The Coke Bottle At Cutlass

 

When someone you care about passes away, what they leave behind becomes more precious. That's certainly been the case of Rita Mariner and her Sunweaver Estates, most of which have had their future up in the air since the announcement of her death. But it's not just her objects involved. There's one small object at Club Cutlass that is easily overlooked, but to those who know the owner is a reminder of a dear friend. 

 

Read more in Design. 

 

Jenni Greenfield Stepping Down From Cutlass, Taking Break From SL

 

Jenni Greenfield has been a familiar sight at Club Cutlass, the main club of the Sunweaver community for many years. But she recently announced she will be taking a break, possibly a permanent one.

 

Had to make a hard decision, but decided to hang it up with SL. The reasons for this is my health is declining, and I have actually become bored with the internet. As you may know, I was recently in the hospital, and they misplaced the meds I took with me. they said they would set me up with new prescriptions, but they seem to be having a problem getting them through. Without them, I have medical issues and a near total lack of energy. Thank you all for putting up with me all these years. 

 

Talking with her, Jenni wasn't sure if this was a hiatus in which she would be back, eventually, but a lasting one, bringing up her lack of energy.

 

Hopefully her health problems will resolve soon and she'll soon be back.

 

Best wishes Jenni,

 

Bixyl Suftan 

New Year's Eve 2025

 

Many people in Second Life, perhaps most, love a good party. And New Years Eve had a number. Some places had a special twist on regularly scheduled happenings, and others were open just for this special night. Yours truly dropped by a few from Wooburn, to Caledon, to Bay City, and his own home community the Sunweavers as they bade 2025 good bye, and hello to 2026. 

 

See the pictures in Events.  

 

Scenes From Christmas Eve With the Sunweavers

 

 Yours truly has been busy getting over a cold and working in RL, as well as finishing a longer article that will be up tomorrow, so I'm a little late in posting a few pictures from Christmas Eve.

 

 Wednesday December 24 from 4-6 was the Christmas party at Club Zero Gravity. DJ Snowbuns came out of her holiday hiatus to play tunes for the two hour set. 

 

 At 6 PM came the Cutlass Christmas Party, and there was a treat: physics balloons. Touching the rezzer would release a bunch over the dance floor. 

 

 Shockwave would play the tunes for this event, and he played some interesting ones.

 

 It was good music with good friends and good chatter. 

 

 

The party would last a bit beyond 8PM, as not everyone here was with family in real-life. 
 

 Following the Christmas parties, I would drop by Calas Galahon Park for a bit with a friend. 

 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,

 

Bixyl Shuftan 

 

Happy St. Patrick's Day

 

 

 Today is Saint Patrick's Day, a holiday not only celebrated in Ireland, but also the United States, Canada, and a number of other countries where numbers of Irish settled. 

 

Second Life boasts a couple noteworthy locations related to the holiday. One is the Castle Blarney Pub, located in the Dublin sim. This venue has been in Second Life for over a decade and can be counted to draw a crowd this time of year. So be prepared for lag. "Come visit the lively, always-exciting Blarney Stone Irish Bar in Second Life. Social events and live DJ music occur daily. Live music concerts are also held three times a week."

Dublin (82/82/25).

 

Another is Castle Blarney in the Wilde sim. It's where the Blarney Stone is located in real life. And here in Second Life, making the journey is just a teleport away. Just head to the top, lay on the floor where the stone is, and kiss it. Will you receive the gift of gab (or be "full of Blarney")? Who knows (yours truly has kissed it a few times inworld).

 

And don't forget to check around for St. Patrick's-themed events.

 

Happy St. Patrick's Day.

 

Bixyl Shuftan

 

Partying On At Scorn And Cutlass

 

 

 Club Scorn may be just a single club, but it has a number of venues on the sim and every Saturday a different one gets used. On Saturday the 20th, a new city ruins venue was revealed for the club's "Post Apocalypse" Night.

