Monday, September 21, 2026

Computers killed

A running list of things that computers killed in no particular order.

Humans.

And just like that. (television show)

Practical Magic 2.

Sports.

Media.

Elections.

History.

Love.


Monday, August 24, 2026

August 2026

 My new favorite rendition of August. Thank you Taylor. Happy August.



Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Denny Adan Gonzalez
Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt
Alejandro Cabrera Clemente
Tuan Van Bui
José Guadalupe Ramos-Solano
Royer Perez-Jimenez
Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal
Pejam Karshenas Najafabadi
Emmanuel Clifford Damas
Alberto Gutierrez-Reyes
Jairo Garcia-Hernandez
Lorth Sim
Heber Sánchez Domínguez
Victor Manuel Díaz
Parady La
Luis Beltrán Yáñez–Cruz
Luis Gustavo Núñez Cáceres
Geraldo Lunas Campos   - No puedo respirar

Renée Good 
Alex Jeffrey Pretti

 


Sunday, December 7, 2025

Coffee I

Do I buy the $50 dollar 10 oz. bag of coffee, the $150 box of (4) bags that equates to 20 oz. of coffee, the $38 dollar 8 oz. bag, and/or the $21 bag of 100 grams of coffee?

Decisions decisions.

My latest brilliant idea is to buy a coffee cup from the respectable coffee farm where I buy my beans from. Only if it’s spelled correctly in Hawaiian. I will have 30 new coffee cups in the New Year.

I have to find cheaper coffee.

The coffee farms or coffee shop: Kaua‘i Coffee, Hawaiian Goat Coffee, Imagine 100% Kona, and Koana.

Saturday, November 8, 2025


Describing it as “disappointing souvenir coffee” would have been worse. I remember being 19 at the time, falling in love with a guy in a diner in Honoka’a as I sat across from him and drank a hot cup of Kona coffee. He knows it, I know it, and there is magic there.

Sunday, November 2, 2025

Welcome to the 2025-2026 season


 





















They are only going to break your heart
They are only going to break my heart
They are only going to break me
Come and break me
you can’t break me
You are going to break me for sure
I come back every season
If you don’t know who I follow 
then you don’t belong here
I’ll play Elizabeth Taylor if they don’t win the cup
the acoustic version, maybe a live acoustic version
feeling like a cat on a hot tin roof
crying my eyes out


Sunday, October 12, 2025












This took me 40 minutes to drink and it was wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. Coffee dreams are made of this. Flight of coffee: Kona Sweet, Kahiko, and Ohana (‘Ohana) . I also had Mele and Karen J Red Bourbon while I was there. If I wasn’t coffee-ed out before I was coffee-ed out then. I took a four day break from coffee after this coffee farm extravaganza. 

I watermarked these photos. As if anyone would steal these photos with an uneven horizon. Had the time of my life. Had to reverse on Māmalahoa Highway because I missed the entrance to the farm. A Starbucks barista told me about “Kona Coffee and Tea” and “Hula Daddy Coffee Farm”. Shout-out Miss Sharlene. My life is forever changed. Thank you.

I also picked up the Kona Coffee Cultural Festival shirt for next month.

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Ka‘ū Coffee. Pretty bleeping good. After a sip of Ka‘ū Boar Coffee I said, “huh”. Not as in a question more of a compliment and an exclamation. Boar Coffee Hawai’i.

Friday, October 3, 2025

My beloved Red Sox, Thank you for this season. It could have been worse but it wasn’t. It could have been better but it wasn’t. It was and I’m ok with that.

Fuck ‘em. I believed, it happened, and it was awesome.

Free Baseball is Dead.

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October 4, 2025: Sadness crept in but I reminded myself that I wrote what I wrote above. It will be okay. 

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October 8, 2025: Hee-hee.

I love it. Thanks T.S.

Sunday, August 31, 2025

Aukake kanakolukūmākahi

Maybe you are standing in line at Baskin Robbins? Get all 31 flavors for me today.

I think I can withstand listening to 13 versions of this song before midnight. Are there 13 versions?

1. T.S. - august (Official Lyric Video)

2. august - (the long pond studio sessions)

3. T.S. - August (Live @ The Eras Tour London Night 4)/Illicit Affair **green flowy dress

4. T.S. Milano San Siro The Eras Tour - August Fronte palco. Illicit Affair is cut off **red flowy dress

5. T.S. - August | Live in Zurich (10/07/24) **blue flowy dress

6. August - T.S. Animatic

7. T.S. - “August” (Live from T.S. | The Eras Tour Film -4K. White or beige dress.

8. T.S. - august (From The Summer I Turned Pretty” (Amazon Original Series Soundtrack) 

9. T.S. - August (Slowed + Reverb) youtube: WerTayin, girl in orange dress

10. august - t.s. (piano rendition by david ross lawn) 

11. t.s.: august - (from folklore) | piano cover by Jin Kay Teo

12. t.s. - August (Sanjay Pop Remix)

13. t.s. - august (The Re-Imagined Version) 

Monday, June 16, 2025

Looking for an Arbnb to watch these young men set sail for the post season

or to watch the world burn. Preferably the postseason.

Same old same old with the Red Sox.

They truly are trying to kill me.

Sunday, April 6, 2025

A list of titles for the coffee book

  • I like to drink Hawaii coffee and take a nap because I am a serial killer.
  • Hawaii coffee checkbox yes, Hawaii coffee checkbox no.
  • Hawaii Coffee, Pastry, Sour Candy and Tajín, and Something Umami. Or Hawaii Coffee, Pastry, Sour Candy, Mushroom, and Hawaii Chili Pepper Water.
  • A book about Hawaii coffee so I can afford my coffee problem exploration.
  • An electric blue mustang convertible in Kealakekua.


