Our Man in Antigua

yep, another ‘incoming procession’ tonight…with the grand finale, the overnighter on Thursday…I went to town, smiled at Flor(no news on her new location replacing Dasha on 5th calle, waved at the ultra delicious Claudia #1 of Da Vinci and…ogled the teen tarts in the park…pop tarts? you tell me…

seen any of the new/shiny 1 quetzal coins yet? uncirculated but they all have 2011 as the date of issue…maybe it’s just a Guatemalan thing, where it takes two years to get stuff done…

Pappy’s Texas BBQ? announcing that they’re open tomorrow…11-4…maybe they’re getting ‘up to speed’ and figuring out just how much traffic they can bear…I like it…a ‘sound business plan’ unlike most others in this town..John Korte’s back in town, prepping for their final final move to Panama and bemoaning the lack of a parking space..

do you read? consider this…and do the math: if you buy a used book at 30q once a week, that’s 120q a month…you could, on the other hand, join the American Legion library, where for a measly 100q a year, read as much as you can bite off..next to the Bavarian Garden, on 7th ave norte…open 11-3, seven days a week and nope, you don’t have be a member of the Legion…

and thanks again, Reid, for the bottle of  Dr. Bronners Peppermint Castile Soap…as i said, over the usual meeting of the Knights of the Clown Table at Ocelot, i haven’t used it since the early 70’s, when I lived on a commune in  northern Cal…now..where to find the patchouli  oil?..ah, Gualan/Guanajar? no idea when…might be a truck load of relatives, per the Christmas run of 20 some in the back…

and where in hell did all these PNC(cops)come from? like the army patrols, they’re packin’ serious firepower…stubby little machine guns, black berets and…nope…didn’t see any of the rarely seen pink berets…they’re the anti-gay troops..

and one by one, the annual visitors are leaving…some not soon enough, the others will be missed…there might be one more road trip next month, a kind of closing out the season thing…Mike D, Alabama Bob, Reid, all leaving in May…it could be a run to Iximche, Xela and  for those with fortitude and a desire to see what ranks is on my top three list of worst nightclubs in the world(El Exceso)..no film at 11, btw…all I remember is some fat girl trying to climb the brass pole..and failing.