You wrote the books, your key has unlocked mysteries
Vector, I hear you call to me from far across the stars, Your voice is like a flute, a solo introduction to a symphony. You spin my head with possibilities, and you keep calling, “Come to me, I know the secret. I will tell you, if you just come.”
You wrote the books, your key has unlocked mysteries, You are the last piece in the puzzle, and I can hold you in my hand. But I am far from you, my lifetime is not enough time, So, I stopped trying. I just stopped trying to get to you.
There are nights of stars when shrouded moons are silent, Your siren’s call is heard from a deep sea of galaxies, Inside my head and on the wind, you plead with me, To make the journey, just one step, one step after the other.
I protest to you, I say I am too old to know the truth about our universe. In this lifetime, I made choices, and none of them contained your name. How ironic that when it is too late I hear your voice call out incessantly, “Come to me, I know the secret. I will tell you, if you just come.”
Karima Hoisan March 24, 2014 Vector’s Vortex on Kitely *Sometimes I wish I would have studied…. Quantum Mechanics, don’t you?
Still under construction, and although we can get you up to the top, we still haven’t had time to get you down gracefully to the ground, but portals are open if you would like to take a peek.
This is the first world since I built my last one, “Float” more than a year ago, and it marks world #9 created on Kitely.
It is very easy to visit for anyone who has a virtual world viewer for Second Life, the Kitely grid can be added easily. You can find instructions how to do that here: How to configure Your Viewer
Welcome! A video message greets you when you arrive….
Ahh the peaceful and never ending rotation of Outer Space…
The Vortex
Inner Forms in Outer Space
searching the skies…dreaming about how to get to Vector’s
Books are the magic carpet…
Relaxing after the long journey
In case you were wondering who that was..:)
I want to thank once again the talented Dale Innis for making transport possible on Vector’s Vortex. I did the visuals, but without a good scripter, they would not be as much fun to experience. This latest project is very much a collaboration of talents and ideas. Come visit Vector’s Vortex soon.Enter Here!
When Natascha sent me this little clip of some of the many outtakes that usually reach the trash and rarely reach me, after our movie is completed, I had absolutely nothing to do that night, so I decided to go into Garage Band and put together a little sound track for it. I sent it back to Nat and she added her intro and credits. Voilá! a very short short was born from our original entry to the MadPea, The Trekking Pea Challenge entitled: “A Winter’s Trek” Imp played by Natascha Randt Toad played by Karima Hoisan The Final Battle is…..well, push play and see who won:)
When you touch that funny bone, it’s wriggle squiggle giggle. Too bad if you can’t catch a breath, stuck with a heaving belly, crinkly tears of merriment you’re laughing yourself to death. Listing starboard, falling down upon the floor, sardonic grins look pan- faced glum compared to what your face becomes. “Oh Stop!” “Don’t you even look my way, I’ll shame my name by spitting irreverently on the floor. Don’t say that one word anymore. I will die laughing. I will. I’m going to die laughing!”
I can’t catch my breath, my silliness, for sure, will be my death. Trying to pull myself together, this is not the place for this, I’m thinking of the lottery, shopping lists, and weather, still tittering, sniggering cackling, oh no I’m chortling! I’m serious now…but when I see that scene again; the cow and how and pow…the paper’s called “The Morning Omelette?” It just hits my funny bone. I’m one hysterical jiggle, higgle, giggle. If you tickle me I know I’ll blow into a thousand rapid-fire chucklings. Now, “Don’t!” “Please Stop!” A burst and squeak and here it comes again… Helter-skelter, higgedly piggedly all the way home..I can’t stop laughing!
Karima Hoisan
March 6th 2014
Costa Rica
* Footnote: The illustration is entitled, baskakov-milkmaids-novella.jpg. I found it on the web, and it made me laugh. What is really making me laugh right now (on every single page) is Mark Helprin’s “Freddy and Fredericka” which is so funny, I can’t take it with me and read it in, let’s say, a waiting room..because I would be asked to leave (chortling as I go:)
Sooo, after the parade we had a great dance at Kari’s Bar and Dance with RoseDrop Rust up on stage crooning his tunes, and delighting the reveling Taloosters who just kept on going and going! Luckily, a few people had the presence of mind to take some shots (other than of whiskey:) and I share them with you here. Thank you RoseDrop for your great set and thank you Nat and Dale for sending these pictures..
Nat and Karima warm up the stage for RoseDrop!
One of Nat’s faboo shadow shots
so green…..
Taloosters boogie to the sounds..
Dale, Karima and Hoyt grooving to RoseDrop
Pazzo erected himself a statue mid dance:)
RoseDrop!!
The Magnificent…Shesa!
Karima!
Gorgeous Gamma with our mayor doing a dip
Dance and be Merry!
Party! Party! Party!
