Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 14:22:37 EDT
From: Slsw@aol.com
Subject: Journal of Ricky the Perv

The Journal of Ricky the Perv  (t, t, t [sort of]  -- adult 
language, minimal sex)

The underlying is ADULT FICTION.  It is a made up 
story.  No characters contained in it are real or bear any 
resemblance to real people, living or dead. 
 
It should not be read by minors or miners or others not 
empowered to do so by the laws in their communities.

Comments to: SLSW@AOL.COM 

Many thanks to Jon Mark in deepest GA for his 
encouragement and patience.  You're a Perv, Dude, and 
I mean that in the finest sense of the word.

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My name is not Rick.  But I'm not going to tell you 
what it is.  I am the dayshift cleaning supervisor at one 
of the Holiday Inns in the one of the desert towns of 
California.  But I'm not going to tell you which one.  

What I will tell you is that a floppy disk was left in one 
of our rooms about 2 months ago.  The maids don't 
remember which one, or they'll only tell me in Spanish 
-- they have a conspiracy.  I'm a computer junky so I 
tried to open the file to see whose it was.  So we could 
return it, see.  So, it took me a really long time to crack 
the code.  So when I did, this is what I saw.  There's no 
hope of getting it back to its rightful owner.  No last 
names are mentioned anywhere and we've had a hell of 
a lot of Rick's stay at the hotel.  Richard's, Bobby's and 
Jason's too.  I don't remember too many Hondo's but I 
don't think this is his.  For a long time I couldn't think 
what to do with it.  Except read it.  It's pretty 
disorganized and real wordy.  But kind of interesting in 
places.  Kinda sad, kinda funny.  Makes me feel for the 
little fag guy who wrote it, at least a little bit.

I haven't got all the chapters open yet, they all have 
separate passwords and guessing them is a bitch.  This 
one's is "Perv".

So, anyway, I'm sending it to you because the day desk 
clerk, who's a fag too, but nice, says that's where all the 
gay fiction goes (he doesn't like when I call it fag).  I'm 
not sure it's fiction but here it is anyway.

Let me know if you want me to send you the rest.  OK, 
that is sort of dumb.  Considering I won't tell you my 
name.  I'll send it to you when I can open the files.  If I 
can.

<file follows>    

"The Journal of Rick(y) the Perv"

I'm starting this little Journal after thinking about it for 
two years.  Every time something particularly weird or 
sexy or just interesting happens to me or my buds, I 
think: I've got to get this down.  Then there are things to 
do, herb to test, butts to wag (more on this, I promise) or 
chill time to serve and I never get around to it. 

Well, something happened....  And I'm finally at the 
laptop in a Holiday Inn room, it's raining and I'm 
starting.  Don't know if I'll ever finish or even keep 
going but here goes...

In re: Rick, the Man.

My name is Rick.  I'm 19 years old (don't look it), 5' 
9", skinny with just the recent start of pecs and abs. But 
I have good legs and a Fabulous Ass (at least Jason says 
so).  My name is Spanish but nobody I know speaks it. I 
live in Los Angeles, CA which is a hellhole on earth 
(we're not on the beach, in the hills or any other good 
place).  But I'm never there; which is good. While I'm 
being so forthright with you, Journal, I'll say that I'm 
smooth, slim hipped, energetic and MUCH smarter than 
I look. I have a really big dick called Little Ricky (you 
think "Lucy" isn't on reruns?) and I'm a practicing, 
almost 100 percent Homo, bisexual.  I am NOT a virgin.

I also have a really big nose.  Maybe that's where Little 
Ricky comes from.

I work with three buds.  Their names are Jason, Tommy 
and Bobby and I'll write more about them later.  We 
travel all over the USA and karaoke sing and wag our 
asses in front of little girls at Shopping Malls.  We are 
not Pervs (well, I am but not because of this) and we 
never get arrested.  We are hired by large, greasy, stinky 
guys (Management) to do just that.  Our job is to make 
little girls wet their panties in public places.  I thought it 
sounded like a good deal when I first heard about it.

I have a BMW, nice clothes, a little nest-egg and an 
extremely limited future in my chosen profession.  I'm 
not sure why.  I'm not sure I care.  Only Jason really 
cares; the only reason I care at all is that his pain quickly 
becomes mine.  We're buds.

In re: my Fabulous Ass

Journal, did I say I'm skinny?  I am.  But I love to 
dance.  I've been dancing with neighborhood girls since 
I was nine.  Don't think I didn't take some shit for that; 
at least until the other guys' hormones caught up with 
them.  Dancing is funny.  It does nothing for your upper 
body but, wow, without even exercising you get strong 
legs and a Fabulous Ass.  It's one of the three most 
valuable things I own.  The other two are the Beemer, 
and Little Ricky (well, maybe not in that order.)  I only 
keep mentioning it because it is a central character in the 
saga that will (might) follow.  Yeah, it's going to be that 
kind of story.  But since you're a Journal on a computer, 
you can't make moral judgements.  So Fuck You.

Think I'll quit now, I think I hear Bobby knocking on 
the communicating door.  
Spell check, grammar check and save.
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Shit!  Grammar checker has more morals than the Prez.  
It tells me that I shouldn't capitalize "Fabulous Ass" and 
that I can't write "Fuck You".  I beg to differ.  I OWN 
you, goddamn it.  There, I CAN sound like 
Management.  Later.... 


Day 2 (actually day 4 -- this is a hard habit to acquire)

The Story of the Start of he Journal

I'm a Perv.  There, I said it.  I'm a Perv who really likes 
leather pants.  I used to wear them when we performed.  
The reason I started to wear them and, more important, 
the reason I stopped is the reason I'm writing this 
Journal.  It's your conception, baby.  So pay attention.  
And hold off that snarling weasel, grammar checker. 

I was a pretty good student when the idea of a singing 
group first came up.  I sang in the (Catholic) church 
choir.  I danced with anyone who would dance with me.  
I actually had a bunch of good friends even though I was 
a little latent Homo.  I went out with girls and I even 
fucked a couple (told you, Journal -- almost 100 
percent).  In general, they ignored my skinniness and big 
honker and concentrated on my personality (hey, I'm 
likeable), Little Ricky and my Fabulous Ass.  Did I tell 
you I used to get pinched in the halls?  In return, I 
ignored their giggles and flabby butts and their lack of 
dicks and concentrated on the decent head and, you 
know, a pussy does sort of feel good -- loose but good.  
Course I was a Homo virgin then so I didn't know any 
better.  

Then the BoyBand audition thing came up.  I wasn't all 
that enthusiastic about leaving school, living with a 
bunch of straight guys in a bus -- Christ, gym's hard 
enough --, and touring every Bo-hunk, redneck town in 
the US of A.  By this time I was pretty sure I wanted to 
lose myself at college and play around with my 
roommate.  I didn't even contemplate that he might not 
be attracted to me or might not be gay or might not be 
out.  I was sixteen and full of needs and hormones.  I 
didn't want to be in a BoyBand.  Besides, it wasn't 
going to be a band anyway -- nobody played any 
instruments.  Just sang (lip-synced) and danced (not 
very well, mostly just wagged their butts).  The only 
qualifications I had to be in a BoyBand were that I was a 
boy and I could sing and dance.  Come to think of it, I 
was more qualified than a lot of those guys.

Then Jason came over one day and talked me into 
auditioning with him.  Jason was a good friend from 
forever. We hooked school together (and served time for 
it... after, together), got high together, got laid together 
(once), laughed together, even did homework together if 
we had to.  Jason protected me when I needed protection 
(which wasn't very often, Journal, even though I was 
skinny); he was big and strong and knew how to fight.  
When the time came for him to be interested, I quietly 
taught him how to dance.  He was sort of clumsy but 
eventually he got the moves. After a while I even 
stopped thinking of Godzilla on speed when I watched 
him dance ...  Most of the time, anyway.  Anyway Jason 
and I were buds.  No queer shit.  He wasn't like that.  I 
valued him.  I trusted him.  I owed him.  Let's be honest 
here, Journal, I wouldn't have minded if he boned me.  
Not that I'd ever been boned.  The Internet said it hurt... 
a lot.  I didn't even have a pierced ear because I don't 
like pain.  Lucky he's straight...   

Anyway, Jason convinced me to go to an audition for a 
BoyBand-in-the-making with him.  Two weeks from 
Saturday.  I knew he could sing since he was in the choir 
with me.  I knew he could sort of dance since I'd taught 
him.  But, it wasn't one of my most shining 
accomplishments.  

We thought we'd better practice some (or a whole 
fucking LOT) beforehand so Jason came over to my 
house a lot for the next two weeks.  Jason knew my 
older brother Hondo who was a senior.  They'd played 
street hockey together for years; they were both big 
dudes and bashed the shit out of the dweebs on the other 
side.  And enjoyed the hell out of it.  So when those two 
got together in a house with little me, I was bound to 
absorb a large ration of shit.  Nothing physical (except 
pillow thumps and tickling [Goddamn!] and the dreaded 
noogie) but I got teased unmercifully.  Especially when 
we were practicing our dance routine.  Luckily, I liked 
both of them enough to put up with it.

I had got some videos of the Backstreet Boys and we 
were trying to copy some of their moves.  Jason was 
almost hopeless.  But we worked real hard anyway.  He 
and Hondo would break into fits of laughter when I 
hollered "Thrust It Out, Goddammit!" and pushed my 
hips out, motioning for Jason to follow.  We WERE 
getting there slowly and I figured in about four months 
we'd be ready for the audition.  We had three days left.

Two days before the audition Jason produced some 
righteous herb at our second break.  We went out into 
the backyard to test it for potency in a purely scientific 
procedure.  Hondo, of course, showed up about 30 
seconds after we fired up.  The DEA doesn't need 
helicopters and dogs, Hondo on a good day can tell if 
you're packing from two miles away.  Of course, he 
says he's only mooching to make sure we weren't 
ripped off by the evil dealers.  What the hell, we had 
enough and Hondo was cool when he was ripped.  So 
we tested and tested again and decided that the potency 
was pretty fucking good.  But, just to make sure...

Then Jason started getting paranoid about what we 
would wear to the audition.  I said to look real close at 
the Backstreet Boys video.  Some old tracksuits would 
be fine, thank you very much.  Then Hondo arose from 
his blissful repose to Change My Life.  

"I know what you should wear, Ricky," he said with an 
evil and bloodshot gleam in his eye.

"My name's, Rick, Hondo!  Ricky's the name of my 
dick.  It's Little Ricky and proud of it", I replied, 
tempting fate (did I say Hondo was BIG, Journal?  And 
he's the Tickle Torture King of the Universe.).  I also 
knew, right after I said it that I was revealing much more 
information than I should have.  JASON! 

I expected at least a major ration of shit for this last 
remark.  But this was pretty fine dope and all that 
happened was that Hondo continued, course unchanged.

"How about your `Triple L's'?  `Bout time you got some 
REAL use out of them."

Now this was a MAJOR breach of brotherly trust (it 
stood for `Little Leather Leotards' and it was private, 
way PRIVATE!).  Even on three joints I wouldn't 
expect Hondo to reach so far back in my personal closet.  
Literally and figuratively.  I mean WE knew.  But, 
FUCK...!  Christ, JASON'S here.  

