{"id":200,"date":"2004-12-21T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=200"},"modified":"2004-12-21T07:56:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-21T13:56:00","slug":"the-ant-melville-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/the-ant-melville-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ant, Melville"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tuesday, December 21, 2004<\/h2>\n<p><i>Service: * * *<br \/>\n<br \/>      Food: N\/A<br \/>\n<br \/>     Ambience: * * * 1\/2<br \/>\n<br \/>     Babe Count: * * *<\/i>  <\/p>\n<p>Catherine is sitting with us briefly. She&#8217;s a giantess. Damon says, &#8220;Show us your muscles!&#8221; So she stands up and strikes a Charles Atlas pose, arms flexed. Fuck&#8217;n hell. This chick is seriously defined.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Feel  them,&#8221; she commands. Damon and I obey, feeling her rock hard biceps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve  gotta arm wrestle you,&#8221; I say. &#8220;And I so totally don&#8217;t mind losing to  you!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>We sit down, square up, and Catherine says, quickly, in that, &#8216;I&#8217;m gunna win this by hook or by crook&#8217; kinda way, &#8220;Three-two-one-GO!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And she pounds on the pressure. This chick is an Amazon! But with two breasts. I know, cos I&#8217;ve locked my arm, and I&#8217;m taking inspiration from her cleavage. We&#8217;re using our right arms, which is a BIT unfair of her, seeing as I&#8217;m left-handed. But my arm refuses to give, even though she&#8217;s leaning into it, with her body over her hand, putting some weight into it too.<\/p>\n<p>On the inside, I&#8217;m quaking. And I&#8217;m taking serious strain. If she&#8217;s got the stamina, I reckon I&#8217;m a goner in the next twenty seconds. So I hold on. And she starts huffing and puffing, and she tries one last frantic burst of power. But she fades after about two seconds, and I just butter her arm down to the table.<\/p>\n<p>She whimpers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Okay, left arm,&#8221; I say, expecting to crush her instantly. Instead, it&#8217;s exactly the same battle. If anything, Catherine&#8217;s left arm is stronger than her right. But she relents, and I pound the back of her hand to the wood.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First  time I&#8217;ve lost,&#8221; she says. She leaves. Probably to beat up on her gym  instructor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Holy fuck, she&#8217;s strong!&#8221; I say to Damon.<\/p>\n<p>Damon says,  &#8220;Wow, Roy, this BDSM stuff&#8230; you&#8217;ve learned a thing or two, huh? You  didn&#8217;t even flinch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m flinching now,&#8221; I say. &#8220;Can&#8217;t  even move my hands!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You didn&#8217;t show a thing. Just glared at her  like a dom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We start chatting about polyamory and BDSM. He asks me about Kathy (not Catherine), a friend of his. I first met her at one of his parties.<\/p>\n<p>He  says, &#8220;When Jose told me you two were hooking up, I couldn&#8217;t believe  it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An actor acquaintance of his stumbles over to our table, drunk. He sits down. And starts talking crap about how South Africa&#8217;s poor people are NOWHERE near as poor as the poor people in the rest of Africa. <\/p>\n<p>He demonstrates with a particularly odious epxpression on his face how Joburg&#8217;s poor people hold their hands out demanding money. &#8220;Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh come on,&#8221; says Damon. &#8220;You can&#8217;t say ALL of South Africa&#8217;s poor are like that. And anyway, poor is poor. YOU try living with absolutely no money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ya,&#8221; says the guy, clicking his fingers aggressively. &#8220;But these fuckin&#8217; okes go home with Nando&#8217;s burgers in their stomachs. In Mozambique they&#8217;ve got NOTHING!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re talking about  the car guards,&#8221; Damon says. &#8220;What about the rest of the poor  people?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I zone out and turn my chair away from this dork. I figure that if I ignore him for long enough, he&#8217;ll just bugger off. But he&#8217;s too drunk. And he loves his voice. He&#8217;s an ACTOR, you know?<\/p>\n<p>Eventually Damon also ignores  him. Fifteen minutes later, he stands up to go to the loo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fuck,&#8221; I  say. &#8220;What a bore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Carry on about Kathy,&#8221; he says.  &#8220;Is she&#8230; uh&#8230; relaxed about the BDSM stuff?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I kinda give him a non-answer to his non-question. &#8220;Yeah, she&#8217;s relaxed about it.&#8221; I figure if she wants to tell him about BDSM relaxation, she will. Or he can read this site. Hehehehe.<\/p>\n<p>The actor comes back. &#8220;Ah, fuck,&#8221; I murmur, and  turn my chair and stare into the middle distance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where was I?&#8221; he says, and starts on his diatribe. Damon and I slip out, and he&#8217;s still declaiming to an empty table. But there are other people in the restaurant, and they&#8217;re sure to want to hear his opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy&#8217;s got flu. Karen&#8217;s got a tummy bug. Helen&#8217;s overseas. Susan&#8217;s not into polyamory. Joanna&#8217;s just a glimmer of hope on the horizon. And if I&#8217;d known I could beat the Amazon, I should have bet her a blow job.<\/p>\n<p>Darn.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll go home now and think about the poor in Africa. <\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, December 21, 2004 Service: * * * Food: N\/A Ambience: * * * 1\/2 Babe Count: * * * Catherine is sitting with us briefly. She&#8217;s a giantess. 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