I will include here now some miscellaneous photos that Dale took from the parade to the party in the park, and then on to Kari’s.
Oh what that poor bird-watching mayor is missing!!
Odracir!
Party in the Park
Amira!
Party at Kari’s on the Dock!
Thanks again to Nat and Dale for capturing these wonderful memories.
Let The Good Times Roll!
New Toulouse can be proud! On Saturday March 1st, the wonderfully creative citizens pulled off a glorious extravaganza of color and imagination, in the Mardi Gras Tradition. This fun-filled video, shot in extreme conditions of lag, by our own Natascha Randt, can maybe say it better than I can. Watch and Enjoy! A roster of all the Krewes follows below!Thank you Nat once more for these memories!
The Queen’s Float bears the queen of this Year’s Mardi Gras, Soto Hax. Soto is recognized for her tremendous scripting assistance to New Toulouse and for creating smiles wherever she goes. In her first royal act, Soto tried to pardon all of the criminals in New Toulouse, but she couldn’t find them. The queen’s float was designed and built by Armand of Amadeo’s Artifacts.
The Krewe of the Articulate float celebrates the waters of New Toulouse and the bayou. It is a paddle boat design, mounted with the egret and powered by articulated paddles, propeller, and flaming steam. This float was crafted by Armand of Amadeo’s Artifacts, and you might see the beautiful OtherJane, the lovely Pandora, or the stunning Bianca Solderini riding along with him.
Krewe des Zombies was formed for the 2009 New Toulouse Mardi Gras and has paraded in a number of New Toulouse parades ever since. This year’s float humorously portrays a sleeping bayou birdwatcher, missing the most beautiful birds in the bayou. The birdwatcher is Mayor Henri Godenot, and the beautiful birds are played by Karima Hoisan, Dale Innis, and Amira Kevoli.
Jake Wikifoo, the captain of the Krewe des Flambeaux, has been captaining a float in New Toulouse since before he could drive. He commands the powerful Flambeaux float, and like Professor Longhair’s poor little Junco, goes a-wobblin’ all over the street. You might not want him to drive under your balcony!
The Krewe des Horreurs was formed when a group of zombies threw up their hands and shouted “Quelle horreur!” when they saw they way their brethren were being massacred by anybody with a firearm in the bayou. They decided to band together and show that they were not animals, they were human beings … or what remained. They decided to give up biting for Lent and just try to be respectable citizens of New Toulouse. Some of the riders of Krewe des Horreurs are Pazzo Pestana, Gibley Goldblatt, and Iovanka Milena
The Krewe of Bast is one of the oldest krewes in New Toulouse, having been instrumental in organizing the first parade, in 2009. Bast rode again in 2010, then went mysteriously undercover for a couple of years, returning to parade in 2013 and 2014. Just as the Egyptian goddess Bast is the Eye of Ra, her krewe members see their function as protectors of New Toulouse. This year’s theme is “Alley Cats.” Float riders will include Nikita Weymann (krewe captain), Jimmeh Obolensky, Liza Veliz, and Aodhan; Kristine Jinx-Kristan and Silky Grimknot may also ride. Throws this year will include beads and lucky coins.
Mirri Rosca rides high in the beautiful Gumbeaux Krewe float. Her float was built by the very talented Armand, of Amadeo’s Artifacts. It is a stunning homage to the beautiful work of the great master Boudreauxcelli. Mirri portrays the lovely Venus, rising from a steaming bowl of oyster gumbo. When in New Toulouse, visit Mirri’s Gumbo House, for a dish you’ll never forget.
Krewe des Avalon is a new crew formed in 2014. This year’s float depicts Dr. Avalon as a knight, protecting the patient from the Dragon of Disease. On the other end of the float, Nurse Alycia Blaylock has a dragon-sized lance, ready to give her brand of medicine to any patient that needs it.
New Toulouse….you Always let “The Good Times Roll”
Let me sleep until I write, ” My dreams are spun in you.” Comatose would be my choice if never more a verse burst from my loins. Barren in this wasteland, dried up floundering on the sand, don’t poke me with, “It will be all right.” Just let me sleep it off, until I pick up a pen and write a memory or a love song.
Agony is when you’re near the end, sustained by drops into your veins. When a poet’s drying up, the nurse is never found and empty bottles swing and sway above her in the breeze-less room. Choking on the vacuum, eyes searching and never finding, fading, not a tube could save her life tonight, not one measure from ordinary means.
Yes, I prefer the darkness, the day shut down, and I am left alone. This is how I try to woo my lover, to give me gifts of flowing words. She comes because she wants to, not because of me, for my summons’s never heard, but poetry is on her lips, and in her arms she brings me treasures, just because.
