‘glory to the newborn thing….oooh…dark…it was a night of surprises…the new photographic art gallery inside Nim Pot? Jon Kaplan and his friends put on a helluva show/exhibition…for those of you who might think of photography as art, this is it…make’s every exhibition of such that I’ve seen at PV over the last three years look lame…Reilly’s Two?
darts...stick me
what a masterpiece! Steve Wintershaw’s creations are staggering….and the wood floors, the old stools….Wendy Wever and family plus a few, early on…Ocelot had a larger crowd…a new jewelry store/bistro on 5ta sur, just south of La Esquina…’Las Conchas’…Lex Cargo’s idea writ large and with more $$$…I’ve had rich friends with bored wives who go from one new idea to another (too much time on their hands) hey…i can make jewelry! if only I had a shop…dear…could you buy me a store? right…lotta pearl creations and not bad…semi-precious beads/necklaces..the menu is too cute…everything refers to pearls..and in this town…before swine.
new kid on the block
So, post R2, i’m headed for La Pena del Sol..just written up in Lonely Planet as being ‘the place to go’….Bill!…congrats…’run into ‘she of the infectious smile’…we talk…walk back to R2…music’s too loud, Eric’s doin’ his DJ thing tonight..if I had an Irish Bar, wouldn’t i have Irish music? the Smiths, the Cranberries, U2…ok, maybe a little Enya…so, we bail and walk up 5th calle to that pizza joint, Ajamenou(sp?) and order two simple cocktails…vodka rocks and a gin and tonic..the waiter was/is a slug…incompetent…ice? a glass? overpriced, lousy service and so on…avoid it. Hector’s? packed to the doorway…Roadkill next door? dead zone…Alex of Sobremesa doin’ biz and Sarah Graham spotted in her xlnt joint, Caffe Bourbon..you know, in the restaurant/bar biz, there’s a concept about ‘critical mass’…when a joint is packed, people can’t wait to get in…a la sobremesa, hector’s, cazadore italian and F2…that’s what made the old Reilly’s such a success…shoulder to shoulder…’what’s goin’ on? gotta get in there’…’watched this phenomenon a few times, as has alex at Sobremesa..palm beach for him, SF/Carmel and Vegas for me…its just human behavior(we always want what we can’t have) and so on…La Viniera Antigua doing two days of turkey a la ‘orange…24th/25th…Beppe’s mustache suspiciously black tonight…Grecian Formula? Margarita of the Massive Rack must be putting him thru his/her paces…Lucia at her usual corner, gradually aging..Stupid Question #45…why does Riki’s still advertise a Greek restaurant, Hellas? bait and switch? if so, they’re master baiters…drum roll…fine, i’m goin’ to my room…buenas nostrils..
Our Man in Antigua 
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