Shouldn't have had that fourth J.  No, not atoll.   

Although Jason didn't notice the innuendoes hovering 
about like Apache gunships, he did demand a translation 
(which Hondo grinningly supplied) and then he wanted 
to see the pants.  Deeper and deeper, Journal.  

I pleaded that they didn't fit and weren't in fashion and I 
didn't know where they were.  And, to make a long 
story short  -- I'm tired of typing, Journal -- I had to go 
upstairs, go to the very bowels of my closet and bring 
out the pair of leather jeans I got when I was 14 (more 
about this later, for now just think "Backbeat"), squeeze 
into them and hobble downstairs.  I was wondering if 
California Workman's Comp covered nad injuries due 
to tight trou'.  Sometimes it really doesn't pay to be well 
hung.  Nah...that ain't true.  No, not atoll.

Anyway, by the time I got downstairs and into the 
backyard, I could have forgotten all about it.  Hondo and 
Jason were listening to the music of the spheres, spaced 
beyond recall.  If I hadn't fallen on my ass trying to 
avoid a lawn chair in my straight-jacket pants, they 
never would have seen me.

But fall I did.  And the accompanying cacophony of 
falling lawn chair, table, ashtray and soda bottles put me 
on center stage with an irised spot.  I slowly got up to 
run (hobble) away when Jason said those fateful words, 
"Fabulous Ass, Dude!"  He capitalized them just like 
that so don't give me any shit, grammar checker.

Do I need to say what I wore to the audition?

Think I'll quit now, I know I hear Bobby knocking on 
the communicating door.  And he sounds horny as hell.  
Spell check, grammar check and save.
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Shit: Grammar checker still doesn't like my 
capitalization.  It also doesn't like "nad".  I know what I 
mean and if you had any and I squeezed them real hard 
you'd know too.  Fuck You!  Jesus, I just noticed that I 
still haven't gotten to the reason I started the Journal.  
Well, it'll be a while because I have to explain 
"Backbeat" first.  Later...  


Day 5 (day 6 actually -- I'm getting better)

We're in another shit town but still in a Holiday Inn.  
Still the same low shower head.  I mean, I'm only 5'9" 
and it's low for me.  What about normal people?

The problem with writing things down, Journal, is that 
you can read them over afterwards.  Then you see that 
you lied.  Or left the wrong impression.  Or screwed up 
in a thousand ways that scumsucker grammar checker 
can't find.  So I'd better correct some of the above 
before you don't believe me any more.

In re: Lies

There aren't too many outright lies above.  I guess that 
the biggest was the title for the start of Day 2 (actually 
4).  It wasn't about the start of the Journal; it was more 
like my Fabulous Ass II.  I don't want you to get the 
wrong impression.  I am NOT conceited about my ass.  
Well, not a whole lot anyway.  I've brought it to your 
attention, Journal, because it is so important to the story 
that I'm going to tell.  If I ever get around to telling it.  
But I'm going to give in to the asshole grammar checker 
and not use caps any more.  I mean, it's a machine and 
has more endurance than I do especially after shaking 
my ass (there, I gave up "Fabulous" too but you know 
what I mean) at a Mall all day.  God, that's tiring and 
boring and Frustrating.  

The other lie is the quotes in our conversation in the 
backyard.  I, for one, was much too fucked up to report 
anything with quotes (except Jason's "FA" statement -- 
and I'm only sure about that because it became a 
running joke with Hondo, Jason and me.)  Something 
was said that made the outcome come out the way it did 
(yeah, I read that sentence and yeah, I've been testing 
again -- SFW, Journal.)

In re: Wrong Impressions

There's a lot more meat here.

The first is Little Ricky.  He's eight and three sixteenths 
inches long which I know is not the biggest dick on 
earth.  Shit, I've seen Johnny Wadd, too.  But the fact 
that I have big balls and Ricky's real fat and doesn't go 
down a whole lot when he's "soft" have given me a 
reputation since I was 12 going on 13.  I mean, the bulge 
is way impressive.  

The second is Jason.  More specifically, my relationship 
with Jason.  I really did have a major thing for the guy.  
For a long time.  So while he thought we were buds, I 
thought we were soul mates waiting to happen.  And 
waiting, and waiting.  But, you're right, Journal, I didn't 
spend all that time helping my other clunky friends learn 
to do things.  And I certainly wouldn't audition for a 
BoyBand for THEM.  "Just a Little, Latent Homo..." 
isn't that a song by somebody?  No.  Not atoll.  Ok, 
Journal, you're probably wondering where that came 
from.  I use it a lot.  It's from "Buckaroo Banzai" my 
favorite movie of all time (almost -- see "Backbeat" 
further down the road.)  It's about this famous scientist, 
brain surgeon and Rock `n Roller who never plays 
Shopping Malls.  Ever!  And Perfect Tommy wears 
really tight pants.

The third is what I wore to the audition.  Obviously I 
couldn't dance in pants I could hardly walk in.  But 
Jason got it into his (thoroughly zoned) head that I 
looked "real good" in them and it would help at the 
audition.  After I got over Hondo slipping up on one of 
my most secret Pervs, I compromised with them.  I'd get 
a new pair that fit.  But I wasn't paying.  No.  Not atoll.  
Shit if Hondo didn't pull out his Visa and drive us to 
Downtown.  Same store we went two years ago.  With 
me modeling and Hondo and Jason critiquing and all of 
us blasted, it was an afternoon in the city to remember.  
Except I don't, real clear.  We had fun and I probably 
revealed a few more secrets to Jason; Hondo already 
knew all my secrets.  All those secrets that a 16 year old 
Homo virgin can have.

Which brings us to the fourth:

In re: Hondo (this will eventually bring us to "Backbeat" 
and then, finally, to the topic at hand (well it was 
supposed to be), The Origin of You, Journal.

Hondo was two and a half years older than me and just 
about the best brother a guy could have.  At one time he 
was huge.  Then as I got older, he became merely big.  
And built.  And popular.  And straight (this didn't matter 
`til later but he always was).  I can't remember one time 
when he picked on me.  This is damn unusual where I 
come from.  Most guys I knew had the "brother from 
hell" but somehow I lucked out.

Not only did he not beat and tease me like an ordinary 
brother; he helped me with everything.  Hondo taught 
me to tie my shoes.  To spell "Mississippi" (he sang it).  
To hit a ball.  To ride a bike (both kinds, actually).  To 
blade.  To understand when hair started to sprout around 
Little Ricky (and he was, then) when I was in sixth 
grade (way early bloomer, Journal).  Yeah, I got my Sex 
Education class from my big bro.  But, NOTHING 
HAPPENED, you Perv.  Hondo wasn't like that.  He 
really wasn't.  To this day if I had to trust my life, my 
balls and my sacred honor to someone, it would be 
Hondo...  No contest.

So it made perfect sense to a thirteen and a half year old 
Ricky (me, not my dick -- I was Ricky back then) to 
report the strange and frightening hormone driven 
episodes that were beginning to plague my waking and 
sleeping world to my 16 year old brother.  Hondo took 
all of them in stride.  Even the ones that labeled me a 
flaming faggot like sporting wood in Gym (which was a 
really big problem now that Little Ricky belied his 
name).  He gave me real information like about the 
Homo phase all guys go thru (almost all -- Hondo didn't 
remember his).  He gave me wise advice like `don't 
look' and `take cold showers in Gym'.  He added long-
division-in-my-head to my list of remedies.  Then he 
brought out the big guns (Right!) and said I should 
probably jerk off more.  Who was I to question?

It worked for a while.  By 14, I was even going out with 
girls.  And I hadn't sprouted wood in the locker room 
for a long time.  I was well on my way to statistical 
normalcy.  Hondo, who by now looked like a Greek 
statue because of the weights and the sports, remained 
my confessor and advisor but I didn't need his services 
that often.  I was still skinny but was dancing like mad 
and I started to get anonymous butt pinches in the hall at 
school (the main stairs were the worst.)  They really 
spooked me.  Some of them hurt... bad.  And left marks.  
Gym could sometimes be a problem again but now for a 
different reason.  Hondo commiserated but really didn't 
have a solution.  His suggestion of iron underwear was 
voted down.

But for the most part things were cool.  I learned to test 
hemp.  Hondo taught me this necessary skill.  I got to 
second base.  Hondo approved but was not a participant.  
I had good friends (Jason's here by now).  I did well in 
school.  I went to the movies a lot.  On dates and with 
buds.  And that was my downfall.  See, Journal, I told 
you we would get to "Backbeat".  And I'm always right, 
and I never lie...

There's Bobby on the communicating door again.  Man, 
he smells horny right through the door.  Gotta go...  
Spell check, grammar check and save.
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I got that grammar checker by the balls, man.  I even 
snuck "FA" past its dead ass.  Later...
  
                    
 Day 7 (really! -- I'm so good)

We're on the bus tonight and the only place I can do this 
is in the lounge out back.  I'll have to watch myself 
because the table and the laptop are bouncing like crazy 
and any time Bobby feels the urge, he can come back 
and "pinch my titties"(he's such a romantic), tell me a 
"joke" about Polish sausage and I'm gone.  In case you 
haven't guessed by now, I have a 17 year old lover who 
I haven't said a whole lot about, yet.  That's because he 
hasn't fit into the logical progression of this saga.  Don't 
give me that; there's logic and there's LOGIC.  Then 
there's you, Journal.  And I have final say.  Then there's 
that grammar check dude who fucks over both of us.

Anyway, call to order.

In re: Lies

None in Day 5(6) that matter very much.

In re: Wrong Impressions

Nothing major.  

If you don't understand why I went on so about Hondo, 
you will eventually.  

Boners in Gym.  To my knowledge, I never got caught.  
They were really like half-boners anyway.  The kind 
where YOU know you're sprouting wood but you catch 
it or hide it before you're dripping pre-cum on the floor 
(eeeewwwwuuuueeee -- but you know what I mean).

Sleeping episodes.  Wet dreams, dude.  Really messy 
and sometimes vivid wet dreams.  And not all of them 
featured tits and pussy.  Well, at least not female tits.

But all this was behind me now until:

In re: Sep 16, 1994 -- I see "Backbeat" for the first time 
(`Bout fucking time!  Chill, Journal, I am your GOD!)

I'm fourteen and a half.  Short, skinny and developed 
below the waist in a whole lot of ways.  Almost 
experienced, accepted, straight (well nearly) and happy.  
Then I went with some buds to see a movie at our local 
fifth run multiplex.  "Backbeat".  In case you don't 
know, Journal, it was a movie about the early Beatles.  
Quite popular in those days. Lots of tits and ass and 
some serious simulated fucking.  The only reason we got 
in was that Jason played hockey with the usher so we 
could buy tickets to some PG trash and actually see 
"Backbeat".  

But it wasn't a movie about John and Paul and those 
other guys but about someone named Sutcliff(e) who 
could have been in the band but chose not to.  He was 
played by Stephan Dorff and, in a way, I lost my Homo 
virginity to him that afternoon in the dark theater.  

