Cartoon of The Day: Getting A Head

 

 Taken at The Relaystock. Dropping in on Trader Wiplash's set Sunday night on April 12, the lag was a bit heavy, so for a couple moments, he was just a head. It eventually cleared and he appeared normal, but not before I'd gotten this picture. 

 

By Bixyl Shuftan 

 

More On The Last Relaystock

 

From Friday April 10 to Sunday April 12, the Relaystock took place. It was three days of rock music and mud. While hosted by the Relay Rockers, it's asked for other teams to participate from the start. And this year like others, many other teams' musicians, as well as a few independents playing for one, took part. And many would give their teams huge boosts in their fundraising totals. But, there was one problem. 

 

Read the story in Events. 

 

SL Video: "The Skols RelayStock '26"

 

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From Nicole Malady on April 11, " RELAYSTOCK for RELAY FOR LIFE of SECONDLIFE. RELAY TEAM THE SKOLS PERFORMANCE. Syndicats!"

 

 

 

The Last Relaystock

 

This weekend, the Relaystock took place with days two and three. While hosted by the Relay Rockers, it's always been open to performers from all teams, as well as some playing in behalf of one. And for many it was a moment to shine. Among those performing Saturday, DJ Cynthia, with a number of others from Team Sunbeamers acting as dancers. The team would get almost 77,000 in the kiosk, which was enough to bring them over the one million Linden mark, and Emerald level. 

 

 Read more about the Relaystock later. 

 

RFL Press Release: Bid The Lindens Bald

 

 BID THE LINDENS BALD 2026

Bid the Lindens & Moles Bald returns for its 10th annual showdown in support of Relay For Life in Second Life — and this year will be the grand finale.

In this fan-favorite fundraising event, teams of Lindens and Moles literally put their hair on the line. Residents vote with their donations: the teams that raise the most keep their locks, while the team that raises the least will go bald until the next birthday celebrations.

Voting opens during RelayStock on April 10 and runs through April 15, culminating in the always-entertaining Haircut Party from 12:00–2:30 PM SLT, with the clippers coming out at 2:15 PM SLT. Team lists will be announced in April, so start planning your strategy and your donations.

As the Relay Rockers prepare to retire this beloved tradition, this will be the last time Linden hair hits the floor — so don’t miss your chance to be part of the laughter, the spectacle, and the fundraising magic for American Cancer Society.

Mark your calendars and come help
Bid the Lindens & Moles Bald!

SURL: https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/RelayStock2026/126/3/23

 

Cartoon of The Day: Ordinary Girl

 

 Taken at the Relaystock, Among the performers was singer Erika Ordinary. 

 

By Bixyl Shuftan 

 

Relaystock Schedule For Sunday

 

9:00am – DJ Sal
Belle Ame

10:30am – DJ  Casey
Purple Tears

12:00pm – DJ Fuzzball Ortega
Steelhead Salmons

1:30pm – DJ Primilena Dumpling 
Aether Chrononauts Tiny Steps

3:00pm – LIVE – Grace Loudon
Relay Rockers

4:00pm – LIVE – Todd Rumsford
Cure Chasers

4:00pm – DJ Trader Whiplash
Relay Rockers
The Final Dance
End Of RelayStock 

 

Relaystock Continues Today

 

 The Relaystock got started yesterday, Friday April 10. The three day tribute to Woodstock lived up to the promise of music and mud, with performers playing music at the stage. 

 

 Among those playing the tunes were Trader Whiplash and Nuala Maracas of the Relay  Rockers, standing in for a performer that couldn't make it. 

 

A number of teams have themed campsites. This includes the Sunbeamers, the team of the community where the Newser office makes it's home.

 

 

The Sunbeamers have a few items for sale for charity, including a virtual replica of the Victorian Era toilet by Thomas Crapper (yes, women could use it in those dresses). 

 

On this second day of performanices, the schedule is as follows: 

 

8:30am – DJ Melina Firehawk
Heroes Helping Heroes

10:00am – DJ  Temptation
VRaze Dreamers

11:03am – DJ Starlight 
Team Darkpaws

1:00pm – LIVE Eva Fae
Seekers Of Hope

2:00pm – Erika Ordinary
Relay Rockers

3:00pm – DJ  Kayla & The Roos
Roos With A Dream

4:30pm – DJ Hell
Camping For A Cure

6:00pm – DJ Cynthia Farshore
Sunbeamers

7:30pm – DJ Castion Eyre
Scorpions Take On Thyroid Cancer

For those in the Sunweaver community, Club Cutlass will be closed tonight with those usually showing up Friday evenings asked to head to DJ Cynthia's set at the Relaystock.

 

Rock on and Relay,

 

Bixyl Shuftan 

 

Relaystock Starts Today

 

 Today marks the first day of the Relaystock, the yearly three day tribute to the 1969 Woodstock music festival for the Relay for Life. From Friday April 10, to Sunday April 12, there won't be sex and drugs, but there will certainly be rock and roll and plenty of it. 