'Ālewa 
I was told by my high school junior year English teacher that I should not include pictures in an essay that I turned in. I included a wave photo from a surf magazine. It's now 2025. A long way from high school. The surf magazine is probably defunct or on its last hard copy voyage. I can’t recall if it was Surfer or Surfing Magazine. If it is the later than it is defunct. Here are some photos I would like to include in my essay.
You know. It wasn't supposed to turn out this way. Yet here I am typing this on my phone using html code because I want the font to be larger. I was supposed to meet Brook and her family in February. A neighbor island trip to Kona. Saw a photo of an Airbnb boat land locked in the jungle and said to myself, “I’m in love.”  It was love, it is love. Love changes you and will break your heart. It’s nice to know that at the age of 45 a girl can still fall in love.

She stands in front of a college auditorium about to start a slide show presentation or whatever new technology exists that will show visuals. “This is the chemical structure of cocaine. This is the chemical structure of coffee. This is a MRI human brain image of prolong pure cocaine use. This is a MRI image of prolong coffee consumption”. 7 gurneys are wheeled in or if she wanted to be dramatic the bodies rise up on platforms from the ground. “These are corpses. This test subject snorted pure cocaine until they overdosed. This test subject was injected with coffee until they died. Both test subjects willingly overdosed. As you can see they were identical twins. These are their brains that were removed from their bodies.” She goes on and on with her lecture. A hand in the audience raises. “Yes”
“What are in the unzipped body bags”? 
She walks over to one of the body bags marked sleep.
“This is a person who died of sleep deprivation. Notice what their brain looks like”. The corpse is not a twin. She walks over to another body bag and unzips it. “This person had Alzheimer’s before they died”. She unzips another body bag. “This person was a professional football player turned professional wrestler who had Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE. Notice what their brains all look like”
There are similarities, differences, grey matter, holes, and sadness when you look at these brains. It doesn’t look real. The scents emitted from the corpses ground you to reality. Rotted fish and feces. She opens a very large tumbler and drinks from it. The smell of coffee fills her nostrils and she continues with the lecture.

There are two unzipped body bags left. One to the far left and the other to the far right. She starts to sing “Teru teru bōzu” because the song creeps her out and Clockwork Orange already took “Singing in the Rain”. Maybe she will learn to play “My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua Hawaii” and sing that in a future lecture. On cue the bodies in the two unzipped body bags rise. On cue someone by the light switch starts turning the light switch on and off. The body bags are still zipped and whatever is inside the body bags are standing on top of the gurneys. I love this part. The body bags start running around the auditorium. The lights are no longer being switched on and off. It’s dark. People are screaming. Cell phone lights are being used and you see people rushing to exit the door.

てるてるぼうず、てるぼうず (Teru-teru-bōzu, teru bōzu) Teru-teru-bozu, teru bozu

明日天気にしておくれ (Ashita tenki ni shite o-kure) Make tomorrow a sunny day

それでも曇って泣いてたら (Sorete mo kumotte naitetara) But if the clouds are crying

そなたの首をちょんと切るぞ (Sonata no kubi wo chon to kiru zo) Then I’ll sever your head off


Professor Langdon could never.

You can’t do this type of lecture more than once. But if you do it right once then once is all you need. She and company didn’t do it right so this is the third time it has been performed. An appalled traumatized audience member, from the first lecture, is suing her and she has been banned from the other two colleges. She still stands in front of the auditorium coffee tumbler in hand. The two bodies that were in the body bags have unzipped themselves. Meet twin three and twin four. Gasp! They were  quadruplets.

….no sane person would do this stunt in front of their dead xerox copy sibling.

They were not quadruplets. They were twins. Still alive. Overdosed twins are fake. Good fakes. Expensive fakes.

“Coffee?” she says to the twins and remaining audience members. It’s the good stuff. She picked the cherries and roasted it herself because she doesn’t trust (insert region) coffee farmers or (insert plant) farmers or (insert) in general.

This segment of the book is dedicated to (insert). Especially the part where I wrote: “Good fakes. Expensive fakes”.

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Ke kalo pākē ke’oke’o.
Ka līkao ke’oke’o.
How do you say The White Lotus in Hawaiian?

Sunday, April 6th 3:57 PM: She. Not the college lecturer she, another she. She had 8 episodes to get her act together. 8 Sunday’s to order Thai food and watch The White Lotus. Oh, well. What remains of the “Death Wish” coffee in her system and future consumption of cheese and crackers will have to do. Thai food and Thai coffee tomorrow if possible. 

“They bleeping lost to the Buffalo Sabers”, she says to herself. Okay. How are the Red Sox doing? Holy Crap.

The photo below is “enlarged to show detail” like the 311 (band) film. Life can continue.

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Stop the Madness

Florida’s 1st Congressional District: Democratic Nominee, Gay Valimont.

Florida’s 6th Congressional District: Democratic Nominee, Joshua Weil. 

The special general election will be held April 1, 2025.

I need to forget, so take me to Florida 
I've got some regrets, I'll bury them in Florida 
Tell me I'm despicable, say it's unforgivable 
At least the dolls are beautiful, fuck me up, Florida 
I need to forget, so take me to Florida 
I've got some regrets, I'll bury them in Florida 
Tell me I'm despicable, say it's unforgivable 
What a crash, what a rush, fuck me up, Florida