Almost immediately I was captivated by his presence.  I 
never thought to challenge my gut reaction, he was 
achingly, heartstoppingly beautiful.  Thin, slim hipped, 
clear skinned (I never had zits), FA, self-possessed, 
yeah, I identified with him a little.  On the other hand, 
he had pecs -- hairy, little ones but really defined, a cute 
little nose AND he was getting real action every other 
scene.  So the identity meld only stretched so far.

About halfway into the movie, I slouched down in my 
seat and decided: 1) he was too gorgeous for words and 
2) all those Homo feelings?... "We're baaaaaack.."  I 
knew I should be really worried but between gripping 
the armrest and starring at the big screen, I didn't have 
the time.  Every time he walked or kissed or hugged or 
fucked I became more conscious of his beauty.  My first 
crush and it happened in a dark theater and the crushee 
was on the screen, not in the seat next to me.  

Then one hour and sixteen minutes (I bought the video 
later) into the film, Stephan Dorff is sitting in a huge 
elegant hall interviewing to get into some school and 
you see the profile of his FA in his leather pants.  The 
whole scene lasts only about two and a half minutes but 
in those minutes, Little Ricky had the time to throb, 
throb harder, vibrate with need and erupt.  Like Mount 
St. Helens, like that place in Hawaii, like "how the 
FUCK am I going to get out of the theater!"  Man, I was 
oozing.  There was no way that my buds weren't going 
to notice.  Most psychiatrists say it takes years of 
therapy to find the origin of a fetish...  I know where 
mine came from.  But to this day I don't know why.  I'd 
never reacted before.  Was it just some fluke of timing?  
Could I have cum a little earlier and got a hard on 
forever-after about body painting with a girl?  Don't 
know but right then I had more vital things on my mind 
like: Gotta get a cover!  Just gotta!  The blond, what was 
her fucking name!  We saw her tits!  I've been hard up.  
The devil made me do it.  Gotta get a cover!  

That's when I got fixated, Sep 16,1994.  That's when I 
became Ricky the Perv.  But I didn't have a clue for the 
next couple of weeks and I really didn't believe it for a 
couple of years.  And five years later I still can't believe 
it's true.  But it is, Journal, it is. 

Well, anti-climax.  With the aid of my popcorn tub, my 
jacket and the fact that it was getting pretty dark when 
we left, I escaped undetected.  I thought.  Jason was 
making sniffing noises but he probably had a cold.  I did 
overhear him mention Clorox, but he was probably 
talking about washing clothes. 

I entered our house quietly, talked to no one, went right 
to my room.  Assessed the damage, bigtime mess, 
Christ, I even got my belt!  I cleaned what I could and 
buried the jeans and briefs in the bottom of the laundry.  
Shirt too.  This was like cleaning up after a mudslide.  I 
lay down on my bed and stared at the ceiling.  All night.  
Well most of it.  I was scared and disgusted and 
mortified.  I thought this was OVER!  Strangely, I 
thought about having to confess my sins, this sin.  
Weird, I hadn't been to confession since I was 12.  Hell, 
Christmas but you never confess any REAL sins at 
Christmas.  Easter either.

The only thing I decided that night was that this was an 
aberration.  I hadn't been jacking as regularly as I 
should, like Hondo told me.  Only morning and night.  I 
was forgetting about the all-important Noon hour.  
Maybe right after school.  Then there was morning 
break.  I'll work on those, then try it again.  Bet it 
doesn't happen again.  If it does, I'll have to talk to 
Hondo.  He'll know what to do... 

This isn't over but there's a cute, blond skater guy 
twisting my nips like the knobs on a video game.  He 
looks like he's about to talk about sausages.  I'll tell you 
more about him sometime.  
Spell check, grammar check and save.
**************
Fuck it; I'm too horny to complain about grammar 
checker, tonight.  But, that fucker does piss me off.  
Later... 
 

Day 8 (alright, 9, we had a party with some pathetic 
groupies yesterday) 

OK, Journal, this could be a long one.  Did I mention 
that Bobby's 17?  Well he is and he has to go home 
almost every weekend and take tests and shit for High 
School.  I had to do it too, when I hadn't graduated.  We 
all know this shit can't last and we'll have to get real 
jobs.  Maybe we'll even go to college and I'll finally get 
to make out with my roommate.  Then my roommate 
could be Bobby; because of this band junk we'd both be 
freshmen together.  Random thought: we AREN'T a 
band, goddamn it.  Well, we DID sound pretty good one 
night in Kalamazoo, MI when we had all tested some 
truly noble hemp and played our kazoos until 
Management put in a thoroughly unpleasant appearance 
(Gorilla City, man).  You know the sorry part about all 
this is that we CAN sing.  And we can dance too... well, 
Jason tries, really hard... We're actually damn good.  
Shit!  I'll never get to the important parts if I start 
moping.  Man, you can sure tell that Bobby's gone.  Just 
me and Little Ricky here in a Quality Inn.  The Holiday 
was booked but it means we get regular showers which 
squirt down on your head instead of up on your chest.  
Did I mention than I'm finally developing pecs?  Look 
out, Stephan Dorff!  No hair and I'll probably never get 
any.  Hondo still doesn't have any and, at 22, he's 
getting to be a pretty old fuck. 

OK, I sort of like the format I've adopted where I read 
and correct what I've written.  It's just like the 
Congressional Record.  Right?  No.  Not atoll.

Call to order.

In re: Lies    

I don't know if it really counts as a lie or not but I did 
NOT lose my Homo virginity to Stephan Dorff.  Wish I 
had...  then again, maybe not.  He sure seemed straight 
in that movie.  He'd probably just whip my butt with his 
developed little hairy pecs (yeah, I did notice something 
other than his FA in leather).  Did I tell you, Journal, 
that I don't like pain?  Anyway, there really was this 
series of patterns of colored light on a reflectorized 
screen that triggered some sort of sexual epilepsy in my 
hormone-crazed body and I creamed my jeans (and shirt 
and belt -- shit!).  I never really met the dude, ever.  And 
my virginity remained intact.  Now that's the truth.

One other BIG one: Jason KNEW.  Christ, I was sitting 
right next to him.  And I bet I at least sighed when half 
my body weight came bursting out in the form of 
smelly, steaming ooze.  And he probably knew from 
when I did it that the hetero fucking wasn't the cause.  
But Jason was a bud.  Even back then.  And buds don't 
nark.  They tease, but they don't nark.  Why did I say 
that I got away with it?  Cause I wanted to so bad at that 
time that I convinced myself that I did.  I didn't allow 
myself to think about Jason's knowledge for many, 
many months.  To this day, I have never asked him to 
his face.  Don't you dare say, "Wuzz", Journal!  Or, so 
help me, no more truth. 

In re: Wrong Impressions

One major one and a couple of minor.

The first and major one is that I reflected on my 
imprinting at the time I was imprinted (Conrad Lorenz, 
Journal, see, I do read, even on tour; I told you I was 
smarter than I look).  Ain't true.  No.  Not atoll.  My 
ONLY reaction was desperation not to get caught.  Any 
reflection came weeks (months/years) later.  I just 
wanted to get out of that theater with my reputation, 
such as it was, intact.  

The second is that I don't have parents.  I know that I 
never mentioned them.  That's really why I'm afraid, 
Journal, that you would assume that I was an orphan.  
My parents were (are) good people.  And they're both 
very much alive.  We always lived pretty good.  I mean, 
I didn't get that summer in Europe I always wanted 
(joke, Journal), but we were never short of money for 
any necessary and, frankly, many frivolous things as we 
grew up.  To do this, both my parents worked for about 
as long as I can remember.  Full time.  Of course, Hondo 
set an early standard of both independence and 
intelligence  (Hondo, again.  Don't worry he'll show up 
lots more.)  So it happened that when I scraped my knee, 
it was usually Hondo with the Bactine and bandage.  
Not my Mom, not day-care, not a babysitter.  My 
parents DID set up the rules for living.  Good grades, no 
fighting, in by Midnight (10 on school nights), no cops -- 
ever!  And, yes, some of them were arbitrary  -- like no 
skinny dipping in the pool even when no one is around 
(NOT ME, Journal!  Hondo, in one of his rare lapses 
and the grumpy old lady on the next street over).  
Anyway, I do have parents and they are good and 
thoughtful and loving people.  And I'm sad that to this 
day, they don't know I'm a Perv.  I just don't know 
them well enough to tell them.

The third is about the behavior of Little Ricky during 
"Backbeat".  He did NOT just rear up and shoot one 
hour and sixteen minutes into the movie.  He had reared 
up 30 or so minutes before during one of the hetero 
scenes, thank God.  Because when Little Ricky really 
gets the urge, there's a LOT of squirming and adjusting 
and re-adjusting to do.  I mean, he ain't small and pants 
were tighter back then and we wore Jockeys.  Luckily, it 
was getting to everyone about the same time and Jason 
was doing his own adjusting at just about the same time.  
So there was nothing to notice.  Little Ricky just never 
went down again.  Until the flood.

The fourth is that Hondo was around all the time.  He 
wasn't.  By this time Hondo was 16 going on 17 and 
what with sports, friends, girlfriends and other screwing 
around (Testing has to fit in somewhere here; he was an 
episodic but quite enthusiastic Stoner) you could count 
on him being around 3 times a day.  Meals, he ate a 
LOT and couldn't possible afford to buy all that food 
himself.  Not if he wanted to pay the insurance and gas 
for his junker car and his cool-as-shit motor bike.  Study 
Time, right after dinner for two full hours, no cheating 
with TV or music or telephone (parental rule of living -- 
ironclad -- every school night, Monday thru Thursday 
and Sunday too).  I also suffered under this cruel yoke of 
iron.  It's where I learned to like to read.  And Weight 
Time, the hour after Study Time on Tuesdays, 
Thursdays and Sundays.  It was during Weight Time 
that I most often consulted with him on the problems of 
the hour.  Watching him sweat and grunt and grow to 
awesome proportions, I grew up absorbing wisdom, 
being comforted in affliction and shooting the shit -- I 
wasn't THAT afflicted, Journal, gimme a break.  He 
could be around at almost any other time but he mostly 
wasn't.  Two things of note.  One: during all my High 
School trials and Pervy-sexual crises, `til Hondo went 
away to college, Little Ricky never once got out of line 
during Weight Time.  He didn't even try and I didn't 
even think about it.  And Two: I never attempted to lift 
with Hondo or with anyone else (`til Bobby) -- the pain 
thing, remember, Journal?.  I never even thought about 
it.  Oh, yeah, Journal.  Hondo did sleep in his room 
almost every night.  But unless there was a really big 
fire, imminent death or breakfast was ready, right now, 
it was NOT politic to be in his room.  So it really didn't 
count.      

One more minor one then we'll get back to "Backbeat" 
and its many, many aftershocks.  About beating off.  I 
really wasn't the beat-off-king I made myself out to be 
before Sep 16.  I did it enough to keep most of the 
unwanted boners in check, but it scared me a little.  
First, it seemed a little Pervy although Hondo said it was 
OK.  Second, and much more important, every once in a 
while "those thoughts" came, unbidden, right about the 
point of ejaculation.  Not always, not even often, but 
sometimes.  And sometimes was enough to make me a 
judicious user.  After Sep 16?  See "Sea of Love" as part 
of the "Backbeat" aftershocks section below.

