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February 28, 2007

Second Life? Get a life!

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Been partying for five days, after a three year Carnival sabbatical, unlike most of my colleagues. A joker under them acted an instant seizure when he met me on Saturday morning at the newspaper, my NapoLeon hat on my head, finishing some paper work before running to Beyerd or Bommel.

Never mind, he's a nice guy and he can run, be he is from north of The Moerdijk, calls French fries patat, and doesn't know a thing about Carnival.

I've never understood the people born and raised over here who hate Carnival, must be a missing link in their education, but I couldn't care less.

Anyway, came Ash Wednesday, a big hangover, nothing else or decent to do, perfect day to make my first visit to Second Life.

Translation in Dutch at @ BN/DeStem

I mean, I had to do it at least once, because everybody over here is talking about nothing else, and to some people not having been in Second Life looks even stranger than going to the Carnival.

Right, I hear you can become a millionaire over there, en if that doesn't work out right away, there are girls galore. But be aware they might be younger than they are looking, cause the cops have gone to Second Life too, since they've discovered child porn over there.
A few more posts like this and everybody is over there and the real streets and pubs are empty.

So I fired up my iMac and the Internet, and I went to Second Life. First thing that surprised me is that yo have to choose a surname from a preferred batch.

As there are more than a million and a half Second Lifers already, most first names are in use so from now on my virtual ego is Leonardus Larsson.

Having said that; don't try to contact me over there, because after an hour or so I've redirected the whole Second Life kit and caboodle hype to the trashcan.

What a nonsense, what a useless poverty.

I have to be careful over here, because the same things I've heard about Carnival last week.

Do you like Second Life?

Well, for a start try to get a real hangover over there, stiff legs from doing the letkiss and the samba, tears in your eyes from laughing about Carnival jokers performing practical jokes.

Second Life? Get a life!

Posted by Leon at 09:01 AM | Comments (0)

February 21, 2007

The Carnaval is over . . .

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It's all over for this year. We've got the Bommel & Beyerd Blues over here: a headache, a sore throat, and a stirred and shaken stomach. Back to a another kind of life as from today: no more bars or booze until may 18 - second climb of Alpe d 'Huez - biking and fasting instead.

Cees, the Bommel Boss - by the way is he looking over here the right decision - is going into retirement, going to play golf instead of serving beer. We'll probably see him in South America later this year . . .

Check out: the pics of the last day

Say goodbye my own true lover
As we sing a lovers song

How it breaks my heart to leave you
Now the carnival is gone

High above the dawn is waiting
And my tears are falling rain

For the carnival is over
We may never meet again

Like a drum my heart was beating
And your kiss was sweet as wine

But the joys of love are fleeting
For Pierrot and Columbine

Now the harbour light is calling
This will be our last goodbye

Though the carnival is over
I will love you till I die

Like a drum my heart was beating
And your kiss was sweet as wine

But the joys of love are fleeting
For Pierrot and Columbine

Now the harbour light is calling
This will be our last goodbye

Though the carnival is over
I will love you till I die

Though the carnival is over
I will love you till I die

The Seekers (produced 25/11/1965, 3 weeks at #1 - 17 weeks on chart).

Posted by Leon at 11:18 AM | Comments (0)

February 20, 2007

Day 4: Big Parade @ De Beyerd

Not too many pictures today; after I've shot two video's my flashcard ran out of gas. This one is the band playing on top of the Beyerd balcony, the second one Prins Carnaval's band trying to outplay the boys on the balcony. Click here for the second video.

Posted by Leon at 10:10 AM | Comments (1)

February 19, 2007

Day 3 and stil going strong . . .

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Beyerd, Zwarte Schaap, Bommel, and some more places probably . . .

New pics in the Carnaval 2007 album

Posted by Leon at 11:50 AM | Comments (0)

February 18, 2007

Carnaval 2007 @ day 2 . . .

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I haven't plotted the saturday night bar trek on my GoogleMaps, so the big question is where I shot this one. Anyway, by the way the girls look, I guess I wasn't behaving too bad . . .

More pics: in the Carnaval 2007 album

Posted by Leon at 10:29 AM | Comments (0)

February 17, 2007

Carnaval 2007 @ The Beyerd: day 1 . . .

Sjakie doing a Dutch Delilah (top video), Gijs performing Johnny Be Good (bottom video),

One day down, four more to go . . .

More pics in the Carnaval 2007 album

Posted by Leon at 01:10 PM | Comments (1)