 

While hosted by the Relay Rockers, the event involves many teams. Many have small campsites across the Relaystock grounds (picture taken yesterday, so some spots had just placeholder items then). 

 

Sad to say this will be the final Relaystock. Real life has been catching up to many of the Relay Rockers, who have been hosting the event year after year. While some will continue to be on SL next year, it won't be as often.  

 

The schedule for today is as follows.  

 

12:30pm – DJ Candi 
Harmony Of Hope

2:00pm – DJ  TBA
Meowgick Littlefolks

3:30pm – DJ Teiko Moxie 
Rainbows Of Hope

5:00pm – DJ Gem Sunkiller
Love, Life & Legacy

6:30pm – DJ Wyldchild Raven & DJ Chevelley Rune
Sugar Skols

8:00pm – DJ  Boone Alpha
Alpha Hope Force

 

SURL :   http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/RelayStock2026/128/3/23

 

Bixyl Shuftan

 

RFL Announcement: Relaystock 2026 - The Last Dance

 

 Get Ready For RelayStock© – One More Time

On April 10-12 the Relay Rockers will host the 13th annual gathering of the teams at
RelayStock ©  (Annual Multi Team Fundraising event)  

The team, which was founded in 2005 and has participated in every Relay For Life in Second Life has decided that 2026 will be the final RelayStock©.  The team itself will retire from active relaying after this season.

The Rockers are dedicating their final season to long-time member Madelyn Majestic, who is currently undergoing treatment for Breast Cancer.  Mady was diagnosed late last year after being reminded to get her exam by the Making Strides campaign.  “Never doubt what you do here is important.”  Mady stated, “Making Strides prompted me to schedule my exam that found the  cancer. With all the knowledge I gained from all of you and the ACS website, I knew what questions to ask and what to expect. As I go through this journey, I’m so immensely grateful to all of you and everything you’ve done to help fight back against cancer.”

In addition to RelayStock the team is currently planning to hold Bid The Lindens Bald©, its annual collaboration with Linden Lab, on Wednesday, April 15th.  This event, the 10th annual iteration of the popular fund raiser, will also be the last one.

Registration for  RelayStock ©– The Last Dance opens March 2d.  Space is limited and allocated on a first come first serve basis.

Info at: www.relayrockers.org

Team: Relay Rockers

SLURL: TBD 

The Sunbeamer Air Show, And Other Weekend News

 

 Pictures from Nydia Tungsten and Kamida Delec. This weekend saw the Sunweaver Air Show, which took place on both Saturday March 14 and Sunday March 15. While the details on how much was raised on Day Two are not yet available, for Day One a combination of 51,100 for the Sunbeamers and Roos With A Dream combined. 

 

 

There were other Relay events, such as a live music performance by the Second Life Cheerleading Squad. Sadly not all the Relay news was happy as it was announced the upcoming Relaystock and Bid the Lindens Bald will be the last one as the Relay Rockers, the team behind them, will be folding at the end of the Relay season. 

 

In other news, on Friday Linden Lab would announce a new Vice President of Engineering: Jerome Despret. 

 

More on these, and other stories, later.

 

Bixyl Shuftan 

 

Cartoon of The Day: Rainbow Roo

 

 

 Taken at the Relaystock. The event attracted avatars of all kinds, including a furry kangaroo. With her outfit, I quickly came up with a pun.

 

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Announcement: "Bid the Lindens Bald," Tomorrow Wednesday April 9

 

In 2017 Linden Lab took part in their 1st team challenge and since that time have raised more than L$5,440,000 -$21,764 US to help The American Cancer Society Ensure Everyone Has An Opportunity To Prevent, Detect, Treat And Survive Cancer

Governor Linden has announced the rosters for the five teams to compete in the 9th Annual Bid The Lindens & Moles Bald fundraising competition, in support of the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life of Second Life. 

 The teams, made up of a total of 27 Lindens and Moles, have accepted the challenge to out raise their colleagues and “Save Their Hair”.  The top fundraising team will be awarded the scissors with which they will shave the hair of the team with the lowest total.  

The competitors have agreed to go bald until SLB.  The fundraiser will be held April 4th thru April 9th in conjunction with the Relay Rockers’ annual RelayStock multi-team event.

Bid Me Bald is the signature fundraising event of the Relay Rockers and Celebrates survivors. Those who hear the words ‘You have cancer’ have little choice when it comes to hair loss. We can choose and we do so in solidarity with our honored survivors.

 

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Kiosks will be placed out at 7:00am slt Friday, April 4 and opened for donations.

Kiosks will be closed for donations at 2:00pm slt Wednesday, April 9, 2024

YOU decide who keeps their hair and who goes bald!

 

The team with the highest total in their kiosk will be given the Bid Me Bald scissors to cut the hair of the team which has the least amount of donations in their kiosk. 

