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Because Archer doesn't care for movies while Cady Gray loves them, Noel periodically take Cady Gray to whatever kids' flick might be playing at the theaters. When he does, I get to have time with Archer.
It's sometimes a challenge to think of something Archer would like to do with his mom. But today as we were driving home from lunch, he caught sight of the local bowling alley. "Um, the Conway Family Bowl is open July the fourth," he told us rather urgently, reading off the sign. "It's hot outside but 68 degrees inside." "Would you like to go bowling this afternoon?" I asked. "I would like to do that," he answered in his odd, formal way.
I knew he would. There would be electronic scoring and some arcade games to play afterwards. So while Cady Gray and Dad went to see Ice Age 3, we went bowling.
It was a little painful to see him struggling with the eight-pound ball, the lightest we could find, thudding it onto the alley to roll slowly toward the pins and bump off the raised alley bumpers. But he worked very hard at putting the right fingers in the holes and swinging his arm back in a pendulum motion, although he tended not to let go in the middle of flinging his arm forward as if pushing away a playground bully.
As for me, it took a while for me to remember the motions. So many of my first balls went into the gutter that Archer won the first game 84-81. But I rallied to score three strikes and two spares in the second game, winning handily. Then we played air hockey, which Archer won to his delight, and played a video driving game.
In the car I asked him where he wanted to go get ice cream, and he chose Dairy Queen. We ordered an Oreo and hot fudge Blizzard. As we were walking to our table with the treat, Archer grasped my hand briefly. "A pretend lollipop for you," he announced with an excited smile on his face.
We ate, with Archer announcing that he needed two bites whenever I took a bite too close to his side of the cup. I realized as we sat there companionably that he was truly enjoying himself -- feeling, in his way, the specialness of the occasion. As I gathered our empty cup and utensils and stood up to go, he began waving his hand strangely.
"What's that?" I asked.
"It's a pretend toy plane, bringing you a pretend letter." He landed his hand and pressed empty air into mine. His eyes were alight, and I realized he was trying to convey to me his understanding that this was a special occasion.
"What does it say?"
"Dear Donna," he began, standing up and twirling a bit in his exuberance. "Thank you for the bowling game. I really enjoyed it. Love, Archer."
Saturday, July 4, 2009
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Oh this is so sweet!
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According to a news story posted on Reuters over the weekend, Guns N' Roses may release Chinese Democracy exclusively through a major retailer.
Chains apparantly being considered for carrying the release are Wal-Mart and Best Buy.
While no release date has been set for Chinese Democracy, fans are hoping that it will finally see the light of day. The fact that the first official single, "Shackler's Revenge", is being premiered on Rock Band 2 is a good sign that the album may finally see the light of day.
If Axl and company decide to go this route they will be following in the footsteps of The Eagles, who released Long Road Out of Eden through Wal-Mart, and AC/DC, whose upcoming Black Ice album is being released exclusively through Wal-Mart and Sam's Club.


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Looking Back At Your Own Blues History
Posted on May 28, 2007
Filed Under Blast From The Past
I don't know how many of you are aware but within the next twelve months or so, I shall be emigrating to the other side of the world. Stuff like work, study, my family, Blues… they all came into the equation and after sorting out many of the problems attached to most of the above subjects, I found myself thinking finally about Blues.
There's no doubt about it that being so far away from the club will have a huge impact on me. I tip my hat to any football supporter – regardless of team – who can get up at 3 AM week in, week out and feel wins, losses, agony and ecstasy as much as those sitting in the overpriced seats at the stadium.
I spent 2004 abroad and keeping up with the football and Blues was one of the hardest things. I may well have posted stories of a kindly West Ham United fan who used to record all the games for me and arrive at work early in the morning to drop the tape (and in certain instances a long play video recorder too!) off for me to rush home and watch the latest Blues game.
People from home also sent recordings and on certain occasions, I'd be watching games – living games as if they mattered in the moment – three weeks after they'd happened. In fact, I believe I still have a tape marked "Arsenal 0-0 Birmingham City – The best defensive display – EVER!" written on it in my cupboard.
And so that brings me onto today. Today – with some effort – I hauled down my oversized box of Birmingham City memories. I guess some would say that I'm a hoarder. I would say that I'm a treasurer of memories in the form of garbage… Some would count it as art.
Today was the day I had to work out exactly what I was taking with me across the world and what I was leaving behind. In essence, throwing away. I sorted through 16 years of programmes, newspapers, magazines, scarves, hats, shirts, flags and anything else you care to mention.
