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Taken at Club Zero Gravity on June 2019. Somehow, the lower part of my overcoat and pants glitched, turning white.
By Bixyl Shuftan
Taken at Club Zero Gravity. Probably the second most infamous of the "Rules of the Internet" is Rule 63, "for every given male character, there is a female version of that character, and vice versa." While no one might be truly immune, I can't help but wonder of most men would be too nervous about pulling it off on Chuck Norris, the martial artist whom in Internet memes beats up almost everyone but Superman and the "One Punch Man."
By Bixyl Shuftan
The sci-fi themed venue was so popular, there was interest in reviving it as soon as it's closing was announced. But where to put the club so it didn't "lag anyone out" and when would it play so it wouldn't interfere with the hours of other neighborhood clubs, it would take three years before solutions were found. Ranchan would work on a new design, one based on the one from seven years ago, but with some differences. Instead of a small private room above the dance floor and DJ booth, there would be an open lounge area for people to socialize and relax. The dance floor had an image of a galaxy, with a spinning spiral disk over the center. A blue terrestrial world would appear to circle the station, visible through it's windows. Since the original Zero Gravity got it's name from upside-down dance poles, there was one where a girl could dance from a spiral-pattern half ball from the ceiling. The old Zero Gravity logo was above the contest board. When someone tips the DJ, a laser light announces it.
Rather than just reopen the club, it was decided to rekindle interest by doing a screenshot sci-fi miniserial comic (parts 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6, 7 and 8, 9 and 10, final), with owner Nydia Tungsten, Ranchan, and Matoazma "Mato" Kazyanenko doing the work on the story, directing, and editing. The comic shows a crew in space finding an object that turns out to be a derelict space station. The second to final scene shows a ceremony in which Nydia is handed the keys, and the last announcing the space station club's reopening. The strips appeared in the Second Life Newser and posted on Facebook, the last one appearing on the morning of June 22. Later in the day, the reopening time was announced, 6PM SL time.
For now, the club will have a morning, or "Euro-friendly," schedule, with events on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 10AM to Noon SL time. DJ Lexi will perform on Tuesday and Thursday. On Friday DJ Brandi will play the tunes. But there will be impromptu events, such as a poker game that was held over the weekend, and occasionally Nydia herself switching on the DJ booth and inviting people over.
All good things must come to an end, or at least a hiatus, and Club Zero Gravity is no exception. Since it was moved to Purrfection in July 2010 from the main Sunweaver Estates area , the "Party among the stars" has hosted hundreds of parties of many different themes. But due to real life finances, we can no longer keep the power running. So it's time to get ready for the final curtain call.
Club Zero Gravity got it's start in the main area of the Sunweaver Estates, built by Shockwave Yareach and run under Spectra Ninetails, eventually it's first owners had to give up running the place. Ranchan Weidman then stepped in, giving the club it's noted space-station appearance, but in 2009 she too could no longer keep up the events and it closed. After several months, in July 2010 it reopened at it's current location in the Purrfection Estates. With only a slight modification from Ranchan's original design, Elphias Kojishi and Nydia Tungsten ran it for a time. Then Elphias had to drop out from helping to run it, and Bixyl Shuftan took over as manager. In June 2013, the club was closed for a few weeks for renovations to be reshaped into a slightly smaller club as people moved in from a residential sim that was closed due to loosing money.
The club has enjoyed events of many different themes from Halloween to Victorian to Steampunk to comedy to even the occasional adult theme (there were more wilder events when Nydia managed as she got her start as DJ "Naughty Nydia"). The final two events this week will be "Topless Tuesday" at Aug 12 6PM SLT, and the come-as-you-are "Last Call" on Thursday Aug 14 at 6PM.
