bike power

i just updated the link for  " 'sCrunGE!' online: 2001-2006 "  under 'cliquey' in the right sidebar on this page ... i built my 'blog on a free, dorky msn groups page and even though i don't use it as an active 'blog anymore since i moved to blogger in '06, i had it lovingly organized and accessible as a time-capsule of that era.  then early this year i got an email from msn telling me they were closing down their groups service.  i kind of had to know it was going to happen at some point but i thought - i don't know, it IS msn ... anyway, so i followed their recommendation and 'migrated' my site over to a new free service called 'multiply.'  it took a few tries and a little coordination with their service staff but i finally got it done.  so now the old 'sCrunGE!' is still pretty much preserved - but it's a mess.  it's like they took a file cabinet full of carefully ordered documents and dumped them all into a box.  the new link i've provided gets you to the best starting point to explore my old musings [go all the way to the bottom of the page to click into more pages], and i'm trying to look on the bright side by appreciating how the experience is now much less linear, creating the opportunity to discover unexpected, forgotten, or previously overlooked gems from the mind of tom-A-hawk past ... enjoy.

wow

1 o da residents i
work w/ had a
stroke + all she
can say is wow ...
wow wow wow.

jersey swap ...
[from jake - who
says he wants to
see the 'swap the
jockstrap' version!]

watch out dudes
- summ-A-hawk
is comin back:
surf, swim, yoga,
weights, bike,
hike, beach ...
tom-A-HOT is
more like it !

from: antonio >

Fun; fun; fun:
that should be
your motto
today.
Unessential
chores or duties
should be
postponed for
another day!

ha'iku

rain rain stay 1 day
rain rainy kaneohe
rainy rainy day

HAPPY EASTER !

status update >

Kasey says
hooray for Iowa!

status update >

Ricky says "Who
knew? Iowa is
more progressive
than California!''

status update >

Phillip thinks
"Iowa, I didn't
know you had it
in you. Perhaps I
will complain less
as I drive
through ... ''

status update >

Kelly-O reports
the Iowa
Supreme Court
unamimously
struck down the
state's gay
marriage ban
today ...

status update >

Phillip couldn't be
more excited
about da Rock da
Garden lineup
announcement
at 4pm ... Mary
Lucia, don't let
me down !

status update >

Phillip is starting
the No Booze, No
Caffeine, No
Meat, No
Sleeping in
challenge:
http://howsaboutlivingbetter.blogspot.com ...

status update >

Kung says
"Kiss me I'm
Thai-rish!!!"

status update >

Phillip agrees,
myspace is for
cutters.

status update >

Michael Cain's @
da Capitol +
teachers brought
students 2 an
anti-gay hate
rally "4 da lord" +
I feel sick 2 my
soul.

from: antonio >

If it feels like
nothin is goin
according 2 plan
take a 2nd look,
you'll find that
progress is being
made.

quiche-in !

fyi: pres day
quiche-in w/ my
niece, others ...
mon 2/16, 4 p.m.
@ tom-A-hawk's !

nadal vs.
verdasco - ay
caliente !

honorable mention

choco pudding
'dessert quiche'
from jake ... =]
thanx guys !

quiche-off mondays

this week:
pancetta w/
chard + gruyere,
garden pesto w/
roasted tomato
+ parmesan, au
fromage w/
scratch crust
from mc .

from: antonio

Wow I can see da
storm moving in!

o + dat house 4 rent next door ?

still available - 3
br / 2 ba, x da
street from da
beach, $3000

down down do your grandma dance

check out mrs. wong - a resident at the retirement place where i work - over the holidays with family, showing off the new moves she learned from my co-worker connie ... sista can whip it !




then compare and contrast with this clip mc found as a charming companion piece -




it's kind of a tough call, but i think mrs. wong still wins ...

this just in from da strib ...

"...it appears that Franken’s lead is now larger than the number of ballots left to be counted..."

tom-A-hawk's top albums of '08 !

[thanx phil for inspiring me to pull it together]

bon iver - for emma, forever ago
atlas sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel
mgmt - Oracular Spectacular
sleeping states - there the open spaces
cool kids - The Bake Sale [EP]
hercules + love affair - Hercules and Love Affair
fleet foxes - Fleet Foxes
helio sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
deerhunter - Microcastle
yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals
santogold - Santogold
land of talk - Some Are Lakes
burial - untrue
ravonettes - lust lust lust
HEALTH - HEALTH
vampire weekend - vampire weekend
dengue fever - venus on earth [+ escape from dragon house]

sassy holidays ...

franken ahead
by 48 !

status update

Kelly-O is off to
pre-Chanukah
Mah Jongg.

remember r
shooting star ?

status update

Kelly-O is
thinking about
saber vs.
conocer.

my seeds r comin
up already !

heavy rain a.m.

scouted out 2 da
garden 2 c how it
drains when it
rains.
drains great.

