Our Man in Antigua

thank you, one and all, near and far, for the birthday greetings/best wishes…if nothing else, I’m blessed to have such a wide circle of friends and as the years go by I’m appreciative of this…the ‘phillips screwdriver’ reference?  mix Phillips Milk of Magnesia and vodka…not that i need it but I did treat myself to a large box of Depends (just kidding)..and no, i didn’t go out last night: the rains started and I didn’t.

Social inSecurity? ‘hillbilly’ tom, as the Man from Austin calls him…back in the States doing something regarding Social Security…we’ve been ‘green-lighted’ to go to Take-a-Lick Abaj by one of the archeologists there, as long as its the week before Otto the Prez makes his appearance for the Summer Solstice….one of my more cynical friends said that Otto is only doing this for the Indian voter base…politics? cynical? gee…so, assuming that the driver of the Beige Bomb is back in two weeks, we’re good to go…

and thanks, Bull Durham, for yet another great shipment of ribs…yeah, i thought there’d be leftovers…wrong again, wine-breath…one of the dobies got a few…very few, scraps of bone/gristle…jamesdurham2@gmail for the very best in pork stuff…great prices, shrink-wrapped, frozen and delivered…i’m a pervert…no, a ‘convert’…wellll…now that I’m officially OLD maybe i can leer more often at the latina lolitas thru my very dark sunglasses more often. One of my favorite things about this town is that every day i see at least three beautiful women that I’ve never seen before..and at my age, looking is about as good as it gets…’been so long since I’ve had…uh, you know..that i forget who ties up whom…drum roll..San Francisco joke (kind of)i still get emails/announcements from the Center for Sex and Culture (I appraised their building once) and it’s weird stuff…like last weeks Masturbate-A-Thon…yeah, don’t go there..i went once, accompanying Xaviera Hollander who was staying on my houseboat for a week…she was giving a lecture…jeez..i left at half time when folks started taking off their clothes and no one…repeat, no one had a body that was worth looking at..do I miss it? not a lick of it…drum roll..

the latest version of Our Man in Antigua goes to the printers tomorrow via a flash drive..I kept the Antigua City Bus Tour in, hoping that Mac returns from the States and decides to invest in the project…it’s just too good to let die but then….most small businesses fail in the first year..90% or so..alas..