Our Man in Antigua

a big tip of the soiled panama to Yann of Johnny’s Place for two things: stopping to give me a ride and secondly, showing me how to take incoming calls on the new Schizoid phone…technically it’s an Android, the manual is in microscopic espanol and there’s nothing in it about ‘incoming calls’….yeah, i read it….ten, 15 times….screw…between that and my clumsy 68yr old fingers…progress, my ass…the Motorola was kaput, one way or the other…

so…let’s try this again…

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-magnetic-jaguar-1

if it doesn’t work, as with yesterdays so-called link…it’s another wordpress screw up..cut/paste it…techno-hell, again.part two of the ‘You Can’t Get There’ road trip/stuff in the night.

I bailed on tomorrow’s epic journey to Mixco Viejo with Norm the K, who came here all the way from Ohio to partake of the ‘endoftheworld’ ceremonies there…it’s a 24 hour ‘experience’ and even with the best of pharmaceuticals, I can’t do overnighters any more…yeah, I can remember them…sort of…more like hazy memories of hotel rooms somewhere, ‘scenes’ and well…I need my sleep, ok?

ceremonies? I ran into the local high priest of the Maximon temple here, a few days ago…you’d never guess, or pick him out of a line-up…conservative dress, groomed, gracious…those ceremonies Id go to again…pass the Johnny Walker Red around, slosh Max with a few shots, have another, inhale the incense, get mildly flogged with some kinda branches…basil, rosemary or thyme? the only snag would be that ‘she” would be there…the high priestess…also high on Johnny…alas, another victim of demon rum…I miss her sometimes but I don’t miss the  ‘scenes’…

‘saw the ever statuesque daughter of our ex-Mayor yesterday…stacking gift baskets in the back of his Jimmy Suburban….whew…she could stack me in there(I wish)Adolfo? Christmas in the slammer? gotta be grim, eh?

eh? Canadian talk, eh? thanks to Amazon/Kindle, OurMan etc, is now in Japan, Brazil and Canada…they said something about translations but…eh? and yes, the Euros/Brit $ keeps trickling in…hey, it’s better than no trickle, right? eh?

are there any readers of real books anymore? there is a superb local lending library, next to the Jardin Bavaria on uppah 7th avenida…open 7 days a week, 100q a year, open to anyone…the American Legion library, with the most amazing (35000 books)assortment in town..11-3…