As far as I'm concerned, you're not human if you open a box such as the one I opened today and not spend quite a bit of time looking through it. I did just that as I was being hurried up by Mrs Aff. When the box was open and emptied, this is what I found before me (click for a bigger version):
For some reason, I do not have a programme for the first ever game I went to. December 1991, Birmingham City 3-1 Fulham. Ian Rogerson scored twice and Nigel Gleghorn scored once. I stood at the very back of the Kop and my overwhelming memories are of the chant of 'Blue Army!' and two signs – the 'Dempsey Roofing' one hanging from the side of the old and battered Railway End and the 'We have a part to play in Birmingham City' sign in the corner where the Railway End meets the Main Stand. I had turned 11 just a few days earlier.
Flicking through my stuff, I found a black and white picture (I don't know why it was black and white) of the team I first knew as a 'proper' Blues fan. The players I just mentioned as well as a young Paul Tait. He was my first ever favourite player and I remember my dad telling me about him possibly never playing for us again. I relived that today as I came across a picture of Taity lying in a hospital bed with his girlfriend sitting next to him. What a terrible haircut Taity had…
I found my first ever Blues shirt – the awful Triton Showers paint splash kit from the very early 90's. I also found my Wembley '95 shirt that mom and dad presented to me on the morning of the game. Bonus! Also found a red and black striped 'Auto Windscreens' shirt as well as a black and white striped away kit from around 10 years ago. Tucked away was also my first ever England shirt from Euro '96. What a kit!
I also flicked through stuff and came across plenty of players that I had memories of. For some reason, Jason Bowen was heavily featured. I remember Bowen, overwhelmingly for the two goals he scored in the opening five minutes of an Anglo-Italian Cup tie at St Andrews. Possibly against Genoa? In typical Blues fashion, I believe we lost the game 3-2 but Bowen's second was a lovely right footed volley after he ghosted in on the far stick in front of the Tilton.
I was beginning to come into my element and find stuff from my first few proper years of supporting Blues. Years when I started forming opinions of my own and deciding who needed to be bought in and who needed to be sold.
I came across articles and pictures of Kevin Francis scoring two dynamite headers to topple Middlesbrough in the League Cup and a quote from Steve Claridge about the mighty Leeds United having "no identifiable weaknesses" in the week leading up to the League Cup semi final – again in which Super Kev scored a belter. How times change!
Wembley in 1995 and Jose Dominguez and Ricky Otto all found places into my bulging collection. I have a copy of the ill-fated Blues official newspaper with Dominguez holding a load of fireworks with the headline "Jose can fire Blues to the top!" on the front page. Liam Daish and one kidney, Dave Barnett and his kung-fu, a giant poster of the double-winning side of 1995, the programme of Blues Vs West Bromwich Albion where the classy Jonathon Hunt cracked home a 25 yarder to snatch a point not far from the end.
I found lots and lots of Trevor Francis related stuff. I've always been told him about him and my brother is named after him. I collected a lot of posters and stories and then he became our manager. It made it all the more easy to find information out and I now have a solid collection of vintage TF pictures, stories and quotes.
He became our manager and Steve Bruce joined on £17,000 a week. I know this because I came across an old fanzine with the headline "Okay, hands up! For seventeen grand a week, I can't take a penalty!" I can't for the life of me remember who the penalty was against. I remember Peter Ndlovu missing one against Port Vale not far from the end of the season and a fanzine I came across described him as taking it about as hard as "…a dwarf kicking a steel door in." Fair enough!
Through the TF years and many favourite players as well as heartbreaks. 3 playoff semi-finals and one League Cup final. I didn't make the game in Cardiff but I have the programme, ditto the Wembley 1991 final. I have the front of the Birmingham Mail and a tearful TF embracing the unlucky AJ. Speaking of AJ, he adorned many the front of Blues programmes throughout the late 90's… he'll go on to be a star that lad! I also came across one of my most prized programmes – the game we beat Manchester City 2-1 thanks to very, very, very, very, VERY late goals from Nicky Forster and Martin O'Connor after Citeh had took the lead in the 88th minute. My ticket that day was a birthday present.
I also found lots and lots of fanzines including Issue #1 of 'Made In Brum' – a fanzine I'm now fortunate to contribute to. I found copies of 'The Zulu', 'The Heathen', 'Wake Up Blue', 'Made In Brum' and a few others. Blues also published their own magazine a few years ago. I have the first copy of that – Mike Newell is in it. I resisted the temptation to spit on it.
Into the Premiership we came and the quality of the programmes suddenly went up – and so did the price. These days I don't buy a programme because like a lot of other things in football, I don't believe they're value for money. Fanzines all the way and I have a solid collection.
The match reports of our first ever Premiership derby win over Aston Villa were a pleasure to read. It was the first time in my life that I recall us beating them from across the Expressway. It was a sweet night and I get goosebumps from looking back to that Clinton Morrison goal. I just wish I could've been inside the stadium.
