From the Unsung Heroes (who are dead) Desk…

Mr. Wizard is dead. The man who introduced generations to blowing stuff up with common household objects, way before MacGyver, has passed. Sure, sometimes he was a little cavalier with the use of liquid nitrogen, but the kids learned respect. He was a loose cannon that couldn’t be hemmed in by the rules, man! Wait, [...]

Bad Analogy

To put the late, great Dr. Hunter S. Thompson in the same contextual frame of mind as Alberto Gonzales…I’m sure you’ve heard of him…well, it’s blasphemy!! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/gonzo-has-the-fear_b_46048.html Now I’m getting The Fear….

Yin and Yang

While I think Bush shit and stepped back in it in many things, the war in Iraq is a huge steaming pile of poo.  I want us out of there, yesterday. However, I understand the military view of things. With that in mind, I copy an email I received from a family friend and retired [...]

Aloha and mahalo, Mr. Ho…

With great sadness I report the passing of the great Don Ho. I met him only once, after a concert with his daughter…no, not Hoku and me…anyhoo, he was funny and nice. We also belonged to the same golf club, although I never got to play with him. Mahalo nui loa and a hui hou.

Passing of a legend

Kurt Vonnegut had died. Dammit. I remember junior high in Hawai’i, digging around in the storeroom between the A/V lab and the library and finding Slaughterhouse-Five buried in a cabinet. It was the early eighties!? My last memory of him (we weren’t close) was on “Real Time” giving Bush the verbal finger, last year. Godspeed, [...]