status update

Kimberly had to
remind herself
how to dance
with her bike
through the
snow after a
large snowfall.

done:

seeds: lots of
basil [genovese
+ sweet ital],
pole beans
[manoa wonder],
chives + 2 kinds
marigold

done:

plants: 3 tomato
[roma, cherry +
healani], manoa
lettuce, ital
parsley, 1 hot HI-
an pepper, 1 basil

tom-A-hawk has
landed.
tom-A-hawk is
home.

status update

Quinnten
wonders what
other drinks are
made with this
winters' booze of
choice, Whiskey?

status update

Kasey is
obsessed with
the new
Deerhunter.

da house nex 2
mine is 4 rent:
3br 2ba, x da st
from da beach,
$3000/mo -
owner sez he
prefers 'family' ...

status update

Quinnten's
favorite Prop8
protest sign: "No
More Mr. Nice
Gay."

ahh ... i cherish
bunny time

dey him !

obama wins !

i voted ! =]

but no 'i voted'
stickers in
hawai'i ... =[

omg fleet foxes
'ragged wood' ...

rabbit rabbit !

aloha kakou ...

.. da hawk has
landed .

aloha 'oe MSP ...

ratatat @ 1st
ave 2nite ?

pau hana [dat
wood b happy hr
4 u haoles...] @ da
independent -
2nite! ~5/5:30.

bro ali @ da blb
block party !!!

>turftour>

tom-A-hawk in
minneapolis ::
september 13-19
> c u @ da BLB
block party 2mrw
nite !

i'm finally in da
habit of using my
reusable
foodland 'it's
good 2 b green'
tote bags ... r u ?

From: surfline >

The overwhelming consensus among South Shore locals is that the summer of 2008 goes down as the best and most consistent seasons in decades. After last year¹s extended wave drought, anything would have looked good, and despite some funky winds, surfers enjoyed day after day after day of head high to well overhead bombs from Sandy Beach to Yokohama Bay, and the vibe on the beach and in the water was great as everyone got their fill. Heck, even the Bowls guys were giving away set waves!!!

***

right on, bros ... was a great summer to learn my new break.

goin 2 c david
dondero @ da
loft 2nite ... ?

my new book:
'falling leaves' by
adeline yen mah.

getting reports
of 6'6'' rnc secret
service agents
making out w/
each other @ da
saloon ... luv dat
gop hypocrisy lol

From: kdog >

late summer show wrap -

Kdogg is seeing
radiohead in
ggpark tonight!
omg
[8/22-11:55am HST]

Omg the
walkmen!
[8/23-3:04pm HST]

greetings
fromTom petty
live in gg park!
[8/23-5:18pm HST]

Omg stars!
[8/24-11:16am HST]

STARS throwing
white roses into
crowd-so cute
[8/24-11:36am HST]

BROKENSOCIALSC
ENE!
[8/24-2:05PM HST]

exhausted from
a near perfect
sunday
[8/25-3:29pm HST]

!!! live @
independent
[8/27-7:19pm HST]

***

thanx k !

look for
tom-A-hawk live
reports from a
neighborhood
block party
near you -
coming soon!

rabbit rabbit

yay ! they're
finally runnin
articulated
[stretch] busses
on da #1 line !

my macbook is still partially charged with free solar electricity from da petes' farm in ulupalakua, upcountry maui.  went for a long weekend retreat, extending the surfmonk metaphor to their remote mountainside enclave, for all practical purposes a monastery, as far as i was concerned ... sank gratefully into cool, almost chilly nights cozy in bed alone.  communed with the fruit trees, flowers, pigs, the horse; but especially the dogs, some of whom came lovingly to me from my dreams: the big black dog and the big white dog, who in my dream turned from one to the other, appeared on maui side by side before me, begging their alms of affection, nurturing my spirit in return.  came on the heels of a night pilgrimage a couple weeks before, up to the top of makapu'u to view the perseid meteor shower, the elusive pleasure of stars shooting across the heavens.  now it is late august already and feels like it, even here in hawai'i.  the angle of the sun is unmistakable.  surfed with turtles today.

radio k @ da fair !

From: kdog >

he is now lead
guitar & sweaty

From: kdog >

the drummer for
octopus project
is sofa king HOT

From: kdog >

kkalissf: is @
octopus project

loft living is
finally making it
out 2 HNL:
vanguard lofts,
spring '09 - model
unit open now ...

From: kdog >

just won 2 3day
passes to
outside lands!
thx KALX !

