%$#@! spellcheck…public….public…The Mime Index? up…big crowd on 5ta about 7, streets still swarming with Guatemaltecos, slurping ice cream and strolling….cruise ship folks back, safe aboard and now worrying about bad food and outbreaks of whatever it was that felled a Carnival Lines ship recently..Reilly’s packed for the Sunday night quiz show…’finally got to meet Matt Boker, Review’s new editor….a certain restauranteur holding forth on the balcony at Ocelot with new blonde, slurping Bloody Mary’s…no names…per Luis Miguel of Da Vinci, the new proposed liquor laws made a mistake to include churches…it’s all about schools…hey, he’s not worried, since he’s been in business for 17 years and has a lock on 6th avenida for several blocks.
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A very short-lived business: about 10 am, a couple set up a stand on 5ta, where the painters hang out…sorry, artists…with a portable blender and what appeared to be a selection of ‘health food’ ingredients…you know, stuff like wheat grass…Guatemaltecos stared…i stopped…WTF? gotta license? faster than you can ‘busted’ they were gone within an hour…the Lone Sax Player, who bailed from Sobremesa last night, seen blowing same on 5ta norte by the Arches..Ricardo of Tabacos y Vinos doing good business tonight, serving wine legally for a change..Chocolulu across the street in his old place doing moderately well…in a new vacant space up the street is now a book store, south of that lousy so-called Chinese restaurant…Libros Metaforo’s or some such….what this town needs is a good porno store…maybe underthecounter stuff in plain brown wrappers…Debbie Does Esquintla or such…ah, Sunday afternoons…the marimbas at City Hall and the xlnt Sol Latino peruvian band in the park..people still talking about how good Mercedes was as Ocelot last night…quit about 12:30 and they had to ask people to leave..next Saturday night? Ignacio and his Cuban All-Stars, followed by Mercedes..a double bill from heaven…’The Usually Reliable Source’ just back from Texas…Austin and thereabouts…raving about the music…no news of Elle…vanished in Toronto…our loss, their gain..the ravishing Flor seen…getting into a spiffy white car…new boyfriend? my loss..his gain…she does dress well..’got accosted and dragged off by what may have been a disgruntled boyfriend as i was standing in front of the Condesa…asked about the whereabouts of a certain lady…’nope…haven’t spoken with her, haven’t seen her’…lies, of course but…ask me no questions and i’ll tell you no lies…get it? Catherine D, luminescent and just back from 2 months in Paris, seen at Hector’s..no sign of JH and his blue Toyota truck isn’t parked in its usual place..Ixcot doing a bit of business, gradually…Matthew keeping an eye on things, with a grand opening scheduled for what i recall as December 13th…but then, don’t rely on my memory, which is afflicted with CRS (can’t remember shit)…and with that, buenas nostrils…november’s runnin’ out quickly…for those in need of company, i recommend the two working girls who were working the arts and crafts expo a few weeks ago..the ones with the business cards…”Absolute Discretion” Would you like a good time in company with some girl. We offer Massage, Sex and Party..Call Me…5648-2012,,Liss…i kinda l iked the other one, the blonde, but I’m keeping her number..
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