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Saturday, June 17th
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Saturday June 10th
Everybody's Favorite Go-GBoy, Keith and Valerie Dare will entertain you with Shows at 10:00pm and 12:30am. Cover $2.00Members $1.50
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Saturday, June 24th
Second Monthly Fifties Night
All 1950's Music Two Mini-Shows
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The Opinions of Jon-Henri Damski
Nothing Personal
When I was 19, my Doctor said that I was non capo amoris, not capable of love. He said that I could not love another human being.
That was a heavy sentence. And worse I believed him, because he was my Doctor. I did not know then about getting a second opinion. Nor did I see through his logic. If I was "another human being", then, ipso facto, I was capable of being like and loving another human being.
Also, then, I couldn't tell him that I had tender feelings for boys. I didn't think he would understand. And at the time, I hadn't really told myself, and I didn't really understand.
Of course I had grown up in an upset home. My father died when I was three. I was raised by my mother, a series of step fathers and my two aunts. No male figure guided my life. I was both not interested in girls, and scared to go out with them, And for a boy to have a date with another boy, was something I didn't know happened.
So I abstained from sex. I went off to college, graduated cum laude and got my MBA. Then I came back and worked in my uncle's steel mill.
I decided that if I couldn't love another human being, I would love my work instead. Sure I had masturbated in college. But I don't even remember my fantasies. I quit that after a time and put all my energies into my work. I was a-sexual and proud of it.
I was better than the other people around me. I knew each of their weaknesses. Drink, drugs, sex; none of it tempted me. I could stay at the job for 18 to 36 hours at a time. And so, at 47, when my uncle retired, they
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made me President, and I ran both the mill and the town.
All was going well until I took a business trip to New York last July. Then the whole dam broke. Some kid in a leather jacket came up to me in Times Square and asked "if I wanted a date." The word "date" triggered something in my mind.
He said that he was a musician, looking for a job. He was alone in New York and needed $30 for rent. We had dinner together, and said I would let him have $30 'till Monday, but he would have to pay it back.
Monday, he came to my hotel room and said he didn't have the money. Then he did. a strange thing. He put his hand on my thigh, and bent over and kissed me.
I went wild. I had never seen two men kiss except in the play View From the Bridge. I wanted more, and I wanted him.
That was the only time I saw Jim. I don't know where he went. I called his hotel the next day, but he had checked out.
Sure it was a one time, brief time only. Afterwards, I went back to my a-sexual self. You don't change the habits of years. Besides, it's a little late for me to start going out with boys. I don't want to get my feelings hurt.
But there is a funny twist to this whole affair.
That son-of-a-bitch Doctor probably has never been made as happy, by any of his three wives, as I was that night by that kid. And that kid cost me $30.
While that Doctor, who said I would never learn to love another human being, charged me $50.
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