You’ve heard me bitch about the recycling here…or lack of it…if you are on Oahu and can make it to this meeting, be there! cd There will be a VITALLY important meeting Monday Feb. 13, at 9:30 a.m. at Honolulu Hale (City Hall) on curbside recycling. If you and anyone you know can come down…
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Kailua Second Sunday Gallery Walk 2/12
Was reminded by the radio this morning that this Sunday is the Kailua Second Sunday Gallery Walk, here in lovely Kailua on the island of Oahu. The manager of the Balcony Gallery at 442A Uluniu created the gallery walk about 6 months ago now. The Lodestar Collective, next door to the Balcony, plans an “anti-Valentine’s”…
UDown ?!
While I was wandering around this evening between martinis, I passed the U-Down store a few blocks from my house. To give a little bit of backgorund, if you go anywhere on this fukn island of Oahu, you see this U down symbol…. Anyway…life has been complicated for a while and for whatever reason, tonight…
maryjane
(This comes to you via Bob at the Oahu Dive Center cd) It starts out with a typical kids church song, but be patient. Wait a little over a minute, and see what happens. While you’re waiting, you can click around on the family, but I would wait. Lot of other freaky goings on in…
Mayor Fights Leeward Windmill Farm – Yahoo! News
(This is the kind of story that really amazes me. The Leeward Coast of Oahu suffers from a lack of good jobs. A wind farm would provide clean energy, minimal impact to sensitive cultural areas, AND family wage jobs. Our Mayor is so obviously kow towing to the special interests that got him elected. Could…
Paddleboarder Beats Record Time
North Shore paddleboarder Chris Owens took a break at sunrise yesterday before completing his record-breaking paddle from Oahu to Kauai. Owens is the second man in history to complete the grueling 65-nautical-mile paddle. He started paddling from the North Shore of Oahu on Wednesday evening and made the crossing in 21 hours and 45 minutes….
Diver Hospitalized After Possible Barracuda Attack
This story is interesting by itself, but the quotes in pidgin (Hawaiian Creole) make it that much mo bettah. Diver Hospitalized After Possible Barracuda Attack – Yahoo! News Fri Jul 22,10:41 PM ET An attack by an aggressive fish, possibly a barracuda, sent a diver to an Oahu hospital Thursday night. It happened at Kahana…
Oahu Police Seeking Fat Albert and His Gang
I’m not making this up…this is the police sketch from the Star Bulletin. Apparently no one got a good look at Mush Mouth because he had his hat pulled over his face. Rudy allegedly told the kidnappers that they were like “School on Saturday, No Class” and then ran off to do some shoplifting. “The…
Tankless Underwater Breathing Apparatus : Gizmodo
Went on a cool dive on the West side of Oahu yesterday…I didn’t have one of these things though….looks like it is the real deal, but I think I would rather have a tank filled with air and a pressure gauge…. Tankless Underwater Breathing Apparatus : Gizmodo CD DamitioCD Damitio writes at indignified.substack.com — essays…
Drug Granny in Kalihi
Police arrested yet another drug-dealing grandmother Wednesday morning on Oahu. this time a Kalihi woman selling crystal methamphetamine, or ice, out of her daughter’s apartment, where her five grandchildren live, police said. Resident’s expressed no shock. “Shocking? No. We’re kind of use to it already,” resident Nalo Cabuyaban said. Senior citizen drug lords are not…