Hawaii Blog

This town’s pretty schizophrenic about its interpretation of its own laws. So now there’s a 20-foot-high cross towering over Makakilo they’ve deemed a ’structure,’ not a ’sign.’ What’s an activist to do? Build an equally huge monument to homosexuality, of course! I love it. I wonder if they need help [...]

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Douglas Adams is gone. It’s been a week and I still can’t believe it. He was too young. And too wonderful a writer. I have to read the “trilogy” again — probably my tenth time through. In honor of the man, word is spreading on the net about Towel Day [...]

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Now’s a good a time as any to mention the building crecendo of buzz and press over the Bay/Bruckheimer blockbuster (usually not declared until the opening weekend take is tallied, but I think this is a sure bet) “Pearl Harbor.” I don’t know why, but the previews and TV ads still make me cry. [...]

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