My friend Peter Carey, who you may remember from such adventures as We Went On a Road Trip Even Though We Met Like Two Weeks Ago or Uh-Oh, You Smashed the RV shot a bunch of pictures for my band, The Castaways. We play ukulele music, it’s not what you think, and damn, we look …
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A few days ago, my friend K. returned to me a postcard I’d sent him from Australia in 1996. The caption says “Bicycle riding has become increasingly popular in Australia” and it pictures a kangaroo wearing a bike helmet and riding a bike across what must be outback territory, it’s red dirt and scrub. I …
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Here‘s an incredibly stupid and annoyingly catchy pop song that I think we might have to learn. Left to right: Ed Viars, Jim Abernethy, The Girl in the Band, Mark Bader, Pete Harris Photo by my pal LLY. Mad props, she caught me leaning back into it.
Without question, the most beautiful and moving thing I’ve done on Memorial Day was attend the Honolulu Lantern Floating Festival. The lanterns are free (leave a donation if you like) Stop by the tent and write a message to your ancestors (or whoever you feel you’ve lost) on a paper lantern. Then, after a spectacular …
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Several months back, I had dinner with my friend Lisa. I whined at her about how I was having a terribly hard time with a story I was — am still — trying to write about a a week I spent in Hawaii at music camp. Actually, I whined at a lot of people about …
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Inside baseball, friends. Not interested? Here’s a story about that time I went on safari in Tanzania. Man, that was amazing. Over the last year or so, I’ve been culling a lot of my social media feeds. I’m unfriending, unsubscribing, unfollowing. The reason for this dieting? There’s been a marked shift in the tone of …
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