35,000 ft -- It's times like this I truly thankful for keeping most of my flying with Alaska Airlines. This morning I was upgraded to First Class for my flight to New York. This was especially welcome because last night was a late one. After dinner at brother Panther's all the Dragons that were in town worked the Spanksgiving fundraiser for GLPW and CLAW Nation charities.
This was the first CLAW Nation event in Seattle. I had volunteered to host an event in my home town while my boy Derek and I were at CLAW earlier this year as presenters. I took the idea to brother Odie, he handed it to Josh to organize and bada-bing, bada-boom...
Josh did a phenomenal job producing the event. Brother Hugh and his boy Gabe put on an extremely entertaining demo with Gabe dressed as a nerdy, school boy studying for his "oral exams." The whole skit was so funny. Then Brother Hugh and sister Mercea doled out spankings for a buck a swat for the rest of the night. We raffled off a few of my Titan DVD's and Calendars I donated in addition to a paddle, ridding crop and RECON membership with boy Danny selling tickets and measuring inseams in chaps and a harness. Now as most of you know, I don't do the dress-up thing, but fuck did that boy look good last night. Holy fuck, that ass... he had me hard all night just looking at him. Oh, and I played master of ceremonies, ever the front man on the microphone.
For those that are not aware, Cleveland Leather Alliance Weekend or CLAW has become one of my favorite national leather/Sm events. The event features great hotels, fetish bar parties, silent and live auctions, BDSM art show, entertainment, vendors, a second hand gear store, warehouse play parties, educational forums, demos and presentations, rock and roll, a major league baseball game, a playhouse square matinee, big hotel banquets, a trolley fleet, a kinky carnival and a leather community music and comedy review. It really is remarkable. Did anyone notice what wasn't mentioned in that list of activities?
A bunch of Dragons are planning on heading to Cleveland for CLAW next year. I'm hoping Derek and I get asked back to present again. There was some discussion of that happening during ILSb this year but I still haven't had anything confirmed. I should put the boy on that.
By the way, since I'm writing about Seattle here, I'll go ahead and mention that the Seattle Daddy & Daddy's boy contest scheduled for this weekend... has been canceled... for the second time in three years. So I guess now we know the answer to the question, 'what happens if you throw a contest and no one enters?' I'm not sure this is a reflection of a growing apathy toward leather titles in general or a lack of confidence in the sponsoring organization, Seattle Men in Leather. It is pretty clear however that SML isn't going to pull its shit together until there's a change in leadership, if then.
