That was Country Comfort singing Waimanalo Blues in 1974. And this even a more local style version of Waimanalo Blues, to follow…
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More Nostalgia About Hawaii Nei, My Hawaii
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
I bumped into Michelle Santos on Facebook yesterday and we Kama’ainas got super nostalgic all over each others’ Facebook Walls, and here are some excepts:
Michelle:
Aloha oe, Chris!! Pehea `oe? E pili mau na pomaika`i ia `oe!!!
Chris:
Aloha kakahiaka, Michelle. Mai ka’i no au. Aloha mai e!!
Michelle:
eh, howzit, Brah? Whaddsdascoops? when we do talk story? I miss […]
I Grew Up in Salt Lake, Hawaii, as a Little Kid
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Yes, I have been super-nostalgic recently about my growing up in Hawaii. I have been nostalgic lately but I needed to write a post about SchoolFinder to help a friend and searched for my schools, St. Louis and Aliamanu Elementary schools. Above you’ll see an aerial photo of the neighborhood, Salt Lake, I grew […]
Fellow Kama`aina on MyDataIsMyData Privacy Plugin
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
I received this post to my Wall, “I fellow Kama’aina from Radford HS (not from Punahou or Iolani) wrote a really wonderful post about MyDataisMyData. Mahalo, Amy Jussel!” I don’t know if you knew it, but I grew up in Hawai`i-Nei and attended Saint Louis School and became Student Body President and wrestled and was […]
Being Poor, Ignorant and Desperate is Not About Race Its About Class
Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Michael Bernstein popped me an IM after reading my article, The Culture of “Acting White” Anti-Intellectualism Will Kill America, with a link to Cosby, Race and Escaping The Downside, which reveals America’s dirty secret, “in America, being poor, ignorant, desperate and unable to escape your situation has absolutely nothing to do with the color of […]
The Culture of “Acting White” Anti-Intellectualism Will Kill America
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
“The concept of ‘acting white’ and worries that African Americans are not pushing their children enough to focus on education have been long-standing concerns of Obama’s — he has mentioned them in several recent speeches — and issues that many prominent members of the community, mostly notably comedian Bill Cosby, have focused on in recent […]
May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii Garlands of Flowers Everywhere!
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
“…May Day is Lei Day in Hawai`i
Garlands of flowers
ev’rywhere,
All of the colors in the rainbow
Maidens with blossoms in their hair
Flowers that mean we shoud be happy,
Throwing aside a load of care,
Oh, May Day is Lei Day in Hawai`i
Lei Day is happy day out there.”
~ Red Hawke, 1928
My Schooling as OpFor
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
Some of my friends know that I was in JROTC as a boy in my all-boys Catholic School, Saint Louis School.
And some of them even know that I was a JROTC Ranger and that I wore my Class-A Army Uniform with spit-polished jump boots and a black beret. A couple close friends know that when […]