Chapt. 6 – 1838 words
Desperately Seeking Blond Boys
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, Aug. 15, 2003 -- 3051 hits

Trip to Finland & Sweden
Taking a crap and a photo

Chapt. 152 – 1864 words
Dismay cum ecstasy
MOSCOW, July 29, 2005 -- 2357 hits

Something terrible has happened to Sergei, Zhorik
Prisoners? Dead?
“Where the hell have you been?”
Another performance of “Seduction Serenade”
Sam Love stokes my ecstasy
Sergei can only give me a grand

Chapt. 214 – 5621 words
Dubrovnik: Historic paradise a perennial survivor
MOSCOW, August 22, 2006 - 3788 hits

Dubrovnik – “Jewel in the Crown”
…tarnished 15 years ago
Welcome to…Where?
Freedom vs. Empire
Steps to the past: they don’t make ‘em like they used to
“Stone nest of freedom”
Scars of what they don’t talk about
You don’t come here for the gay scene
…but the nude beaches are nice
Marco and I talk about the future
Back to ugly reality

Chapt. 52 – 2271 words
Easter in Russia – sans bunny
April 11, 2004 -- 3636 hits

Easter Sunday
Basil
Vanya – broke and hurting
Bush – the new Hitler

Chapt. 69 – 1969 words
Empty Pockets and humble pie
MOSCOW, June 27, 2004 –- 2547 hits

The Andreis steal my money

Chapt. 265 – 2,687 words
Even without Putin, Russian “democracy” wouldn’t be
MOSCOW, September 17, 2007 -- 2335 hits

Putin confounds the Kremlin watchers
As election season – and dirty tricks – begin in earnest
Russian “democracy” no democracy – even sans Putin
“Narco-man” Denis endangers my apartment
…But we’ll stay anyway
Zhorik’s hand not broken, but nerve damaged
Igor will be home this week

Chapt. 150 – 1877 words
Ex-pat testing: equal opportunity harassment
MOSCOW, July 24, 2005 -- 2432 hits

Ex-pat workers must test for….leprosy?
Russia’s bribery industry thriving
Vanya re-surfaces
Possible new fantasy?
Zhorik arrives – alone
“We’re both to blame” -- Basil

Chapt. 240 – 5,092 words
Extreme poverty, one-holers, and pretty boys
Moldova, March 19, 2007 – 3960 hits

Moldova – time warp from a century ago
We arrive in Garlic
…With no pillow on which to lay our weary heads
A smelly armpit? Well, something like that
“Bukhat”-ing and kissy face
Mom’s religion: “Help of the helpless…”
An excursion to Kagul –Moldova style
Abandoned with Mom in Svetliy
“Serious Problem”: averting a crisis with a big IF

Chapt. 241 – 3,810 words
Fade out Moldova, fade in sex
MOSCOW, March 26, 2007 -- 2731 hits

Bout with the bank machine – moment of truth
…But cash limit still poses problems
Traveling “platz cart” with the hoi polloi
Home at last to normal state of disorder
In the meantime, back at the ranch…spring and elections
Police forcibly quell second protest march
Igor celebrates with double baths; sex resumes
Zhorik’s leave status up in the air
Drunk found dead in zoo cage after fight with owl
Owners of vicious dogs headed for the couch?

Chapt. 153 – 2511 words
Fantasies suffer bad run: Regime change coming?
MOSCOW, August 5, 2005 -- 2251 hits

Khodorkovsky: Regime change ahead
Zhorik romance not according to plan
John Smith fantasies: Another lead balloon
No gay parade in Moscow
Vanya headed to Crimea
A call from Sasha

Chapt. 120 – 2218 words
Fantasy comes alive: sex with Zhorik
MOSCOW, April 10, 2005 – 2904 hits

There is a god! Sex with Zhorik
Its chronology
And I’ll make Andrei’s dream come true
PiKA voices from the past
Alen Ginzberg makes me a hero
Hot-shit “Christian” Delay’s finger caught in the Russian till
“Peak Oil has hit!”

Chapt. 300 - 1,813 words
Fiesta Queen
Galicia, somewhere in northern Spain, April 7, 2010 -- 2627 hits

I'm now an illegal alien.
Friday was 'el Dia de San José in Spain.
I continue to get e-mails from my friends and students in Russia.
Just got back from Lisbon.

Chapt. 302 - 1,776 words
Fiesta Queen
Galicia, somewhere in northern Spain, May 17, 2010 -- 3017 hits

I've got a bloody toothache!
Speaking of birthdays, Drushka's is tomorrow.
I had an e-mail from Misha.
Most Russians think bribery is the best way to solve problems.

Chapt. 309 - 2 393 words
Fighting the bureaucracy alone
Somewhere in Northern Spain, January 12, 2011 -- 2487 hits

Druzhka back in Moscow
Bureaucratic Spain
I lose my keys
And buy a computer desk – still unassembled
All I wanted was a potato masher

Chapt. 46 – 1690 words
First day of spring in Russia
MOSCOW, March 1, 2004 -- 2494 hits

First day of spring
State of my being
Toothache
Putin’s bulldozer election campaign

Chapt. 35 – 1533 words
Freedom of religion – as long as it’s Orthodox
MOSCOW, Jan. 5, 2004 -- 2412 hits

Pravo-Slaviy religion back in power
Art violates Orthodox dogma…
Korean Methodists
Shurik fights over budget…happy ending

Chapt. 178 – 1729 words
Frolicking in chocolate and roses
MOSCOW, December 12, 2005 -- 2237 hits

Winter hits; so does my first cold
Bliss persists
Yegor “passes” some more courses
Me – a professor in Ptomkin U?
Duma again rolls over for Putin

Chapt. 19 – 2161 words
From Russia, With Loves -- to Prague
MOSCOW, Oct. 28, 2003 -- 2306 hits

Zhenya returns
First snow of the season & trip to the tourist agency

Chapt. 331 - 2 797 words
From Sasha at last: Yes, he’s coming -- sometime
Somewhere in northern Spain, Dec. 10, 2012 – 3523 hits

Fiesta Queen

Chapt. 14 - 1553 words
G&T Meets Ann Landers, Step One
MOSCOW, Oct 12, 2003 -- 3078 hits

Pissed at Anton and Yegor
And throw Anton out
Yegor and I make up
I will not let him go