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Today I took my daughters to hear the 'Iolani School Orchestra perform at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City. The highligh...

I haven't read as much as I would have wanted to this year, especially in light of the dissolution of a book club to which I belonged. H...

This comes courtesy of my sister Lehua in Hawai'i: Happy Holidays everyone!

This is just an awesome little clip, with Eddie and Pete Townshend from an appearance on Letterman in 1999, performing "Heart to Hang O...

Got on the N train at 34th Street and rev up the commuting soundtrack, starting with " Iko Iko " by The Dixie Cups . A guy next to...

Lonely Man Jumps Into Polar Bear's Cage in Berlin By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: December 22, 2008 Filed at 3:22 p.m. ET BERLIN (AP)...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/nyregion/19santa.html?hp

This is a found item that I dare not touch. But I spotted this envelope on West 12th Street back on November 23 and never posted it. Interpr...

This was found last Saturday in the same HSBC parking lot as the last card in my 52-Card Pickup game. It was written on the back of one of t...

I found these cards last Saturday, December 6, in the HSBC parking lot at the corner of 92nd and 3rd, in Brooklyn: They are from the Paris ...

On the West 4th Street train platform, I waited. I waited with other people. I watched an older woman in a fur coat attempt to throw a folde...

From today's New York Times : "After complaints from residents, Santa Monica officers are breaking up unauthorized exercising on t...

I have found two more "nurse" novels in the vestibule and, amazingly, they were all written by different people. The first is ...

I'm taking a quick breather at the Brooklyn Heights branch of the Brooklyn Public Library . I'm going to walk over to the poetry se...

I threw this up on Facebook, but figured I'd share here too. From the June 1983 issue of Hawaii Jewish News : From the front page, here...

My landlord has some furniture in the vestibule of our building. One piece is filled with books. I'll look at books anywhere. Once in a ...

I found these cards, from two separate, yet related, decks, on November 1st near the corner of Ft. Hamilton Parkway and 86th Street in Brook...

Arriving in the mail today to "perk" me up: Courtesy of my mom on the Big Island, who just couldn't resist the logo: Plus. cof...