In re: New Review Category

Rereading this I see that I need to set up a new category, 
"Left Hanging".  It will be an aid to memory and only a 
list.  It means, "come back and explain this/ not clear/ 
not complete." It doesn't mean that I'll get to it in the 
entry it appears in.  Most likely it means the opposite.  I 
don't want to interrupt the flow of the story.  You can 
quit laughing, Journal; you're not writing this, I am... 
ably assisted by grammar checker.  The little electronic 
scumsucker.  

In re: Left Hanging

1) "Same store we went two years ago"
2) Lasting effects of Study Time
3) "Triple L"

And now without further ado, 

In re: "Backbeat" II, the Sea Of Love 

Self help is the best help and I was damned if I was 
going to confess to Hondo (the Church was now long 
forgotten) what a creepy little Perv his brother had 
become without trying.  Trying everything I knew.  I 
had some free time at the end of Study Time and I 
methodically drew up `The Plan.'  The Plan involved 
mags from Jason (he had some killers), Kleenex by the 
gross and Vaseline Intensive Care by the gallon.  We 
had just started to hear about a Plan by some Nazi 
psycho-sadist called Scared Straight (or maybe it was 
Boot Camp -- but that sounds like a porn mag for 
someone even Pervier than me  -- I just don't remember, 
Journal) which involved marching and shoe polishing 
and was supposed to make you a Good Citizen.  Well, 
look out Little Ricky, you're going to be polished `til 
you gleam like a beacon and you're going to be Straight 
even if you can never raise your head again.  Long ago, 
Dr. Pepper -- my favorite drink -- had a slogan printed on 
every (glass!) bottle,  "10, 6, 4".  This was back when 
soda had sugar in it.  I'm not sure that anyone ever 
really knew what it meant but I took it to mean, "Drink 
it at 10 o'clock, 6 o'clock and 4 o'clock". 

Little Ricky's new slogan was going to be "6, 10:30, 12, 
4, 10".  Guess, Journal, you ain't that dumb.  I'll give 
you a hint on the "10:30"; morning break at our school 
took place at 10:30 AM.

I talked to Jason the next day at school and lined up a 
copious selection of gutter-low porn -- for an 
"Experiment" to last about two weeks.  By that 
afternoon with no questions and a truly minimal amount 
of razzing, Jason provided real sleaze that wasn't sold at 
the Newsstand, even on the top shelf, wrapped in brown 
paper and shrink-wrap.  An amazing assortment to be in 
the hands of a 14 year old boy.  Who the hell was his 
dealer?  

Step one, check.  

Paper supplies and lube was as easy as a stop at the local 
Ralph's.  But they didn't sell Intensive Care by the 
gallon.  Turned out to be alright because I couldn't have 
hidden a bottle that big anyway.

Step two, check.

Now for the hard part (shut up, Journal), planning for 
the morning break and noon sessions.  Bathroom stalls 
have doors.  Check.  Supplies of toilet paper are 
plentiful.  Check.  Lube and porn.  Lube and porn.  
Well, uh...

There was no way I was going to carry a quart of 
Intensive Care and "Split Beaver Review" around 
school all day.  Even in my backpack.  Especially in my 
backpack considering how many times a day I emptied 
it on a desk trying to find something.  This has GOT to 
be lean and mean 

Well, hell, Journal, you get the idea.  An all out War on 
Perv and I'm everything from the General to the Sub-
Assistant Gunners Mate.  More likely to be the latter, 
later.  (It's a JOKE, Journal, and I know it's pretty lame)

I couldn't figure the logistics of the school jerks.  The 
final killer was my buds.  They would think something 
was weird if I disappeared from my usual hangouts.  
And they'd be right.  So I settled for attempting to go 
two times between school and dinner.  

The all out War on Perv lasted less than 72 hours.  Little 
Ricky got a running sore on his left side that made 
clothes of any sort uncomfortable.  And Mom's Clorox-
residue-but-really-really-white Jockeys were just 
impossible.  I couldn't go to Gym for a week and school 
for a day.  And you know what, Journal, yeah...  
Stephan Dorff.  And even scarier, some of Hondo's 
friends.  And even my reflection.  My FA (jeez, I 
KNOW the term hasn't be coined yet but I'm trying to 
avoid offending the electronic storm trouper) suitably 
encased in black showed up in my fantasies.  Regardless 
of the mags and all the wishing and praying I could do.  

I had proved to be a well and truly fucked little Perv.  
Sore one too.  Little Ricky threatened repeatedly to roll 
over and die.  In the meantime, he caused me some of 
the most grievous pain I had ever experienced.  I was 
given to understand that his new slogan was "Never 
Again!" 

I fell asleep in Biology the day before I stayed home.  
My teacher noticed, my buds noticed.  And by the time I 
got home I had a `Command to Appear' at Weight 
Time.  And it was Wednesday for Christ sakes. No 
denying, Hondo had the grapevine thing down pat.

I was too tired and sore to even worry about what I was 
going to say.  I was also defeated by superior force.  
Come 9:15 I walked down to the basement calmly, 
resigned to my future status as a homeless outcast.  I 
was going to miss Hondo.  I was going to miss my 
parents.  Shit, I was going to miss Study Time.

Hondo and I had a two and a half hour session.  After it, 
I went up to bed  -- didn't set the alarm, no school 
tomorrow.

That was probably the most intense conversation I ever 
had.  With anybody.  Ever.  I honestly don't remember 
one even pseudo-quote, Journal.

I know I cried.

I know I told all.  I know Hondo prompted me when I 
stumbled.

I know I even showed the damage.  I know I went 
upstairs and got the porn mags from under the mattress.

I know I cried some more.

I know that Hondo cried.  And he hugged me so tight in 
his big, weightlifter arms that I thought I would pass out.

And that then he took me up to bed.

And that then I felt good about myself.

And that then I slept `til noon.

But of the most important conversation of my life I 
don't clearly remember one thing -- except, "I love you, 
Little Ricky, always".  See, Journal, I always lie... a 
little bit.  Learn to deal with it.

Bummer, Journal, I've got to end it here for the night.  
Probably one more grim day `til Bobby gets back.  Then 
we'll get back in the groove.

No, I don't know what happened to the mags.  I never 
saw them again and Jason never asked me for them. And 
no, Journal, Hondo was NOT talking about my dick.  
No.  Not atoll.  You PERV!
  
Spell check, grammar check and save.
*************************
What the hell, "accept all" I don't feel like screwing 
with you tonight.  But, I hope you get bumfucked by a 
grizzly bear.  Later...


Day 10 (10 on the money, Bobby's still at home)

We've got a "Photo Shoot" tomorrow.  Management is 
still about half trying to get us to the bigtime.  Shoots 
used to be a trip so remind me to tell you about them 
sometime.  Then, we're going to be like fifth billing in a 
real traveling road show for two weeks.  No Malls!  A 
real back-up band so we get to actually perform.  God, 
it's refreshing.  I only wish that someone over the age of 
15 would see us.  Christ, I'm on a downer again and it's 
only 11am.  

Jason came over earlier and he had THAT face.  No 
doubt about it, he'd got laid but good  -- all night...  Had 
to, to look that happy.  To my "Get any?" he replied,  
"Who me.  Why'd you ask THAT?" with the biggest 
Cheshire Cat grin.  Without my saying anything more, 
he added, "Bobby'll be back in a few hours, Rick.  Try 
not looking like your puppy died."  Then he smacked 
my butt and said, "Hear me, Sweet Cakes?  You 
alright?"  "Yeah, Bro...  Now, since you woke it up, you 
want some of this FA?"  I wagged my butt seductively 
(I'm damn good at it, Journal, I practice almost every 
day at the Mall.)  "Later, Sweet Cakes, but don't you be 
telling that dumb, blond Polack".  He smiled.  I smiled, 
and he turned around, walked out and closed the door.  
Jason!

Jason and I have a complex relationship.  Jason is still 
my bud.  My best bud.  But he also took over a lot of 
Hondo's duties when we went on the road.  He's my 
advisor, confessor, sounding board, my steady rock 
when things look bad.  He's sort of my Junior Big Bro.  
It doesn't matter that I'm two months older than he is.  
Not to Jason.  He saw I needed a big brother and he 
became one.  But he still can't Tickle Torture for shit.  
In times of real pain, he became more.  Journal, he even 
had some (manual) sex with me in a bashful but loving 
way before me and Bobby happened.  When I was 
lonely and depressed.  On the road.  Yeah, he got hard, 
you nosey Perv, and he came too (I ain't no slouch with 
someone I love.)  He wanted me to be happy and he was 
willing to do whatever it took to get me there.  Actually, 
I think he loves me in his own hetero, jock way.  And 
I'm in love with him in my Pervy but I-understand-that-
he's-really-straight way (there's a difference there, did 
you catch it, Journal?)  Then Bobby showed up (I WILL 
tell you about him sometime, Journal, I promise) and 
Jason and I went back to a more Hondo-like 
relationship.  I know he was relieved, but he DID make 
the effort when it counted.  I still owe him.  A lot.   

There's always been a small sexual edge with Jason that 
was never there with Hondo.  For instance, he would 
feel my butt, even grind up against it when he thought I 
need the encouragement.  Like at photo shoots.  Because 
he knew I liked it.  But he was never hard (well, hardly 
ever -- even hetero studs have dry spells -- and it IS one 
fine ass).  I would die if Hondo ever did that to me.  Not 
that I wouldn't enjoy it; Hondo's way prime.  But 
because it would be so out of character.  I guess there 
are degrees to straightness just like there are to 
Perviness.  Writing you, Journal, IS making me examine 
things that I know by instinct but don't understand.  
Maybe that's why I'm still at it.  In spite of the 
electronic thought police.  You should see what he did 
yesterday when I gave him his head.  I'll NEVER 
"Accept All" again!  

I'll tell you two more things about Jason before we get 
back to our story (can you even remember what the 
story's about?).  Jason has a way with words born of his 
directness, his honesty and his good heart.  He, of 
course, coined "FA" and uses it to this day whenever it 
fits, cause he knows that, deep down, I like it.  He also 
coined, "Ricky the Perv".  Nah, that's not mine, Journal.  
And when he said it for the first time, I couldn't take 
offence or be hurt or have any other unhappy feeling 
because he said it with deepest affection -- a total 
acceptance of things as they are.  An acceptance of me.  

And the other thing?  I bet you two FA's to one 
grammar checker, Journal, that he'll wander over about 
1:30 and tell me he's so hungry he could eat a dick (and 
I'll reply that he came to the right place; all you can eat, 
bro, right here -- nah, the teasing will NEVER end).  
And we'll go out to lunch and Jason will have found 
something to do in this shit town that will take all 
afternoon.  Then we'll have dinner.  He'll probably eat 
half a cow.  Then Bobby will be back in two hours and 
Jason will fade into the background because he knows I 
won't be lonely anymore.  Sensitive, thoughtful and 
straight, how the Christ did I ever find him?  He defines 
"bud", man, and I love him.  Hope he gets laid tonight, 
too...  All night.

Call to order.

In re: Lies

None that I did.  A few that grammar checker committed 
but I WILL NOT be responsible for the little electronic 
scumbag.

In re: Wrong Impressions

One major and two minor ones.

