Our Man in Antigua

as if…the color of the sky was different today…kind of a wintry shade of blue…a season change? noisy city folks in the park and the streets, everyone having a good time…where’s the mime? no…wait, i saw him back on 5ta, minus a crowd…Pangea’s drawing business steadily, as the word gets out but i can’t say the same about a few other places..Fusion 2 continues to pack ’em in, as does El Muro….two totally different crowds but indicative of ‘hands on’ owners with something different to offer….’sorry to have missed Carlas’s birthday bash…i’ve been in the bat cave,writing….batshit, probably…i have a burning cultural question…

Gaia has been featuring belly dancers and Cashbar certainly has a theme…but why is it that a lot of events feature these kinds of dancers?

is it that somehow the veils are okay and other kinds of dancing is not? are these ‘cultural events’ that are somehow okay in the minds of the powers tht be? I’ m not complaining,by any means…i like culture…why this variety in Antigua?….September rolls in this week…terrific…independence day parades and whoop to do…hey, it keeps the money coming in, the life blood of this fair city…bring on the mayor, the beauty queens and the majorettes in their go-go boots…drums, xylophones and drums…I’m not sticking around this year for the pageantry..