ok, fine..three temblors/terremotos/earthquakes…nothin’ much except to the three folks who diidn’t make the cut down south…i confess that being a habitue of northern california that anything less than a 6.0 doesn’t get my motor runnin’..
Crime Wave!….just in time for Antigua’s new motto…’Zero Tolerance’ on crime…across from my curry-flavored abode on upper 4th avenida, a round 7:30 am or so…a food/snack truck knocked off…ooh…serious crime…chips, dips and cookies…be on the lookout for bootleg galletas…no reward..no clues, another perfect crime.
a new store on the park, where the gelato place was..two doors from the corner…jewelry and it looks nicely down, decorated…same folks as who have the clothing store next door…JED/Cath the Doc, Phil W/Christine outside at closing time..there’s still two rental spaces available on that side of 5ta…next to the guitar shop that never sells jack-shit…at least one’s been buffed out, and shown to prospective tenants…one of the better retail locations per foot traffic/exposure..no idea why the old Sobremesa location morphed into a ‘convenience store’…what were they thinkin’?…this is a commercial, not residential location…’gee..maybe the guests at Don Rodrigo across the street will want a roll of toilet paper or some Top Ramen at 9pm”..if that’s your market, stock some porno movies, lube and so on…
Da Vinci! all 3 Claudias in attendence! plus LM…Flor, next door, surfing the net and waiting for 7pm to roll around and close up shop…dos Reillys doing about as well, if not better, than anyone else tonight..’managed to lose my new specs tonight…8 hours after buying the f….$#@!S…
weirdness…Neil Craig starts tomorrow night bartending at Ocelot…’gotta be strange and yes, I gotta go..nope, didn’t ‘do’ Mens Night at E lMuro…didn’t feel manly enough…IxNay’s new host…attired in a jacket and tie…why? an attempt at class? bring in the Budweiser Girl…then you’re talkin’
upper 5th dead..Los Arcos, Cashbar, Sangre, Studio 35…Gaia,a party of four Guatemaltecas…Fridas hanging in there..will the old Reilly’s space ever turn over/be rented again? makes one wonder about their ‘business plan’..again, a note to the Fotografo’ studio in Nimpot…change the window and the displays..at least make it look like you’re turning over inventory…and maybe offer some cheaper lithographs of your great images…hey, just an idea…artists typically aren’t business men and vice versa..unless $$ doesnt’ mean anything…hmmm..this town and its ‘ways’ never ceases to amaze me…inventory, location and exposure don’t seem to make any difference..in what’s supposed to be an expensive retail proposition and folks don’t care? go to the Mercado on a Monday morning(I did)and watch the vendors hustle…anything and everything…walk up/down 5th avenida…snoring, snoozing…cruising except for a newer cafe or two..
Our Man in Antigua 
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