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for all, whether you need it or not…can it hurt? Coming this Monday, the 15th, just in time to moan about filing your US tax return, the 3rd anniversary of Ocelot….5-6pm, open bar…well, not quite but the lower end stuff is free…perfect timing since a lot of the more….uh, ‘serious drinkers’ have left for the States.

top this! or send in your own experiences with the maid hiding stuff…I thought it was just me/mine but Mike Chrisman has a story about a set of salvaged wine corks being used in a game….and where did she put them? in the oven….I feel a little bit better, but if you can top it, do so..no rewards other than mutual WTF’s…

speaking of WTF, I met a relative tonight, who  is the Editor for a publication in El Salvador, called WTF…’Waves, Tours, Fiestas’….a relative, here? distant but her name is Kelli Hatfield..it’s a new publication and a guide book…I like it…www.wtf-elsalvador.com and yes, I’m a distant Hatfield cousin, which might explain my predilection for guns/whisky..

Imageand there you have it…ah, the smell of gun powder in the morning.

Segafreddi, the new nightclub upstairs where the theatre was, by Mono Loco?  open..a bit on the cavernous side, huge movie screen, nice bar, dance floor and upper level to watch…Wok Co, my favorite chinese joint, packed..

Bobby Darling/Moriah Sterling, setting up at Caffe Bourbon, Rumi(i finally went in)looks fine…Neils’ ‘Gastro Pub doing fine, Nido Antigua empty….lotta spaces vacant: guess that Semana Santa didn’t quite pan out as expected. The old Reilly’s location on  upper 5th still undergoing renovations…been said that they’ll have some apartments up,  and commercial spaces down..it’s only been two years plus since they started, eh?

and last but not least, the Miracle! Frener, my printer….the local version? produced, for the first time, perfect editions…no typos, missing pages, screw-ups and ….on time…I think its time for another adult sports beverage…

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‘love it or leave it’….or just get the hell outa Dodge for the end of Semana Santa, which  is exactly what I did…4 days/3 nights in beautiful downtown Guaranja, off the maps, grids and without water…yeah, there was ice, coke, rum and beer plus ammunition, so it wasn’t a total loss. Total Loss? the  venerable Land Rover, with history  going back to Jim Hearne, Mac, Murray and lately HBT…Reid?  his dreams shattered permanently after hearing just how trashed the Rover is…

Imageit’s  not a pretty picture but that’s what it is…the weather, the pigs and the missing radiator…and now that I gave it a final coup de grace….it was HBT’s  idea, except he doesn’t remember…two  rounds in the  night, after innumerable rounds of beer, rum and HBT’s favorite combustible..hey, it was Guaranja, Good Friday night, no water, rum down to a bottle and a half and everyone else was letting off rounds…if nothing else, it was a great insight/experience in ‘tipico’ Guatemala living…no water, wood stoves for cooking, extended families, lotta pigs running around and a fabulous river for swimming…hidden, off the  map and popular with the locals…

part 1…http://www.examiner.com/article/finding-guaranja

I’m thinkin’ of  a  Monopoly version of Antigua…Go to Jail cards, followed by years of  ’house arrest’…land on a space where a  restaurant used to be, pick up 200q,…speaking of jail, another ‘conspiracy to commit illegal acts’ has spun off the latest event involving a certain  house south of  town…not involving cats this time but a television set…the ‘crime’ captured on video, engendered a lotta cops and attorneys…after coming from a town where the police never come to, attorneys are unknown, this event boggles the mind..

Mario B/wife Nancy/baby, eating at Sobremesa…La Sala, thanks to Mario, is rockin’ seven nights a week and brightening up that part of town..Pappy’s Texas BBQ says their website is now up…www.bbqantigua.com….orders they take at orders@bbqantigua.com  tell me if it’s working or not, porfa

a flash of Flor, a dash of Claudia #1…hey, better than nothing, eh? and a  few places around town sold out of  ’Our Man in Antigua!’….whoop tee doo…right…BFD, actually but I’ll restock, take the $$ and shut up..

lastly, the old Ixcot space is now rented…from the signage, it looks like it’s associated with the Hotel D’Leyenda two doors down and they’re betting the house on serving ceviche..they could stuck a  Spanish school, travel agency and whatever else in there….who knows?

