Our Man in Antigua

‘judging from the debris left over in front of a few establishments, last night musta been a howler…and the variety/placement of barf puddles would support that observation…hey, ‘read all about it’…right…not having driven the porcelain bus for a few years i forget just how hammered you have to get before…etc…

thanks to Bull Durham for defining the difference between what i’ve been calling Guate’s vs Capitalinas..when they’re dressed in tight jeans, a blouse cut to there and smellin’ good, they’re Capitalinas…with a capital C…otherwise i’m lumpin’ the rest of em in the generic basket…

a few bus loads of cruise ship passengers in town today…not having been in a Wal-Mart or IHOP for a few years I’d forgotten just how obese Americans can get, not to mention their sartorial faux pas..muu-muu time doesn’t come close..more like San Diego Tent and Awning Clothiers..or Big & Wide, and X-tra Wide…the Maya ladies with their weavings/necklaces were ready, the guys with the flutes on tap and the band played on..marimbas in the afternoon, a different peruvian group in the park.

i never plug an article here but i’m making an exception because of all the NGO’s I know of, this one, IMHO, does what they say they’re gonna do…

http://www.examiner.com/central-american-travel-in-national/as-green-as-it-gets-coffee-that-is

some folks outa town…Max of El Muro up in Coban, Carla B in the States for a daughter check-up and i can’t even get to the stinkin'(literally)Lake…road’s washed out between Solola and Pana..yep, again..reminds me of Highway One and Big Sur…same story, every winter…Max..what’s up in Roatan? same- same-o? that story keeps unwinding..the legal beagles never want to see a case end…time is $$ for them. If there ever was a pirate island that still is, Roatan fits the bill..furriners get shot in the street, broad daylight and nothing happens…Aussie got plugged a few weeks ago…West End…and we worry about Antigua? yeah, there’s broken car windows here and there, dog shit and puke puddles..a few zealous panhandlers but there’s also some tasty Capitalinas(offsets)..and the Bud Girls, El Caminante’s dancers and El Muro’s bartenders…score one for A-Town..one last dumb question(my specialty)…how in the hell does the Subway outlet on 3rd/6th stay open? Burger Queer and McDonalds rock…but Subway? o..that’s right..profit? what’s that? IxNay closed on a Sunday? why not…no biz anyway..