QuaxiDanto

QuaxiDanto: If you speak K'ekchi, you know what it means, but don’t understand. K'ekchi is a Mayan dialect spoken in, among other places, Belize. I made several extended trips into the high bush in southern Belize at the end of the last century with a bunch of K'ekchis who gave me the nickname Danto, which means Tapir. That name had been taken so I added the modifier Quaxi, which means crazy. What does CrazyTapir mean as far as the title of my blog? Whatever!

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I am an enigmatic anachronism, facing the world jaded and uncomfortably impressed. My chosen profession is archaeology, which turns out to be way more tedious than cool. I race yachts, hang with the bohemian artist crowd, and vacation at ancient Maya cities. Its no wonder I usually feel out of place, and am oh-so-pleased to be different (even if it is not in a good way). Why TOC?: I was participating through emails in a call-in radio show that didn’t accept phone calls (it’s college radio, which covers a multitude of sins). The host had a friend named Chuck who also wrote into the show so they started referring to me as “the other Chuck.” I started signing my emails TOC (The Other Chuck). A little later I started posting to a blog that was running live during the next program in the lineup and then a couple of other places and have just kind of stuck with it as a screen name. Again, whatever dude.

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Monday night at the Beachland Tavern

I made it to the Dressy Bessy show. I met WCSB radio personality and artist formerly known as Sergio Van Lukenstein, (I refuse to go along with the “_” shit), in person. Nice guy; total dork. I talked to Tammy Ealom a little before the show. I asked her about the new dance craze she is planning to start, and she was a little regretful about having committed to such a thing on the radio. She seems to be a really nice person. The show was great, way more energy than I could ever hope to muster on a Monday night. It’s so much better seeing live stuff than recordings. I hung out with Ryan and I think Greg of Twilight fame, flirted with the bartenders, drank too much…all and all a good night.

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