The Beat-Your-Way-to-Straightness story sounds made 
up.  OK, I admit it sounds improbable and I did 
embellish is a little (I only bought one extra box of 
tissues) but it's basically true.  You can't believe how 
desperate I was.  And with all I say about Hondo, 
Journal, I'm not sure I can ever convince you what a 
huge influence his every word had on me.  When I was 
14, he was my archetype (pretty neat word for "ideal 
model", Journal).  In many ways he still is though I 
know that it can't be...  I'm a Perv, for Christ's sake.  
Anyhow, if Hondo said I should beat my meat more, 
even if it was months before and in another context, beat 
it I would, and did.  To an actual bloody pulp.  I think, 
but I'm not sure, that fact, together with the angry 
evidence on my dick is what made Hondo cry.  I never 
saw him cry before or after that night.  Even when he 
broke his collar bone in Street Hockey, even at his 
wedding (yeah, Journal, he's an old married fuck now).  
I try to be like him in at least this respect but you'll see 
below that I still had one more river to cross. I stand by 
my story.  I've still got the ruled paper with the schedule 
on it.  6...10:30...

I've got the same name as my dick.  Not true.  I named 
my dick "Little Ricky" sometime in sixth grade.  No one 
had ever called ME that except Hondo.  And he only 
called me that when I was really little and hurt like the 
time I broke my arm.  I was "Ricky" thru age fifteen and 
fought for "Rick" with mixed success at age 16 and 
after.  Some people (Mom, Hondo, Jason come to mind) 
still call me "Ricky" when they're annoyed or pressed 
for time (Bobby uses it when he wants "More Power" 
since he knows that it stirs me up).  But no, except for 
that one night of cosmic unification with Hondo (where 
there was absolutely no confusion), "Little Ricky" has 
always been the junior member below the belt.  Even 
my Mom uses it.  Like when the picture came out in the 
bopper mag of me with a MAJOR hang to the left in my 
leather jeans, Mom wanted to know why I couldn't 
"tuck in" Little Ricky.  I never told her that they WANT 
you big so they can sell the mags -- Management even 
offered me a "fluffer" at that shoot; I didn't know what 
one was.  I found out later.  Talk about Perv!

Hondo accepted my total Perviness after THAT night.  
Not true.  Hondo accepted me, his brother, without 
reservation and with love.  Hell, he always had.  But, I 
was still quite capable of distressing him with Pervy 
actions or words.  I found a general rule of thumb later: 
If Hondo made jokes about it, he had accepted it as 
"normal".  He became more accepting very quickly.  
But I could still shock him as you'll see, Journal, in 
"Backbeat" III, The Last Time I Cried in Public, below.

In re: Left Hanging

1) Photo shoots
2) Jason knows
3) Bobby

And now for our Feature Presentation (which will 
probably be interrupted by Jason and Bobby in that 
order)

In re: "Backbeat" III, The Last Time I Cried in Public.

Things were a whole lot better for a while.  I 
couldn't/wouldn't go public.  But I always had a brother 
in my back pocket who knew the real me and loved me 
anyway.  As a result of That Night, Hondo and I decided 
that we should have a running discussion of what was 
happening in my head and my loins.  And that 
NOTHING was out of bounds.  Further, I was to execute 
no `Plan' without a serious, prior discussion.  Little 
Ricky eventually decided it was safe to come out of 
hiding.  

The first matter on the table was how Pervy was I?  I 
really didn't know.  Girls didn't disgust me, in fact I 
liked a lot of them.  We thoroughly reviewed all the 
mechanics of sex with the opposite sex (which leads me 
to state, Journal, that I had little or no idea of the 
mechanics of sex with the same sex) and nothing 
seemed too grotesque.  Then we made a list of girls and 
guys who made me hot.  The guy list was pretty small: 
Stephan Dorff (how could I deny it, but Hondo still 
wanted to know what grade he was in and what school), 
Jason (Hondo, knowing a clear and present danger when 
he saw one said, "Be careful, Ricky"), two guys from 
Gym.  Hondo actually asked if HE turned me on.  I 
answered, truthfully, "No" but I couldn't explain why 
(probably because I didn't know).  I don't think he 
believed me but he never modified his behavior towards 
me.  And I think he did believe me later. 

Surprise statistic, sports fans, I had three times as many 
girls on the list as guys.  And one of the guys didn't 
count because he didn't go to any of the nearby schools.  

Sort of independently we both concluded we need a 
whole lot more information here.  About life and about 
sexuality in general.  As you know, Hondo had wheels, 
six in all.  So he and I were able to spend many 
mortifying hours in far away libraries reading books 
which were not considered dirty, but fully confirmed the 
restored health and eagerness of Little Ricky.  HONDO 
even got wood at more than one of these sessions and 
fully boned pleaded for the use of my jacket when it was 
time to go.  Once we even checked out a big book on 
wallpaper because we had two bones and one jacket.  
But before we got out the door, the situation was 
corrected and we took the book back.  The librarian gave 
us a quite peculiar look.  We giggled like schoolgirls on 
the way to the car.  And you know what, Journal?  When 
I saw Hondo, primo hottie of the sophomore class with 
full bone on, I still didn't want to jump him.  Not even a 
little.  Go figure.

Our conclusion?  Don't know.  I could just be going thru 
a particularly late and powerful Homo phase.  The 
mechanics of male-male sex (aside from rubbing) 
actually didn't sound that appealing to me.  Some 
sounded positively awful to my 14 year old libido. Little 
Ricky retreated to almost sixth grade size when I 
decoded what anilingus meant.  PERVALACIOUS! 

Sort of a dead end.  And you know what, Journal?  All 
this immersion in the study of sex really cooled the fires.  
I declared myself cured.  I thought we should drop the 
subject from the agenda.  Hondo thought we should 
table it.  We compromised and I promised to report all 
urges before acting and Hondo promised not to bring up 
the subject on his own.  So we could finally get back to 
our social life which had almost been abandoned during 
this two week Perv sabbatical.  And, yes, Journal, I did 
have a social life.  And you know Hondo did.  Thus 
ended the quest for knowledge; certainly not with a 
bang...    

Nothing to report but normalcy for over 2 months.  I was 
dating one of my dancing partners (and secret butt 
pincher it turned out) when the unspeakable happened.  I 
GOT HEAD.  Just a little licking and slurping in the 
beginning.  But I was so wired that the beginning, 
middle and end were somewhat concurrent.  Wow!  Was 
it GOOD!

Names omitted to protect the guilty, I reported this 
milestone at the next regular Weight Time.  And Hondo 
almost killed himself.  After skinny little me helped him 
get the weight bar off his chest, and after he took a quick 
shower, we went on his bike to get ice cream.  Any kind 
I wanted.  

Triple Feature: Head, a (really fast) bike ride -- normally 
considered "too dangerous", and a huge banana split.  
God, sex is good.  Hondo even broke out the good stuff 
the next weekend.  And when we were suitably fried, he 
admitted that I beat his record by 5 months.  Let's hear it 
for the little kid with the FA!

Pretty much all downhill from here, Journal.  But what 
did I tell you?  Here's Jason.  And he's REALLY 
hungry.  He said so.  
Save only.  I want a WORD with the little tyrant before 
he trashes any more of this and I don't have time now.
   ******************

I'm back and it's 7:30pm.  Bobby's due at 9:45.  Both 
Rickys are happy as hell, in fact, one's twitching... not 
me, Journal!  Since this session was never really 
adjourned, I don't think that we have to go thru all the 
formalities.  You agree?

I'm going to take a short diversion here, Journal.  
Laughing will get you an electronic kick in the butt as 
soon as I find the right button -- we HAVE made some 
progress, Hey, a little.  And tell you that the town we're 
in, Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, population 90,000 is not 
such a shit place. 

The first word is pronounced "Soo" as in Indian, not 
"salt" as in Morton.  

Yeah, Jason found something to do.  And it was 
interesting as hell.  We took a boat ride out into the lake 
-- Superior -- which is huge and pretty.  Then we came 
thru a "Lock" which is an absolutely huge boat elevator.  
Our boat which wasn't small looked lost in the thing.  
What it does is lower/raise huge iron ore boats between 
two of the Great Lakes 52 feet (? -- I'm converting from 
meters and I don't do that too well).  I'm not sure how it 
does it yet but I got a brochure from a beautiful 
Canadian girl (they say "A" and "oot" a lot so you can 
tell [Don't hold me to it, Journal but I think the former 
means "Do you agree?" and, no question, the latter 
means "out"]).  I'm going to read it some time.  The girl 
didn't know us.  But she had Jason drooling.  They went 
over to look at the "special brochures" for about 15 
minutes.  She looked REAL interested.  Maybe it's his 
eye; he still looks sort of like a pirate.  Don't know, but I 
may get my wish that he gets his wish tonight.

Anyway we walked back to the locks and after a little 
while this monster boat (ship) came slowly into it and 
was raised the 52 (?) feet and slowly left.  It took about 
an hour.  Doesn't sound as interesting when I write it as 
when I saw it.  The water gushes in around the boat like 
crazy.  Ship size doors at either end are waterproof and 
move really slow.  And the whole thing looks like it was 
made by cavemen.  It's all huge blocks of stone.  It was 
built in 1895.  That was carved in the stone, all covered 
in moss.  And you know what else?  Nobody else 
watched it.  There must be a LOT more to do in Sault 
Sainte Marie, Ontario than I thought.  I guess I still can't 
make it sound interesting but it was.  I never saw a 
"Lock" before... that wasn't on a door.  Another boat 
(ship) was approaching to go down and I wanted to stay 
and watch but Jason wanted to eat.  

So we did.  He ate half a pig, not a cow.  But that wasn't 
a major part of the bet.  So I win, Journal.  Looser!  
Dweeb!  Teach you to laugh!  

Where the hell was I?  Downhill, oh yeah...

In re: "Backbeat" III, The Last Time I Cried In Public -- 
Continued

We always jump to the wrong conclusion too soon.  
Cured?  No.  Not atoll.  My First Head (capitalized 
always in my heart) set off such a deluge of hormones 
that Little Ricky was getting flat feet.  He was 
ALWAYS standing straight up.  Cheerleaders gave me 
wood; teachers gave me wood; bicycles gave me wood 
(not just the seat, either); Christ, a fire engine could do 
it.  Boner City!  I didn't carry my backpack on my back 
for three days.  I looked up priapism to see if it was 
terminal.  It wasn't.  But it might as well have been.  
Christ, GYM!  So I did what any normal teen would do 
and I forged a note.  Please excuse Ricky from Gym; He 
has an ear infection. My ear was as far away from my 
dick as I could go and still sound somewhat plausible.  
But this wasn't a permanent cure because my absence 
would get back to Hondo real quick.  And I LIKED gym 
except when I was getting beat up like in football and 
lacrosse (they use BIG sticks!)

I could think of a couple solutions.  All had to do with 
getting off, good and proper.  It was unlikely that the 
Head option would be available again anytime soon.  
My partner (you'll never get the name, Journal... deal 
with it) was somewhat appalled at the extent of the mess 
that made.  A good After-School jerk?  Little Ricky 
cringed but didn't go down.  So it was settled.  After 
school.  Use plenty of lotion and watch out for sores.  
Repeat as necessary.  The rest of school went OK.  I 
even lost my hard, after Biology.

