I turned on the computer this morning and came across a news item reporting the death of actor James MacArthur. Years ago, when Hawaii 5-0 was being shot in and around Honolulu, I got to know Jimmy. His wife and mine were friends and we all hung out a bit together. I had just started…
Any of us who do any kind of writing — for fun, for occasional income, or as a full-time living — have our own personal horror stories involving typos … typographical errors. They’re easy to create – all it takes is inadvertently hitting the wrong letter on the keyboard – and damn hard to spot….
It’s an oddity, but what must surely be a disproportionate number of sports broadcasters got their start in Hawaii doing baseball play-by-play for the Triple-A Hawaii Islanders of the Pacific Coast League. I’ve wondered over the years why that was, but never did settle on a plausible explanation. The Islanders began playing in Honolulu in…
For my recent trip to Australia, I flew down to Sydney and back on Hawaiian Airlines. As always, a very nice trip … excellent crew and very good service (which included real meals!), all on board my personal favorite wide-body aircraft, the Boeing 767. Hawaiian started flying inter-island here in 1929 with a couple of…