...Made Out of Real Things...

MAHALO
The 2007 Kokua Festival has come and gone, and The Colleague and I are back on the mainland after a little weekend getaway to Hawaii. It didn’t suck.

Highlights for your reading pleasure, in no particular order:
1. It is still possible to crash a resort pool by acting like you belong there. “Put those drinks on Underhill…”
2. Late night sushi. Solid work by the chefs at the Kobe Steak House in Honolulu.
3. Kona Big Wave Pale Ale
4. Matt Costa, Ernie Cruz Jr., Eddie Vedder, and Jack Johnson? Really?
5. Eddie Vedder singing Jack Johnson’s “Constellations”.
6. Jack Johnson singing Pearl Jam’s “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town”.
7. I’ll tell you one thing: we’re better together. Ask Jack.
8. Sun, tradewinds, sand, surf, beer.


HERE’S SOMETHING EVEN AL CAN ENJOY
It’s easy to hate Alex Rodriguez if you’re from Seattle. And it’s easy to hate the Yankees if you’re from anywhere but Manhattan. So to watch A-Rod smash home run after home run this April while his team loses 4 in a row? Classic.

IS IT APRIL OR SEPTEMBER?
Not even May yet and the Seattle media is already calling for Mike Hargrove to be fired. Sure, he sucks as a manager (and has for the last 6 years and 3 teams), but since when does April determine a baseball season?

Now, that little rant aside, the hometown nine suck out loud and will finish last in the division AGAIN this year. Horrifying. And they’re going to lose Ichiro in trade. I can see it coming. Enjoy him in a Mets uniform, Al.

GUN CONTROL MEANS USING TWO HANDS
A note to my student who wrote the following in the online classroom Discussion Board:
This thing at V-Tech just proves that gun control doesn’t work. We have gun laws and still this asian kid was able to buy a gun and kill innocent students just like us. If someone in that classroom had a gun there is no way 32 people would of died. Read the second amendment people!

Dear Student:
I am terribly sorry you missed both the class on logical fallacies AND the class on sentence structures and grammatical word choice. Also? You’re a racist idiot.

Sincerely,
The Professor.

DRIFTSURE? OR SWIFTSURE
Cap’n Ron and I have crew spots for the Swiftsure race onboard Blade Runner in May. More to follow, but this race is always either a driftfest or a full on gale. We’ll see…