The Prem years rolled by… Dugarry, Savage, local derbies, quality players, full crowds, Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal… the Creme-de-la-crème of world football being seen at St Andrews – most of it on the side of the opposition, mind!
The final piece of paper I filed away made me smile the most. It encapsulated everything that supporting Blues is all about. My mother-in-law lives in Australia and whenever Blues are featured in newspapers, especially at the beginning of the season, she sends the article to me.
At the beginning of last season, she sent me about 5 pieces of paper out of the Herald Sun newspaper. It predicted that Blues would finish 7th in the Premiership. Ultimately, we all know the story. We were relegated, pretty pathetically in all honesty. I folded the piece of paper up and had a bit of a chuckle. It seems that after all these years, we're still self-destructing when we should be going on to achieve. I'm going to keep that piece of paper as a reminder, as if I need it. I simply didn't have the heart to throw it away.
At the end of the sorting out, my Blues memories amounted to twenty kilograms. It's going to cost around £100 to get it all shipped over to Australia. But I couldn't leave it behind. It'd be like leaving the club behind, and no matter where I am in the world, I simply couldn't do that.
Donations for the get Aff's stuff to Australia so as to make sure he's not lonely can be sent to… Just kidding.
Today was a good day. Looking back at everything I'd gone through as a Blues fan. It got me wondering about other people and what supporting Blues has been like for them personally. Do you keep a box of memories or store it all up in the old memory?
What does your own Blues personal history say?
I have a number of duplicate programmes which I'm willing to give away free to good homes. All you need do is cover the postage. I'll list them here now and if you're interested, you can contact me here. All programmes are for home matches.
- Vs Slough Town – FA Cup – 12/11/94 (x3)
- Vs Leyton Orient – Division Two – 17/12/94 (x2)
- Vs Liverpool – FA Cup – 07/12/95
- Blues at Wembley – Autowindscreen Shield Final – Vs Carlisle United – Club souvenir edition
- Vs Wolverhampton Wanderers – Division One – 01/01/96
- Vs Huddersfield Town – Division One – 12/03/96
- Vs Sunderland – Division One – 17/03/96
- Vs West Bromwich Albion – Division One – 20/03/96
- Vs Portsmouth – Division One – 02/04/96
- Vs Port Vale – Division One – 06/04/96
- Vs Reading – Division One – 05/05/96
- Vs Bradford City – Division One – 12/10/96 (x2)
- Vs Grimsby Town – Division One – 07/12/96
- Vs Manchester City – Division One – 13/12/97
- Vs Sunderland – Division One – 19/12/98
8 Responses to "Looking Back At Your Own Blues History"
Bob Moore on
May 29th, 2007 4:13 am
What a lucky person you are!!!!
I left the Midlands for OZ in 1970 so my only connection was radio (BBC World service) and waiting for the newspapers on a Monday morning. Sheer frustration!!
When we won at Leyton Orient to get promotion to the old First Division I actually hounded a friend at a newspaper until it came over the wire!!!!
In Melbourne we have pubs with Premier league on and of course the important games are live, hopefully we are up the right end of the table and then you'll see us a lot.
Good luck in this wonderful country
trevor tomkinson on
May 29th, 2007 6:56 am
would like this programme if possible Blues at Wembley – Autowindscreen Shield Final – Vs Carlisle United
Bluenose_68 on
May 29th, 2007 8:27 am
Great memories- i have a similar collection- old programmes shirts etc. My dad and grandad passed downtheir programme collection to me and i can spend days looking through the various years worth of programmes.
I even have 5 years worth of folders where i used to cut out the evening mail reports and stick them onto paper. Sad huh but that was before the days of t'internet where all the reports are archived.
£100 to get it over to Oz- money well spent if you ask me
Aff on
May 29th, 2007 8:48 am
Hi Bob,
I can only imagine what it was like in Australia in the 70's! I spent 12 months there in 2004 and aside from missing some sleep, it was fairly easy to keep in touch with what exactly was happening.
Seems like there's quite a few Bluenoses in Australia. It's not very well organised, however.
Hi Trevor,
It's not the official match programme. I only have one copy of that. It's the club souvenir edition that came out in the March before the final in April. You're still welcome to it.
Hi BN '68,
I think those folders sound fantastic! When I first starting following the club I made scrapbooks etc too. I wish I had all my dad's stuff. I don't think he kept them. Well, a scarf from the 70's aside.
Dan on
May 29th, 2007 9:35 am
Great article there, it's what being a supporter is all about.
My own collection consists of programmes, fanzines, shirts etc. Plus loads of teamsheets from Reserve games, its good to look back at them to see which players you have seen and what they've progressd to now.
I have a few team sheets somewhere which are from the mid nineties, with the likes of Jamie Carragher on them wearing number 10 for Liverpool!!, he must of been a Striker in a former life.
