Sunday, February 24, 2013

What's Going On?

My blogging has been a bit irregular lately, for which I ask your pardon.

The image above is a true reflection of the state of my thought patterns at the moment. I am trying to get to grips with it.

It is easy for me to accept certain facts and to make a decision of "letting go" and "moving on", but when I try to break it down into actions that need to be taken or what course I wish to take out of my present predicament my brain simply shuts down and starts to produce beautiful and erratic confusion.

Since my Ars died I have made myself into a mausoleum for his memory, I realize that, but how do I change that? I have become so used to being the planet around his sun and reflecting the light that shone from him. Where do I find my new light source and how do I create my new universe?

A Swedish comedian said "Life is like a paper bag, empty and devoid of meaning if you don't fill it with something." So the question remains, what do I fill it with when I remove, or move from the center to the periphery or diminish what Ars has been in my life?

At the same time as all this is going on, I am also worrying about friends around me who have landed in real messes with their health and other first life issues compared to which my self absorption seems extremely petty and petulant.

Saturday, February 23, 2013

New PRISM Coming March 2013

(via the Second Pride website)
"It’s been a long time coming, but the newest issue of PRISM is currently in production. PRISM Magazine is getting a total redesign with an emphasis on community. And who doesn't love a good makeover? PRISM will have a fresh new layout and feature stories about RL and SL issues affecting the LGBTQ community. We’ll publish opinion pieces, feature articles, and news from around the world that matter to you.

Better yet, we want to hear from you. Let your voice be heard! If you’re a writer or someone who just wants to share your thoughts/opinions/ideas, you can submit your article for consideration. Simply click on the Submissions link under the PRISM Magazine menu. You might be in one of our upcoming issues of PRISM Magazine.

Business owners and organizations, we haven’t forgotten about you. We’re accepting advertisements to share your products and services to our large and diverse community. Click on the PRISM Advertising link under the PRISM Magazine menu
for rates and specifications. But don’t hesitate! The deadline for advertisement submissions is March 9th.

We can’t wait for you to see the new PRISM Magazine. We’re excited about the new direction it’s taking and hope you will be too. Don’t forget: we’re accepting advertisements for the March issue and article submissions for later issues. Either by reading, writing, or advertising, we hope that you will get involved!

Tylo Mabellon
Second Pride Marketing Director"


Link to the post: New PRISM Coming March 2013
Link to Second Pride Festival: Second Pride website

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Love Stockholm


(via Qx.se)

Stockholm is trying to target the gay tourists with this commercial, not a bad one actually and not untrue.

Politically (In)Correct



This is to prove to my Dutch friend Kahvy Sands, who comments as his husband Rick de vette on this blog (with the flimsy excuse that he cannot log in as himself pffft), that I am proudly politically correct yet I still dare post this version of "Forever Young".

Actually I cannot see what's so challenging about this clip, but perhaps it's because it is 2.30 AM and I am too tired due to a sudden onset of insomnia...

NOH8 Avatars 27

Eeva Rasmuson-Waydelich

For more information about the The NOH8 Campaign and how to join it in SecondLife please read my previous post The NOH8 Campaign in SecondLife. There you will also find instructions on where to find the necessary duct tape and cheek painting free of charge.
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If you would like to be a part of the NOH8 Campaign on this blog please send me your picture (fullperm), I will be happy to post it. Name the picture NOH8 and your avatar name and drop it on my profile or send it to my email lundamats@gmail.com.

I got these picture of Eeva through my dear friend Kahvy Sands and I am assuming that he has obtained Eeva´s approval for publication on this blog. If that should not be the case please let me know and I will remove them a.s.a.p.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Swedish SecondLife Resident Honored

Billy bookcase birch veneer
Every month my buddy Benja Aquila elects a "LGBT Second Life Resident of the Month" on his blog Benja Aquila's Second Life.

This month he has elected a person with the following characteristics:

  • Charming (Yup, must be Apmel!)
  • Swedish (Apmel, definitely!)
  • Man (Apmel is ALL man, for sure!)
  • Famous blogger (Absolutely Apmel!)
  • Friendly (Apmel again!)
  • Patient (Oh yes Apmel for sure!)
  • A very good conversationalist (Apmel! Apmel! Apmel!)
  • Multifaceted (No one has more facets than my sweet buddy Apmel!)
  • Successful blog (Hell yeah, Apmelito!)
and
  • A better ambassador for Sweden than IKEA. (Ab-so-f**king-lu-tely, it can only be Apmel)
The only thing that confused me was "LGBT"so my first thought when I saw the list was, "Ah I have always suspected that my bosom-buddy Apmel was a closet case and now he finally see´s fit to come out, but why did he choose to do it on Benja´s blog? Sure, he is truly deserving of any honor he gets, but isn't he already more famous than the Billy bookcase or even IKEA itself?"

Go to Benja´s blog Benja Aquila's Second Life and tell him how offended you are by his oversight of appointing someone other than Apmel Goosson this month! Even if the man isn't LGBT, he could be gay-for-pay or honorary gay or something like that...

(P.S. Thank you, dearest Benja! XOXOXO)

Monday, February 18, 2013

The Other English Disease

Quite possibly meaningful
Chinese characters that I do
not know the meaning of
The Swedish language shares a peculiarity with Dutch, Finnish, Welsh, Thai, Maori and perhaps some other languages, it has a penchant for constructing compound words.

The effect of the English language's preference to split compound words and the introduction of word processing programs (mostly based on English originals) are creating havoc among Swedes, especially the ones who know written English.

All would be well if it weren't for the fact that when one splits Swedish compound words they often change meaning. The problem is called the second English disease, the first being rickets.

An example. Lets try this Swedish sentence
"En brunhårig sjuksköterska tvättar barnunderkläder" with split compound words we get
"En brun hårig sjuk sköterska tvättar barn under kläder"

The first sentence means, "A nurse, who is brown-haired, washes children's underwear", while the second sentence means "A nurse who is sick, brown and hairy washes children who are under clothes"

Another example is the word "rökfritt" and the split compound version "rök fritt" where the first version means that smoking is prohibited, while the latter version means the opposite and is an invitation to unlimited smoking.