Our Man in Antigua

in a cloudy sky, vague threats or hints of lightning towards the City…lotta places closed tonight: F2 but the Bell Famille is outa town(Monterrico)…Cafe Flor closed,  painting goin’ on…Restaurant Hot Road aka Road Kill doing major interior design/decor changes…gone are the signs, now the ceiling is decorated with various fags…flags…spelchuk!…Laurel J of PV and her assistant at Hector’s…where’s Gabi? didn’t see any notices of the usual PV wednesday ‘gallery event’s this month..hmm..no more bad sangria…ole!…Mitos, the bar on 5th Ave south of Mono Loco…advertising shots of vodka, rum or tekillya for 5q…a bottle sells for 50 q and there’s 15 shots in a bottle..work with me here..higher math:sell ten shots, bottle’s paid for..leaving 5 for profit/overhead/otherwise known as PC’s..pouring costs..thanks for the advice/information on spare legs(prothesis) per the Robin Guevara article..the kid who lost his catching a stray bullet…passed on the info to Lily the Newspaper Lady for him…there’s a event at Cafe Rainbow later this month by the Foundation, to which I’ll follow up with..Lily? sporting a wraparound bandage after dental hell today…looked like some kinda arab thing…Jason? ex-mining engineer? who knew? we’ll have stories to share…’remembering trying to light off dynamite with Allen earlier(Whiskey Den)..and thinking that one could light the fuse with a cigar, like all the old movies we grew up with…Wrong, powder-breath…took three kitchen matches to get the fuse burning(montana, gold mine, wierd story) I do like dynamite, though…ka-boom! the smell of fireworks here is a good thing, at least for me…you? hint..be sure to tell the difference in the fuse cord…there’s ‘fast’ and there’s ‘slow’…i’d advise ‘slow’ per getting away before the explosion..’great foot massage from MDC today…the cobblestones/light footwear get to me…that and mean old Mr. Gravity..probably a side effect of the pizza binge from last week…no Adan at Caffe Opera tonight…no idea if he showed up last night…Cubans…happy birthday to Wendy Wever!…went by Cashbar early to deliver greetings…she’s looking so different(glowing)now that she’s running the place…it agrees with her, obviously..DaVinci..they had change tonight! and business(people eating)..Eduardo of La Esquina doing just fine..new sign on the street side..another new restaurant? yep, just down the street from Cafe Flor..the new hotel…guess they figured to double down and open an eatery…bad bet, bad odds..hey, it ain’t my money…dos reilly’s doing a bit of biz…wednesdays just aren’t the high point of the week in A-town, Gallo Girls or not…finally heard from the place in Monterrico and i’m outa here sunday for a few days..test the theory about becoming a ‘beach person’ again for a month or so..Lava’s Grand Opening tomorrow night…7-1am..Camilla and i marveling about the size of the f%$#@! palm trees…we were thinking shrubs..not…the Lounge at Pangea? empty-o…great place to hide out,if that’s what you had in mind, altho there are other places even more discreet…i have a short list, btw..and no calls for a few days from the ‘city girls’..’guess they figured out that i’m a dud…and they’re right…where’s Ed with the Escalade aka the Poosy Magnet?…Robto de Oro? clue me in…or up/out…manana, en la noche…El Muros’ second ‘all you can swill for free’ event…plus a band..Friday? El Caminantes’ Cabaret…calling all freaks, dwarves and flamenco dancers..hell, bring on the belly dancers…a tattoo guy will be there..o boy..tattoos are so ’90’s…like piercings…

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 and you wonder why Antigua’s ‘art scene’ bores me? segue-way…via FB, i’m hearing that Germany and Switzerland are having ATM problems…wonder if the trail leads back to Bogota?