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well, here i am, amigos,

straddling the fence between a hip replacement and a trip to
india. 2 extreme choices. one, age and pain driven – too many forced turn-outs,
balletic plies, and i-was-too-old-to start-dancing-at-21 grinded femurs. the
other, opportunity knocking from the howling and holy monsoons and kiplings
of the sub-continent. what to do? tennis is already history, bedtime gymnastics
verboten, and now hiking uneven surfaces has even caught up with me. the wife
sez, like nike, “just do it.” but then crazy benny, formerly stefan
from germany who lived here at lucretia for a year but then went to india
for his last three months to live, calls from mumbai (formerly bombay), and
sez “you should check out an ayurvedic cure, and while you’re at it,
see de magic and creativity of hindi feelmmaking.”

i mean, what would you do?

of course!

here i go………..

hollywood to bollywood –

on sunday.

this being my traditional cold-footed e-cursor to total immersion
in another culture.

but INDIA? the 1 place i’ve been avoiding my entire traveler’s
life? sure……. i was chicken shit to go to me-hee-co the first time (and
yeah, i did get montezuma’s revenge), and squeamish to go to southeast asia
in 2000 (where i only ended up meeting my lovely indonesian wife), and even
petrified to go to south america in 2003 (where i barely avoided being hijacked
by the shining path for 2 months high in the andes), but INDIA! this is the
most crowded and dirty place on the planet, isn’t it? the place with the biggest
HIV population in the world? the place where they outsource our phone calls
to. the place with the flies and the cow pies. the raj and the haj. the hep
A and the hep B. the typhoid and the jaundice. the continent where explosive
and unavoidable digestive ailments rule. you know, INDIA!

this SUN-DAAAAAAAAY!

and now benny calls – today – and says “if you vant to
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he can meet me anymore or even where he’ll be because he’s flooded in goa,
and half the hotels in mumbai are under water from the last few days of the
holy and howling monsoons. and when i call a hotel for a reservation, i can
hear someone on the other end but they can’t hear me. and i arrive at 3:45
in the morning and i have no itinerary and no servas hosts have called me
back except the couple with the jaundiced son.

and i’m going to INDIA on sunday for 3 and a half weeks while
my indonesian wife studies english 4 days a week at LACC (los angeles city
college) and works as a bartender 3 nights a week and doesn’t really want
me to go but when i loll around the house all day complaining she finally
tells me to go except when i book the ticket she changes her mind but now
it’s too late because i already bought the non-refundable ticket and it’s
raining holy cats and dogs in mumbai formerly bombay and i don’t know whether
i should see hindu temples or IT phone banks or the river ganges or the river
of shit that i’m sure to discover no matter how many anti-bacterial handi
wipes i take or how many times i use them or how many vaccines or pills i
take or how careful i am because i know i’m gonna die in the black hole of
india so this is a farewll to all you fair and worthy friends – if you want
anything here in LA just call my wife after i’m gone and come and pick it
up because i won’t have any more use for it; anything but money, that is,
because she wants it all and god knows she’s earned it having survived 5 years
living with me can you imagine that, such a neurotic worrisome guy who hardly
realizes how good he has it and how little he has to work and all the time
he has on his hands where he can just write this self-indulgent obsessive
and now unpunctuated tripe to all his “friends” who he doesn’t even
call all year long when he’s living in safe and secure los angeles in the
land of bush, justice, and no longer the american way.

nevertheless, i’m offfffffffffffffffffffffffffff……………………

drop me a line.

say goodbye…………….

hasta (maybe),

e