I haven’t been by the mall recently, but when I went by Shirokiya yesterday, the Akimune-an taiyaki concession and whatever that place next to them were gone and a construction barrier wall stood in their place. I guess I’m not surprised. Their rotating bi-weekly limited flavor stopped rotating at a certain point, and became unchanging chocolate custard creme and sweet potato (although the signs claimed they were still limited). Also, when the rude/lazy Micronesian woman started working there, I really didn’t feel like going and having her tell me to just buy the pre-made ones that she would crank out and let go cold and soggy. Run something poorly – watch it fail.
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Funny how the current Acura MDX ad says that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, trying to intimate that theirs was the first non-box, non-truck-based crossover SUV. The Toyota Harrier/Lexus RX beat them to the egg-shaped game by three years. The only thing that Honda has an exclusive over is developing SUV’s and a “pickup truck” from a minivan platform. This is like Audi’s “cookie cutter” ad when their Q7 is a badge engineered VW Touareg/Porsche Cayenne. Don’t these kinds of deceptive campaigns belong in the political arena?
(0)I just recently stumbled across KORL at 97.1 on FM radio. Radio? What’s that? In this age of MP3, digital streaming, there still does exist old school radio. I remember the KORL call letters from decades ago, but can’t quite remember what the format was. It’s gone through a number of changes. It is now featuring J-Pop. They claim to be the only FM J-Pop station in the nation, 24-7. They’ve actually been on air for a number of months already. Continue reading ‘KORL’
The weather was bad on Saturday so I didn’t bother taking pictures, but I got a few interesting vapor images on Sunday. Lighting wasn’t particularly good: I need the “mother of all fill-in flashes.” Continue reading ‘Blue Angels – Sunday, 30 September 2012’
Okay, I know it’s October already, but I picked these up from Mojo Tactical last Friday, so it was still September. The kitty pirate flag is available in subdued tan, and black with red bow versions. They’re both pretty cool, but I figured I would actually use the subdued one and the black one would end up a permanent patch book resident, so I passed on that colorway. The “parental advisory” patch has a bad word, so you’ll have to click “more” below to go to the full post view to see the image. Continue reading ‘September Patches 2’
I’ve been slacking a bit on this. I picked these up from Dave at Mojo Tactical earlier this month. I wonder if they have something for the .338 Lapua Magnum and .50 BMG crowd?
I bet the irony of a catchphrase coined by white Australians to denigrate Australians of Middle-Eastern ancestry being used by a “local” against mainland visitors is totally lost on the owner of this sticker. It’s amusing that although it pains him that mainlanders from the CONUS come to Hawai’i to “steal his surf”, his Nissan Pathfinder is nonetheless plastered with large stickers advertising for a mainland company from Hood River, Oregon with a pidgin English name, and a Costa Mesa, California company with a faceted jewel-like logo. If he really hates everything post-Cook so much, he better ditch his Japanese car and Chinese surf trunks and get himself a homegrown Koa surfboard… and learn ‘olelo Hawai’i while he’s at it. Continue reading ‘Lost Irony’
Okay, this is a couple of weeks late, but I dropped by the Waipio Hawaii Okinawa Center on Saturday the 15th with Mitch to see what is usually the last Obon-related event of the year. Most of the usual suspects were there (I didn’t see Alison), and Root and Ckucke made it by too. Here are a few pictures. Root was waiting for an anime-style fight with the nun busting out some mystical sacred weapon. Had two pieces of some very ordinary shoyu chicken and an orange soda for $7 USD. Ouch! Continue reading ‘HUOA HOC Autumn Dance Matsuri’
Picked these up from Shirokiya a few weeks back (and ate them immediately) during some product fair or another, so if you go by now, you won’t find them anymore – you’ll have to wait until next year. The packaging only says “sasa dango”, “yomogi mochi, tsubu-an,” and “ this is an unpreserved product – please keep refrigerated,” and I wasn’t paying close attention to the display at the kiosk, so I don’t know the brand or manufacturer. Knowing how the Shirokiya food festivals go, it was probably someone famous. Oh well. Continue reading ‘Sasa Dango’
I wonder what demographic I outwardly represent. There were some political canvassers in the neighborhood this afternoon, and they gingerly avoided me while I changed the oil in my car. They were yelling loudly and knocking on the doors of other homes, although few answered. It’s like they were more comfortable leaving flyers rubber-banded to doorknobs than actually talking to people.
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