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6098: rambling (fwd)
From: oloffsonram <oloffsonram@globelsud.net>
The pre-election stress is waning a bit. Cars, traffic and pedestrians
in Port-au-Prince are starting to get back to normal levels. Very few
shots if any(there are always one or two) can be heard at night. The
bombs stopped two or three days before the elections. The 92% victory
by Aristide sounds impressive until you look at the last election
(referendum) by Jean-Claude Duvalier in July of 1985 when only ONE
person voted against him. I wonder what Jean Dominique meant
by "Electoral Coup d'Etat". A guy I assume to be from Lavalas asked me
to play the song "Fey" on Thursday night and told me to play it if "You
know whats good for you". I asked him "How do I know you're not just an
old 'Fraph' guy" and he shut up and sat down. We didn't honor his
request. Aubelin Jolicoeur once said that ALL Haitians are Ton Ton
Macoutes on the inside. Most of the foreign press corps has left. New
York Times, Miami Herald, BBC, Le Monde, no sightings of CNN. I spoke
to a reporter from the Washington Post for the first time in two years.
I guess either they're back or I'm back. There was a bomb scare at the
Montana Hotel but it turned out to be a reporter's boom microphone
wrapped in duct tape. The owner of the microphone realized his mike had
been found while interviewing a witness who had seen "The bomb". A few
folks from the slum district of Belair came over to see me just before
the election and said they've had it up to here and Aristide better
deliver on his promise of peace in the stomach. Aristide's support,
which used to be unconditional, now has a few conditions. A
photographer friend of mine was shocked when she discovered people
downtown making small little pancakes out of dirt(argyll), margarine
and salt, boiled in water and then dried in the sun. Twenty pancakes
for two gourdes. "Peace in the stomach." The U.N. says they're pulling
out on Feb. 6. I didn't know they were still here (Just kidding
Michael!). Consumption of Prestige Beer is up. I don't know if its
because they won a Gold Medal. I find that each bottle tastes
different. Our next RAM record has been mastered. We're getting closer
to a release date. The band's tenth anniversary is this December 31st.
If you're in town, come on over. I hope everyone has a wonderful
holiday season. By the way, a fellow came up to me during half time of
the Thursday RAM show at the Oloffson and said "Hi, I'm Guy Antoine"
and I looked at him trying to figure out where I had heard the name
before....
Richard Morse