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2009 is likely to be a banner year for relationships, connecting with a significant other, and work with the public, dear Leo. Some of you will form a partnership that either leads to marriage or is otherwise significant, some will enhance an existing close relationship, and most will derive much joy from their relationships with significant others. New partners met this year are likely to feel much like a breath of fresh air. Challenging relationships, or challenges in relationships, tend to be left behind. 2009 is a commitment-friendly year for you. Some of you will be taking a casual affair to a whole new level. Romance becomes a little more serious, but "fun-serious". Many of you will fall in love, or re-commit to a current lover. You continue to buckle down with money this year. Matters are not moving quickly when it comes to personal finances—in fact, there can be some struggles regarding unpredictable trends with money from outside sources or shared with a partner, which should be sorted out by October. Those born early in the sign (from July 23-27) may be required to make adjustments in their work and health routines in order to accommodate new changing circumstances. Towards the end of year, many of you will be getting serious about learning, studying hard, and changing your attitudes towards work. Many will be working on perfecting and refining skills that will be useful on the job, and some will be forced into that position. Career matters are dynamic and exciting from June 7-July 5.

Hello, I would like to find a lifetime sweetheart that appreciates the way I think and also wants to be my business partner.  It would be easy work and NO MONETARY INVESTMENT NEEDED.  You can try the job out on your home computer.  If you are not yet a computer person, I would love to teach you.  You can read about how I think on my philosophy website.  Go to the search engine GOOGLE and do a search for ALTERNATIVE THINKING PHILOSOPHY or send a response with your e-mail address and I will send you a link.  We can start out as pen pals and go from there.  I am a young looking 54 and I am looking for a lifetime sweetheart.  I prefer sincerity and integrity to looks.  A compassionate heart is more important than the perfect Max Factor face.  I am a plain man on the outside and special man on the inside.  I am an honest self-sufficient person except for one thing.  I do not like holding my own hand while walking through the park.  It is a really nice hand to hold, but I would sooner hold yours.  I do not like nightclubs, crowds, or loud music.  I do like soft music and candlelight romance.  I miss having someone to cuddle with when I watch TV or listen to music.  I like to touch and I like to be touched.  I always make sure the woman has her pleasure before mine.  I know more than one way to please a woman.  I want to share my entire life with the woman I love.  I think you will find me a refreshing change; I am not like any man you have ever met.  My philosophy of live and let live is just one of the reasons I am very different.  I would sooner enjoy a person, rather than try to change them.  If you believe that truth and happiness go hand in hand, so might you and I.  Please send again if you do not hear from me soon.  I respond to every message.

 

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Hello, I would like to find a lifetime sweetheart that appreciates the way I think and also wants to be my business partner.  It would be easy work and NO MONETARY INVESTMENT NEEDED.  You can try the job out on your home computer.  If you are not yet a computer person, I would love to teach you.  You can read about how I think on my philosophy website.  Go to the search engine GOOGLE and do a search for ALTERNATIVE THINKING PHILOSOPHY or send a response with your e-mail address and I will send you a link.  We can start out as pen pals and go from there.  I am a young looking 54 and I am looking for a lifetime sweetheart.  I prefer sincerity and integrity to looks.  A compassionate heart is more important than the perfect Max Factor face.  I am a plain man on the outside and special man on the inside.  I am an honest self-sufficient person except for one thing.  I do not like holding my own hand while walking through the park.  It is a really nice hand to hold, but I would sooner hold yours.  I do not like nightclubs, crowds, or loud music.  I do like soft music and candlelight romance.  I miss having someone to cuddle with when I watch TV or listen to music.  I like to touch and I like to be touched.  I always make sure the woman has her pleasure before mine.  I know more than one way to please a woman.  I want to share my entire life with the woman I love.  I think you will find me a refreshing change; I am not like any man you have ever met.  My philosophy of live and let live is just one of the reasons I am very different.  I would sooner enjoy a person, rather than try to change them.  If you believe that truth and happiness go hand in hand, so might you and I.  Please send again if you do not hear from me soon.  I respond to every message.

