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"Secret" by Ephemeral Skye

If you wish to see more of Ephemeral's photography, please visit his Flickr photostream here.

Reminder: SP Board Meeting, Today 6:30 PM

The Board of Directors of Second Pride has a meeting today at the Second Pride Headquarters Conference Hall (SLurl) at 6.30 PM SLT

The proposed agenda of the meeting is as follows:

1. Call To Order: 
2. Set the date for the Annual General Meeting
3. Motion to Adjourn

Repeat Visits by Martin

Reverend Martin Ssempa, of the Uganda Makerere Community Church, visited with me twice during the past night.

On both occasions I found myself scampering out of my own bed, to get away from him. I woke up laying on the floor, having hit my head on the nightstand with my heart racing wildly from the scare.

Why the homophobic Pastor "Eat Da Poo-Poo" should suddenly wish to raid my dreams I cannot explain.

I am going back to bed again now, hoping my sleep will not be disturbed again.

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"Summer Breeze" by Ricardo Morsch

If you wish to see more of Ricardo's photography, please visit his Flickr photostream here.

M/M Buttsecks Is Everywhere

William Tapley, a.k.a. the Third Eagle of the Apocalypse and the Co-Prophet of the End Times, convincingly explains how the logo above should be interpreted in this video on YouTube.


(via J.M.G.)

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Oh my, how fabulous it must be to be so bat crazy that e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g can be explained as hawt m/m buttsecks. I think I am starting to envy this guy.

P.S. I wonder if Bill realizes, that his obsession with m/m buttsecks probably means he is the worst closet case ever?
P.P.S. You absolutely must watch this video from start to finish.
P.P.P.S. I am also curious to know who the other "Co-Prophet of the End Times" is/are/were. If anyone knows, please let me know!
P.P.P.P.S. And while we are at it, who the fuck are/were the first two "Eagles of the Apocalypse", and are there a fourth, fifth or even more of them?
P.P.P.P.P.S. Bill answers my question on his own blog ThirdEagleMedia.com: About Me

And now, finally, I will explain my titles. Often when I was studying the end times interpretation of Revelation I would come to a mental block. At that point I would pause and take a walk while praying the rosary. On one such walk it occurred to me to ask the Lord, "who is the eagle of the Apocalypse" (Revelation 8:13). My thoughts immediately answered "you are!". This really startled me but I knew that it came from God and was not a product of my imagination. After returning home, I researched the eagle and discovered two previous "eagles", Saint Vincent Ferrer and his successor Saint Bernardino of Siena. Both warned Europe back in the late fifteenth century about the first woe which was the breakup of Christianity. Saint Bernardino expressly warned about the plague of locusts in Revelation 9 which we now know was caused by Martin Luther and his followers. Luther is the star which falls from heaven and is a precursor of the false prophet. I have determined that my role as the third of these "eagles" is to warn primarily about the second woe, world war 3. I expect that a fourth eagle will follow me who will warn about the third woe, the reign of the antichrist, and also the last woe (yes there are actually 4 woes), Armageddon.

Regarding my title, "Co Prophet of the End Times", several passages in Daniel explain. Read Daniel 12:4 "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased". Obviously, someone must come along to unseal Daniel. Read Daniel 12:9 "And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end". The "time of the end" is now, and my job is to do the unsealing. In fact, ALL end times Bible prophecy requires a Co Prophet AND a Prophet because it is work of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit always requires two people to accomplish His plan. For example, speaking in tongues is a gift of the Holy Spirit, yet it has no edification for the Church, as Paul said, unless someone else interprets the tongues. Also in marriage, it takes a man and a woman to produce a child which is also a work of the Holy Spirit, the Lord and giver of life.

I do not claim to be the only co prophet of the end times. Scripture says that at the time of the end, the Holy Spirit would be poured out on all flesh. "Your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall have visions and your old men shall dream dreams".

New Logo for Bock in SecondLife

Bock in SecondLife is delighted to unveil its new logo.

