Our Man in Antigua

‘in from the spin…PV for a quiet gallery opening and the exceedingly luscious Ms A…either my animal magnetism or something made one of her earrings explode…on the way, walking past the BAC branch, i noticed the ass’t manager messing around with the middle ATM…a front inspection plate/door open and a keypad…is this typical/normal? the guard and i watched for a few minutes, til he buttoned it up and went back inside…with all the paranoia re BAC and the ATM’s there, i gotta ask the question…WTF?…after PV, down past Chef Pierre’s..quiet and thence to Angie Angie’s…Isidore, Raul, Christina, Rich Neel and better half…great photography!…Francisco’s shot some stunning photos of Turkey…if i had wall space…etc..yeah, i know…buy some, put some in the closet and rotate ’em…there were a couple that  i drooled over..color/composition..the ‘eye’…yeah, i shoot photos but i’m not  an artist..he is…ran into the very lovely tall blonde known as Azucena in the antique store on 4th calle…across from Weltan..ooh..back to Ocelot…robto de oro, mary, robbin, brendan and …Camilla, missing her pals/buds and playmates who’ve left this week..go by and console her..she’s not happy..Caffe Bourbon? quiet except for Nelson’s excellent Nawleens piano…foot tappin’ music..the Jades Antigua store on the corner, across from El Tiempo Sabor? nasty looking guard but the women inside? on a scale of  1-10…they’re elevens..Ricardo of Tabacos y Vinos doing just fine..and he also has an eye for ….the hired help..they always look superb..no on Adan at Caffe Opera tonight…what the hell is his schedule? Hector’s packed(so what else is new?) heard a rumor that JP aka the Rum Bum is due back in town in three weeks..taking over the helm at Cafe Flor-Flusher…can’t imagine his chutzpah at returning, given the mess he left…maybe the alternatives were worse..witness protection program gone bad? interpol? who knows? ‘it’s Chinatown, Jake’…Claudia will be glad to hear this…perhaps another shot at restitution..or Guate justice…oops..justice? fresh out..call back later..go by and whisper words to Camilla…she’s loved and appreciated..and this too, shall pass..