Thursday, December 17, 2015

18 Dec: "Eeeeeeeeh!!" Shrieked mrs kiul the warung wife at my dog Jackie, " kekeh chi banten cange". (you've clawed my offerings, you bitch).

There is a heavenly monsoonal breeze this morning, sweeping cool across the lagoon to our west. I hit the beach at 0715 — unusually late, as i was up late watching the wondrous Will Farrel, the dame edna of the americas, take on jimmy fallon on the tonight show.
On the beach were the Pulaki Sextettes, a gaggle of north balinese in skimpy outfits. The north balinese hv a superior hottie fashion sense (see photos below) and, to the north of the groyne, two Banyuatis boys beaming bonhomie. I reflected on the glacial grimness of my countrymen on the beach, compared, say, to the balinese.
My dogs have taken to gamboling in the low tide around a moored outrigger. Yesterday,my favorite pup Possu went legs up and stiff in front of me, as Jackie fought for her life at my ankles: victims of random poisoning by god-knows who. Its not like there's packs of angry dogs around here or anything. Jackie survived; poor Possu was buried by my Amir in our carpark canine cemetry, now overspilling. I can only today talk about it.

 

 

 







Wednesday, December 16, 2015

17 Dec: Oh joy of joys: my old Balinese mate, fashionable 1970s father-for-rent Braggie has turned up on mertasari beach disguised as a fisherman.

There is a great photo of Braggie with putu suarsa and victor mason in london in 1975 in my first stranger in paraDise book. I'll post it later. He still has most of his amazing tombstone teeth. And he's filled out a bit. In the old days i used to sleep every night with braggie and his gorgeous kidnapped Brahman wife on a single bed!
In the 1980s, Braggie gave Victor all the stories for The Haughty Toad and co-founded U.D. Jenggala with Brent Hesslyn.

It's so great that we all now have encore careers as early morning beach bums.

 






16 Dec: Sublime serene sunrise at Mertasari this morning. I met two surfie brothers from Sindhu



 





15 Dec: Mertasari, Selasa: Pak Ketut di Pondok Merana memiliki teman baru — Yang sangat penting kadek x (10). Sepuluh tahun usia yang luar biasa di bali yakin diri — Mereka memperlihatkan kepercayaan dari hadiah-Fighters