Chris H on
May 29th, 2007 9:53 am
My grandad has recorded every blues goal since about 91 (usually off central news on a monday)My brother and I used to spend our summer holidays watching through the tapes, we used to be awful!
merseypete on
May 29th, 2007 7:34 pm
I have a scarf my Auntie Zelda knitted or me in the early sixties. Best Christmas present ever. But one day, only a few years ago in fact, I realised what a daft concept a Blues fan having a 'lucky' anything was!
Paul Martin on
May 30th, 2007 3:33 pm
Good luck to you
There are Blues fans and supporters (I class supporters as those who go) everywhere. I live in Horley just outside Gatwick and met one in Horley.
I was a season ticket holder last year and when I offered him my Sunderland ticket I was in Indonesia he was in Australia!
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HOLLYWOOD — SAG's attempt to beef up contract enforcement beyond the U.S. border may have hit a roadblock in Canada thrown up by another union.
The Vancouver-based Union of B.C. Performers has been notifying SAG members who have worked in Canada that they must either join the union by Sept. 27 or pay a 50% premium on all future work permits.
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It's been far too long since the first article in this series, but here's a very instructive ending between two of Richmond Junior Club's stronger members (both about 1500-1600 strength) on 22 March.
We start here, with White considering his 41st move. Should he trade rooks or not? First lesson: you have to calculate the pawn ending before trading the last pieces. So before you can play any ending well you have to understand pawn endings. In this case the pawn ending is won for Black, so White should avoid the trade. Although Black has a slight advantage I guess the rook ending should be drawn. We teach our pupils to move their king up into the centre of the board in the ending but here the correct plan for Black is to move his king to b4 to attack the c-pawn. This is an important position type, with the two immovable pawns on the c-file. Black can attack c4 from either b4 or b3, but Black can only defend from d3, so when he runs out of pawn moves on the other side he'll have to capitulate.
Let's see whether our gladiators were up to the challenge.
41. Rxb7+? (Now Black's winning.) Kxb7
42. Kf1 Kb6
43. Ke2 Kc6? (Now it's probably a draw. Ka5 followed by Kb4 is winning for Black.)
44. f4? (The computer gives 44. Ke4 as leading to a queen ending where White has a slight advantage.) f5? (Kb6, followed by Ka5 and Kb4 is winning again for Black.)
45. Kf3? (White can draw by moving onto the d-file. Now Black is winning again.) Kb6? (Good plan but poor timing. Black should have played h5, and then Kb6 etc.)
46. Ke3? (White can draw here by playing g4, when both players will promote.) Ka5 (Finally Black is on the winning track.)
47. Kd2 Kb4
48. Kd3 Kb3
49. g4 (Desperation) fxg4
50. g3 h5 (The last few moves have been fine for Black.)
51. f5 h4?? (All he had to do to win was play Kb4 when White is zugged. Interestingly, when I demonstrated this ending at the club the following week quite a few of the class made the same mistake. I guess they were already familiar with the idea of sacrificing to obtain a passed pawn but failed to calculate the resulting position. Now White is winning.)
52. f6? (Now it's a draw. Instead, White can win by just capturing the pawn. His king can stop the g-pawn by entering the queening square, and then he can play f6, sacrificing to create an unstoppable passed pawn.) gxf6? (Black errs in turn. He could have draw by playing hxg3, when both players queen. Black will have an extra pawn but White has a perpetual check on the other side.)
53. gxh4 g3
54. Ke3 Kxc4
55. h5 (White has one pawn against three, but he's going to promote first.) g2
56. Kf2 Kd3
57. h6 c4
58. h7 c3
59. h8Q c2
The last few moves have all been self-explanatory. When the pawn ending was reached, Black was winning. After a series of mistakes on both sides he found the winning plan, but then miscalculated badly. Now we reach an ending with queen against three pawns, two of which are on the seventh rank. White should win from here, but did he actually manage to do so? Don't miss next week's exciting episode.
Meanwhile, what lessons can be learnt from this ending so far?
1. You have to calculate the pawn ending before trading or proposing a trade of your last piece.
2. Being able to activate your king first is often decisive in pawn endings, but the centre is not always the best place. In this game Black's winning plan (at least it should have been winning) involved marching the king down the a-file.
3. Learn the position type with two fixed pawns on the same file. If you can activate your king first you can attack the pawn from two squares, but it can only be defended from one square. Then all you have to do is run your opponent out of pawn moves and he'll be zugged.
4. Sometimes you can win by sacrificing to obtain a passed pawn.
5. Positions with passed pawns on both sides need to be calculated accurately. You can't just guess but really have to work it out. There may not be much point in sacrificing to get a passed pawn if your opponent's king can move into the queening square.
