Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 21:23:47 -0500 From: Lawrence Prichard Subject: Tuesday Evening and Wednesday Morning 9 Disclaimer and all that. If you are not of age to read male-male romance in your locale, Begone. (Until you are of age.) Reposting on sites other than Nifty is forbidden. Thank you to: George Gardner, Rimpig, Tim Mead, Drew Hunt, and MickeyS. Aspirin is my best friend not on two or three, or four legs. (Remember, one of our leading characters is a tripod cat!) Kate Bush's most recent release "Aerial" is worth a spin, particularly the second disc. Copyright 2005-2006 by Lawrence Prichard. A slightly different chapter. Let me know. ________ Tuesday Evening, early March, 8:40 pm. Jerome's turn. I am not a fan of certain holidays. Fortunately, the holidays I dislike are the ones Denys dislikes as well. Since we're in the "holiday" business at Something Beautiful Flowers and Gifts, we know much too much about Administrative Personnel Week (Secretaries's Day,) and more than we'd like to know about Grandparent's Day. However, there is a newer holiday I can fully endorse. Denys told me about it, and I love it. No, I LOVE it. And, amazingly enough, we don't make an extra dime on the day. Denys spends a lot of time on line. He participates to greater or lesser extents at three websites. One for comedy writers, and one for antique technology, and a fetish site that shall remain anonymous. One of the other contributors to the comedy site mentioned March 20th a few years ago. March 20th is now considered (by some, at least,) to be the "male" counterpart of St. Valentine's Day. No, it is not called St. Butkus's Day, or Lord LeBron Day. Nor is it Titan Trump Day. March 20th is called "Steak and Blow Job Day." I am not making that up, although to some of us, "S & BJ D" is sort of a non-event. (What the hell? We're gay men, living in a stable partnership.) I love many things about Denys, and the fact that he can pan-broil a steak very well is merely one of the things I love. Since we're both trying to keep our cholesterol counts below ten zillion, we don't have steak very often. Hell, we don't even have hamburgers that often. There are times, however, when I may start clucking if I see another boneless, skinless (flavorless) chicken breast. Denys finds Steak and Blow Job Day almost as amusing as I do. He does not make a huge effort at it, but there is steak for dinner that evening, and he uses the green and white Fiesta dishes on a candlelit table. Green Fiesta, and white Fiesta. On a light blue tablecloth, the effect is startlingly pleasant. In years past, we would talk about St Patrick's Day, and the minor trade in Oxalis (shamrock) plants, and how we kept careful track of the male customers who ordered green carnations. Denys really dislikes green carnations. They make him sad, because Oscar Wilde, one of Denys's literary heroes was known to wear a green carnation in his lapel. Of course, a green carnation is not really found in nature. Understand, I love flowers, or else I'd probably be selling lawn mowers at a big box store, or shuffling paper in a tower office. I don't consider spraying green dye on a carnation to be a crime. Denys feels otherwise. That's ok. He's allowed. Denys knows not to mess with a classic menu, too. Steak, baked potato, steamed broccoli, tossed salad. Maybe a small bite of something chocolate for dessert, but just a small bite. Some years, Denys makes sure the table cloth goes to the floor, and he disappears very soon after dinner. Yes, Denys also gives the best blow jobs I have ever had. Damm, I am one very lucky bear. ___________ Feedback welcome OhioBear330 at webtv dot net