 

 

 People showed up as survivors, mutants, robots, and a zombie, "What does a vegetarian zombie say? Graaaaaiiiinnnnssss ..." The people playing the music were DJ Aldi, DJ Poison, DJ Charlee, DJ Squeaks, and DJ Gwen. Several contests were held with a number of winners. 

Scorn is at Elysium Tartarus, the locations of the active venue varies, depending on which one is used.

Cutlass remains one venue (though occasionally the underwater club is powered up for use). On July 24, the theme was "Crazy Stuff."

DJ Jenni played the tunes as people showed up as a watermellon, a jellyfish, an Intermet meme, community leader Rita Mariner in a straitjacket, and more.

Cutlass is at Sunweaver Bay (114/117/757). 

Bixyl Shuftan

Reader Submitted Pictures: Big Hair At Club Cutlass

 

 

"Big Hair" was the theme at Club Cutlass last Saturday. And in group chatter, Rita was talking about Kylee Gracemount's hairdo, "Kylee, is giving fuzzball a run for biggest hair." I couldn't make it to take pictures. But I got a few. This one from FluffyFoxy364 Resident

 

 

This one from Cynthia Farshore
 

 And this one from DeniseUnicorn Toonie

Snowy would comment, "Could say its a big Hare day."

Remembering Zorro

 

It was almost a week ago on June 11 when the Sunweaver community found out one of it's own, Zorru Wurramunga, had passed away.  Soon after, this picture of him was placed at the community's main club, Cutlass, next to the dancing pole he sometimes used. 

On Friday June 14, the party was dedicated in his honor, with a few Sunbeamers who hadn't been at the club in months showing up. 

At the memorial to departed Sunweavers at Sunweaver Eclipse, a candle to Zorro had been set up. People left tributes, including a bottle of pirate's rum. One can see it at Sunweaver Eclipse (67/241/21)

Rest in peace, our fisher metal fox

Bixyl Shuftan

Happy St. Patrick's Day

 

 

 It's St. Patrick's Day. And for those who want to see a themed location, there are a couple longtime ones that have been on the Grid for years. 

There is a Dublin sim, and in the middle is the Blarney Stone pub. It's active year round, with live musicians. 

 

WELCOME TO DUBLIN IN SL, GATHERING PLACE FOR THE WORLD ! Dublin in Second Life recreates the look and feel of the city of Dublin, Ireland. Events are scheduled daily. Irish Pub, club, bar, live, blarney, gogartys, shamrock, st paddys, st patricks

 

But St. Patrick's Day is special, with DJs and live music, late into the night. 

 

Don't forget to check the rest of the sim as there's much to see.

Dublin (83/82/25)

Another place to explore is Castle Blarney, in the Wilde sim.

 

Scale replica of the real Blarney Castle main tower in Ireland, with Blarney Stone kissing animation certificate outside the castle entryway Irish village, Malones Irish Pub, Blarney Castle, Blarney Stone faerie wishing well

Here, you can travel up and kiss the Blarney stone, which is a lot quicker here in SL (and more sanitary). 

The castle is part of O'Hare's Gap, with a nearby Irish village. Don't forget to check it out if you have a little time.

Wilde (160/109/33)

 

Reader Submitted: Club Cutlass Annual Veteran’s Day Honor Dance

 

 On Saturday November, 11th the Sunweaver community held its regular Saturday night dance, however this one was different as it was a special dance to honor Real life Veteran’s. It was requested that vets wear uniforms of their service if they had one and others who had not served to reframe from wearing such. Cynthia Farshore, who herself is a Navy Veteran, was the DJ for the evening. The music played was songs from the different eras of conflict starting with the American Revolution and progressing up to today's.

At the end of the dance the veterans were asked to form up under the service flags to be recognized and photos. This time there were only four.

Left to right, Zorro Wuramunga, Rita Mariner, Shockwave Yareach, Cynthia Farshore.

 

Cynthia Farshore 

April Fools in Second Life

 

Some people love April Fool's Day. Others hate "International Crawl Under a Rock Day" as one called it. Either way, quite a number or pranks happen. Some go well. Some don't. And a few go truly epic. The Newser got into the act with it's April Fool article. But we weren't the only ones having fun. So were many others, including the Linden Lab Moles with their "UFO" stunt.

