Our Man in Antigua

when the clouds coming creeping over the mountains to the west I’m reminded of San Francisco/Sausalito and the fog…eerily  very similar and I’m happy to be here, rather than there.

Happy Birthday, Cindy!  congrats on holding down two jobs…that ain’t easy in this town….Marbel? where the hell are you? you were working at two places but I’ll be damned if I’ve seen you in a couple of weeks..o well, kind of typical.

the Pub Crawl! what began at La Terazza by our own inimitable Carla B has grown….6pm, a horde(20+) of people streamed into /up to LAva, where one assumes that Mikhail will appear and do his salsa thing…La Rumba, Papa Town and 13(the failed concept bar)can only wish to be half as successful.

Alex Long’s Nido Antingua is getting some fresh blood..aka a new tenant who will be opening a cigar bar…yeah, right…another one, ten years after that craze went under…hey, it’s $$ so shaddup…

that vacancy on 5th Ave norte, #15? prime location and still vacant? let’s see..there aren’t any spanish schools or travel agencies on that block…Diva, across the street is up for sale, should you be interested…Caffe Bourbon suffering the thing called ‘no business’…bring back Bobby Darling/Moriah/Piano Mike….do something other than just sit there, empty..the ‘music scene’ in this town is getting moribund/aka boring/stale….that jazz joint way up east with the unpronounceable name, had two customers on Saturday night…so much for making the ‘nut’ that night, or the month or the  ….too far away for the foot crowds, too big for the space, too etc..they shoulda taken over the old Riki’s space on 4th Ave…

why does Ricardo of Tabacos y Vinos open at 10 or eleven am? there’s no business til 5pm or so…and having two people($$)man or woman the store? hey, it’s just a question, ok?

so…happy father’s day here…yesterday it was, in the states…here’s a funky tie,  a discount card at the book store and …..with any luck, the new Pit Stop  up the road to the City will be open soon..getcher donuts on the way to town..should be an interesting experiment but/and all of Shauns’ ‘experiments have worked out ..we’ll see what happens/how long the afterhours party goes on at O’lot…if the doors/windows are closed, can the cops and a judge show up with papers and a can of Mace?