Haircuts: Wednesday April 9 2:15pm slt

The team with the haircut have agreed to be bald until  date TBA

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More information, including about the Limited Edition Linden Bear and the "I Bid A Linden Bald" T-shirts, at https://relayrockers.org/bidthelindensbald/

 

SURL: https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/RelayStock/127/235/24 

Sunbeamers Reach One Million Linden Mark After Raising 100,000L At Relaystock

 

 This weekend, the Relaystock took place, with various teams getting campsites and a musician, sometimes with dancers, on stage. At 3PM Saturday April 5th, it was the turn of Team Sunbeamers. With DJ Cynthia spinning a set of classic rock tunes, a number of other 'beamers got on stage with her and the team danced away on stage, often cracking jokes and puns, "I get by with a little hemp from my friends..."

 

 

The results were a smashing success for the "wackiest team in Second Life," raising a hundred thousand Lindens for the time they were on stage, a new record. Two Sunnies then lived up pledges they made if this was done, Shockwave, the team's wolf, donning a grandmother's nightgown, "HOW do I get talked into doing this?" And Brian became a brightly pink fennec in a tutu, "Okay Brian!!! Strip to the tutu!"

For the team, another milestone was reached. They'd achieved Emerald status fundraising, the one million Linden dollar mark. This marks the fourth year in a row they've done so, and the earliest they've done so ever. Currently, the Sunbeamers are sixth out of 177 teams.

While the Relaystock is over, the camps are still up for people to see, and don't forget the "Bid the Lindens Bald" event later this week.

 

More pictures later.

 

Go Sunbeamers! Go Relay!

 

Bixyl Shuftan

Relaystock Schedule for Today

 

• 9:00AM – DJ Candi – Harmony Of Hope
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• 10:30AM- DJ Orion – Shields Of Serenity
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• 12:00PM – DJ Casey – Purple Tears
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• 1:30PM – DJ Primi – ACTS
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• 3:00PM – Abby Jaidov LIVE  – Relay Rockers
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• 4:00PM – Todd Rumsford LIVE – Cure Chasers
•  
• 5:00PM – The Time Machine – Trader Whiplash – Relay Rockers

 

Cartoon of The Day: "Paper Avatars"

 

 

 Taken at the Relaystock

 

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

The 2025 Relaystock, Friday to Sunday

 

 

 Oops, with the Relay happening so fast, we forgot to notice how early the Relaystock takes place this year. Organized by the Relay Rockers, it's a multiteam event. It started yesterday, Friday April 4, and goes on to tomorrow Sunday April 6.

 

For the 12th year in a row, we have transformed the region into a 1969 NY State of Mind Farm for this year's Biggest Rock Festival in support of Relay For Life of Second Life!  Max Yasgur's 600 acre farm became the most famous concert location in RL history (Woodstock) and we can't wait for you to come enjoy the experience all over again, or maybe for the first time.  Complete with the mud bogs and mud slides, we are ready to rock and roll.

 

The sim is full up of various campsites by various teams.

 

 

And various singers, DJs, and bands, will be up on stage. Here's today's schedule

• 8:30AM- DJ Kyla – Phoenix Productions
• 10:00AM -DJ Sal – Belle Ame
• 11:30AM – DJ Chevy – Hands, Hearts, and Hope 
• 1:00PM – Max Kleene LIVE – Relay Rockers
• 2:00PM – xDavidDarexx LIVE – Seekers of Hope
• 3:00PM  – DJ Cynthia – Sunbeamers
• 4:30PM  – DJ Kayla and the Kangaroos – Roos With A Dream
• 6:00PM – DJ Fuzzball Ortega – Steelhead Salmons
• 7:30PM – DJ Melina – Heroes Helping Heroes 

And then there's the kiosks for "Bid The Lindens Bald." But that's for next week

 

Remember, the fun goes on to Sunday.

 

Go Relay!

 

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/RelayStock/129/244/24

The Sunbeamers At Relaystock

 

Yesterday on June 30, the Relay for Life's fundraising season for 2024 came to a close. Among the teams taking part were the Sunbeamers, which ended at Ruby level and eleventh place. The team had taken part in a number of events to raise money. Among them was the Relaystock in mid-May, a tribute to the noted three day rock music festival in 1969. DJ Cynthia would head a band of dancers on stage. So how well did they do?

 

Read the story in Events. 

 

Cartoon of The Day: Flower Head

 

 

 Taken at the Relaystock last month. 

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Reader Submitted Picture: Wolf In A Nightgown

 

 

 Brian (BrianL61 Landar) took this picture of Shockwave Yareach of the Relay's Team Sunbeamers at the Relaystock stage on Saturday May 11. The Sunnies were on stage, and Shockwave made a challenge, saying if the kiosk, which had been reset at the start of the set, was bumped up to 25,000 Lindens, he'd wear a nightgown, "Not that I'm worried.  You guys don't wanna see a Wolf in a white cotton nighty."

Well, someone did. It was, and he did.