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Fourth Annual Mahrathon to Raise Funds for Heifer International

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Mahrathon 2012 for Heifer International

Chicago, IL & The Velvet, Second Life, December 8 & 9, 2012 – What began as a joke 4 years ago has grown into a successful annual fundraiser for Heifer International. A conversation about who had spun the longest set inspired Maht Wuyts of The Velvet, one of Second Life’s® oldest clubs, to attempt a 26.2 hour DJ marathon, called the Mahrathon, a joking reference to his first name.

The first Mahrathon raised around $500 from tips donated by people coming to the club. Last year, for the third Mahrathon, he arranged to DJ at the Star Lounge, a Chicago coffeehouse while spinning at The Velvet, raising funds in both worlds and raised over $1500. This year his goal is $2000.

While a small fundraiser compared to many of the others in SL, this one is only 26 hours long, requires no special build or sim, no creators were asked to make anything. It is one guy playing music for 26.2 hours and hoping that will inspire you to give to a charity that helps create sustainable incomes for poor families around the world by not only giving them livestock to support themselves, but asking them to pledge to pay it forward.

The Mahrathon starts at 3:48 on Saturday, December 8th and continues until 6:00 PM on Sunday, December 9th. The odd starting time is necessary for the official 26.2 hours that makes this a marathon, or Mahrathon to be precise. Last year, the Chicago Reader interviewed Wuyts during his marathon set.

In SL, Wuyts is known for his encyclopedic knowledge of music and his vast collection that he mines for unusual and eclectic sets. Over the last year, he has done a weekly set of music from 1960 to 2012, presenting the best music of each year week after week. Anyone attending the Mahrathon for its entirety would be happy to know there will be no repeats.

During the 26.2 hours, several guest hosts will drop in to meet and greet while Wuyts spins his tunes in two worlds. Among the hosts, are Harlow Heslop, Caelan Hancroft, CodeBastard Redgrave, Tristan Elan, Lolotehe Menoptra, Faery Sola, Sachi Vixen, Samara Barzane, BabyChampagne Sass, Harper Beresford, Gabe Bookmite, Callie Cline, Alicia Chenaux, Sasy Scarborough, Gidge Uriza and Cajsa Lilliehook.

To go to The Velvet, click here.

My Second Box Is Open for Enrollment!

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My Second Box is now open for DECEMBER enrollment!! That’s right – it’s time to get ready for our November designers. For 300L you will receive 5 gift items that are for My Second Box group members only.

Our Designers this quarter are:

Adorkable
Donna Flora
Lassitude & Ennui
Hopscotch
Adore & Abhor
Sascha’s Designs
Blueblood
Embody
Status
Somnia
Bilo
A:S:S
L’Aph
MINA
Spyralle

Designers in BOLD – well, let’s face it – its’ not a secret – THEY ARE DECEMBER!!!! YAAAAAY

Five of these designers will release a special item for MSB Shoppers each month Oct – Nov – Dec around the 15th of each month.  You must rejoin the group each month as a shopper for a group fee of 300L.

My Second Box is a monthly subscription group with free gifts from carefully chosen designers from across the grid. Similar to the real life monthly sample boxes you get.

– Monthly Subscription fee: 300L every month.
– Subscription is open from 1st to 25th of each month
– Gifts are sent to subscribers on the 15th
– All subscribers are EJECTED FROM group on the 26th of month –
– Subscribers MUST re-subscribe and pay the $300L fee at the beginning of each month

DISCLAIMER: It is up to the subscriber (you) to obtain your gifts in a timely fashion. There will be a notice that the group will close within 24 hours just as a reminder.

MY SECOND BOX WOMENS Group Link

RC Cola and a Moon Pie

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With the lovely hat from Bliss Couture and the sleek pencil skirt, everything about this outfit is so very chic, but the polka dots and the bright cherry red point me toward rockabilly. In fact, RC Cola and a Moon Pie ran through my head the entire time I was blogging.

I don’t want no cornbread
And I do love peas and rice
And I don’t want no carrots
No real hot pizza slice

But everything’s gonna be alright
With an RC Cola and a Moon Pie

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Daydream Believer

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Just wanted to share a quick picture today!

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Head: Fashionably Dead “Doll Head” (Eyes Closed No Makeup) at Arcade
Hair: Magika “Yesterday”
Skin: Tres Blah gatcha skin (n/a)
Dress: Schadenfreude “Eala Dress” in Ivory
Hands: Slink mesh hands

Elfboy in violet

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That right there is a violet suit.

Nomine has new mesh suits for sale. When I took my animus here to check them out, my cursor paused over the black one, and then the red one, and then I thought: AM I A MAN OR A FAKE MAN IN SL? And so I bought the violet one. I’m wearing it with a great violet skin from Plastik, the Averian Elven – Wisteria skin. I’m pimpin’ enough for any old urban decay.

So yeah, I’m challenging myself to blog as my boy avatar all month. Just so you know, boy-Acha is a queer Elf and his boy parts totally match his skin color. He abides by the life rules that his old friend Catero told him once, via Dr. Seuss: “Be who you are and feel what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” He’ll be back.

Welcome back, hi-rez photos. I missed you.

