An Interesting Second Pride Board Meeting

Last Sunday morning, at 8AM SLT, was the first meeting of the SP2014 board after their installation.

Damian Tar

The agenda for the meeting contained items that can be classified as "potential dynamite" for those of us who are versed in reading such dreary documents. Among other things there was a proposal for changes in the roles of the chairperson and the treasurer. 

The meeting room was packed with mostly interested members and one member who mainly focused his attention on my allegedly puny, insignificant and uninteresting derriere, the sight of which caused him to blackout with boredom according to a post on said members blog.

Although there was a risk of this meeting getting out of hand I am proud to report that it was throughout conducted in a respectful and orderly fashion, much thanks to the competent leadership of the Chair Damian Tar, who was obviously well prepared and conducted the meeting in a calm, kind and responsive manner.

The directors (from left to right) Petr Hastings-Vanbeeck, Karl Kalchek,
Paul Gracemount (Mr. G), Gaius Tripsa, Damian Tar and Hotboy Skytower.

The complete minutes from the meeting are posted on the Second Pride website, SP Board Meeting September 8, 2013. I will however give you my subjective summary here.

The meeting was shocked and astonished to be informed of certain aspects of what had been going on within the board since the election.

It became clear to the assembled members (from the proposed bylaw amendments and the additional information received during the meeting) that the Treasurer had certain trust-issues which had lead him to refuse to, in direct contravention of the bylaws, share the password to the Second Pride Avatar (the treasure chest of the organisation) with the Chair and Co-Chair and to refuse to submit monthly financial reports to the board. The Treasurer had thereby also refused access to the Second Pride Avatar by the Auditing Committee. 

It was also apparent that the Treasurer - for unclear reasons - was at odds with the practice that had been established by the previous boards and had refused to share ownership of the Second Pride Festival Group with the Chair.

After these alarming issues had been discussed extensively the board (or a majority of it) directed the Treasurer to comply with the bylaws and established practices and share passwords and ownership with other members of the board.

I was filled with a great relief and much pride when I left the meeting. Relief  for the competent way the Chair and the board as a whole had handled the situation and pride that the serious topics had been discussed in such a respectful and thoughtful way despite the potentially inflammatory issues.

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After the board meeting I have learned that the Treasurer, has complied with or made arrangements for complying with all the boards decisions.

Following the board meeting Paul Gracemount (Mr. G), the Build Director, posted the following message on Facebook.

"To: Second Pride Membership and Board

This letter is to Inform the Second Pride membership and board that effective immediately, I resign the position of Second Pride Build Chair. I wish you good luck in the coming year but I do not have the time to put my best effort into Second Pride. If the Board would inform whomever they elect / select to fill the vacant position to contact me when they assume their duties to discuss the current Second Pride headquarters build.

Thank you all for your support in the past year,Mr Paul Gracemount"

I was extremely sad to read this notice as Mr. G is a levelheaded and charming man and an extremely talented builder who did a great job on the builds for this years festival and the beautiful new headquarters for Second Pride. He and his talents will be sorely missed.

Poll Concerning My Ass

A certain blogger, who shall remain unnamed, has asserted that looking at my ass made him (yes, it is a man and he is gay too), and I quote, "blackout from boredom". Before reshaping my ass I am going to ask my readers if you agree with said blogger or not.

Please take the poll in the upper right hand corner!

"Fallen Leaves" - A Dance Drama

"Leaves, in an act of faith, let go of the tree...”

The Spirit Light Dance Company performs "Fallen Leaves", a story of courage and self-determination told in a dance drama format.

The company invites us inside their gypsy camp, adorned by the vivid colors of an autumnal forest. They will take us on a journey of faith in the face of adversity, strength through personal trust and love in its purest essence. When Gunari, is torn between duty to his clan and the love of his heart, what will he choose?

Starting this Sunday...
September 8th at 1PM SLT,
September 15th at 1PM SLT,
September 22nd at 1PM SLT and finally
September 29th at 1PM SLT

Come early and prime your computer for enhanced viewing experience.

Limited seating available

Your direct transport to the theater (SLurl)

The 80's@"Q"-Lounge

I crashed in at my buddy Butch Diavolo's place yesterday and found that my late husbands son Guyke Lundquist was already there.

They were dressed weirdly and were both fiddling around frantically in their Inventories and with their outfits. When I asked them what their plans for the evening were the two told me that "We're going to a 80's party at "Q" Lounge with DJ Arcy."

