In Trump's World

In Trump's World:
Obama: Kenyan
LeBron James: dumb
Don Lemon: dumb
Maxine Waters: low IQ
black countries: shitholes
black athletes: SOBs
Black tenants: unwelcome
Black workers: lazy
Central Park 5: guilty
Mexicans: rapists
Muslims: terrorists
Indians: fake
Nazis: very fine people

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) August 4, 2018

Seduces Me

Dancers: Caryl Meredith & Adam Magic

Choreography: Caryl Meredith 

Music: "Seduces Me" (Celine Dion) and "TipToe Out the Back" (Dan Lebowitz )

Filming & editing: Pia Klaar 

Bachata for Bock, A Masterpiece by Apmel

Apmel created a love song in my honor and posted it on YouTube, his blog and Twitter!

I love the song you named after me, or love may be to strong a word but it is rather interesting. I am trying to hum it, but don't seem to be able to remember the melody well enough - yet!

— Bock McMillan™ (@BockMcMillan) August 3, 2018

Correction, too*

Thank you, my sweet Apmelito! I am deeply touched and honored by this loving tribute!

News From Dej's Family

Today I received an email from Dej's first life brother Andy.

"Hi [Bock],

I heard from the medical examiner and it turns out that [Dej] had bacterial pneumonia. It was a very bad infection that he probably had for some time and it went untreated. We are all very surprised that he didn't reach out to anyone including a doctor or hospital since antibiotics would probably have saved his life. We shall never know why he chose this path. I am so very glad he had a good friend in you for all those years. He struggled to get along with people so you must have been very special to him. Thanks for your friendship with my brother [Dej].

Andy"

This is my response to Andy.

"Hello Andy,

Thank you so much for the update!

Mike had an ugly cough for a long time, but for some reason, he refused to see a doctor about it - despite much nagging from me. It is sad to realize that something so simple as a cure of antibiotics most likely would have saved his life.

I am sending you the words I shared at the memorial we had for [Dej] and two of the many hundreds of pictures [Dej] has shared with me over the years. Both the pictures are several years old (SL avatars look much better these days). The one called “Mother of the Bride” is one [Dej] sent me when I was getting partnered, while the one called “Dej at his downfall” shows him standing at a place on the sim were I used to accuse him of ditching his husbands and “all” his lovers (I put lots of skeletons in the waters below to represent the “tons, and tons of men laying there” – a gross exaggeration, but we had fun about it anyway.)

As long as I remain in SecondLife and have the sim, Dej’s downfall will always remain. Dej will also share a memorial on the sim with my former partner Ars, who like his brother [Dej] also died of - untreated - double pneumonia in 2010. (What is it with Americans and health care?) 

Dej was very dear to me and it was a pleasure to have been a part of his life.

Thanks again for the information, Andy.

All my best wishes to you and the rest of Mike’s family in [first] life,[Bock]"

The pictures I attached to the response were these two.

"Mother of the Bride" (March 8, 2014)

"Dej at his downfall"

New Blog Header - Late Summer 2018

Bock in SecondLife's art director and my husband, Tomais Ashdene, has made a new header for the late summer season of 2018. There has been so much happening in our first lives and our SecondLife earlier this year, so we have not had much time to think about it before, and even less time to actually do it.

This header is already one of my favorites. Thank you so much, my darling!

Am I Heat-Crazed If I Feel That It's Much Cooler When The Temperature Drops From 32 °C To 28 °C?

Petrolicious Has Balls of Kevlar!

My friend Petr Hastings-Vanbeeck, whom I lovingly call Petrolicious since he started referring to me as Bockalicious, today accepted my challenge to post a picture of himself on social media wearing one of the beautiful garlands from LODE.

He did need a reminder, but that is quite understandable for avatars of our age. We have so many important things to do and to think about and so many priorities you younger folks cannot even dream of.

P.S. I originally misspelled poor Petr's last name, it's 1) Hastings with an "s", 2) Vanbeeck with a "c" and 3) a hyphen inbetween. *sigh*