REPRINT: My Day Began at Mismaloya, Mexico, home of BOTH The Night of the Iguana and the ENTIRE "Predator" Film Franchise

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Looking to the mouth of Rio Mismaloya, this morning, from the footbridge at the center of village.

1. Pedro, or as I call him: the Pope of Mismaloya, is going to Colorado soon to help his gringo girlfriend who has a health challenge -- fortunately Pedro has had a US Green Card for many years, now. Teo's, the palapa bar/restaurant that stands where the palapa bar was in the movie THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA, is owned by Pedro, and has LOST its entire beach at high tide, but has a huge raised and covered platform seating about 60 diners and strong WiFi -- and Pedro has his fingers in many business pies, so will do fine. And the beach is returning at this time of year.

I had an early lunch there today, and also sniffed around to discover that currently, Mota de Mismaloya (a pungent herb, often smoked in pipes or joints), in grande-bud form is going for 420 pesos for a bag of about 1.5 ounces, which works out to $21.21 per ounce USD. This means that there is PLENTY of economic pressure to import it even to Colorado. That said, it is the natural strength like we knew in college in the 1970s -- which quite frankly is ALL YOU NEED if you don't need to get completely BLOTTO.


2. A gringo couple, there, reminded me of something -- and I even found an image of it on Face the Book:

Of COURSE one could raise TONS of employees' wages to at least semi-decency if TOP corporate wages were kept to about 25 times that of their LOWEST paid employees -- like was the case, generally, about the time I graduated college in 1973 -- perhaps topping out at a million or two per year, and no one in Corporate America getting paid MORE, like it was when I was in my twenties.

Consider a company paying a minimum of $10.00/hour. The CEO could make no more than $520,000.00 per year -- and this would be like it was under Richard Nixon (Bebe Rebozo's long time homosexual lover).

2. I met a man -- a native of Puerto Vallarta and a little younger than me -- whose uncle was Richard Burton's water-taxi driver during that filming and afterward, he and Elizabeth Taylor as well as John Huston LONG keeping residences in PV. He agreed with me that Presidente Salinas, often called by Mexicans "the Richard Nixon of Mexico", was their WORST -- and that Bill Clinton was the most DESTRUCTIVE American President to Mexican Society and Families BECAUSE he advanced CIA narco-trafficking in Mexico so enormously -- FAR more than either Bush President, whose family got the BULK of Clinton's efforts' profits.


But the US Press never publishes a BIT of this -- since it is completely CIA-controlled. Pity.

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Nothin' more to say about hypocrisy -- or the Official Response of Republicans to Obama's State of the Union Address. 

4. I discovered that the Writers' Group I had belonged to in 2010 has recently regrouped under the leadership of Colin, former Censor for the BBC -- who is NOT an old prude, so I will check that out this Saturday -- especially since they now meet in a THEATER.


5. Having home Internet is like having a passport and lots of money. It is taking me a while to get used to it after a month or so of not having it!!!


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My nephew Connor Kenan is now paddling on the Mekong River, which leads to this morning's view of Rio Mismaloya, looking upriver from the same bridge at top of this posting. You see how the narrow river emerges from the jungle and widens before flowing into the sea:

Mountains are behind this, but don't show due to contrast and how it registers in my camera.

Scott

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