Read more in Extra.

St. Patrick's Shenanigans

 

 

Saint Patrick's Day had numerous shenanigans across Second Life. One was the Sunbeamer Moon Dance, taking place above Sunweamer Space. This time, the moon was green, and the source of numerous green cheese jokes. A number of teams would raise thousands of Linden dollars. There was no sign of mice 

There would be St. Patrick's Parties at The Happy Vixen and Club Cutlass, the latter getting a larger crowd. Both places had decorations, and people dressed up in green.

Fuzzball Ortega would send the Newser this picture, that of "The Hair" dyed green and making an appearance at a Steelhead Salmons RFL event. Guess it wouldn't really by the Relay without "The Hair."

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Bixyl Shuftan

Announcement: Grand Opening Weekend of Spiritual Healing Sanctuary :

 

 Hi wonderful kind Friend,

here your Personal Invitation for our Grand Opening Weekend of Shiny's & Lily's Spiritual Healing Sanctuary :
 

GRAND OPENING WEEKEND

Sneak Peek - Friday, March, 3, 2023  Open all day- Sneak Peek into the sim / taking the full voiced guided tour and explore it yourself

Dance Party at Cutlass Saturday,
March 4, 2023 (6pm-8pm SLT)

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunweaver%20Bay/114/117/757

Dance Party at Balance
Saturday, March 4, 2023 (8pm-10pm SLT)  

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wolftail%20inn/76/217/24

 

Reader Submitted: The Cutlass Pyramid Club

 

 

 From Cynthia Farshore. This is an interior look at night of Club Cutlass in it's second incarnation, sometimes called "The Pyramid," which was from around 2009 to early February 2012 in Sunweaver Air.

 

Reader Submitted: Club Cutlass and Club Zero Gravity

 

Second Life has many clubs. But how many last very long? How about 15 years? Rita Mariner recently sent a readers submission about the two longest-lived clubs in the Sunweaver area: Club Cutlass and Club Zero Gravity. So what did she have to say?

 Read Rita's story in Places.

 

Cartoon of The Day: Caitian Question

 

 Taken at Club Cutlass's Sci-Fi Night. Feline races in science fiction happen fairly often. And when Star Trek's animated series was done, it got one: The Caitians. But there seems to be some minor disagreement on what they looked like. One fanfic I came across, while showing the women as more or less like M'Ress as done by Filmation, the males looked lionlike, more muscular and with a mane. Perhaps it was just the fashion of that particular city. As for why M'Ress's feet were digigrade and Caitian's feet in the online game were plantigrade, that I don't have an answer for.

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Cartoon of The Day: Shooting First

 

 

 Taken at Club Cutlass's sci-fi party. In the original series of Star Trek, lower-ranked men and women in Security, noted for their red shirts, ended up getting killed a number of times to the point it became a trope. Thinking about it, their weapons were smaller than those in a certain other science-fiction tale. Looks like this one 'shirt isn't taking chances on her next away-team mission. 

By Bixyl Shuftan 

Cartoon of the Day: Hippie Sunglasses

 

 

 Taken at Club Cutlass' "Hippie Night." Some of what people wore back then was more than a little "far out," including some people's sunglasses. While lenses that change color when the light chaged weren't quite developed yet, if they had, one certain style back then might get some people wondering.

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Cartoon of the Day: Pooh Undies

 

 

 Taken at Cutlass' "PJ Party." Those are "Winnie The Pooh" undies she's wearing. To those who don't know, there's a running gag about saying Chinese strongman Xi Jinping has a slight resemblance to Pooh, one that he reportedly hates. And with so much of what Americans buy from tools to clothes to just about everything made in the country, if there was a line of undies that producers there would have less desire  to make, this would be it.

by Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of The Day: Hot Dog Costume

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Taken at Club Cutlass' "Silly Stuff" event.

By Bixyl Shuftan