Every day can be like a vacation if you know how to let go and enjoy yourself. It also helps if you don’t have a boss breathing down your neck or a desk that you are chained to. In any event, yesterday was like a vacation day even though Mink Hippie and I both had…

It was a relaxing weekend on Oahu. Saturday morning we cruised Kailua garage sales looking for hidden treasure. We found a poster, a kali nightlight, a funky mirror, some oil pastels, and this creepy crocheted toilet seat cover with half a doll’s face crocheted into the center. It was a dollar at an old Portagee…

After listening to the musical stylings of both volcanoes (click the pix to hear for yourself) I called in my vote for Tungurahua… Active volcanoes are being made to “sing” by researchers who convert seismic data into frequencies audible to human ears. Although the volcanoes are unlikely to sell many records, the technique could make…

For those of you following my quest to trade my old veriflex skateboard for a house, the trade for four medium size moving boxes full of unopened Pez has fallen through…. so to sum up….I traded my old veraflex skateboard ….to Bryan Dodd, an artist living in Georgia who is using the skateboard in his…

A few years ago, as hard as it may be to believe, I was wearing a Beaver suit around Bellingham Washington doing off the wall stunts for The Morning Deal, a morning radio show on 92.9 FM, Independent Rock. I was the producer and as such it was my job to take on any and…

The Reverend’s parishioners are always asking him about the rapture, now that we have so many wars and rumors of wars, as well as seemingly unnatural natural disasters. The fact is the Reverend is usually working on a gut shot straight, or praying for the last card to make a flush, so he invokes the…

BEIJING (Reuters) – More than half a million Chinese have fled their homes in the path of a super typhoon, the strongest to threaten the country in 50 years, as it churned relentlessly toward the southeast coast on Thursday. one of three storms to have hit East Asia in the past few days, has already…