6. Sometimes pawn endings can become queen endings. You have to be really good at queen endings as well as pawn endings.
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from the
Rules of Attraction
by Brett Easton Ellison
Ok so this has been my week so far.
Sunday: Out supporting my karaoke pals on sunday night. End up meeting a woman who is a dominatrix on the side. It's her birthday this week. We exchange numbers. Retrocrush hauls his ass up from work, but is so tired he only hangs until 3:15 am and then heads home. I go home and im Rasputin who arranges to meet with me the next day.
Monday: Staff meeting-also known as the suicide express(will discuss more at some later date)-Rasputin takes me out for a snifter of cognac and then food. He keeps me up until 1:30 in the morning.
Tuesday: go to the ballet-rasputin helps change light bulb-keeps me up until 1:30 in the morning.
Wednesday:go out with the dominatrix-we get hit on wherever we go-I pick up a broadcaster for ESPN and then she and I pick up two Irish bartenders-Robert hauls himself up with three friends-we go to this empty club and then back to my place-by the time we get back to my place it's 6:30 in the morning-we fall asleep-he gets up at 11 to go to work-I sleep until 2
Thursday: Dominatrix has her birthday at brother jimmy's. The espn broadcaster takes me to an excellent dinner and then we head over to jimmy's for the party. We end up drinking from fishbowls filled with liquor, and the dominatrix sings karaoke.
friday: I get up and do some reading-develop a migraine and spend the rest of the day sleeping it off-needless to say I will not be going out tonight ( right that's what I said last night)
if my students had an idea what I get up to when no one is looking, they would be shocked and appalled-it used to be I acted too mature for my age-now it seems that I have regressed-ain't backlash a bitch?
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So, we have met retrocrush, who is proving to have more staying power than I suspected. He has the body of eighteen year old and does nothing to maintain it, so when he says "I think of myself as still a boy, like a 21 year old" apparently his biological functions are fairly convinced as well.
Which is fine with me.
So let's meet contestant number 2, shall we?
Before I went on break, I saw a guy at my usual coffee hang out. He was playing my friend, Bland Lawyer, at chess.
When I saw him, there was just something about him. He has brown eyes, brown hair ( not my usual MO), and lightly tanned skin. He shows his age, 37, with wrinkles around his eyes and mouth. It wasn't that he was that good looking, but there was something. Maybe his intensity, his focus.
And his hands. When I was younger, hands were very sexy to me, particularly an artist's hands. They are clean, well formed, soft, sensitive. There was an attention to them, to how they moved, that attracted me. And this guy had artist hands.
So the next time I saw Bland Lawyer, I casually asked who his chess partner had been. He offered an overwhelming Russian name.
Now when I started ballroom dancing, I really fell in love with Russian men. The accent, the language, the EDUCATION, I mean these people get a quality education. Their understanding of literature and art, even those not trained in those disciplines, is amazing.
So he has artist hands, AND he is Russian.
But I never expected to see him again. After all I had never seen him before and had no expectation of seeing him again.
But then I did. I don't remember how we started talking, but I know he asked me how to get his son to read. ( I will be posting on this topic next week.) We chatted for a while, and he asked if I came around often. I told him I did, and he said he would see me around.
Now he's odd, don't me wrong. He is definitely a little bit more than eccentric. He considers himself to be a novelist, but really he makes his living selling paintings. He has these beliefs about G-d and history that are, well, a little bit out there. OK they are REALLY out there. So I am going to dub him Rasputin, the mad monk.
Which fits him because he is both passionate and clearly big into the womanizing. I knew that even before I knew he had been married three times.
So he and I chanced into each other and few times. And we talked. And I could never tell if he wanted me or not.
So finally we traded email addresses, and last Friday night when I came back from a depressing evening I immed him. We met for coffee the next day, and he got me all liquored up on cognac before I went to dinner with the Beast. ( I never had cognac before, but now it seems I am acquiring a taste for it.) I saw him again Monday, after my meeting, as I was particularly depressed. He took me for a drink and then for food. He kept me up until 1 in the morning talking. "Well," he said, "you aren't going to sleep anyway."
We agreed to meet the next day. We talked, and he offered to put in a light bulb that I couldn't change, that I hadn't been able to change in two months. Afterwards we sat on the couch talking.
And I thought, this is it. He's going to make his big move.
And then he talked to me about the final novel of the Three Musketeers series for an hour.
It wasn't exactly what I was expecting. Then he asked me if my temples were sensitive, that maybe he could help me relax so I could sleep.
Here we go, I thought.
Rasputin always wears his sweaters so that his forearms are exposed. Almost taunting me with those hands. Every time I saw him, I just wanted to feel those hands on me. Now as a former actor, I am a touchy feely girl to begin with, so I had restrain myself. Besides every time I touched him, he pulled back. Even if it was simply, touching his hand with my own.
