{"id":18,"date":"2020-01-28T23:47:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T22:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tontonwes.eu\/?p=18"},"modified":"2024-05-14T07:38:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T05:38:31","slug":"tragic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tontonwes.eu\/index.php\/2020\/01\/28\/tragic\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last weekend I spent some time at an all-day benefit in Second Life, raising real life funds for the Australian Red Cross in the aftermath of the catastrophic bushfires. All told we raised over 300,000 L$ (Linden dollars) which is around 1400 $AU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My SL brother and top DJ Weylin (an Australian in real life) played an Aussie-themed set including this tune, which I had almost forgotten existed* and which has been stuck in my head ever since. Except the lyrics have turned into &#8220;You have to believe we are tragic&#8221;. And that made me think of a silly game which I came across years ago on a  sadly long-gone blog around gay life in London: take a song containing the words &#8220;heart&#8221; and\/or &#8220;eyes&#8221; and replace those words with &#8220;arse&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Olivia Newton-John - Magic\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LjrZsKHUCU4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>* To be honest, I think I had almost forgotten that Olivia Newton-John existed. Which <strong>is<\/strong> tragic.<\/em><\/p>\n  \n  \n  <div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-18\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.tontonwes.eu\/index.php\/2020\/01\/28\/tragic\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-18\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.tontonwes.eu\/index.php\/2020\/01\/28\/tragic\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I spent some time at an all-day benefit in Second Life, raising real life funds for the Australian Red Cross in the aftermath of the catastrophic bushfires. 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My SL brother and top DJ Weylin (an Australian in real life) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tontonwes.eu\/index.php\/2020\/01\/28\/tragic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tragic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-18\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.tontonwes.eu\/index.php\/2020\/01\/28\/tragic\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-18\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.tontonwes.eu\/index.php\/2020\/01\/28\/tragic\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tontonwes.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tontonwes.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tontonwes.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tontonwes.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tontonwes.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tontonwes.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tontonwes.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tontonwes.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tontonwes.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tontonwes.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}