Eyes: Mutsu star eyes in pink
Ears: AITUI type 2 stretched ears, small fantasy
Nails: Mandala male short nails
Suit: Nomine mesh suit in lilac
Hair (prim) Atro Patena – Josef in black
Hair (tattoo): JOMO etched hair 02a
Skin: Plastik Averian Elven – Wisteria – Plain
Horns: Illusions Runed Horns: Aries
Boots: GRASP layered leather boots – black
Scarf: Artilleri Taylor scarf in stripes, purple & apricot
Nose ring: Ephemeral Captive – bead nose ring (3 bead)

The Christmas Sweater

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Kauna has Christmas Sweaters for men and women in all the holiday shades and patterns at faMESHed. Everyone needs a Christmas Sweater for holiday pictures, parties and holiday cheer.

Until glaucoma took away her ability to see the details, my mother knit a sweater for me every Christmas. I can remember most of them. My least favorite was a traditional Scandinavian pullover in red, white and blue she made for me when I was in 3rd grade, even then my color palette was subtler than that. My favorite was a longer tunic sweater she knit in a dark sienna with a Scandinavian knit border print from hip to mid thigh with sienna, pumpkin, cream and dark forest green. One of the most stunning was one she knit of variegated yarn that through serendipity happened to have the exact number of stitches so the yarn formed a gorgeous argyle plaid pattern on the front panel. She knit a gorgeous lacy shell one year that was so soft and made with such fine yarn I could squeeze it into a ball in one hand. The last one she made before her vision dimmed permanently was a soft dove gray, seashell pink and white Scandinavian cardigan with silver buttons. I loved my sweaters and their loss is one of the harder losses from our house fire.

That’s why I dislike the “Ugly Christmas Sweater” trope. How can a sweater made with love ever be ugly?

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Come hunt with me

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Brains brains brains… It’s tough to remember where I put them after a day of chemotherapy, but luckily Acha’s Animus (boy soul, Jungian term) seems to have ’em for me. He’s in my newest acquisition from Lassitude & Ennui (for the challenge). OK, Jackal might have handed me something even newer, but (to tease you) I can’t blog it until next week. These boots totally suit my Animus’ incarnation as a Deer-shifter. Right? “Come. Run with me and my reindeer this Christmas.” Lol.

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Boots: Lassitude & Ennui suede boots in latte
Antlers: Illusions Reindeer Antlers
Staff: Spell Fire Wooden Combat Staff with battle HUD
Eyes: Poetic Colors Autumn – Oak
Hair: Maitreya Natalie – Almond
Skin: Redgrave Tyler – Tan / 05 fullbeard
Outfit: Chaospire Druid outfit
Tattoos: HUZ henna fusion, henna reborn, and rosary neck

A Nip in the Air

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There’s a nip in the air today that asks for a big, comfy sweater. And you can find just the thing at Zenith for the With Love Hunt. This is a nice, tunic sweater with a beautiful snowflake pattern on the bottom. It also comes with a big woolen scarf to wrap around your neck that is edged with round puffballs of yard. The scarf even has a color change HUD to let you choose among the different colors in the sweater to coordinate. It’s not cold enough, though, to haul out the scarf today.

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Seven years of memories

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hyasynth modeling for me!

hyasynth Tiramisu of ~silentsparrow~ in L&E’s Thecla boots

 

My oldest friend in Second Life is hyasynth Tiramisu, and she was kind enough to model one of her oldest pairs of Lassitude & Ennui shoes for the Seven years of Lassitude & Ennui challenge. Actually… hyasynth originally put on shoes that came in two parts, but the prims never un-chunked for me, poor old shoes! So we settled on the Thecla boots, which are not all that old (a few years?), and still very beautiful.

My own oldest pair of L&E shoes are probably a little pair of Victorian heels that I got during my year of living in Caledon. Jackal lived there too, and I met her for the first time at a small concert that someone threw. I fangirled all over her, and she handed me a pair of sculpted flats (the Chloe flats), her first sculpties. “You seem to really have a purpose in SL,” I told her with great envy. “I don’t have that purpose yet!” Then Jackal disappeared into WoW for a year, and I slowly began to blog more and more, setting myself the goal of one blog post a day on my modest little blog (www.achariya.net) so that my blogging skills would improve. I wore many more of Jackal’s shoes…and many more of hyasynth’s clothes. And by the time Jackal returned, she had a whole new series of skills to apply to her creations.

It’s funny how sometimes stuff, and certain outfits, can bring on a whole slew of memories. hyasynth in those boots reminds me of the days when I blogged a lot, and hya had the time away from a 9-5 day job to create a lot of beautiful things, and Jackal had just returned to SL…

Boots: Lassitude & Ennui Thecla boots in Sea
horns lassitude & ennui – Slightly monstrous horns light / sorbet
necklace lassitude & ennui Psyche – Silver & blue topaz
Hybrid Jeans – Black
Skin Schadenfreude Moonlight Langwidere [f-b-d] Blush
Nails Schadenfreude Azure Glitter Manicure
Head Crow (Sparrow) Corbie Plush Crow – Happy! Perched on Your Head <3
Socks (quail)(3A) Tweet Over the Knee Socks ~silentparrow~
Shirt (women’s) Cranky Owl Tee ~silentsparrow~
Hair – Magika Tomorrow
Schadenfreude Sparrow Pose 6 (sitting)
Tattoos – tenebrae tendrils tattoos ~silentsparrow~ 😉