Monthly Archives: June 2008

Adventures in Tikiland

Thursday I am leaving for a two-week road trip through Florida, America’s Vacationland. Halfway through we’re stopping in Fort Lauderdale for The Hukilau.

Posting will be light but I’ll return with tons of photos and stories. In the meantime, I’m satisfying myself with some tiki-riffic links, like this NY Times article, about the treasure trove that lies inside the Trader Vic’s warehouse.

Now I’m feelin’ Zombified

Beachbum Berry cracks the code of The Zombie with the New York Times.*

*The Times must have a tikiphile on staff.

Seven Moai of Ahu Akivi


Seven Moai of Ahu Akivi, originally uploaded by anoldent.

Thunder thunder everywhere. I …

Thunder thunder everywhere. I hope it rains HARD.

My photojournalist pal Butch l…

My photojournalist pal Butch lives in Indiana and has been covering the floods. http://icanhaz.com/alaker, http://icanhaz.com/floodpics

Little yellow buzzing

I only wish I’d learned this kind of stuff in my motorcycle safety classes.

Oh, I have another video for you too, but it’s in very, very poor taste.

Via TSS and DListed.

And to think, earlier today I …

And to think, earlier today I was in the most humanitarian mood, smilin’, small talkin’, helping old ladies at the grocery store.

Works in progress

Guess what? I’m turning this site into a tumblelog. As if you haven’t noticed my gradually increasing tendency to post only Twitter updates and YouTube video.

God, this exactly the kind of meta-blogging blog post that I hate. I was ruminating on this last night at Stitch ‘n’ Bitch — why do I always think that everything I make or create has to come out perfect? I have spent so much time on this silly little narcissistic website that I almost take the joy and spontaneity out of it for myself.

Less talk, more rock. That’s what we need. Except WordPress and I aren’t on good terms right now either. Why can’t you just do what I want you to do, inanimate object?

Point of this post is to tell you that I have been having many adventures, and I want you to hear all about them. I’ll get to them as soon as I can. Patience, my pet.

In the meantime, I’ve updated the Movies page. I’ve seen some real shitters this year.

One word…