Free Content - March 2008 Archives

• Baseball: more MPI-Punahou
  03/16/08
  Though the ILH race is brutally tough, there are three berths available for the Division I state tournament. Last year, only one ILH berth existed.
  
  
• Dog Whisperer: Guitar-Howling Hound
  03/14/08
  Dog Whisperer
  
  
• Annindofu vs. Mizuyokan
  03/14/08
  Within the valley, only 10 farms are able to produce the "diamond" of the red beans: the black saya. It's actually a dark, maroonish red, a beautiful bean.
  
  
• Love is ... Oxytocin?
  03/14/08
  Oxytocin (Greek: "quick birth") is a mammalian hormone that also acts as a neurotransmitter in the brain.
  
  
• Herman Wedemeyer, Saint Louis RB
  03/14/08
  Wedemeyer went on to an All-American career at St. Mary's. He went on to play pro football for the Los Angeles Dons and Baltimore Colts. He also had a distinguished business and political career, but he may be best known to the younger generations as "Duke" in Hawaii Five-O.
  
  
• Ham is good
  03/14/08
  Bottom line: Fulfill your passion and you will be rewarded. Well, as long as it's legal.
  
  
• Kikaida, Hakaida
  03/14/08
  I suppose I'll never forget that Halloween night in the mid-1980s, when I lost my beloved Kikaida action figure (another way to avoid using the word doll).
  
  
• Landmarks of Mo'ili'ili
  03/14/08
  I think of the Varsity Theater and how it survived through 70 years of Mo'ili'ili's development -- a leg East in the development of then "suburban" Honolulu -- and I wonder how much of a miracle it would be to see the memories and beauty of the place live on.
  
  
• Destination: Hawaii
  03/14/08
  How do you nagivate 2,000 miles to find a tiny dot out there in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? It's almost unfathomable without modern technology. Even the Hokulea today navigates through Polynesia and Micronesia, but not without nearby help and technology. It's just so risky, even with modern anemities.
  
  
• Hawaii plus Sports plus Pau Hana Time equals...
  03/13/08
  If Hukilau could open a location near UH, say a renovated Bowl-O-Drome, it would be perfect. One-hundred percent retro. But that's a pipe dream. Bishop Estate owns that property and condos are going up there sooner rather than later.
  
  
• It's all in the shade of green
  03/13/08
  I'm still a fan of the old retro uniforms. Wearing those once or twice a year would be brilliant. I like the logo of the Warrior guy better than the multi-colored UH rainbow (gender equity).
  
  
• Rocky
  03/13/08
  Yep, this is the trailer for the first Rocky....
  
  
• Ramen rules
  03/13/08
  Ajitama Ramen, to my regret, is no more. I ate there only once, didn't take pics, and feel sad that they're gone. However, it's not all bad. Tenkaippin has taken over, in the same spot next to Starbucks in Kapahulu, and the kotteri ramen (#1 on the menu) is lucious.
  
  
• OK, this sounds a little simple but ...
  03/13/08
  I want to learn how. How people make money off Adsense. Off domains. Off selling cute little pink vests for the their kitty kats. So how do you do it, world?
  
  
• Love: A Definition
  03/13/08
  As a younger man, I didn't think twice at the word love. But as I get older, it's clearer to me how complex it really is, and that multiple definitions are accurate as opposed to the stuff we used to hear in music.
  
  
• Retro Aloha: The Old Stadium
  03/13/08
  Long live old Honolulu Stadium....
  
  
• Toys: Hail Raideen!
  03/13/08
  The '70s were a stupendous time to be a kid who loved cartoon and comic-book action heroes. There was Raideen, operated by a boy would would "fade in" with a chant and an Olympian-level leap to the entrance of Raideen (his face). There was Kikaida and Kikaida 01, Kamenrider, Denjin Zaboga, Inazuman and many more, including comedic, sometimes pathetic Robocon.
  
  
• Soul in Ala Wai?
  03/13/08
  Everywhere I've been to in Hawaii, there's real soul. People who are down to earth and absolutely giving of their time and aloha. That's what makes every neighborhood and community eternally rich, at least in my eyes.
  
  
• A History of Migration: We Are ...
  03/13/08
  We are all the descendants of migrants....
  
  
• Raise the curtain?
  03/13/08
  But there's also something poignant and cerebral about it all, having the guts to be out there alone when there are adults who don't have half the courage.
  
  
• Catty Observations: Who are they?
  03/13/08
  Now, Yang comes back to eat, is willing to be pet, but gets in fights almost every night. The past few weeks have been the worst. His right eye is based and scratched so badly that he can't open it most times. He looks like Rocky Balboa.
  
  
• Film: Babel towers
  03/12/08
  ... though Blanchett didn't strike me in any way physically during this scene, her skills are exquisite. It's a sequence of impressions that I haven't walked through during a film since, maybe, seeing Meryl Streep for the first time. I remember going through the same thing with at least two of Nicole Kidman's films.
  
  
• Oh no, I di-in't
  03/06/08
  This is a total first. I kid not. And that makes me feel guilty. All these months. Maybe years. I go in, I get an iced tea (the vanilla bean frappucinos are too expensive and fattening) or hot tea, and I feel like I'm making a fair deal when I plug in the ol' laptop for an hour or two to get some work done.
  
  
• Why go touristy now, Tony?
  03/05/08
  10:56 p.m. From all indications, he did a very generic look at the islands. Now, I do remember reading that he brought his wife and baby along, so anything eccentric (as he does in the rest of the world) was probably out of the question. But as I am watching No Reservations off my DVR, I am really expecting the worst episode in the show's history.
  
  

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