hole_in_the_wall guitar_freak There was a trap door under the dining room rug of the old President's house. Rumor had it that the secret room was used in the underground railroad. that can't be true because this house is in iowa, there would've been no reason to hide here. In the basement, there is a hole in the wall, a small hole about chin high. The hole leads into room and so I squirm through. It's as if I'd been transported into some strange reality. Here i am in the fanciest house in town, in a secret room with no door. Everything is dark and covered in dust. On the floor is a sombrero, a pillow, and a robe. Twinkie wrappers and a twenty year old chip bag lay in a pile. Who lived here? How did they get here? why? I don't know. I take the sombrero and leave. this is how curses begin. This is the curse of the mexican hobo room and its sombrero. 051012 ... cocoon She punched a hole in the wall 051013 ... nocturnal good bars. I used to go to the Hole in the Wall in Austin and I went to the Hole in the Wall in Galway. The latter is tied w/ my fav. pub in Dublin for best pint in Ireland, the former is convenient, cheap, and has an excellent juke box. 051013 what's it to you? who go blather from