Gay Anthems for Second Pride 5

Shirley Bassey - This Is My Life

Napping at the Rhino Writers

Being a pathfinder, tourist and accidental shopper at the Second Pride Festival can be rather exhausting.

So after some shopping (two beautiful necklaces and a nice t-shirt from Beefcake) I went to the Rhino Writers Group´s booth to take a leak, get a cold beer or two, take some weight off my tired feet and get a midday nap.

The Eternal Chapel

One of the beautiful places on the Second Pride Festival sims this year is The Eternal Chapel in Sydney. It´s a very calm and quiet place that calls for thought and reflection among all the boisterous activities.

In the chapel those who wish can light a candle for a lost loved one. The lights will burn for the duration of Pride. Of course I took the opportunity to light one for my Ars.

I would like to thank Andre Rennebohm for mentioning this wonderful place in one of his notices in the Second Pride Festival group and also for his kind and speedy assistance in taking care of the scripting problem.

Directions to The Eternal Chapel At the Sydney-landing point (see picture) take the left street. A short way ahead you will find the chapel if you turn left (see red arrow).

Gay Anthems for Second Pride 4

ABBA - Dancing Queen

Galloping Paranoia Analyzed

Photo: Matt Dunham/Scanpix

As I am temporarily suffering from a mild bout of "rainbow overdose", I will try to direct your interest towards this interesting article by Nick Cohen, which was published on guardian.co.uk on Sunday; Nick Cohen: Definition of paranoia: supporters of Julian Assange.

Some of Assange's supporters say that the women have no right to put allegations of sexual abuse before a competent court. Instead, they denounce them as "feminazis" in language so extreme that the women's lawyer said his clients were "the victims of a crime, but they are looked upon as the perpetrators". I doubt that posterity will recall much that Assange said. But it ought to remember his assertion that "Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism". In one sentence, Assange encapsulated the special pleading and misogyny of a rotten "progressive" culture.

DJ Sarco´s Early Morning At Pride

Sarco Halderman is an old time friend of mine, I first made his acquaintance in 2007, when I started "stalking" my Ars around in SecondLife.

Sarco is one of the best DJ´s SecondLife has to offer, and he showed that at his set between 3-5 AM SLT. The crowd may not have been large but the quality of the music was still the best - as always.

DJ Sarco

Aelred Huet, Fabi Ishtari and yours truly

Close-up of muscle man Aelred

I am enjoying myself

Dodo Ahanu

Harley Homewood, a great DJ in his own right and Sarco´s partner

DJ InsyX Piranha grooving

MadeInRussia, Chace Nizna and Preston Benoir

Zim Gunsberg

Avacar Bluestar came in close to the end of the set

Elfay At Pride

The one and only Elfay Pinkdot.

There are very few things that can convince me to crawl out of bed before 9 AM (12 AM midnight SLT) on a Sunday morning, my Ars was one and the divine Elfay Pinkdot doing a set at Second Pride is another.

Despite the early hour I was happy when I got there and was looking forward to two hours of good music, pleasant company and a fun chat. My expectations were indeed surpassed!

Not only was it a good crowd of humorous like-minded people that stayed on after the previous set or came in but also some long missed friends. Among those I want to mention Circe Broom especially, the iconic and generous megastar on the SecondLife live music scene from almost the start until the end of last year. Although Circe isn't feeling well and the fact that it was 3 AM local time for her, she joined us in good spirit and with her usual charm. It was so good to see her again!

Joetonight Starship and Ryce Skytower were also there, adding a bit of male beauty to the starving masses, i.e. me. Longtime readers of this blog will remember Ryce from my series "Naked Avatars in SL" where he stunned us all with his beauty; see Nakna Avatarer i SL 67 (url)

Even if Elfay had a sexy drawl at first, coming straight from bed to do the show, she soon warmed up and so did the crowd, both the regulars and her new fans. We really had a ball.

The best thing is though, that at the end of her show Elfay mentioned that she had agreed with the organizers to do a second set during the coming weeks. I will of course be there, I do not like missing Elfay.

Here are some more pictures from the event.

Joetonight dancing with feathers

Elfay, me and Circe

Ryce and I, the only picture of us that doesn't
have one or the others face covered by the darn flag

Hugging my dear Circe goodbye