All the way home on the bus I prayed that Hondo 
wouldn't be home.  That last candle at Mass worked!  
He wasn't.  I hollered as I came in the door and again in 
the kitchen and again down the cellar stairs.  Then 
upstairs, I hollered again.  If anyone was home, they 
were deaf.  Or, asleep.  Yeah, Hondo could be asleep.  It 
takes three alarm clocks to get him up in the morning.  I 
slowly cracked open Hondo's door.  This was pretty 
much forbidden territory.  No Hondo.  Room's pretty 
neat.  I looked around and slowly entered.  Hey, I didn't 
get to do this that often so I decided to at least make a 
survey.  Smells like him.  What do you expect he sleeps 
here.

I finally looked on the bed and there, on the bed, was his 
Motocross gear.  Jeez, it never occurred to me before but 
they LOOK like leather jeans.  They were even black 
but they had a yellow stripe on them.  I didn't even 
think, not one second.  I grabbed the pants and dashed to 
my room and closed the door.  I stripped so fast that my 
one sock came off with by Nike.  I put THEM on in 
front of the mirror.  The effect would have been 
ridiculous to any thinking person.  They were huge.  I 
had to hold them up to keep them off the floor, FA or 
not, it just didn't jut out far enough.  But I wasn't 
thinking.  I was harder than I'd ever been and I grabbed 
Little Ricky in a death grip.  And I whacked, without 
mercy or care in front of the mirror.

And then I heard, "Hey, Ricky, have you seen my..." as 
my door opened.  Then I heard, "Oh, Ricky..."

Never, Journal, never has so much communication been 
contained in two words and the long following sigh.

I didn't even cry, I wailed like Irishmen at a wake as I 
ran from my room to the bathroom and slammed the 
door.  And locked the door.  And cried.  Eventually, I 
noticed that I was still holding up Hondo's cursed bike 
pants.  

I just sat there numb and crying gently for an hour 
(Hondo says it was about five minutes, Journal, but I 
KNOW it was an hour).  I wasn't even thinking about 
why.

Eventually, I heard Hondo shouting outside the door,  
"Open the door Ricky.  Come on.  We've gotta talk."

I didn't move.  I couldn't.

"Three screws, Ricky, three screws.  That's all it takes.  
Now come on and open the door.  If I have to go all the 
way down to the cellar for a screwdriver it's an RNT.  
Come on, open up, Ricky!"

For those of you not in the know and Journal you are 
probably one of them, Hondo had three degrees of 
enforcement when he (mostly not arbitrarily -- after I'd 
thought about it a while) wanted his way.  The first was 
Tickle Torture (and I kind of liked that and kind of 
provoked it upon occasion and Hondo knew it).  The 
second was a Talking To.  It involved him grabbing my 
arms right where the biceps should be and telling me 
what he wanted REAL LOUD over and over again and 
not letting go until I agreed.  I did not like a Talking To 
at all.  The last and most feared was an RNT (Remember 
Next Time).  It was delayed and, like the execution 
CAN'T be as bad as sitting on death row for twelve 
years anticipating it, the waiting was all.  An RNT was 
redeemed when I wanted to do something with Hondo 
really bad.  It could be about anything but it had to be 
something that he could see that I REALLY wanted.  
Then the answer: "No, that's your RNT, Ricky".  No, 
appeal, no nothing.  

I sometimes made a vow after I got an RNT, but before 
it was redeemed, that I wouldn't do anything with 
Hondo again.  Ever.  Just like a little boy who vowed to 
never talk to his parents again or hold his breath `til he 
turned blue.  Worked about as well too.  The best I ever 
lasted was five days.  They weren't fun.  No.  Not atoll.  
I hated RNT's.

So I got up off the floor and walked over and opened the 
door.  Hondo's pants were around my ankles.  The rest 
of me was bare.  I didn't know; I didn't care.  Sort of 
like those pictures you see of the liberation of the 
concentration camps in Germany.  That always affected 
me.  Men without pants and they didn't have the energy 
or life left to worry about it.

For the first time that I can ever remember, the ensuing 
discussion with Hondo did not come up with an answer.  
Oh, we talked about all the facts.  I had to remind him 
that the same subject had come up before when we 
discussed "Backbeat".  He didn't remember that the 
leather pants set off my flood.  He thought that the 
problem was that it was a guy.  

"I'll have to think about it, Ricky.  We'll talk about it 
some more later.  But leave my pants alone, `til we do.  
OK?"  With a mortified promise, I scuttled out of the 
bathroom.  

I avoided Hondo as best I could for four days.  He 
wasn't doing anything to me, not even showing his 
justifiable disgust.  Every once in a while, usually at 
dinner, I caught him looking at me.  But, he seemed to 
look more puzzled that appalled.  But, he was silent and 
avoiding me too.  And I ached for the loss.

On Saturday, right after breakfast Hondo unexpectedly 
said, "Come on, Midget, get in the car we're going to 
Downtown".  Well, "Midget", was what he called me 
when I did something extraordinary, like when I won the 
Long Distance, or got my First Head.  I sure hadn't done 
anything like that recently.  On the other hand, 
Downtown was a way BAD place.  I was really leery of 
the mixed signals.  Let's be honest, Journal, I was 
scared.

Considering WHAT I'D DONE was Hondo going to 
take me to Downtown and leave me there?  I'd only 
been there twice that I could remember in my life.  That 
WAS where really Pervy people lived.  Maybe this is 
how they got there.  Driven to Downtown, one way, by 
their disgusted, former Loving Brother.  

But I knew, deep down, that I deserved it so I got in 
Hondo's Honda (yeah, he gets shit) and we rattled and 
backfired our way on to the Freeway on our way to 
Sodom in the Smog.  Life had been nice...

Hondo chattered (distracting me from the swoosh of the 
ax) and I sort of looked out the window a lot.  Pretty 
grim.  Pervs don't live well at all!  Where we got off the 
Freeway, the streets glittered, all right.  But with broken 
glass, not gold.  We parked on a block where there were 
no other cars.  A few pieces but not enough to make one 
full car.  Hondo got out and I noticed that he looked 
about sharply.  Oh, CHRIST, what's going ON!

"Come on, Ricky, the Pervs don't get up this early.  
We're going to fix you right up.  Let's GO, Man!"  

HE'S GOING TO HAVE MY DICK CUT OFF.  I 
didn't know people would DO that; even in Downtown.  
Even the really Pervy people.  But he said it.  "Fix you 
right up" that's what they said about the Gonzoles' 
Labrador right after he fucked that beagle.  And right 
before he came back from the doc's and sat under a tree 
and licked his crotch and didn't bark for the rest of his 
life.  

I CAN'T lick it; I can't reach.  That's what I though as 
Hondo led me into the shabby storefront and hollered 
out for service. 

"I called earlier, about the small sizes?  Guy said you 
had them."

"Sure, you Hondo? The boss said you'd come in early."  
Journal, I swear I wasn't breathing.  SMALL SIZES?

"What's he wear?"

"Twenty six to twenty seven with a twenty seven 
inseam".  Huh?!  "He'll probably want them a little 
loose and leave some let-out material in the legs.  He's 
still growing...  A little bit at least."  Hondo punched my 
arm when he said that and I was just beginning to figure 
out what was going on.  Hadn't figured out whether to 
be relieved that Little Ricky was safe or TRULY 
PISSED OFF that my most righteously secret Pervs 
were being displayed to this loathsome Perv of a sales 
clerk.  Hondo, how could you!

"What style are you looking for?"

"He needs them for a band; they're Punkers.  What are 
THEY wearing?"

Jeez, cover and everything.  Hondo is one righteous bro.

And he was.  And he is.  Hondo had practiced the age 
old maxim -- If you can't lick `em...

The sales guy really wasn't a Perv.  I tried on a number 
of different kinds and looked at myself in a three way 
mirror.  Selected what I wanted.  Then Hondo made me 
get them 2 inches looser in the waist (they WERE 1 inch 
too tight).  Then they worked on the legs and Hondo 
insisted on a three inch hem (he was dreaming, I STILL 
wouldn't need that [and I'm 19!] if...  I could still 
button the waist.)
 
Then we were done.  I really liked the sales dude by 
then.  But I still cringed when he recommended a 
piercing parlor up the street "...for when the band gets 
serious".  "It hardly hurts at all," he assured me 
unreassuringly.

We walked out to Hondo's golden chariot, for so it 
looked amidst the rubble of Downtown.  We got in and 
Hondo said, "OK, Ricky.  Now, you've got your own 
Leather Leotards.  Beat away, Guy.  But stay away from 
MY drawers...  OK?" 

I smiled thru teary eyes and said, "Sure Hondo.  
Thanks...  And stay away from MINE too." 

Hondo punched my arm; then he hugged my shoulder.  
And nobody has ever seen me cry again.  Ever.

Yeah, I'm a Perv.  But I'm a big guy now.

This was my personal nadir in the Pervy hall of shame.  
It's all uphill from here, so hang in there, Journal.  

And what do I hear at the door?  What do I see standing 
in the entry?  It's my Polish Prince.  Buzzed, bleached 
hair, droopy drawers (the boy ain't got no hips; he had 
them removed in Downtown), tired eyes and goofy grin.  
I bet he's packing the PofB, his magic wand, too.  "OH, 
FUCK, WE'RE GLAD TO SEE YOU" (And that ain't 
the Royal we, Journal, and Bobby knows it.)

Spell check, grammar check and save. 
******************
You Douchbag!  You are a stupid, stupid fuck.  There IS 
SO such a place as Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario.  I've 
wagged my ass in the Mall there; I've seen the "Locks".  
We're here RIGHT NOW!  "IGNORE ALL", Asshole.  
You got an RNT.  Later...


Day 11 (Surprise!)

Journal, bet you didn't think you'd see me today.  I have 
to admit this is becoming a little addicting.  Anyway, 
I'm sitting at the little all purpose table in my Quality 
Inn room, my laptop in front of me and over to the side, 
sprawled on my king size bed is the Polish Prince.  He's 
only half covered and the half that isn't is SO prime I 
ache.

Well, yeah, I ache (and burn) for another reason really, 
Journal, thank you so much for pointing that out.  I can't 
count how often I told Bobby that there's no such thing 
as `hurts so good.'  And then I'd push the PofB away 
from my butthole.  Then he'd fuck my crack and not 
complain hardly at all; it's a damn fine crack, better than 
his; he's sort of flat in the butt.  But finally, and after 
some long discussions with Jason (he was so red-faced I 
thought he'd explode -- but he hung tough and ultimately 
said, "OK, do it, but be careful, Ricky), I let Bobby 
Have His Way with me.  And yeah, it hurt in the 
beginning (real BAD the first time -- Jason said he heard 
me two rooms away) and the burning's still there in the 
morning, but the middle and the end ARE worth it.  We 
kissed so much; we SWEATED so much; we CAME so 
much; we MELDED so much.  We loved so much.  Sort 
of defines: `hurts so good.'  And it really never stopped.  
Hurting, that is.  The PofB is formidable.  So, yeah, I'm 
sitting rather gingerly this morning, Journal.  But I'm 
looking at the Prince, my Prince and damn straight it's 
worth it

So what's the PofB, you ask, Journal?  Well you've got 
to understand Bobby a little.  And, no this is not an entry 
about Bobby.  He'll show up in a main section sometime 
down the road.  But since you ask and since I'm gazing 
at his left tit -- the little purple-green mark under it still 
shows -- and half of his left hip (it does go STRAIGHT 
down from his stomach and just the fact that his butt-
cheeks stick out -- only a little but they're cute -- allows 
him to wear pants without suspenders).  And, yeah, his 
innocent-devilish face and his bed hair and the little 
Skater-Nazi tattoo on his shoulder, well, you get the 
picture, Journal.  So just a little teaser about the Prince.

