (see below)

The Gay History Museum is an amazing build showing an exhibition of the LGBT-movement from the early days until the present days. The globes are a masterpiece, both from outside and within.

Bock,  the eternal tourist

Your Receipt, Madam/Sir!

This is to inform the anonymous donor who, using my buddy Butch Diavolo as an intermediary, asked me to forward a donation to The Fabrice Snook Foundation (SLurl).

Above you see me standing next to the donation kiosk for The Fabrice Snook Foundation at the entrance of the foundations HQ. (If you enlarge the picture you will see that the last donation made was for L$5,000)

Below you see an excerpt from my SecondLife transaction history, showing that today I made a donation of L$5,000 to the FSF donation kiosk.

If you should require further proof of payment, please let Butch know and I will do what I can to assist you.

I also wish to thank Garth Raleigh for supplying me with a landmark to the donation kiosk.

Beauty Is...

Photo quoted from Associated Press/AP

The blooming of a single rare flower caused a minor botanical sensation yesterday in Botaniske Have (The Botanical Garden) in Copenhagen, Denmark.

After several days of waiting a flower named Amorphophallus Titanum (which means "giant deformed penis") started blooming at 7 PM local time. Within 20 minutes after that long lines of interested spectators had formed to look at the plant. The smell this flower emits from it´s interior is a foul stench, which is said to resemble that of rotten meat or a carrion.

"I was very proud. At the same time I was overwhelmed by the flower, it was more beautiful than I imagined. It is something else when you see it in reality", said the gardener Mr. Rasmus N. Kloster, when interviewed by my local paper Sydsvenskan yesterday. Mr. Kloster has been taking care of the flower for nine years for a few hours of pleasure as the is short lived and most of the plant will start to wither already today.
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As always an old saying seems to hold some truth, "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder", because this must surely be one of the most hideous looking plants I have ever laid eyes on.

Gay Anthems for Second Pride 2

Tom Robinson Band - Glad To Be Gay

SP2012 - Day 1

The first day of Second Pride 2012 I visited the minor party, which had a line-up of great DJs, starting with DJ Thorn (Andel), followed by DJ ItalianBear and finishing with DJ InsyX (Piranha).

People were coming and going the whole evening, but mostly it was a good sized crowd of men and women throughout the evening. Some old friends and acquaintances and some new. Most seemed happy to be there and the talk in local chat was really fun and flowing. Here are some pictures from the event.

The venue from afar 

DJ Thorn

Bock, Carson Darkstone and Pearl

Security is looking better this year, here 
is the undercover security sleuth Larz Kaz 

Ziggy grooves

Jace Lewis & Lukas Bellingshausen, partners

For more pictures please visit

Ziggy Starsmith; Second Pride is ON ... bitches!

Eddi Haskell; Second Pride Kicks Off With A Blast

Torro Spyker/The Bullring; Second Pride Kicks Off

Jeff Ellsworth; Second Pride 2012: Live And Lively

Post Title of the Day

Friends today directed my attention towards a blog I usually do not read.

"I Am Innocent, Bock!" is the title (translated from Swedish) of a post today on a blog operated by a person who to my readership is best known by the affectionate nickname "the mudslinger".

In the post the mudslinger denies being "the other person" and goes on to threaten me - and the rest of the world - with a law suit for harassment.

How quaint that she should feel the need to deny something that must be blatantly obvious for the rest of the world, as she doesn't fulfill the fundamental criteria of being someone I have supported and stood beside for several years.