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Last night was opening night for Frost/Nixon at Manoa Valley Theatre. It went off with a big bang! The audience was great, the cast was great, all in all a cool show. If you get the chance to see it, go!

Frost/Nixon, the Tony Award-winning play by Peter Morgan, is the fast-paced and thrilling retelling of the monumental post-Watergate television interviews in which David Frost, a famous British talk-show host with a playboy reputation, brought a defiant Richard Nixon down to earth and elicited the apology the rest of the world was waiting to hear. More info

I found this great site called Twitter Grader.  The Twitter grader measures the relative power of a Twitter. I’m not sure what the criteria is but to my surprise I checked out the site to see what my grade is and it was 77. So I’m thinking “well that’s pretty cool”. THen I click on a link that says it’ll take me to the “Twitter Elite in Honolulu”.  So I clicked on the link and to my surprise,  because I have to twitter accounts…I’m number one and two!  Holy Schnikies!

So I took a screen shot of it to prove it cause I figure no one will believe me…. click on the image for a bigger version…

The Twitter Elite in Honolulu, Hawaii

After shooting with Ella Rose on Kauai, I decided to start on a new illustraiton based on a photo I shot of her.  It’s been such a long time since I did a pencil drawing that I actually had to go and dig out my pencils.  I’m already starting to have doubts about the image I selected as the basis for the drawing.  but I’ll finish it anyway and see how it come out…

On the radio this evening I heard a story that said the Fed might allow mid-sized bank to buy weaker rival banks with the funds they received from the federal bailout bill instead of issuing loans.  I’m no financial guru but doesn’t it sound sound we’re being asked to bend over and take it just a little bit deeper?

read the full story then make up your own mind

Finally I’m on time to blog about one of my favortie holidays…. National That’s what she said day!  The celebration of this great day is on Oct 13th this year.  Basically, you spend the entire day looking for opportunities to say “That’s what she said”.  For more information on this glorious day… check it out on Facebook

Here’s some videos that celebrate “That What She Said Day”…

I’ve been thinking a lot about this over the past week or so and it dawned on me that $700,000,000,000 is a ton of money!  It’s enough to give every American citizen $2300.  But what else could you do with that much moolah!  Here is my list of what I could do with that much money…

1.)  I could buy 1,400,000,000,000 cans of Pepsi!
2.)  How about 466,666,666.666 Oympus E-3 Digital Cameras
3.)  Or maybe 41,518,386,714 copies of Kung Fu Panda on DVD
4.)  How about 5,468,750,000 Apple iPod Nano’s
5.)  Or 29,723,991 2009 Honda Civic Hybrids
6.)  Or you might want 170,731,707,317 gallons of gas in Honolulu Hawaii
7.)  it might be fun to release 1,800,000,000,000 ping pong balls on the streets of your town
8.)  You could be a humanitarian and give every homeless person in America $200,000!
9.)  I’m sure we could just buy every oil producing country for $700 billion then we wouldn’t have to worry about foreign oil…ever!

These are just some suggestions. Your results may vary based on driving conditions.  please see a doctor if you experience an erection lasting 4 hour or more hours.  This list should not be used if you are pregnant or nursing.  Some patients have indicated that temporary stupidity resulted from reading this website.  shrink wrapped for you protection

Argh! I wish I could make up stuff this good. But alas it’s for real! Someone has actually created “Talk Like a Pirate Day”! The bad news is that it already happened on September 19th but you can be sure that I’ll be ready to celebrate it next year…

Talk Like a Pirate Day Website

Now I understand that some of you might be saying to yourselves “I don’t really like pirates. I mean they’re pretty much just bastards who drink too much and generally behave badly” Well then fear not because you might be a Ninja! If you are then there’s good news for you! Ninja day is just around the corner!

Dayoftheninja.com
Day of the Ninja wiki

I called a very good friend of mine last night to help me figure out a few things. One thing she made me realize was that I’ve had a pretty amazing year so far. I realized so many dreams and things I’ve always wanted to do.

One of the things I realized last night was that I overcame the one fear that cripples me more that any other… being able to talk to a beautiful woman I’m interested in without turning into a gelatinous blob. So I wanted to write something about this without giving away any details… So here is the past year of life in 100 words or less!

Won
Lost
Decided to stop fearing
Decided to follow dream
Tried
Succeeded
Tried again
Succeeded again
Tried even more
Succeeded even more
Van explodes
Recognized for good work
Grateful to everybody who helped
Met great people
Having fun
Grateful to be alive
Lost my watch
Bought a new watch
Found my self in an interesting position
Van explodes again
Found old watch
Found $6.93 in my pocket
Found peace
Found someone interesting
Deceided to go for it success or failure
Kissed someone interesting
Didn’t succeed but didn’t fail either
Found out that I’m ok

Lesson… stop being afraid, and you’ll be ok.

I’ve been so busy lately that I didn’t realize that it had been a whole month since I last posted anything on here! Yowsa! Here’s the skinny….

“Always Patsy Cline” is going very well at Manoa Valley Theatre. The show has been extended and will continue for 3 more performances Sept. 26, 27, 28. It’s been great fun and I’ll be sad when it’s over. The whole photography thing is going extremely well. I have had four shoots this month. It’s been pretty crazy and I’m going to take a break from photography in for the month of October to get caught up with editing all the photos I shot and to get my finances in order.

That’s all for now. I’m going to spend a little more time updating this site on a more regular basis so look for more news soon….

Life at the moment is pretty crazy. I’m getting ready to play bass for “Always Patsy Cline” A musical about the music and the life of Patsy Cline at Manoa Valley Theatre. Under normal circumstances, I’m the sound designer with MVT but for this one they’re letting me out of the booth and on stage. I’m a little nervous about playing but I feel good about my abilities. So that’s adding to my lack of sleep at the moment. it’s good fun though so I don’t mind too much.

Also I’m starting to shift my photography a little and looking at going more into glamour photography than the artistic stuff. I’ve had a great deal of fun with it and I feel like I need to start trying my hand at a different style. The main reason is that I’m starting to think about shooting for Zivity.com and it seems that the glamour shots seem like they do better on that site than the artistic nudes. SO when I’m shooting for Zivity I’d like to stick with the glamour type of photography and then for my site I’ll continue in the artistic vein.

So that’s what’s happening at the moment. Stay tuned.