Thor and Aurie at Phat Cats

Thor and Aurie_002, originally uploaded by Tsai Jie.

I know. You are used to seeing me dancing here with Thorgal while he is Djing. I do love to hang with him in Phat Cats. I get to hear new music from everywhere, we talk about our respective loves, about life, the universe, and everything. Always a relaxing thing on a Sunday afternoon. Yesterday when I showed up for his DJ session I thought it would be like any other Sunday, but no.

There she was on the dance floor the lovely Aurelia Lionheart. I don't usually see Aurie here. She is the proprietor of The Noob. (Come by on Tuesdays and Thursdays for Karaoke and hear Thor sing! Yes, a man of many talents.)

Now I could never even attempt to cut in on Thor dancing with Aurielia, first because she is a friend, but also because she is his SL partner and one true love. I couldn't help, however, but admire them both for being beautiful, young, and for being in love. So I took this picture.

Meanwhile, though I did listen to Thor's (always excellent) music choices, I was stuck across the room in chat lag hell with Molly Lempton, a couple other friends, and an Elvis lookalike who didn't speak much English. I still had a good time. Made a new friend. Got nostalgic whenThor played me a Sting song that is an old favorite.

Thorgal & Aurielia, I count myself lucky to have you both as friends.

Another Sunday at Phat Cats

Here I am once again dancing with the most Eye-Candy DJ in all SL, Thorgal McGillivary.  Every Sunday from 2-4pm SLT he is spinning the tunes (like the beautiful song from Luka Bloom that he closed his set with and which I just posted below) at Phat Cats.

Tonight he played "Fields of Gold" for me. Come by next Sunday and he'll play a song for you, too.

Celtic Night at The Noob

Celtic Night at The Noob (1), originally uploaded by Tsai Jie.

Aurelia Lionheart has a new club called The Noob with a great sort of uban-grunge industrial look; and last night at the grand opening, a bunch of the Second Life Twitter crowd showed up to dance to the DJ stylings of my friend Thorgal (that's him in the center in the sexy kilt next to Aurelia). The theme and the music was Celtic/folk, so I wore my favorite white Celtic gown (from Suki's Silks).

More Celtic Night at The Noob

Celtic Night at The Noob (2), originally uploaded by Tsai Jie.

The couple getting hot and heavy on the dance floor are Finn and Winona, a couple of my Twitter friends. Aren't they cute? You can follow their romance on Twitter--look for @FinnPoitier & @WinonaWiefel!

How NOT to make a Good Impression on a Woman

Phat Cats (1), originally uploaded by Tsai Jie.

Went to Phat Cats on Monday because my friend Thorgal sent out an invite. Lovely place, great music, and elegant (if laggy) surroundings. Since Thor was busy dancing with Molly, I jumped on a pink ball with a nice looking fellow named Lawrence (for reasons you will see below, I am leaving off his last name, but just let me say he must be related to a certain Godfather). His profile gave his rez day back in 2006, so this was no noob--even though he acted like one.

We introduced ourselves and took a few sweeping turns around the floor when he asked: "How old are you?" I made some non-committal noises about never asking a lady her age, but next he wanted to know vital statistics: Height, weight, hair color, cup size. This took me a bit aback and at first I started answering: "Yes, real blonde, longish hair, 5'3" ... C cup, if you must know...." but he wouldn't stop. Wanted the age. Wanted the weight. While giving out those is not generally a problem for me it just bugged me that he kept pushing.

Hell, I had already handed him an RL photo of me that I have tucked in my SL photo album, but due to the lag he said it wouldn't rezz for him. I pointed out that this questioning was rude behavior in SL where many people prefer to keep RL info private and we are all an illusion anyway. I mean WTF?

I thought I might convince him that there is more to a person than looks so I told him I wanted answers to a couple questions, too. Asked about his favorite authors, books he's read, movies, music. Shared my own tastes in those departments--something he did not seem interested about at all. But he kept returning to age. Now I was getting pissed.

Eventually I said okay. Told him I was "born in the year of the Dragon." Took him a couple minutes to Wikipedia that, but then he came back with the date ranges for YotD over the last century and he wanted to know which Dragon: Fire, Wood, Water? By now I was so done with this that I told him was I born in 1904.  And he still wouldn't quit pushing.

Finally I told him: "Assume I am either 1) Young, moderately pretty, and grossly overweight or that I am 2) older than you, gorgeous, and thin as a rail. You pick which you prefer." (Just for the curious, I do not fit either of those profiles--you can think of me as average!)  That, too, was not good enough and he persisted with the questions. I finally thanked him for the dance, told him it had been interesting--because I had learned so much more about the man he was by his questions than he had learned from me. Jumped off the pose balls and left.

I am sure I will be back to Phat Cats, but you won't catch me dancing with Larry there (or anywhere else) ever again!

Phat Cats (2), originally uploaded by Tsai Jie.

Dancing with Thorgal McGillivary

Dancing with Thorgal, originally uploaded by Tsai Jie.

Thorgal is a hot DJ who hosts the Freaky Friday Xperience in SL (SLFFX) every Friday afternoon at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Das%20vergessene%20Tal/105/65/24.

There are fun trivia contests (yours truly has won the Sex Trivia contest 2 weeks running now!), great music and friendly people.

If you want to know more follow #SLFFX or @mcgillivary on Twitter.