Our Man in Antigua

does it ever occur to you that the usual park bench in the people consists of some of the same? no names, no faces, just the usual conversations/observations?    “YMCA!”….why am I gay?….no names..please…

I haven’t seen such an assortment of multi-colored puke in this town for 7 or 8 months….such an assortment of puddles…are they/this that un-used to drinking in this town of serious imbibers guess so…congrats  on yet another bar…the Londiner///Londiner? Michael Rayment is part of this ?…great…another watering hole…every face in town was in the trough earlier own…my self included…

It’s been a year of losses….Bruce McCowan, Michael Banfield, almost Michael Tallon and myself..thanks to three…no, two badly botched surgeries in April, plus a tune up from the VA….and thanks to Rick/Maria Neel, JR and Bull……plus help from the angels, Michael Donley and Maite Morjan…that and a recently screwed up ‘slip and fall’ thanks to old slippery shower shoes/slippery floors….screw..what next?Go see/hear Nelson play/sang..he’s at his best…the Casa Blanca on the week ends is best but don’t take your f%$#@! laptown…can you spell 9 mm?

yeah, the’lost’ mayan monument?….350 meters up some stream….tripped, fell, no photos…another case of bad luck..I think I ‘get’ the picture…..after a year of such, you know?

Ponzi Bob returns in early January…Howard departs shortly thereafter…who knows what the ‘plan’ will be for 2016?  assuming…Jackson is gone….not only an Ohio driver’s license, but socks and supposedly a full length fur coat of unknown source…meow? woof?

and yes, Christmas lights up and on…flashing red, like me…Christmas dinner? Sobremesa not, La Taberna not, La Viniera Antigua)Trattoria etc…220q!? my ass….I could buy cheaper head at Divas 2…

Hap’s back from Cuba…thanks for the little Cohibas…Reid goes to La Paiz to restock Chef B Alpo for me…vitamins, you know

and one last, for the year, in the Marbel series…Hotel Santo Domingo’s fabulous museum…great photos, lousy writing..so what else is new?

 Maite and I might do the City next week…after all the hullaballoo has died down…has it occurred to you how much money and coke has been seized recently….huge…it is just Christmas??  so, fine…have a great year…this might be ‘it’ for me….work,  you know….Marbel and her photos…some one has to pick/choose…volunteers? hah! as if…welcome back, Michael T….we’ve missed you…big time…pass the seltzer…you dodged a giant bullet…as if you don’t know it..