But now I got to feel those hands on me, and they were every bit as good as I imagined. Sensitive, yet with strength behind them. He put one hand on the back of my head, and with the other he stroked my hair and my face.
It was the most relaxing and yet strangely sensual experience.
I lay back on the couch, and let him stroke my temples. His finger tips were cool, but his forearms were warm, creating a delicious sensation. Now, I thought to myself, he is going to kiss me now. And he did get awful close. I could feel his breathe on my cheek, on my shoulder. I totally relaxed my body into his hands. But no kiss.
He got on his knees next to the couch and kissed my hand. He turned over my hand, opened the palm and pressed his lips there. He kissed both hands and forearms slowly.
It made me understand how intimate the kissing of a hand can be. Those courtly manners can be quite arousing.
Still I waited for a kiss, still no kiss.
He went back to stroking my temples, looking at me and smiling. He asked me what I was thinking as I opened my eyes. "I am wondering what you want from me." He kept stroking, "I don't know" he replied.
Oh is the man a professional or what?
"I really like you. And given your psychological make up I don't want to hurt you."
Now if he really knew my psychological make up he would know it is impossible not to hurt me. My students hurt me, the idiots I encounter on the street hurt me, the guys who call me shorty hurt me. I've almost turned being hurt by men into an art form.
He continues, "You know, I'm a ladies man." Yes, I do know that. And I know he's dangerous, and wrong, and bad news all the way. And I know this will not end well for me at all.
And still, I want him.
"How man lovers do you take at one time?" I asked him.
"Usually two." I laughed. "Why is that funny?"
"Because, baby, at given time, there are usually 3-5 men in my harem."
It is true that currently I am at 3. I am only sleeping with one, but still, a harem is a harem.
To some degree, what I think I feel towards Rasputin, and he would agree with this, is recognition. I have come to accept that currently the attentions of one man can not be enough for me. (And I do mean attention, and not necessarily sex.) He feels the same about women.
So be it.
So I asked him why he hadn't kissed me yet. And of course, it was because he didn't want to hurt me. And being me, my re action was "Now see that's just cruel. To stroke me and kiss my hand and tempt me with something and then not only say 'No. No, you can't have that' but 'You can't have that for your own good.'"
He laughed. And then he said what every man has said to me at one point in our relationship. "You're really funny."
Actually, no YOU'RE really funny. I'm just pointing it out.
Finally, he kissed me.
I was not disappointed. Apparently, neither was he as we kissed for a good long time. ( Later he would say, "You are a good kisser. Soft, downy, sensitive, sensual." Now that's a well thought out review.)
He told me once that he velvety skin, a family trait, and being me I was skeptical. A straight man with velvety skin? I mean, what are the odds?
He took his sweater off, underneath he wore a kind of peasant looking blouse. ( He always dresses like Rudolpho from my father's favorite opera
La Boheme
.) And he does indeed have velvety skin.
He picked me up and carried me to bed. It was like high school, how far can you go and not really do anything? The fingers trailing just below the breasts, a blouse pulled the aside to reveal a shoulder, hands and lips stopping just short of touching tender areas.
And then he went home. No clothes removed, no satisfaction garanteed. He went home.
Because he really is a professional. He understands that to me there is nothing sexier than a man who can resist me. There have been very few men who have been able to get up out of that bed leaving me fully dressed. And he is one of the chosen few.
Either that or he operates on the old theater premise, "Always leave them wanting more."
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"The stuff that dreams are made of"
Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in the
Maltese Falcon
So last Tuesday night a fellow professor asked me to go swing dancing. Let's call him Prof. Humbert. To give you an idea about Humbert, I met him not because we both teach at NYU ( different departments) but because he was a classmate at Yale with a guy who taught me poetry when I was in high school (he also teaches at NYU now). Humbert is big into swing dancing, and he knows I like to dance, but I never do social dancing, so he asks me to escort him to Swing 46 so that I may become familiar with "the scene."
Now I had suspicions he was going to put the moves on me, but I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. Allowed myself to think that he liked me in a kind of fatherly way and wanted to help me out.
It was a Tuesday night. Totally dead, which is good because I'm fairly paranoid about dancing in front of people. There was a big band, I mean like a fourteen person big band. There weren't even that many people in the bar.
So I talk to Humbert. Humbert is telling me about his son WHO IS MY AGE, about his two previous marriages, his current girlfriend who he has recently come to the revelation he is going to spend the rest of his life with, and all the while he is getting closer to me.
Meanwhile over his shoulder there is man, black baggy pinstripe pants, button suspenders, vest, tie, fedora, white sleeves rolled up so you can just see his dragon tattoo peeking out, holding his martini glass. I mean, he looked like a still from a film noir.
But the most striking part of him is not his pale skin, not his black hair ( slicked back, of course) but his blue eyes.
