"Khan" by Mr. Banana Hammock (not Omari)

Still more OMARI, who posted yesterday....

I’m going to be seeing Pink Martini at the 9:30 club tonight with a good friend. Full disclosure I suppose is in order: 1) I know nothing about Pink Martini and 2) My good friend is someone I once dated. I just now googled Pink Martini and found this description on their site: “Somewhere between a 1930s Cuban dance orchestra, a classical chamber music ensemble, a Brasilian marching street band and Japanese film noir is the 12-piece Pink Martini.” Good. Maybe a chance to perfect the dance that I am known for, the “white man’s overbite.”

Reflecting on the Cuba connection, it seems somewhat ironic that Cuba has been playing an important part of my life lately. Not only am I going to see the apparently Cuban-influenced Pink Martini, I am reading a book called “The Invisible Government” about the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and last night I had a mojito. Curious. Actually I had two mojitos. I was celebrating my belated birthday with said friend above and I lucked out with a very awesome t-shirt that reads, “KHAAAAAAAN!”

While I am not a huge trekkie or anything like that, “The Wrath of Khan” is probably one of my favorite of the Star Trek movies. It starred a young and not fat Kirstie Alley as Lt. Saavik and of course Ricardo Montalban as Khan Noonien Singh. Mr. Montalban is known mostly to me for his role as Mr. Roarke on “Fantasy Island” and his seductive pitching of the Chrysler Cordoba, with its "rich, Corinthian leather." I’m still not sure what that means, but I know I wanted some. I think I still might.

At some point after the second mojito last night I was doing what I do best, dispensing quality relationship advice. And while I don’t wish to breach any confidences, I would suggest that you wait until at least the fifth date, ladies, before you whip out your “bend-over boyfriend.”