 

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So I was at the St. Petersburg zoo w/ Titus on my birthday and a lioness started roaring. Only the sounds she was making weren’t so much roars as deeply frustrated, grunting bellows straight from her colossal diaphragm, like she was despairing of life and begging whoever had the courage, the mercy, and the means to end her miserable existence now… It was unpleasant to hear, so it didn’t surprise me to see the people around her cage getting a little uncomfortable at the sounds… they were grinning and giggling nervously and casting sidelong glances at each other.

 

So whatever…  I looked over at Titus, somewhere nearby, and caught him laughing so hard at something that he couldn’t stop to explain the joke.

 

“Eugggghhhh!” bawled the lioness.  “Ghhhrrrooouuuughhhh!!!”

 

Her roars gradually subsided into quieter -- but still clearly audible -- throaty sighs of resignation. I felt my heart breaking. But Titus still couldn’t control his laughter.

 

I was about to ask him what was so funny, when he rolled his eyes heavenward and groaned, as if in the throes of passion, “Oh God! Oh yeeeaaaaahh!!”, accompanying the lioness’s last heaving moans… and it hit me that every teenager and adult at the damn zoo (the kids, like me, hadn’t been laughing) had been in on a joke that had gone right by me:

 

That lioness’s solo had been a perfect imitation of a man’s climax, only it would have to have been a particularly large, deep-voiced, and especially lucky man to have made sounds like she was making. 

 

Funny, I thought, that almost everyone except me in that zoo old enough to make the comparison, whether Russian or *other*, had instantly registered the likeness of the frustrated, caged lioness’s solo to the equally passionate roars of a man having an orgasm.  And that everyone had found it equally hilarious: I saw a girl laughing as hard as Titus, (but more self-consciously) and smacking her friend on the arm for saying something lewd during one of the lioness’s several operatic performances that afternoon.

 

And I thanked the lioness for reaffirming my faith in the underlying connection of all of mankind’s consciousness. Bryan and Ljudmila Petrovna had both told me sex was still more of a taboo subject for most Russians than it was for most Americans, Russia being a more traditional society and all that.  I thought male orgasms would have been a little more, y’know, <out of Russian sight (or discourse), out of Russian mind…>

 

And I wondered: was there any zoo in the world where people (or at least, most gay men and straight women) wouldn’t have immediately noticed and permitted themselves to laugh publicly at the resemblance between a lioness’s roars and a man’s moans of pleasure?? In Bolivia, that Catholic backwater (ya don’t get much more “traditional” than Bolivia, lemme tell ya) where everyone is still probably as shy about publicly acknowledging the existence of sex as our Bolivian Araceli… Would such a pious young Catholic maiden as Araceli, upon hearing an analogously angry lioness in her own hometown zoo, have thought to herself, “I say, that frustrated lioness sounds just like a man whose partner really knows what she’s doing!”? (Most Bolivians’ thoughts still run, I believe, in traditionally heteronormative grooves.) And had she thus reflected, would she have then permitted herself a sheepish chuckle in full view of the zoo’s other patrons, or stifled it in shame for having allowed such a sinful notion to occur to her?? I hope she reads this some day, and will oblige me by letting me know.

A FINAL NOTE: The reason this blog entry is about St. Petersburg and not Buenos Aires is 'cuz I ain't in Argentina yet keep your shirt on. Jesus.  I think Annie is the only one reading this blog anyway, so she and I will have to fix that by letting other people know it exists.  Like Araceli, Valentin, and other worthies.  The problem is finding people who'd CARE enough to read it... Any ideas Annie?  I don't have to mention... never mind you know who I'm talking about.  And he's planning to read this, too.

By way of clarification and because I'm pathetically obsessed with other peoples' opinions of me... My life isn't SO boring that fuck-all has happened since my trip to the St. Petersburg zoo almost a month ago.  But I am saving the shit that happened in the Baltics, shit that is happening to me here in Mpls, and ongoing, kinda random but (in my opinion) interesting thoughts for subsequent entries.  I'll write two more entries before heading off to BA, does that suit you Annie? And they won't be quite so self-indulgent, either.  Later