Picture of the Day - 363

"To wonder is to begin to understand." by Skippy Beresford

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

To Mr. Kahvy Smith: "You Are Already Old!"

Yesterday I had two discussions with my friend Kahvy.

The first one occurred when I logged into SecondLife and received a gesture from him. It seems we both suffer from being married to men with the same hoarding addiction, boats.

I tried it out on my sweet hubby immediately and this is the reaction I received:
[13:48] Bock McMillan shouts: "** You don't NEED another Boat!!!**"
[13:48] Tomais Ashdene shouts: "Dream on, Monkey Boy!"

I was not at all surprised by that response, and to be quite honest, I don't really mind Tomais buying every damn boat that is put up for sale in SecondLife. Kahvy confessed feeling the same way about Garrett's hoarding. We decided that both our husbands are wonderful men and this little flaw of theirs is not much to make a fuss about.

Later, about ten minutes before midnight CET, Kahvy and my local time, Kahvy got back to me and complained that he "in ten minutes would only have a year left as a young man" because today is his 34th birthday. It seems that he lives in the erroneous belief that the official age of becoming "old" is 35.

I feel the need to correct him and perhaps also sooth him, so my birthday present is this statement.

"Kahvy, my dear friend,

Age is but a number, but always remember that ageing is mandatory but growing old is optional. You need not worry about being 35 in less than a year, because you actually have six more years until you are "old" as the official age of becoming old in the straight culture is 40. 

However, on the other hand in the gay culture, you have already been old since you turned 30 as that is the official age for turning old among us gays. Enjoy the rest of your life as an old queer and get the f-u-c-k over it!

Many happy birthday wishes, my dear old friend!"

SaveMe Oh Release Party Today @ Josef K's

The famous - or perhaps infamous - SecondLife performance artist Ms. SaveMe Oh today celebrates the release of her eBook in three languages!

We are all invited! Apmel promises no bans today, but let's wait and see how that goes...

Read more about this event, which starts at 1 PM today, in my friend Apmel Goosson's blog post My Avatar's Name Is Apmel: SaveMe Oh Release Party Today @ Josef K's.

In his post Apmel supplies you with a SLurl to the party and links to iTunes store where you can purchase the Spanish, Swedish and English editions - or why not all three? - of the eBook.

Reminder: Last Hours of Reader Survey 2015

There are now only 15 hours remaining to get your responses in on Bock in SecondLife's reader survey of the year.

Read this blog post Who Are You? - Reader Survey 2015 and then answer the polls in the right column.

I am very much obliged for your effort and cooperation.

Those of you who have already answered have the option to change or complete your responses until the poll closes today at 12 AM (midnight) SLT.

Picture of the Day - 362

"Postcards from Brazil" by Tylεr

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

Neon Trees - Songs I Can't Listen To

(via Towleroad)

On "VPL" - Updated

My husband Tomais steadfastly insists that he is not funny, but I disagree completely. No man has ever before consistently made me laugh so often and so much as he does.

A couple of nights ago, while we were talking on Skype as usual, Tomais suddenly mentioned the abbreviation VPL, don't ask me how and why because the conversation leading up to it has been wiped off my teflon-memory. 

Jon Hamm,
The King of VPL

My understanding and knowledge of the English language is quite good, even if I say so myself, but it is not my mother-tongue so there are still some unchartered areas that become apparent occasionally. VPL was one of those, I had never heard the expression before so I asked him what it meant.

Jon Hamm, a.k.a.
"The Rosetta Bulge"

"It means ´Visible Penis Line´", my darling told me with a serious voice, as I exploded with laughter.

Then as he continued telling me about the rules I almost croaked, "Underwear, bicycle pants or wet boxers don't count, because anyone can show a VPL in those outfits". (This means that my friend Kandinsky's favorite picture of a Polish bicycle team is out of the contest, see my previous post Re: Bicycle Pants.)

According to writer Christian Zamora at Buzzfeed, when he ranks The 21 Most Important Celebrity Bulges Of All Time: "All bulges are ranked and measured on a scale of zero to five Jon Hamm's. Each bulge [is] evaluated on its outline, girth, and prominence to determine its rank and the number of Hamm's it deserve[s]".

As far as I know there is no equivalent term for this phenomenon in the Swedish language, except possibly the Swedish words for "poseur", "indiscreet" or "show-off". That fact does however not mean that we haven't noticed the phenomenon before.

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Update 2015-06-10
For those who want to see more VPL you should visit the Tumblr-blog "Visible Penis Line", although from what I could see at a quick glance most of the pictures posted seem to fall into the illegitimate category according to "Tomais Rule of VPL´s"

Picture of the Day - 361

"Ship Ahoy!" by Roman Godde

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