Our Man in Antigua

wordpress, you idiots..you keep making ‘improvements’…stick with a tried/true method…newer isn’t always better…take me, for example..older and worse, some say.

it was a musical evening…Ron Fortin on sax (and great) on the Ocelot patio, Adan the cuban pianist with a bongo player doing side riffs at Los Arcos…5ta norte doing a great evening…I bailed before the steve james gig at Ocelot, walking the beat…Carla B, smiling and effervescent as always, holding down the bar at Fusion…Marcel of El Cazadore Italiano doing his welcome as folks came in…Como Como? jammed for a private party…some kinda engagement/wedding thing..der Henrik taking time out and hanging at Travel Menu…congrats for taking the bold leap of opening a bar in Zone One…which seems to be doing just fine…unlike Sangre, which appears to have pulled the plug on 2 or 3 years of no biz..

that church on the corner of 6th avenida and 4th calle..? what the hell is it called? the Convent of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence? jammed for an outdoor free concert of four great musicians and one lady singing scat (and good) why doens’t the city or the council put up signs on the churches? something tasteful in neon…solar powered, of course…Las palmas doing the big groups..

the high point of my day was defrosting the half sized refrigerator that barely holds 4 trays of ice cubes..ok, five if i jam ’em in..hey, if nothing else it’s an easy grab from the mini-table…the friggin’ boat load of books is two weeks out(and a week overdue)…so? the local printer is a week behind…so? so what? what can i do? nuthin’…get over it, have another shot of pavlov..ok..that i can do(and have)..thank you, one and all for the great feedback/compliments…it ain’t literate nor of any depth…it’s Antigua for Dummies…short and sweet like some women i’m fond of.

again, thanks to Nick Z of La ReUnion for a marvelous outing..no, not that kind of ‘outing’…a day in paradise, swinging for the far away greens on a course in heaven…thanks to John K for the superb/fresh cigars from Havana…i’m blessed with the greatest of friends…here, there and far away..may the blue bird of paradise fly up your nose and in the meantime, enjoy the weather…it suddently went perfect..are we blessed to live here or what? answer is A.. 

and yet another restaurant opens..4th calle, where Saboy Cubano and the Havana Cigar Shop was….looks ok from the street, lighting and all..open for breakfast, etc..the newly opened American Diner where the DeBronce store was on 4th ave sur…dead..good thing the employees have the big screen tv to keep them occupied…what did the staff in a lot of establishmens do before computers, a monitor and/or a tv to watch? its a fringe benefit, obviously…

watching the diffferent crowds at Lava and Ocelot…the younger folks hang at Lava and the…uh, more seasoned folks are downstairs..is it the stairs? Lava definitely doing ‘biz, unlike IxNot or Braulios…hey, these are just my ramdumb observations…i’ve got ice cubes and life is gooder. Enjoy yourselves..