From: kdog >

stoney   her got
talent! check out
her bio

alice waters +
juana molina .

working on a self-imposed surfmonk existence - writing in my dream journal as i drink my morning coffee, surfing, working on my new recording, writing 'blog entries, defrosting food - well, until my next paycheck anyway ... fed my last $2 to the lucky lions on hotel street during the 888 olympic block party in chinatown on friday.  still wriggle inside with pleasure when i remember the visceral experience of having firecrackers going off as the lion nibbled up my body and took the bill from my giddy hand with a hidden body part into its hot, humid mouth ... !  made for a heightened state of consciousness with which to witness the olympic opening ceremonies at 8:08 ... 'what channel is it on???' asks beefy keali'i @ ke kai's.  '... eight ... !!!' i tell him ...

needless to say, the ceremony was a heightened state of consciousness unto itself, so gorgeously massive and mesmerizingly perfect that i could not help but feel like i was witnessing an era-defining moment in the history of civilization; as china demonstrated, to a worldwide audience, its cultural power and vast potential.


after i sent out my 'happy 888' texts i got one back from jason that said -

Aw.... Thx.
Something
auspicious has
gotta happen
today. Oh wait,
I'm not Chinese. ;)


i replied -

da whole world is
chinese 2day !
[or at least it will
b someday
soon...]


don't you think ... ?

well, gotta go do xigong ...


^__^

From: kung >

Joyeux le jour de
trois huits. Hope
it's going well.
Did u make 8
wishes? One of
mine already
came true

happy 8-8-08
from da 808 st8 !

From: baby G >

Doug + Stephen
are designing a
t-shirt for Kelly
for the State
Fair. It will be
baby blue and
say:

CARNI
WHORE

as i wait for the bus on kalanianaole, as i haul my recycling by hand and foot to aina haina elementary school, as i pick up my self-mandated minimum of one piece of rubbish from kawaikui beach park every time i visit [even when i have a surfboard under my arm], as i do these things i am subject to a dual sensation of contentment and sadness; the contentment of feeling like i'm doing my small part to add to the collective solution, the sadness of feeling like i'm the only one doing so, as new litter appears every time i visit the beach park, as my roommates thoughtlessly throw their recyclables in the rubbish, as the endless stream of one-passenger cars speeds past me on kalanianaole.

is this sensation just bourgeois guilt?
is my contentment self-serving?
is my sadness hypocritical?

speaking of which:
i had kyle flatiron my hair last week -

it was fierce, my sisters.



[which is good because i ended up partying
w/ tonya harding's older sister that night.]

wow - real, live, au courant
men's fashion ...



haven't thought about it for a while ...

want sum.

thanx ...

+ alohaz 2
whomeva found
'scrunge' by
searchin 4
'seger the dog' ...

aw, hell yea faggot -

thanx mc - now
i'm obsessed w/
alex despatie ...

my new book:
'paris 2 da moon'

not likin da bmw
ads portraying
ridin da bus/bike
as dreary +
depressing ... so
untrue.

vive la france !

merci ...

.. 2 whomeva
sent me da nice
bastille day block
party vm - was
out surfin w/ my
cel off so i don't
kno who u r, mon
che

i've started my own personal summer reading program ... i grab whatever strikes my fancy off the shelf of the library at work and tear through it cover to cover.  after taking all year to read 'prague,' so far this summer i've given in to my inner 13-year-old fantasy geek and read 'eragon,' then imagined captain cook's first contact with hawai'i in 'the return of lono,' now i'm getting inspired to garden and cook again with 'under the tuscan sun' ... fun!

my nu roomie s
sharin his
wireless w/ me -
listenin 2 soulful
science on
radiok.org pau
surf ... um, score.

las nite's dream:
hangin out w/
darcy in
minnelulu,
showin off on a
unicycle, drinkin
liqueurs ...

what is that
planet in the sky
?

please respond:
clipping ur
fingernails on da
bus s ok - yes/no

vampire
weekend ! live @
pipeline cafe -
tues jul 29 - get
ur tix now [b4
they sell out] + i'll
c u there !

¡ viva nadal !

raising glasses of
mc's nueva
sangri[t]a in
honor of spain's
irresistably feral
champ !

wow dudes i am
so hot 4 nadal's
ass ...

listenin 2
kexp.org

rainin in waikiki ...

nu pics up on my
flickr [link on rt
sidebar] ...

last nite's dream

was about a
tornado - my 2nd
tornado dream in
a year ...

my hair looks
better than it's
looked in weeks
+ i'm staying
home ... good nite

at my new place

at my new place, in my room, white plumeria and red hibiscus bloom outside my window and cardinals sing when i play music.  the neighbors keep rabbits whose hutches i can see through my bathroom window.  there is one rabbit, apparently escaped from these hutches, who continues to live in our yards, occasionally causing a stir when it comes back to visit its captive family, to commune with them through the mesh.  this rabbit seems to have become quite comfortable with its assessment that i do not intend to recapture it, as it doesn't run away from me when i pass through the yard, under the mango tree, and say hello on my way to or from the bus, even when i pass quite close.

[written on 6/12/08 ... as there is no wireless at my new place it has taken me this long to post it.  in the meantime i have learned that there are actually (at least) TWO escaped rabbits.]