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There is a lot of footage on youtube now of the Monday night/ Tuesday morning lunar eclipse, including several neat time-lapse videos. This one is particularly dramatic. You saw that?

Ooklah the Moc-”pickpocket” Live from Pipeline Cafe circa 2006?. I’m looking forward to the new Ooklah album coming out for winter. Plus I hear they got a west cost tour on the way.

Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku

Olympic swimming medalist, father of modern surfing, Hollywood actor, Ambassador of Aloha. After demolishing a world record in an amateur race in Honolulu, amazed Amateur Athletic Union officials in New York sent back the message: “Unacceptable. No one swims this fast. Hawaiian judges alerted to use stopwatches, not alarm clocks!”

I’m not sure which sites are best to watch. Local media and NOAA weather.

Big Island people, please take care to protect yourselves.

post here or hit the forums if you have more info?

Does it make me gay (or at least a metrosexual) to remember Teja in Kaimuki? I really only ever remember seeing women frequent that place, with the occasional man reluctantly dragged in tow behind a few of them. Teja was the coolest place on Earth back in 2002 when I used to go there at least twice a week to both have tea and Otto’s cheesecakes and chill in its woody Pacific-Asian atmosphere. Maybe that’s the rub: tea is meant for enjoyment by women in floral print sundresses and Birkenstocks, couture that does no justice on my hairy persona (blame that on my Portuguese blood, by the way).

That’s where I first met the Sisters In Sound. Not really met, to be honest, but more to be hinted of what was to be; a metaphorical glint in their collective eye, so to speak. Actually, to complicate this story more, I didn’t know they were called Sisters In Sound at the time. All I knew back then was that three cute girls came in on a Sunday afternoon while I was chilling on an Oolong iced tea and doing whatever I was doing then (hopefully something non-gay). As happens in an intimate place, I overheard them conversing back and forth about spinning records, throwing a party, mixing and all manner of things DJ. I was fascinated at actually seeing female DJs in the wild; I always thought they were something of a myth perpetuated by basement-dwelling Internet forum nerds or, worse, a T&A gimmick concocted by leering Joe Francis-types.

At very nearly the same time, I was a wee nubbins on this very site’s forum board, getting to know things happening in our fine city, meeting (and pissing off a few) people along the way.
I suppose it was Providence that these same cute girls started posting on the QuadMag board about their party called “Luna” to be held at the old Auntie Pasto’s on Kapahulu Avenue–totally run, operated and deejayed by women.

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Spencer from Pakipika Productions sends the heads up on an intimate show for fans of live music. Find out more.

“Music that they always considered too deep,” it says in the press release about Chicago house DJ Halo, “done right.” Sounds interesting right? Here goes his myspace, listen for yourself. Or go to Next Door this Friday.

Someone was smoking something… How else do you explain chocolate-dipped ika?

Ika, or cuttlefish, is a tasty, chewy snack similar to beef jerky, but with more of a low tide smell. Goes great with beer. Chocolate on the other hand, is a divine and versatile candy confection. But the thought of them both in one mouthful makes my tastebuds twitch.

Some things are meant to go together: cereal and milk, burger and fries, peanut butter and jelly. Seafood and chocolate? not so much. In her recent column, Lee Cataluna doesn’t actually say if she likes it or not. This means only one thing: it’s time to do some tastin.

My coworker from Hilo brought some of this dried seafood chocolate abomination creation into work today. I dare myself to take a bite…. stay tuned…

I know this is old, but still too funny.