Our Man in Antigua

if the usual format isn’t here,blame it on WP and I suppose a ‘marketing move’..this is their generic font/template so I either put up the extra $$ or we all limp along(limply)…

whew…after weeks of futbol, and yesterday, the Antigua Futbol Club had a monster game today…they’ve recently been kicked upstairs to a better league and maybe this was the occasion…Dunno, as usual…I’m kind of thinking/slowly absorbing the whole ‘futbol’ thing…no promises, though..

the short-lived Cantina known as La Morena, within the Ocelot compound on 4th is ‘over.’…gonna be a blues and jazz bar,per Shawn..it didn’t ‘pencil out’ as they say…and Whiskey Bar? busy again and thanks, to El Jefe de As Green as it Gets, for the taste of your private blend…and the info about small distillerlies….distilleries? spel chuck left earlier, if you wondered..it was enough to make me seek out a shot of espresso before the 7’o clock meet in the park…we’d planned on going to the new Japanese place, Origami…been told it’s superb and likewise given fallacious(false) information on where it’s located…”on 6th calle, between 3rd and 4th avenidas.”….right…up/down and around…couldn’t find it…Como Como closed, Cafe Med next door, el same-o but they’re always dead regardless…even the newish Mex restaurant with the O’lot space, Las Margaritas, closed on a Saturday night with a major ‘futbol’ game on? WTF?

Andy, our superb mime, working mid 5th ave to a large crowd…this guy is so good, underrated/underpaid..
he could work Fisherman’s Wharf, in San Francisco very easily and do well…for you ‘mimers’, that’s were Shields and Yarnell got their start..and a bizarre sight, on the steps of the Palacio…the Silver Statue, the carpenter guy? sitting on the steps, with his safety helmet off…bottom half of his face still silver, top half latin/black hair..weird(to me, anyway)I don’t think he’s making the cut, taking little donations, or enough to pay for his paint.
Fine, you say…who cares? well, there’s always Fox News if you want..for me, it’s the end of the weekend, I may…just may, get to f….king Salama this week, assuming a couple of things…feels like trying to get to Xanadu or Tim Buk To…got the bus line but their phone number is out of service…gives me a nice warm feeling, you know?