"Ah I hope you both have a delightful evening!", I said in my usual charming manner, trying desperately to cover up my hurt feelings for not having been invited to join. "What?", they said, "Why aren't you coming?" at which point I was forced to inform them both that it was simply out of the question for SecondLife royalty, like myself, to intrude on a party of the common residents without a formal invitation of some kind.

Totally out of the blue and completely unexpected I got the most charming invitation in Instant Message (IM) from Amanda Allen, proprietor of The "Q" Lounge: "We are very pleased to send Bock McMillan, Laird of Southern Charm etc., etc., the exclusive invitation for the 80's party here @ 'Q' Lounge. We're looking forward to your company."

To which I promptly responded: "Oh thank you so much, what a delightful surprise! I am extremely honored and will do my best to be there in appropriate attire - if I can find something suitable..."

I had less than 90 minutes to prepare for this occasion, so I immediately threw myself into my Inventory in search of a suitable outfit. "Black", they told me, "get something black! Black was the color of the 80's!".

After rummaging about for a while, I found some stuff that was halfway decent and my beautiful black pashmina shawl from Zaara's. I also found a slouchy Fedora that the two said reminded them of Boy George, which was astonishing news to me, because in my faint recollection of him he always wore a scarf around his filthy dreadlocks. I adamantly refused to put on makeup!

Well, just about 11 minutes before the party I was in an outfit that I could accept and the other two could live with, even if there was still some disagreement between them when it came to my boots. I settled the dispute between them by telling them that, "With a face and body like mine no one ever looks at my footwear."

With that settled, we rested a little to refresh ourselves before going to the party.

Now its time for less talk and more pictures, so here we go!

The always fetching Spanki Moulliez

Amanda Allen & Arcangelo "DJ Arcy" Hellman

My two fashion advisors, Guyke Lundquist and Butch Diavolo

Spanki with friend

Picture of Ms X removed at her request

Fredy & Karin Brune, the sexiest couple of the evening. Karin seems to be a bit
shy of the camera because in just about every picture I took of the two - and I took
very many - she is turning away from the camera

Picture of Ms X removed at her request

The man, the myth, the legend - Ziggy Starsmith decided to join us close to the end

Ume A-something that I cannot remember

Ziggy with "Salad Fingers"

 So to sum up, I had a great time at the party although much of the music sounded very weird to me accept a detestable ABBA song and dear old Madge singing "Like A Virgin". When I told Butch this he went into a rant about how amazing an artist I had never ever heard before really was and how she had influenced the music of all the coming millennia with her "storytelling" songs. So sorry...

Lounging Around at Butch's Place

Yesterday evening we congregated at Butch's new home. "We" in this case were Butch, Guyke and me.

Butch's kitchen and dining room 

Butch's hygiene & sanitation area

Butch's boudoir and secret workshop

"Stay"

Singer and songwriter Steve Grand posted this music video on YouTube today, it's about time for happy and uncomplicated songs about gay love.

Believe it or not, but I actually had this music video lined up and scheduled for posting today, before one of my main sources of inspiration +Joe Jervis  over at J.M.G.

Well, thats another lesson in blogging, I shouldn't have waited because when I woke up after my nap, Joe had already posted it.  *sigh*

Essential Tools for SecondLife Residents

Last week I visited the Xcite store for the first time in ages. For safety I brought along my regular entourage, Guyke and Butch, those two can scare away any potential suitor.

Let me divert a little to give you an example from yesterday evening. The three of us were in a completely different store inworld checking to see if there was anything new. A woman came up to us and made unwanted advances towards Guyke and myself, I think she avoided Butch because he is so obviously a hardass and a screaming faggot (in his sublime and humble way). Well, I just simply tried to ignore the woman but Guyke wouldn't have any of that so he shouts out in local: "OK bitch, next time you walk into me I will need to kill you!", which made the woman turn her attention to other potential shoppers instead.

Back to the visit to the Xcite store. When we were looking around there, I saw these two invaluable tools/services for inworld dating and/or cruising.

First of all a "Virgin Restoration Service"

And then a "Virginity Detector"

I tried it out on myself and three of my friends. The results for myself and Butch were quite unexpected, as I was informed that the two of us are in fact virgins. For Dej and Guyke the detector almost burst into flames as it informed me: "Hell no, no way and no how are these guys virgins!" (Well, it really only said that they were NOT virgins but I chose to embellish a little.)

Xcite's webpage