After something like a dozen years of churning out five or six posts a week, it occurred to me the other day that I would not only feel less pressure, but this could be a more interesting and informative blog if someone else’s ideas and opinions were presented here from time to time. Furthermore, if…
In 1959, I had just graduated from Boston University and was working for a small company owned and run by Sid Dimond, a professor and mentor of mine at Boston University’s College of Communications. Sid was a writer and a good one. He had, in fact, written for the old radio show, Inner Sanctum, which…
OK, here’s the next chapter in the story of how Honolulu’s former mayor, Frank Fasi, ended up in an episode of Hawaii Five-0. It started with an incident (see the post of two days ago) when the filming of a Hawaii Five-0 episode caused a traffic jam on Kapiolani Boulevard in Honolulu. A week or…
Times change. Places change. And I suppose the older we get the more we tend to think wistfully about how things used to be. Fifty years ago, Hawaii was much different. The conventional wisdom is that two things happened in 1959 that changed everything for Hawaii. First, we became a state. And second, the…