Our Man in Antigua

I gave it some thought this morning when it was raining about 7am…and then i remembered that I’d have to go to the post office, stand in line and A..no change or B…no stamps   C.both…the day turned around nicely,til this evening with half a moon and orange-tinted clouds(and no rain)…

Silly Question #1….why are there wheelchair emblems in the sidewalk up/down 5ta ave norte, every 20 feet or so? #2…what’s up with the old ‘float’s’ stored between Tabacos y Vinos and the Cashbar? it’s all jeezus related stuff and looks like remnants from a Semana Santa of a few decades back…could one buy one or two? might be interesting decor…but you’d have to have very high ceilings..

thanks, LM, for the photo image CD…i finally got it copied to a flash drive and then…buncha dumb photos of Worsely getting hammered here, there and everywhere…not a shot out of 280 or so worth keeping..’appreciate your efforts and the scotch at Travel Menu…twas good to see Plumb Bob and Allan…yep…innuendo…italian for suppository…ask Allan…ask him also about the transvestite popped recently,in possession of some 42 keys to lockers, rooms, houses…good to run into Peter the H…and Ignacio, the cuban, dressed to kill in a hat, white shoes and a hawaiian shirt…music somewhere later tonight…Mike C/Neil C..O ‘lot…we’re all diggin’ deep into our pockets for $$…cruel, mean month..Alex of Sobremesa waitin’ on a party of Utahn’s, running late..Senor Cervantes and Gina C, hangin’ at El Portal? a very very unlikely combination, unless I’m missing something, which is usually the case.

Adolfo el Alcalde!…hangin’ on the sidewalk across from City Hall, winding up an interview with the media…he looks confident of re-election..re the video cameras supposedly promised for Antigua(to watch the crime in action)..i’ve been told that the City has the cameras and the cable…but the connections for both don’t match…gee? Pangea shuttered on a Wednesday night?..yep..

Whisky Den is being run by primary staff these days…workers/franklin…yep, its a slow season…I’m trying to figure out ‘sidewalk etiquette’…you know, when the old woman with her nurse, the maya lady with a basket of fruit on her head…step off…do gentlemen always walk on the street side? for tourists with a water bottle and flip-flops? (no)..baby carriages(yes)…and what’s up with Lex, wearing make-up for his ad in QP?….looks like lipstick to me…ran into MT, passing out copies of La Cuadra…said to call the range…phone works, email works…ok, fine…i’m on it,first thing in the morning..

and yes, thanks to those who’ve mentioning the ‘new and more kinder..gentle comments herein’….nothings really changed in Antigua…must be me..’missing some people who’ve left and hoping that some people survive these times..’having had business’ that went up and down, i sympathize and yes, its all part of lifes rich pageant but that doesn’t make it any easier…i hate watching folks go under, especially hard-working, dedicated people…where the hell is my magic wand? o, that’s right…left it in San Francisco..and a new ‘for sale’ sign on what was the ‘Sea and Food Mojitos’ short lived Cuban joint,which was the old Tapas y Tintos on 1st calle/4th ave norte..old rum bar still looking for a tenant but at $2k a month? Casa Vecchio? for sale or rent? …the vendors of schlock are praying that tomorrows influx of cruise ship suckers, plus friday and saturdays groups, will pull them outa the hole…’wouldn’t count on it…’been told that the average $$ spent per person on these excursions is about twenty bucks..have lunch and that leaves a ten spot…whoopee! go wild! take a tour…eats the ten…thanks again, LM, for your efforts…I thought it’d been worth retrieving…nope…suckered again…pass the scotch…

lastly and much later because it took me a few hours to process the passing of Steve Jobs…i feel kinda like the same way i felt when john lennon died,like there’s a light that been extinguished and a good light, not some mean power-grabbing suckass politician but a good light gone way too early and there always seems to be a shortage of those…we knew you when..