leads to the Palace of Wisdom” William H. Blake, famed English doper….I was wrong about the demise of the Venetian Masked Ball…tis returning March 8 as the Antigua Masquerade Ball (Mardi Gras day)…500q a pop, which’ll keep the riff-raff out and probably at the same church as last year…go by the Antigua Tobacco Co on 3rd Calle and get the details…obvisuosly they’re in short supply here, kinda like a lot of other things. Total wipe out on Alex Ferrar’s 40th Ice Cream Festival…’ran out 3X, made more, sold it all…is there a message here? yeah, they were screamin’ for ice cream…40 flavors? he paints, serves, runs a biz and has time for creating more stuff?
‘been told that Craig the Scot has left for Scotland…’how long? The Whiskey Bar project lurches…’power turned off per a neighbor and I watched several cases of tasty Scotch being brought in…the handmade wooden bar is art…
Bus Bomb in Zone 7 yesterday….woman gets on, places a package in the overhead rack, slips out the back a few blocks later and Kablooie!…4 people dead….MS-13, Zetas, Betas or WTF? one more reason not to ride chicken buses in the City…Piano Mike and Moriah at the Pangea patio last night, sounded great: i bailed early, ATM done, pocket empty…almost, but the ATM’s still aren’t up a day later…great, first the card reader on the middle machine (BAC) and now this? The lovely MC gave me a haircut, on the tab, for which I had just enough change to buy her a chocolate croissant (thanks)….again, more confusion on my part…where does the Sunday Pub Quiz actually take place? not that i go, but even a little less confusion would make me feel better..I think…Robt of Chicago due in today…another chapter in the ongoing gold mine story? I’ve lost track of the players, especially after Don Marco ‘went away’…that in itself deserves a paragraph or two..the Company truck is up for sale…or was…passes everthing but gas stations: huge supercharged gas V8 pushing massive tires and a GMC Suburban…in a little over a week I’m outa here for ten days or so…El Sal, Hondo and parts of Nicaragua that i haven’t seen(yes, they’re paying me)..who knows? maybe the ATM is ‘up’…film at eleven
Our Man in Antigua 
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