Bobby's a Skater.  And Skaters, real Skaters, are direct 
and aggressive and daring and competitive as all hell.  
That explains a lot.  How he joined the band at 15; how 
he had Perv-sex with me a month after we met.  How he 
made me like it.  How he got my cherry after an arduous 
and prolonged campaign.  It DOESN'T explain how I 
got his -- the `hurts so good' stuff did NOT apply to his 
own butt for the longest time -- but I did, Journal.  And 
I'm glad... he is too.  In spite of the complaints.  Yeah, 
Journal, I won't be the only guy in the room 
experiencing "burning love" once he wakes up.  
Anyway, when Bobby found out that I had a name for 
my dick and he didn't, it immediately became an 
unacceptable situation.  Since I wouldn't give up mine, 
he had to have a better one.

Actually, he said it wouldn't be all that difficult.  The 
Skater brain does NOT appreciate the subtle irony of the 
appellation "Little Ricky" applied to the King of Dicks.  
He never really accepted that Little Ricky IS the king.  
You decide, Journal.  I'll give you that Bobby's 2/16's 
of an inch longer by actual measurement with an 
independent judge (now there's a picture for your Pervy 
little mind, Journal, the Great Measure Off -- and I'm 
NEVER going to tell you about it).  But Little Ricky's 
way fatter.  Bobby never gives up about being the King.  
But I know who'll be burning (and complaining) more 
this morning when he finally wakes up.  Little Ricky 
Rules.  Right, Journal?  Remember who's your God.  
Back to the PofB.  It stands for Pride of Bakersfield 
which I think he got from the side of an old Sleeping 
Car (did you know they had names, Journal?). Then it 
could be that that's where he lived before he joined the 
band and became homeless.  It took him a fucking week 
to come up with this lame name!  And it's way too long 
so it got abbreviated.  But now Bobby has a name for his 
dick too and Skater Honor is satisfied.  Such is life with 
the Polish Prince.  But you put up with a lot when 
you're in love (Catch that?)

One more thing about Bobby before we get on to the 
meat of today's discussion (Journal, YOU, PERV!).  
Purely an explanation of his present comatose state in a 
room with his one, true, studly love-god.  It takes a 
LONG time to get from Bakersfield, CA to Sault Sainte 
Marie, Ontario.  Bobby had been traveling since 9am 
yesterday morning when he arrived in the room last 
night.  Two puddle jumpers and three jets and lots of 
ground time.  And we DON"T travel first class.  
Bobby's lucky that he doesn't have to pay for the flights 
home himself but CA makes Management include it in 
his contract because he's a minor.

So, he was dead on his feet when he arrived last night.  
And we didn't turn out the light `til 3:25am (I looked).  
And we didn't watch TV.  And I can get a sworn 
statement to that effect from Little Ricky and the PofB 
and our buttholes (which don't have names yet but who 
knows -- Skaters Rule -- or like to think they do) and our 
lips (ditto) and most other accessible parts of our bodies 
to that effect.  Just as soon as we can figure our how to 
get them to hold a pen... let it be a challenge to you, 
Journal.  Meantime, I'm letting Bobby sleep `til lunch 
and talking to you, instead.  We're ignoring grammar 
checker today.  He's got an RNT.   

Call to order

In re: Lies

Two.  One a "sort of", and one a "downright" but not by 
me originally.

I really thought Hondo was going to have me fixed?  It's 
a complex answer.  In truth, the thought did pass briefly 
thru my mind because of what happened to "Char" the 
Gonzoles' dog only two weeks prior to going to 
Downtown. The authoritative word came around that 
his, "Char's", dick had been cut off when it was really 
just his balls.  I'm not sure that the real facts were that 
much more comforting.  Maybe, probably; because to a 
14 year-old, your dick is magic.  It goes up and down, 
sure.  More impressive, two completely different kinds 
of stuff comes out of it and it never seems to get mixed 
up and shoot cum out in the urinal at school.  It, 
REALLY has a mind of it's own.  And it has a method 
of reward for proper attention that has never been 
equaled.  Your balls are just there and sort of strange 
looking to boot.  In reality, their prime function seems to 
be to cause you pain when you treat them with other 
than the utmost deference.  Let's face it, nobody names 
their balls.  It probably WOULD have made a 
difference.  `Ah, it was just his balls, Dude.'  Anyway 
back to the question and potential lie at hand.  Going to 
Downtown was like going to hell.  It was talked about in 
exactly the same manner in our community.  Good 
people didn't go to Downtown or if they did, they never 
returned.  So I was paranoid as shit when Hondo took 
me there unannounced and wouldn't tell me why.  He 
had all sorts of good reasons for not telling me: don't 
want the parents to know, it's a surprise...  But, since 
we hadn't talked after that horrible time in the bathroom.  
And I could still hear the aversion (disgust?) in "Oh, 
Ricky..." I wasn't expecting anything good.  No.  Not 
atoll.  I really think that conquering my fear and going 
quietly with Hondo to whatever ugly fate awaited was a 
serious portent of my coming maturity.  On reflection, 
it's mostly a lie that I thought Hondo would direct 
someone to cut off my dick.  I did think for a good 
portion of the ride that he was going to leave me in 
Downtown.  I was never really the same again.  And I 
really never cried in front of anyone again.  Ever.  That's 
the truth.

I beat Hondo's First Head record.  This is a real lie.  But 
not mine.  Much later in our relationship, Hondo 
explained (some of) the Hondo Method of brotherly 
encouragement.  First, his personal best was a very 
flexible ruler.  It often seemed to fall just short of what I 
had accomplished.  If we were equal, like in our grades, 
he had had to work harder to get them.  I guess it was 
his way of compensating for the rest of the world which 
always managed to say, "You're Hondo's brother?  I 
would have thought you'd be bigger (or brighter or 
better looking)."  And it worked.  The amiable fictions 
woven into Weight Time gave me the confidence and 
the time to become myself.  Without undue paranoia 
about the example he set.  I was worth something by 
myself.  I knew it because Hondo told me.  And I swear, 
gentle Journal, when you KNOW you're worthwhile?  
Other people tend to agree.  Sure made things a whole 
lot easier when I turned out to be a Perv.

In re: Wrong Impressions

Whole Lot of Shaken' Going On, here

Did possession of leather jeans make me a confirmed 
Leather Queen at 14?  Not hardly, Journal.  A short 
history of the big jean Perv.  I couldn't wait to get home 
from Downtown.  Then I couldn't wait to get home from 
Church, school etc. for about two weeks.  And you 
KNOW what I did.  In my bed, in front of the bedroom 
mirror (mostly), in the bathroom.  Yeah it was pretty 
ubiquitous.  And to the outside world I just seemed 
happy. Normal even.  Hondo called it the Triple L 
Effect.  Yeah, he was joking so I was within the pale 
again. Hell, I felt normal everywhere but in front of the 
bedroom mirror and I wasn't concentrating too much on 
normalcy when I was there.  After two weeks, well it 
didn't happen as often.  For a whole lot of different 
reasons.  Friends to hang with.  GIRLS to dance with 
(never gave it up Journal). Homework, now that's pretty 
low.  It started to be a once every one week then a once 
every two week affair.  I started to realize that the jeans 
didn't DO anything.  Yeah, I looked sexy in them (still 
do, Journal, but there're bigger now).  But I came to 
grasp that it was ME that was sexy not some dead cow 
skin.  Now this was both comforting and distressing.  
I'm was getting over my fetish.  But I was getting more 
into my own (male) body.  Slippery slope, Journal.  
Anyway they moved farther and farther back in the 
closet and finally they were uncomfortable to wear, even 
with Hondo's `extra inch' cause I got a growth spurt 
(my last unfortunately) and the whole thing sort of 
petered out.  Not even a whimper, Mr. Elliott.  I don't 
know if this was Hondo's planned outcome or not.  If it 
was, it worked.  They were only resurrected that one day 
of righteous testing with Hondo and Jason.  Until 
Hondo's, "Your Triple L's" or words to that effect I had 
not thought about them for a long, long while.  But I still 
understood that I was a Perv.

Does Perv mean, "queer"?  The authoritative answer is 
sometimes.  First understand, Journal, that it's too hard 
for me to keep true to the dialect of the particular time 
I'm writing about.  I jump around a lot, or didn't you 
notice?  Unless I'm REALLY trying for authenticity, I 
tend to write like I think now.  Perv is a rather recent 
word to me and it's non-offensive.  I have sort of 
consciously substituted it for the more accurate Fag, 
Queer, (Cocksucker, too) that would have REALLY 
been used in 1994, in a suburb of LA.  Jason originally 
called me a Perv.  And I understood his meaning.  It 
meant what I did, thought, said.  It meant me.  I wasn't a 
Fag or a Homo or a Queer or Gay.  I was a PERV.  And 
a Perv was OK.  Unfortunately as my friends and I and 
the band used the word it started to mean just about 
anything.  Think of the word "shit" -- good, bad, tough, 
easy, righteous, bull.  Get it, Journal?  Depending on 
use, Perv can mean odd, Homo, despicable or just be 
describing me.  The rest is left as an exercise for the 
student
.
I only talk to Jason, Bobby and Hondo.  Not even close.  
But I have to simplify this somehow.  So I'm 
concentrating on the people who got me from there to 
here.  A few others will show up.  

I'm an incorrigible sex fiend.  Not true.  As far as I can 
remember, Journal, I've had sex with 4 girls and three 
guys (one of whom I've lived with for the past 19 
months).  I've fathered no children, acquired no STD's 
and, yeah, I beat off a lot when I was a kid.  Still, 
probably on the low side of normal.  It's the `90's, for 
Christ sake!  Who's the third guy?  Continue reading to 
"Backbeat's" Over -- Stuck in the Horse Latitudes.

