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Re: the “Lost” series finale – I’m still digesting it.  There is so much to be said and yet maybe nothing needs to be said; I could just leave it to the sublime, but really, “Lost” is a show that activates discussion and thought. On a sidenote: I thought ABC overdid it with the commercials; [...]

The annual viewing of “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” special tonight, plus a viewing of the more obscure “You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown,” wherein Linus loses his lead in the class president election with his broadcasted belief in the Great Pumpkin (and Lucy learns that it’s very hard to be the campaign manager). Hat [...]

Angry Asian Man has some nifty links roundup, including on a NY Times profile on Andrea Wong of Lifetime (ok, granted, besides being the channel with Golden Girls reruns, it seems to be making its way with reality shows… must we continue the track on reality shows?) and an article on the honoring of Cristeta [...]

Newsweek’s “The Gaggle” blog has a correspondent who visited the Baskin Robbins in Hawaii where Pres. Obama had his first job as a kid. Kind of cool to think that, back in the day, the president had a regular after school job like anyone else. On Channel 13 at 9pm, on “American Masters” – a [...]

“Hawaii v. Illinois” – the battle for Barack Obama as a favorite son. Can’t we all just get along? Actually, that headline looked like a college football or college basketball game. When the economy tanks, Spam and similar canned meat or meat substitute make a comeback. Time Magazine’s Joel Stein wants his readers’ help in [...]

Went up the east coast after going up the Pali Highway and finding the Pail Lookout again during the day. The wind up there was going close to 30 mph, but it was awesome. After about an hour of driving up amazing coasts, we pass the Polynesian Cultural Center and go on to Romy Shrimp [...]

Breakfast: we went to Zippy’s, a local 24 hour diner chain which serves typical Hawaiian food, such as plate lunches, chili, and saimin, which is basically soup noodles. P- had the fried chicken and chili platter, while I had the Zip-min, which is basically a huge bowl of wonton mein soup with other goodies. Not [...]

Saturday: Went to Shangra-La, the Doris Duke estate. We got out of the hotel like 5 minutes before the tour was supposed to leave, and that was downtown. We missed the video, but barely got to the bus just before it was getting ready to leave. We then rode to the other side of Diamond [...]

We went to the Bishop Museum Friday morning. This museum holds the primary collection of Hawaiian historical artifacts. We took two guided tours and saw a short hula demonstration. The second tour went through the garden and explained the uses of the various local plants, including ti,the leaves used for wrapping and thatching, and noni, [...]

Thursday: Drove to `Iolani Palace, the only royal palace in the United States. P- wasn’t so impressed with the outside, but then we entered from the side. However, the inside won her over. So many modern conveniences, such as electricity, telephones, and hot and cold running water, were put in by the reigning king, who [...]