Now I've always been a sucker for blue eyes. When I was five, I was totally in love with the blonde blue eyed Duke boy ( much to the consternation of my father "You're grandmother wasn't smuggled out of Poland in a suitcase so you could fall in love with the Hitler youth!"). And I've seen lots of blue eyes in my time, the pale almost white ones with the cerulean rims. The Caribbean ocean blue of Miracle Gro's eyes. The cornflower blue of the Beast's eyes. Pale reflective blue eyes. The dark intense blue eyes. But these were unlike anything I'd ever seen. They were like the way I pictured the eyes of the Lotus Eaters to be, a dream distilled. They were a deep blue, but they were reflective as well, like the surface of an inky lake.
So I keep looking over Humbert's shoulder at this guy, let's call him Retrocrush. Retrocrush looks at me. And me being me, I keep thinking "You know, he is WAY too hot to be looking at me." Besides he is really cool, I mean looking at the outfit, these guy totally kicks. I am not a cool chick. Never have been, never will be. I was not one of the beautiful people in high school. I was not the type people look at and think "Yeah baby I want to be her." I was the type of girl people look at and thought "Yeah, I want her to do my homework." So even if he wasn't hot, he was way too for the likes of me.
So time passes, chocolate mint martinis are consumed, and somehow I end up telling my dungeon story to Humbert (although I left out the house slave part) and zretrocrush over hears the conversation and starts asking me questions. (And on top of everything else, he has a slight Bronx accent, perfecting his film noir look.)
Well before you know it all three of us are heading to Mercury lounge for drinks. Retrocrush heads to the bathroom and Humbert, sensing that his captive audience might have found an escape hatch, says "You know we haven't talked about the situation with my girlfriend yet." "I thought she was the woman you are going to spend the rest of your life with." "Yeah, but we have an open relationship."
You know, all I ask is a little originality. Especially since this guy teaches in the dramatic writing department.
So I'm like, "You must be kidding. And even if you aren't, let me see if have the situation correct. You are emotionally committed to this other person, so I'm supposed to be excited by the chance to just sleep with you?" "Well, no I mean we can go swing dancing and talk. You're very smart." "Riiiiiiiiight. No offense, but if I was going to use someone mainly for their body, I would pick someone with a better body."
To which there was no response.
So Humbert takes off.
Leaving retrocrush and me. He kisses me outside the bar. Presses me against the exposed brick. A hand around the waist, the other on the back of my neck. The street is empty. Not even cabs. It's another movie moment.
Later I tell him about how I couldn't believe he was looking at me. And he says "You know, I was looking at you, but I thought there is no way a girl this hot is looking at me." So there we were two twits pondering each others relative attractiveness, neither one believing the other could be interested.
Now, before you get excited, the guy is clearly bad news for all of his exceptionally dressing habits. He is 37, and by his own admission is emotionally disturbed. (He doesn't look 37, by the way, I would have put him at 25.) He is, as far as I can tell, not exceptionally bright. I can talk to him, but he's not going to keep me engaged intellectually. But I hear that voice on the phone, and I can't resist. ( "It is like a voice from a dream, which comforts me when I am alone" Winona Ryder as Mina in
Bram Stoker's Dracula
I'm supposed to see him again tonight, but the older I get the more I become like Rick in
. "I never plan that far in advance."
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You can't fire me, I quit: the final installment of ex boyfriend alley
Well, I saw two ex boyfriends this weekend: the Beast and Israel.
Israel finally decided to actually put in some effort by calling and picking me up and cooking dinner for me. ( And it was a very fine dinner, actually.) And for all who think I shouldn't have done it, I will say this. When I saw him, I thought to myself, "This? This? I was freaking out over
this guy
? I mean, I can soooooo do better than this. Please." Sitting and waiting for dinner, he commented that I was very quiet, and I realized that I didn't have anything to say to him, that I don't really like him, and I should never have wasted my time pining for the twit. But, and this is an important point, because he called back, because he made me dinner ( and after all the effort I put into our relationship in the past, I totally deserve the effort) I can say that I am leaving this situation on my damn terms.
So there.
The Beast took me to dinner on saturday in order to get my help on his PhD thesis ( don't worry I'm getting help on my math GRE AND a ride on a motorcycle as part of my repayment-I already got a very nice bottle of wine out of the deal). It was more harrowing as the Beast was still as attractive and brilliant as ever. But I learned some important information, like that he and I started dating right after a break up with one of the only major relationships in his life. "In fact," he said, " I was very worried about her seeing us together and going brooklyn on your ass." Jesus, thanks for telling me! All this time I was endagering my life, and I didn't know. Further, he had been in a depression over stolen research. Great NOW he tells me. But what got me was two things: first I got to show him how brilliant I am by correcting his thesis ( he was suitably impressed), and second he really is all about his work. He can't think of anything else, and as I told him on saturday "You know, I knew it would never go anywhere with you because I refuse to take second place to protein trays." In addition, he has no sense of time. He didn't realize that we had been dating for several months and that it had in fact been a year since I had really last seen him. Typical to form he didn't apologize, but he did confide about the two major break ups that precede me by saying, "There's nothing worse than seeing a girl cry and knowing it's your fault." Well, I guess the whole not calling thing was his way of eliminating the problem.
