The Chairman and I attended last night’s Lantern Floating ceremony at Ala Moana Beach Park in Honolulu. It was moving and beautiful to see a thousand paper lanterns honoring the dead floating off onto the waves. Surfers stood out in silhouette against the sky as they herded stray lanterns. We watched one lantern make a…
Category: Travel
More stripping in Hawaii….
Below is a picture of a stripper in Hawaii, but of late, strippers of a different sort have been ripping off public facilities, churches,a nd now graveyards in order to make some cash from scrap copper….the story is below the picture…. cd  Police said that within the last two months, they have been alerted…
Freegans are Urban Survivalists
This article takes something I have been preaching for years and sort of institutionalizes it. I like it. The truth is that every day enough food and value is thrown into dumpsters to feed, clothe, house, and educate every person on the planet. If you want to explore this lifestyle further, you should read the…
Wire Thefts Cause Freeway Light Outages – Yahoo! News
First the fixtures from public restrooms and now the wires that carry electricity. Watch on, Planet Earth, as the United States of America begins to dismantle itslef and bring to a close an experiment gone horribly wrong that was started more than two hundred years ago with the founding of the country. I’m certain you…
Rental from craigslist in the heart of waikiki
Suffice to say…its not cheap to find a place to live in Hawaii…I haven’t asked but I wonder if they want a deposit on that closet? First and last? cd I have a closet for rent – there is space in it for one person sleeping upright; you’re able to lean against the backboard if…
Trouble getting rid of shit
Toilets, sinks, and flush valves disappeared from 28 Oahu public rest rooms over the last 3 weeks. Can you picture this gang?? [Cue Mission Impossible music…] Thieves in the last three weeks have hit scores of city park bathrooms and made off with a valuable commodity: $10,000 worth of brass toilet flush valves. City officials…
Making Hawaii Suck
As a person who lives here, let me just speak out and say that none of the flies need to be protected. Does this mean I can face fines if I kill flies? If you try to sit in my yard and eat something or read or just enjoy the day, you will see that…
Do you like to Party?
This looks pretty cool. Jason in Arizona sent me this link hoping that Mink Hippie and I would write about some of our burning man experiences last year or maybe other great World Festivals we’ve been to. I like it. Things like swimming in Chang Mai canals during Songkran, Monsoon parties in the Indian Ocean,…
Dead dolphins found in Zanzibar
A friend of mine just bought a backpackers’ hostel in Zanzibar. It looks like just about one of the most gorgeous places on earth and I can’t wait to visit. Hopefully this mass dolphin stranding won’t have too much impact on their growing tourism industry. And what a bummer about all the dead dolphins –…
'Lost' actress opts for jail time over community service
She doesn’t look very sorry, does she? (BTW sorry for the screwed up formatting on my posts this week – I’m in Atlanta and having trouble with this !@#$! computer….) KANE’OHE — Declaring her life an open book, “Lost” actress Michelle Rodriguez admitted she drove drunk and accepted jail time yesterday, but not before detailing…