Only the muse can wake me. Only her lips can start my heart to beat. Lover like no other, take me away from the sterile white of static sickness. I drink from you, I drink from you, all else is frozen in its place, like death turned dust, because in your arms I come to life with that first line pressed wet into my depths
And when you ask,”Are you still my poet?” I cry out,”You know I am. Oh yes! “
Karima Hoisan February 28, 2014 Costa Rica
* The image used is entitled, “acry431-13-70×74-750.jpg 2014 by Coma
Parades and Partying continue in New Toulouse….Come celebrate Mardi Gras with us this Saturday March 1st. After our very successful Bayou Parade (see post and video)we are still on a roll (rolling around Laveau Square and the center of town) with a very amazing float-based extravaganza to delight all viewers.Please join us at 12 noon at the center of our town, to enjoy, and weave, and get beads. All of the residents have worked so hard to make this parade another record breaker, and I promise you will not be disappointed! Here is your swift transport and come a little early to get a good place New Toulouse Town Square Then…….at 2pmslt….
Fabulous Poster by Natascha Randt
Come to Kari’s Bar and Dance to enjoy an unforgettable hour with one of SL’s best loved performers, RoseDrop Rust. RoseDrop is not only a versatile singer and musician, he is a seasoned and excellent poet. He plays both guitar and piano, and has a wide range of genres in his musical repertoire. Don’t miss this great performer, and wear costumes, don your feathers and mask and celebrate this Saturday March 1st with all of us “New Taloosters” The fun begins at 12 noon: “Samedi Gras Parade” (Fat Saturday Parade) Then…2pmslt RoseDrop entertains at Kari’s! “Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez”
Or as it says on my Profile: Take us out of water and we swim even better.. Put us down into the depths and we will always go deeper. Been more than 6 (6!) years since we were happily hooked in the same lake, thrown back in and formed our little school of SL solidarity, loyalty , love and creativity. I adore you both ..I adore us..who we are for each other, time tested, man tested,(hehe) we still find the time to swim, dance, laugh, console..Better than blood, chosen by fate and good timing..we are a close knit fish family..and we will swim the SL Seas together forever…inshallah Suze~Kari~Diz..Pisces to the very gills!!
Suze…Kari…Diz..Forever!!
Happy Birthday Beloved Fish Sissies…Here’s to many many MORE!!
and..for ALL Pisces reading this too:)
“Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez” “Let The Good Times Roll!” Last Sunday Feb. 15th The good times rolled, they pranced. they hopped and they danced at the very first Krewe Bayou Parade. Wild and Wonderful Creatures took to the streets of New Toulouse in a Mardi Gras Mood; colorful, noisy, weaving and just one crashing, the parade snaked through the streets, bringing joy and beads to those spectators who cheered from the sidelines. Miss Francesca Alva was the small but mighty leader of the party-pack, and gracefully keeping everyone in line (sort of)from the very tall Trombone Creature (Quiet Wonder) who set the pace, to TheToad King bringing up the rear. Parade participants ranging from tines to chariots, a horse-riding kraken, and other mutations, like equestrian butterflies, a very cute but tiny Mayor Henri, superman, and umbrella dancers added to the magic and the color of the event, When it was all over, everyone agreed that it was the very best parade ever that New Toulouse as ever seen. Here is a great movie shot by award- winning (and my video partner) filmmaker Natascha Randt, Thanks to Natascha, we can keep these memories forever. Thank you again Nat! Then, at 2:30, Taloosters who were not yet too drunk, assembled back on the ferry dock to “Oooo ‘n Awwww” at a spectacular fireworks display shot off from the top tier of the steamboat. There were cheers and funny comments, and admiration for the very awesome display overhead. Spectators were witness to a 20 minute finale, something that is rarely seen outside China.
Fireworks on the River photo by Liza Veliz
Everyone went home to change out of their dusty costumes, take showers and come back for the big celebratory dance at Kari’s Bar and Dance later that night.
Wonderful music and fun!
Jimmyt Dukes was amazing!
Live Musician, Jimmyt Dukes entertained an enthusiastic and appreciate audience of nearly 50 (49) gatherers for an hour, with some classic and newer Blues and some original songs too. Balloons and confetti rained down on the club, the liquor flowed especially the Guinness and the absinthe, and a few opium pipes could be seen turning the air a cloudy, dreamy blue. The after- show went on and on and on, a few hours more until finally a naked neighbor (not mentioning any names) rode in on a horse (possibly another neighbor) and ran over a few customers and then out the dock door.. Pazzo (dressed as a horse who drank too much absinthe) took that as his cue to leave too.
Miss amira helped me not only dance, but clean-up too.
Closing Time…photo by Aodhan
The party slowly wound down after, and I am quoting our own Mayor Henri when he said,
“This is the best day we have ever had in New Toulouse!”
I totally agree! New Toulouse has a community spirit and spark rarely found in SL anymore these days, but still very much alive in our hearts and in the streets.
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