So I came out of the ex boyfriend gauntlet feeling better, finally understanding that NONE of this was my fault. ( Except the dating them to begin with part.)
I feel so much better now.
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The Intellectual Life
While I'm waiting for him to return, I look out the window at the night sky. It's brighter than I thought it would be, the phospherous glow of the city at night.
As he climbs into bed with me naked, he says "You never stop thinking, do you?" Feeling the flush of his warmth against me, I mouth a word against his lips.
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Every mistake I ever made...
...started off by seeming like a good idea at the time. In the moment of decision making, I thought to myself, "How can this go wrong? How can this possibly end up being bad for me?"
Example : House Slave
I was working on a show ( back when I was an actress) with a rather nice guy, who had just broken up with his girlfriend of 8 years. Turns out they were big into S and M, and so he spent a lot of time trying to talk the other cast members into going to the Vault or the Hellfire club. I was very depressed at the time and so he often said, "Bunni, they would love you there. You would come whip a couple of guys, spank a couple of guys. You feel better, they feel better. Everyone is happy."
Needless to say, I rejected the idea.
A week after the show was over, he called me and asked me what I was doing. "I'm being depressed." "Well, get dressed. We are going to a party." "A party?" "Yeah, an opening party for a dungeon."
Well, I was resistant, but he promised it would be small, and he wouldn't leave my side unless I said I was ok. He also said as a writer I couldn't pass up the experience.
So I went.
The dungeon was small, and looked like someone's basement. It was not the height of decadent pleasures I had expected. No red velvet curtains. No large silk pillows or leather couches. No men walking around with ostrich plum fans and grapes. No women with leashes. The people there also looked like they were probably still living in their parents basement. The type of guys who had gone from Star Trek fandom directly to the Marquis de Sade.
There are many more details to the story that I will relate to you some other time. In the interest of your attention span, I shall cut to the important part.
There was a house slave at the party. A house slave is at the mercy of any party guest. Mainly his job was to crawl around and light cigarettes or fetch drinks. Basically, he was a waiter in leather shorts. He brought me a few glasses of wine.
I was talking to a guy who had "just come onto the scene" ( not surprisingly after a bad break up with a girlfriend) when I felt someone touching my feet. I looked down, and the house slave was licking LICKING the SOLE OF MY SHOE. Not the top part. Not light kissing, but tongue licking the bottom of the shoe.
So I ended up talking to the house slave. Turns out he was ( drum roll) a teacher. (I should have known right then this was the wrong profession for me) who was a classics expert ( also one of my interests). The house slave spent the rest of the evening sitting at my feet.
So I dated him.
And when I started, I thought, "Here is a guy who knows his place. He understands that he is here to serve my needs. How can this go wrong?"
Very, very easily. Two months later I was looking at this guy thinking, "You know, every time you open your mouth, I want to throw the toaster at your head." And he left me, after informing that he was seeing other people.
In praise of error
I often make mistakes in the name of "When will I ever get to do this again?" Going back to the dungeon party, I went because when was I ever going to be invited to an opening party at a dungeon again? ( and I never have, not that I would go) It was an opportunity, which was interesting, and now I can move on knowing I have been to an opening party at a dungeon. At least I don't regret not going. And really, the fall out from house slave wasn't so bad. Certqainly not enough to justify staying home that night.
My relatives in PA often tell me they envy my life. They envy that I do these "crazy" things: date a house slave, go to a birthday party at The Slide and end up on the roof of some guy's apartment drinking beer and talking about Nebraska, having dinner under the stars while a guy I know plays jazz, get coached on how to judge cock size by drag queens, modeling for photographs at Wigstock. They envy me, but really if they wanted this life they could have it. It's simply a question of saying yes when the opportunity presents itself.
Sure, I envy them as well, their husbands and stable lives. Their children, their houses, their acceptance by the mainstream. But really, if I wanted that I could move back to CT and have it.
I may have lived a life less happy, but it certainly has been interesting. And I wouldn't give up my mistakes, even if I knew I would be happier, because I love my stories, even the ones where I end up face down in the mud. I am happy that I tried these things. I'm happy that I don't have to live with the regret of the things I haven't done.
Still, everyone in a while, I wake up the next day and think to myself "What have I done?"
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