We are at war with New Zealand. I thought you’d like to know since, unless you’re doing NaNoWriMo and are part of the Hawaiʻi contigent, you probably have not noticed. I’m still not sure who incited it. It’s looking bad as the ratio of writers is skewed 2:5 in New Zealand’s favor. Don’t even get…
It’s been one week since I started my novel attempt and I am stalled out at 6,217 words. I actually haven’t found the time to write since Monday; life gets in the way. For example, last night I had the choice to write my allotment of 1,667 words or help out a student that had…
It’s film festival time and Wayne Wang has two new films based on short stories by Yiyun Li from A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Two independently financed films in one year is quite amazing…story is that he came in under budget after the first one so he just kept on going. Bamboo Ridge has…
Ho, chicken skin…the last taping of Aloha Shorts featured music by Paul Hanna and Follow No Trends, mellow songwriter/singer social commentary…nice sound with the addition of a twelve string player and standup bass. CDs available at Borders I think online. Poetry by Kathy Phillips read by Julia Steele. Gary Tachiyama’s stuff was read by…
from my notes at the most recent Bamboo Ridge meeting: Keep March 11th, 2008 open. Just in case. I’m not sure why the term "Mango Season" came up (I was getting confused by member benefits debate), but it made me remember the TON of mangoes my family’s tree produced this past September and wondering if…
On November 1, all over the country and around the world, writers, both amateur and professional, will fingers to keyboards and begin writing their novels. On November 30, all writing will cease and the writers will submit their final tallies. Who among them will have reached the goal of 50,000 words? This is the basic…
On October 4, the Ka Leo ran a nearly full-page article on Mavis Hara’s An Offering of Rice. The article introduces Hara to the readers and, through copious quotes from the Sept. 27 release at the UHM Campus Center Ballroom, walks the readers through Hara’s stories and inspiration for those stories. You can see the…
Last Thursday, I discovered something about Mavis Hara’s "An Offering of Rice": the scene where Tatsue slices off her fingertip JUST GETS WORSE with subsequent readings! Because of Eric Chock’s introduction of "An Offering of Rice" at Wine & Words, I had a general idea of what was going to happen. Plus I read it…
Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal…
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