Picture of the Day - 187

"Too Shy" by Sajiah Viper

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

Drew Bartscher - Hero & Straight Ally

GayStarNews reports:

"It was a regular Saturday night out for Drew Bartscher and his friends until he ended up with a black eye.

The 27-year-old was waiting for his two friends outside Wiley's Tavern in downtown Sioux Falls in South Dakota at around 2am when he heard a woman use a derogatory term for homosexuals.

'I hear a woman regard – make a comment to her boyfriend. Uh, along the lines of, "These F-ing F-words,"' Bartscher told the media."

Read the full article here.

Hanging with LP & Guyke

Tomais was away in first life on family business on Saturday so I hung out with my son and his beau LP.

Besides talking and getting to know one another, Guyke and I taught LP how to say Guyke's name correctly [gheee-caa], which rhymes with the Spanish word for girl "chica".

I also entered LP into "The Laird's School of Animation", the class of Hugging.101. I am still hopeful that he will ultimately be successful.

I - and later LP and Guyke - then went on to the Holtwaye Gallery event. As I was entering the venue JJ took the picture below. That man is really fast and an excellent photographer, who always manages to make me look great.

A Satyr in A Forrest of Phallii

On Friday I visited the ongoing Fantasy Gay Pride (SLurl). As a gay man I have to "dress appropriately for every occasion ", to quote my husband Tomais, so I went as a shamanic satyr. (For those of you who don't know "satyr" is correctly pronounced "say-ter".)

First I jumped right into a concert by Lisa Nichols (née Brune). I hadn't heard Lisa sing for many years and she was still as good as I remembered, so that was a joyful start to my visit.

After that I stumbled across the entrance to the "Phallice in Wonderland"-attraction and gave it a shot.

It was fun to try to figure out how to follow in the footsteps of Alice, but I got stuck at the Cheshire cat, so after that I just enjoyed the environs.

Ezzie Joins the Blogosphere

Ezziedq Mirabella, the newly elected Co-Chair/Secretary of the board of Second Pride, has joined the blogosphere today: Ezzie's Second Life.

Ezzie promises to tell us about what he is doing and what is happening with him in Second Life.

Welcome to the hectic world of blogging, Ezzie!

My Son As Art

When I logged in yesterday I was soon hailed by my son Guyke, Prince of Paradijs (the traditional title given to the heir to the throne of the realm of Southern Charm). After the usual preliminaries he soon spilled his urgent news.

"I'm in an exhibition!", he said excitedly.
"What do you mean?", I asked, "I know you are an exhibitionist, but what exhibition are you in?"
"You remember, I told you that Ronan Mactavish asked me to pose for him? Well, the pictures are now exhibited."
"Ahh yes, of course I remember. Please send me the landmark and I will go take a look! This should be fun..."

Guyke sent me the landmark to Piazza Siciliana (SLurl) and I arrived safely at the gallery. I was a bit taken aback when I saw the name of the exhibition on the sign at the landing spot.

"Welcome to Ronan Mactavish's Uomini Nudi. Kip.. Jee.. Simon.. Latherblu.. Drey.. Guyke", my Italian isn't great but good enough to realize that I was going to be exposed to images of naked men. The boy hadn't told me that... "If he is sporting an erection I will surely accidentally drown him, even if he is the Crown Prince", I thought to myself as I took three deep breaths and prepared myself for the worst.

I decided to start with the others men in the exhibition and look at Guyke's pictures last, so I could slowly prepare myself for the possible shock.

The exhibition was however extremely tasteful and beautifully composed, so as I moved along through the different sections I felt my fear leaving me. When I finally came to the Guyke-section I was extremely happy to see Ronan's interpretation of my beloved son.

 

 I am happy to say that I can recommend this wonderful exhibition to you all.