The logo is to be used when the blog is represented at various SecondLife events, such as the Second Pride Festival or the Gay Archipelago SummerFest (among others).

This bolder, more retro and ironic approach features a Pristina font, which is the work of British designer Phill Grimshaw, a calligraphic typeface that displays all the natural, unrestrained qualities of cultured penmanship.

The logo is clearly inspired by the traditional Japanese Imperial flag and is designed to be both recognizable and highly visible. It comes in a variety of clear pastel colors which are pleasing to the eye, but it is also everso slightly asymmetrical, to indicate that the editor in chief is an opinionated and headstrong bastard who doesn't always aim to please.

The logo was created by the blog's own favorite graphic designer Tomais Ashdene after a concept by the blogger himself.

Nikolai Warden: Upset But Staying

Nikolai Warden, another of my many friends in the Gay Archipelago - on both sides of the current conflict - has left a comment with his point of view on my friend Hiroku Kamachi's blog post The Mind of Hiro: "Pearls From Swine". The comment was made on July 17 and was published today.

"Hiro, you and I have known one another a long time. I think you know that I am a fairly reasonable fellow. Though the estate I help manage chose to leave the GA, I and one of the other managers there chose to remain on the GA admissions committee as you know. I will tell you though, as I told Weylin and Chade, that the way the appointments were made was a shock to any who have been in the GA for more than a couple of years.

For a festival team to be put together is different from a board of directors, and different from appointing a PR Lead and Vice Lead … to those of us who have seen quite a few administrations in terms of GA Lead, all of that was a shock. The way it has always been done is that any major decisions have gone through the owners group. Forming an advisory board is a major change in the way things are done, and to us old timers, that decision itself should have gone through the owners group for approval. The decision to write rules and bylaws also is something that the owners group should have voted on, in my opinion.

GA Lead, (and by extension, the relatively new role of Vice Lead), and PR Lead have traditionally been done by candidates putting their names to the owners group and a search committee conducting interviews and the search committee making a decision. Now I realize that the duties of the lead, as outlined by the previous search committee, are a bit vague in “putting together teams” or such, I haven’t the exact wording in front of me. I also realize there are very general guidelines and no rules or bylaws, which has always been intentional. The owners have always been in charge, whether they are active or apathetic really, with the Lead as a spokesperson and detail person to carry out the wishes of the owners group. If the owners group does not give feedback, the Lead takes the lead.

Weylin is the seventh GA Lead with whom I have had dealings. When Myles Capalini, one of the owners who chose to withdraw from the GA, took over as Lead a number of years back, he was told by the outgoing Lead to let the owners THINK they have a say and that it is a democracy, but run the GA as a dictatorship, which is just how that person HAD run it. He and Myles butted heads over this issue to the extent that Cabria left the GA and only returned due to Garth Raleigh’s leadership. Garth stepped down as Lead quite some time ago. Since his departure, owners meetings have been sporadic and the GA has changed. Weylin making decisions that have ALWAYS gone through the owners group came across, to those of use who have seen more than a few GA Leads come and go, as the worst of the old dictatorial sort of dismissal of the owners group by the Lead, going back 4 or 5 years when there was such contention regarding how the GA was being managed.

I cannot speak for others who were upset by how the appointments were handled, and I do understand Weylin’s rationale for doing so. To dismiss the uproar with the notion that it is people who do not like Dextrum and were upset because he was appointed Vice Lead is grossly inaccurate. I was upset, others were upset, and I for one did not know Dextrum at all before he applied for GA membership. I heard the objections against him, I interviewed him at length, and found no reason to vote against his admission into the GA. I have no real issue with him being Vice Lead. It would have been better if all this had been put to the owner’s group and any interested in the Vice Lead and PR Lead positions had a chance to express such interest, and the owners had had some say, as it has always been done. It is not OMG DEXTRUM IS VICE LEAD???? NO WAAAAY YOU CANNOT DO THAT! It is more a matter of err … that is not how things are traditionally done, and really, the formation of a board of directors should have been presented to the owners group and voted on."