Our Man in Antigua

perfect line, compliments of Tono Pullin….introduced us to Portuguese wine…most xlnt…compliments to the gorgeous Ms. E and crew for a superb Christmas dinner…the best Christmas I can remember, for decades…no drama, no blow-ups….whew…lord, just get me thru New Years and maybe I’ve broken the mold…Shaun doing paper work in a darkened Ocelot..thanks for the bottle of my fave…Coppola Malbec…5ta packed with strolling families of Guatemaltecos…streets being watered in preparation for processions later…I’ll pass…’seen one saint, you’ve seen ’em all…’twas  a miracle…both daughters checked in!  Mark Francis? said to have been sentenced to a short term…maybe out in April…I’ve heard good and not good…I kinda liked him…but i’ve always liked scoundrels…they’re just do damned more interesting than the usual..

didn't make the cut in Amsterdam

is it just me or does Pope Bene’dick look like a pedophile?  now, if the wacked out koreans don’t set off world war 2.5 ….they just have a different slant on things…thank you again, Emma, Michael and the crew…t’was the best of  times.. the el salvador article wrapped today…hasta la vista , 2010…I just get in, to my usually quiet upper 4th avenida hide out…uh oh…marimbas outside…8 dudes in white jackets, in the back of a ford stake-side truck…fireworks, mortars…and gradually the people converge…a procession of you know who…they’ve found her face on grilled cheese sandwiches(Vegas..Imperial Palace..if i’m lyin’, i’m dyin’)…another band at the rear, dudes running around in wicker headdresses, stuffed with fireworks…rockets, whizzbangs…screw…not gonna get any rest sometime soon…off to da vinci for a quiet time-out…i love this place…’wish i had the fireworks franchise..it was only about a hundred or so people…’don’t get the connection between god/gunpowder and rockets…may your christmas be hairy and bright…no…wrong visual..and thanks Santa…the latest ‘stocking stuffer.’

i still keep thinking…right…as if…that this town could use a “Rick’s Cafe Americain or a Blue Parrot”..Bogart in the white dinner jacket,  Sidney Greentstreet in the rumpled white linen suit..ok…enjoy the end of the year..