HBT didn’t get the concept of nude chocolate wrestling here in A-Town…tourism, right? yes, but….who gets to be the judge of the contestants? right!

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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.

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“Jesus and Mary, Part 12″….yep, another procession…Merced being ground zero with TV uplinks, lights and the streets blocked off…and the Army? the PNC? tons…black berets, pistols tied down for a quick draw and everywhere, every corner…what the %$#@! are they expecting to happen?

yes…that was an earthquake tonight…6.2, SE of G City but a deep one…yeah, it rattled parts of town, those who are/where in a position or state of mind to feel it..(not me, Bozo)

popped my head into Sobremesa’s new expansion…’love the little lounge and the new ‘open to the sky’ garden is coming (in back)…Alex says he’s been slammed with biz..

ok…it’s Monday, right? which implies that we’ve got 5.5 days or more processions, right?

I haven’t been out at night for 3 nights…this was a barely escaped event at La Merced and I count myself lucky..when the 8am traffic on 6th avenida norte gets to me,you know that I’ve got a problem with noise/people…well, I know it…even with lousy vision and bad hearing, I’m still affected…no, more pharmaceuticals aren’t the answer (damn)i know…’one more week, one more week’….and no, I haven’t been getting very far at night (see above)so the gossip/chisme factor is low…what little I’ve seen/heard isn’t of much interest…even to me, so that’s how lame it/I am..maybe tomorrow, maybe next week…who knows? go out and make some news, ok?

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apropos of nothing, of course…the seemingly never-ending story of the “Land Rover” in the muck took another twist today….it seems that it really belongs (sort of)to Mac and Jim Hearne except that they never really had a title to it.. .so? so what? anyone with a printer/scanner and a decent graphics program can get around this issue..more or less…my suggestion to Reid is to put it on pontoons and float it to Puerto Barrios…right, as it…he’s getting very cold feet about this deal.

Francisco, one of our resident ‘dealers’ in hot/dubious merchandise of uncertain provenance (I’m being kind)working the patio at Ocelot…the jade mask? for you…500q..

the latest roadtrip….http://www.examiner.com/article/the-search-for-monument-21?cid=db_articles

what was the Restaurant Panchoy is reincarnating as the Cafe Panchoy…a big space on 6th ave, and installing a lot of new wooden fixtures…what was Ixcot has a new tenant, slowly moving in. A menu, business plan and a license? who knows…maybe they’ll call iit…”Mama Town”….and thanks, Christian for the ‘ thumbs up’ on the little Skyy Cosmo cocktails at Bodogona…yep, add a little extra Vitamin V and they crank/rock…whatever..

and a early Happy Birthday to the Marvelous Miss M….how old is she gonna be? I know, but some gentlemen don’t tell..HBT’s 69th rolls around(nice visual)on Sunday…Guanajar will rock..fireworks, guns in the night, the usual stuff..I’m definitely packin’ and I don’t mean a suitcase…if half the stories I’ve heard are any indication, a man would be a fool not to.

If you read a lotta books (and I do) consider joining the American Legion Library, up 7th avenida next to the Bavarian Garden…open to anyone with 100q (a year’s subsciption), 11-3, 7 days a week…over 30000 books of every kind: I’d be spending a 100q a week otherwise, buying used books.

Bobby Darling and Moriah playing at Cafe Bourbon tonight…Mike C and lady there on time for the start..the rest of the eateries in town fairly empty but given the hordes of clean/white kids streaming into town, they gotta eat somewhere(maybe)

gun control? use both hands…

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