last night, Halloween, would not have been a good night to be cruising on anything hallucenogic….er, anything causing hallucinations…..seeing things that weren’t there because there were a ton of folks made up as zombies (and worse)…full marks to that usually dead place on 5th ave sur for their entrance…the cave effect was cool..Reilly’s La Esquina seems to have ruled altho since i didn’t go to Cashbar’s Foam Party i can’t compare…’Foam parties’ always make me think of contraceptive foam, ya know? Was Marbel at La Esquina Reilly’s just wearing a black bra? overflow! defying gravity (in a very nice way)
anyone catch the spectacular clouds/lightning strikes over Fuego and Acatenango last night, bout six or so? made me wish i had my camera/tripod…i love this place…a small earthquake about 5pm today and we have active volcanoes, bus strikes and loads of coke coming in from all sides…
Finally, after a very long day, I’m back to feeling somewhat normal (right)…it was a long night, since i ducked out on the freak show in town….I’d called in for an ‘extraction’ at Red’s for 7pm…traffic sucked but HBT gave his wife a great excuse to be gone..’Halloween Party’….except he didn’t say where….#2 in Joco….’Missing in Action’ Jackson faded…the ‘party’ there? crazed but entertaining…the dancers weren’t great but Miss Honduras was…I think that some of my drinks were ‘jungle juice’ and not necessarily Fleischmans vodka…
Mario B of Johnny’s Place in Monterrico in town, with son…and proud of him…Yann, up in Montreal thinking of opening another restaurant? is he crazy or what? and yes, there’s an influx of white folks..aka tourists. Some with the matching t-shirts of the Christian persuasion, some with the fat white legs of the more elderly cruisers…who cares? o that’s right! the merchants!
the sign is off of what was Riki’s on 4th ave…imperio jade maya…moving or just opening another shop?…yeah, another jade shop, like we need more spanish schools, travel agencies and so on….Carmen Maria, the ex-mayor’s delicious daughter and running the Hotel D’Leyenda, got a great write up in El Diario this week…the hotel, ninny, not her…
so,this morning, I’m lurching down 5th Ave, by Nim P’ot and there’s Canadian Mike and Canadian Michael (relating last night’s episode)…’hi, meet Michael…er, Mike…’ gotta change my name…maybe ‘lunkhead’ words…your call..Franks’ on his way to the kite fest at Sumpango…’do I want to go?’…I was lucky to find 5th avenue, folks…what was in that stuff last night? The Day of the Dead is/was very appropriate.
Our Man in Antigua 
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