I'm really sixty years old.  Not, hardly, Journal, but I 
can see how you might get that impression.  I DO know 
a lot of old, strange stuff.  And I throw it at you at 
random some times.  It was thrown at me at random, 
too.  So I guess we ought to talk about Study Time some 
more.  When I first went on the road (I was almost 17) I 
was SO FUCKING DEPRESSED that eventually I 
snuck off and rode an absolutely VILE Greyhound, 637 
miles to home and Hondo (forgot he wasn't there -- 
College, Asshole; Hondo's at college), Mom and Dad.  
It was a MAJOR Violation of Contract.  And, I clearly 
understood that I was going to lose my balls in a slow 
and immensely painful manner, for so it had been 
explained to me by Management.  But I didn't CARE!  
	Well, I didn't know it but Management was really 
counting on me. More particularly my skill in wagging 
my Fabulous Ass (grammar checker RNT, remember?) 
in my leather jeans (yeah, I was back in them but you 
KNOW that, Journal, wake up, for Christ's sake). Yeah, 
I HAD noticed that during the audition, two of the 
Management guys looked like the were about to pass out 
and NEVER stopped staring at my butt.  But I never 
really understood.  I just thought that Management was 
REALLY Perv City but actually, they were pretty good 
at figuring out what made little girls hot.  And they 
figured they NEEDED me, or at least my butt.  So 
anyway, the outcome was that my balls remained 
nameless but loosely attached under Little Ricky.  
	And ACCOMMODATIONS were made by 
Management.  And I went back, on the road.  Of the two 
accommodations made that counted, only one was made 
by Management.  They arranged that I could take out 
books in the free library in whatever shit town we were 
in.  Without fail.  I have no idea how they do it but I 
always have a temporary card or letter or something that 
lets me take out books.  So a little bit of normalcy was 
restored to my life; Study Time was back.  
	But it was strange as Catshit (is Catshit really 
strange, Journal?  I never noticed).  First thing I'd do 
when we got to the town we were staying at was go pick 
out some books.  Usually by their glossy covers cause I 
didn't have a lot of time.  When I got back to the room, 
I'd try to find one that was really interesting and read it 
during "Study Time" on-the-road version.  Here's the 
really bizarre part.  We're only in town for a day or two 
so I had to return the books when we left.  I hardly ever 
got beyond the eighth chapter of any book.  Unless I 
found the same book in another shit town, which just 
didn't happen often.  
	So, yeah, I know a LOT of old, strange things.  
But only the first third of them.  That's why I'm going 
to college when this band shit ends.  I want to read lots 
of books, to the very LAST page.  And have someone 
there to talk to about them, afterwards.  Bobby's no help 
here.  He's only interested in Skating and Math (he 
reads biographies of Mathematicians, for Christ sake...  
I keep telling him, he's a POLACK!)  Oh yeah, and the 
NET (HOLY SHIT!  You should see some of the 
pictures he finds on it.  Some are even of US and OK, 
Journal, I am a little dick-proud but Little Ricky was 
never THAT big, neither was the PofB.).  
	The other accommodation was made by Jason 
when he quietly and subtly eased into the position of 
Junior Big Brother.  Oh yeah, later Management 
arranged that Bobby and my rooms always connected.  
They (or some of the important ones) know about us but 
know it's WAY UNCOOL to blow our cover.
	FUCK, that was LONG!  (I even tried sub-
paragraphs for the first time -- hope they work.)  Aren't 
you glad you asked, Journal?  Whadda ya mean, "Nah"?  
Want to know a secret, Journal?  You're a product of 
Study Time.  You're the unnatural child of Study Time 
and The Incident, the incident that made me start to 
write you.  And now I can see that it's going to be a long 
time before you find out about it.  So right now, you're a 
bastard.  And nobody knows your father.  Except me; 
and I wish I didn't...

We're getting there, Journal, final two:

I don't like our audiences.  No.  Not atoll.  This brings 
on a brief discussion (DON'T groan, Goddammit!) of 
the difference between a Journal and a biography.  A 
biography tends to integrate ALL the facts of a life and 
tell a cohesive story.  A Journal is a listing of what 
happened today that was out of the ordinary, pet peeves, 
occasionally true loves.  And, at least in this case, it has 
an overall goal (I still have it, it's just not showing up 
right now) of telling the facts leading up to and 
following a BIG EVENT.  (Done; there that wasn't so 
bad).  
	I LIKE girls.  Even little girls.  I particularly like 
dancing for and with them.  Remember that I've been 
doing it since I was nine.  And nobody was paying me.  
At some shows, even at Malls, when we can get the 
audience up and dancing and singing, I wouldn't trade 
this job for any on earth.  Jason and I often pull some of 
the best dancers up on the stage and usually we have a 
blast.  We're pretty good at choosing but, yes, 
occasionally someone freezes and that's a problem.  But 
most times we PARTY!  And the look of exquisite joy 
on their faces when it's time for a hug and then for them 
to go back down into the audience is better than sex.  
Well... close.  
	What I don't like are the pushy, overweight, 
mustachioed "Fans" who want to paw us afterwards.  
One girl makes a habit of running up to me, reaching 
around and grabbing my ass while her girlfriend takes a 
picture.  The next day the picture is on the NET.  
Unfortunately Management wants these types around us 
for the free publicity (You want to feel my Fabulous 
Ass?  Get a Website).  But this latter is what will 
normally appear in you, Journal, cause it's unusual and 
cause I'm pissed.  I LIKE our audiences; in fact, I love 
them.  They APPRECIATE us...  But I still prefer 
Bobby's little, hard titties and nobody beats the PofB 
(for Christ's sake, don't tell HIM!)

I really understand and appreciate the fine people in 
Management.  No.  Not atoll.  See, I CAN be brief.

In re: New Category (Again).  In case you didn't notice, 
Journal, some of the "Left Hanging's" from previous 
sessions have been covered in the end of the last session 
and the beginning of this one.  So they have now 
become "Cut Down", again only a list 

In re: Cut Down

1) "Same store we went two years ago"
2) Lasting effects of Study Time
3) "Triple L"
4) Bobby  (sorta)

In re: Left Hanging

1) How DID I get Bobby's cherry?
2) How big is JASON'S dick?  <!  DELETED  !> 
Jason's a bud.  That's WAY private and buds DON'T 
nark

In re: "Backbeat's" Over -- Stuck in the Horse Latitudes.

I'd like to start because it's going to cover 1 ½ years  
(14 ½ to 16.)  BUT, I just had to wake The Prince.  We 
DO have a Photo Shoot at 2.  And we have to get him 
prettied up and fed.  And what did I tell you, Journal?  
The first words out of his mouth (after the moan) were, 
"GodDAMN, it Ricky, you are NEVER getting that 
tree-trunk up my ass again.  I MEAN it this time."

Then he grabbed me real fast and hauled me on the bed 
on top of him and KISSED THE LIVING SHIT out of 
me.  Morning breath, smelly pits, dried cum and all.  He 
grabbed my butt in his big, rough hands and Squeezed 
for Jesus, grinding our crotches together...  (MAJOR 
wood -- didn't think I could).  After he got thru saying, 
"Mmmmmmm!" he said "Morrrrnnnnin', Ricky."  And 
smiled his Skater-punk smile.  (Now THAT'S a picture I 
wouldn't mind having on the NET.  Maybe I can get 
Jason to take it).  

Then the fucker pushed me off him and jumped up to 
take a shower.  Right at the bathroom door he performed 
a butt wag with a ten degree of difficulty.  He's pretty 
damn good at it, too.  Another grin, this time over the 
shoulder, chin down, sort of bashful (Damn, he 
KNOWS that makes me hot!  And we've got a SHOOT 
for Christ's sake).  Then he was gone.  

My good clothes.  GodDAMN it!

"You'll PAY, Skater Boy.  You will INDUBITABLY 
PAY!!!  And my name's RICK.  Ricky's the name of 
my DICK."  

Fuck it, I'll just have to get in the shower with him.  
And if he won't move over, I have a prod that would 
make any policeman proud.  Come to think of it -- so 
does he.  

Ain't love grand?

I'll get back as quick as I can...

Save only
********************


I am so FUCKING, FUCKING MAD!  

HE was at the SHOOT.  

Management told me he was FIRED.  They PROMISED 
me he was fired.  

He still looked way trashed.  Even two weeks later.  Just 
like he deserved.  And God forgive me, that made me 
feel BETTER...  But, it brought back that night... in 
Fargo...anyway...

Journal, you know when you wake up and it's the 
middle of the night and you know that something woke 
you?  That something is wrong?  But you don't know 
what?  That was that night in Fargo.

I didn't move but my senses quickly became 
supercharged.  And...  I heard it... 

 "MotherFUCKER <thump>...  You motherfucker 
<thump>...  MOTHERfucker <thump>".

Jason's voice...  Unmistakable...  Real slow...  Real 
serious...  Real low and...  Really, really slow.

Then a quick thud,thud,thud,thud,thud.  "You leave him 
the FUCK alone, understand?"  Tenor voice, Bobby?

I reached over for Bobby but he wasn't there.  But then I 
knew he wouldn't be.  I know his voice....even thru 
glass.

"MotherFUCKER <thump>...  You motherfucker 
<thump>...".
 
"Thud,thud,thud,thud,thud."

 "Motherfucker <thump>...  You MOTHERfucker 
<thump> ".

There was a faint third voice.  It wasn't saying anything.  
Just a steady, high pitched moan that wavered with each 
thump.

It was coming from the parking lot under our second 
story window.  I KNEW what was going on.  I knew 
EXACTLY what was going on.  I knew that Jason could 
be way harsh when something stirred him up.  I'd tried 
to intervene once in high school.  And while Jason 
managed not to hit me, I was as effective as a gnat at a 
bull-elephant showdown.  Jason stopped when he was 
done.

"Thud,thud,thud,thud,thud."

 "MotherFUCKER <thump>...  You motherfucker 
<thump>...  MOTHERfucker <thump>".

You know what I thought about, Journal?  `Do I have 
enough money for bail?'  When I was sure I did, I rolled 
over...[`they'll call me if they need it']  

"Thud,thud,thud,thud,thud."

 "Motherfucker <thump>...

And went back to sleep.  May God forgive me.  

In the morning, Bobby was back in our bed and he had 
two serious bruises.  One in his gut and one on his left 
pec, right under his tit.  I feather-touched them.  But not 
light enough.  Bobby awoke, smiled his gentlest smile 
and said,  "It's alright, Rick.  We talked to him.  It's 
over."

At breakfast, Jason had a massive shiner-in-the-making.  
I raised my eyebrow and stared pointedly.  He cocked 
his head just a little, shrugged and gave a half smile.  I 
returned a half smile.  We ordered breakfast.  

A WHOLE lot of communication, Journal.  Don't you 
doubt it for a minute.  

So I know I didn't hear the whole fight.  And it wasn't 
as one sided as what I'd heard.  Probably the earlier part 
was noisier and that's what woke me.

I never needed the bail money.  Either Fargo is a bastion 
of Cowboy justice where the cops are not called very 
often or nobody else heard.  I never found out which.

Until, today, I never saw that asshole again.  Guess he 
was in hospital.  They said he was fired.  But 
Goddammit, why didn't he look evil?  Why'd he look so 
SMALL?  

There ARE sins of omission.  Even in this business.  
And I committed a really big one that night in Fargo.  
But I didn't intend to think about it for a while.  Not 
until I figured out what HAPPENED here.  Not `til I had 
talked it over with you, Journal.  Because most 
everybody I love in the world was in on it.  Including 
my confessor.  And Hondo's really far away... Another 
country...

But things just didn't work out. 

I'm going over to Bobby's room now.  I need to be held 
all night...  Tight.  Real tight.

It's going to be a LONG time before I want to come 
back to you, Journal. Sorry...

Save.  Later...


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That's all there was in the first file.  I'll let you know if I 
can get the passwords for any of the others.

<s>  Anonymous Guy in CA