Choom Gang members often made their way to Aku Ponds at the end of Manoa Stream, where they slipped past the liliko'i vines and the KAPU (keep out) signs, waded into waist-high cool mountain water, stood near the rock where water rushed overhead, and held up a slipper (what flip-flops are called in Hawaii) to create an air pocket canopy. It was a natural high, they said, stoned or not
It sounds so idyllic! I wanna be a pot smoking popular teen in Hawaii!
Man, those comments are a buzzkill.
I particularly liked the yearbook dedication to his grandparents . . . and his dealer. Oh, Barry.
I wanna be a pot smoking popular teen in Hawaii!
Hell, I'd settle for any two of those right about now.
Fortunately there are no drugs at Punahou now.
Sober loser teen in Hawaii is an attractive situation? Or pot smoking middle aged loser in Hawaii? High popular grandpa in Flint?
6: I put my grandma's picture in the yearbook.
High popular grandpa in Flint?
This is basically Snoopp Dogg.
9: I took the options to be high, popular teen, and in hawaii.
Or pot smoking middle aged loser in Hawaii?
Sounds okay to me.
we've got four options here
1) Pot smoking
2) Teen
3) Popular
4) In Hawaii.
I think if you have (2) you need at least two of the others. Being a teenager sucks, but with a couple of tweaks you can turn a negative into a positive.
Really? It's not enough to be a popular teen, you also have to be smoking pot or in Hawaii? I don't believe it for an instant.
I particularly liked the yearbook dedication to his grandparents . . . and his dealer. Oh, Barry.
Bill Ayers wrote it.
Why is everyone talking about pot rather than basketball?
You should call your new Subaru the Choomwagon.
Why would we be talking about basketball?
I'm wondering to what extent voters care about this kind of thing. I don't think I'm equipped to figure it out. I could imagine otherwise mostly-liberal people like my parents being really put off by it, although in their case certainly not enough to change their vote.
Dear God I wish I was high, but I'm actually at work slogging through piles of pharmacokinetic reports (which are possibly the most stultifying documents known to modern science) to extract the particular nuggets of information we need for a big-ass integrated analysis of a dozen different studies of this drug that everybody already knows works just fine. It's enough to make you get naked and chew the face off a homeless person.
On the other hand, it works a lot better on the humanizing/endearing axis than the maundering about TS Eliot did.
A friend of mine from college who lives in Hawaii now posts Facebook photos and it seems like it's nonstop waterfalls and hiking and swimming and surfing. We need to tax Hawaiians a portion of their happiness and redistribute it to the rest of us.
18: I have never had a named car, but I am sorely tempted. I've never had a car with a cd player, either, so that's extra exciting!
It's exactly like naming a bicycle, but worse for the environment.
20: You may leave here for 4 days in space, but when you return its only the same old place.
26: The dude in Hawaii I know post photos of his night-fishing adventures, in which he often catches several lobsters (or something that looks like lobsters).
Were they rugose lobsters? Is your friend one of the fish-people?
Should you really be watching the game on your shift, gswift?
I'm more concerned about whether he should be drinking.
34: It's like you never watched The Wire.
From the comments at the link:
This is worse than hipocracy.
Yep, Teo is right (#4): Never read the comments.
(Of course, 'hipocracy' could be a clever play on hip/hipster? But I suspect it's just an egregious spelling error.)
Actually I now recall that I did once see one episode.
I don't remember any drunk cops in it, but I don't remember any of it very well.
You were drunk when you watched it, weren't you?
There are numerous other things to do in both places.
Anyway, I have a date tomorrow, so there's that.
Tell us all about your date, Teo! You know we'll be very helpful.
Would things be better or worse if we lived in a hipocracy? I'm inclined to think better.
48, 49: yeah, before, during and after. If you need to sneak off to the bathroom every minute or two to liveblog, that's fine.
Yay Teo! Yes, excusing yourself to liveblog is recommended. At worst your date will assume that in a comedy of errors you double-booked a simultaneous date elsewhere in the bar/restaurant and are juggling between them, which is hot.
Teo's interview was for a date!
And the verdict was overqualified! Laydeez...
We need to tax Hawaiians a portion of their happiness and redistribute it to the rest of us.
The "paradise tax" already exists. The proceeds, alas, accrue to local monopolists rather than to the treasury.
that piece sounded like the setup for "That 70's Show : Hawaii"
Maybe we could cap hawaiian happiness at 10x the most morose state. Or university presidents, whichever are lower.
58: Then they would just start issuing happiness options to circumvent the rules. It's like water seeking its own level.
It's like some happy water being ever so determined not to join the level of the rest of the sadder water.
Don't it always seem to go /
That you know we know what you've got /
So it's gone /
They paved paradise /
To wipe the smiles off your fucking faces
Just remember: volcano surrounded by sharks.
I missed out on being a pot smoking teen in Hawaii because I didn't move there for college until I was 20.
Tell us all about your date, Teo! You know we'll be very helpful.
I may summarize it afterward.
I may summarize it afterward.
Dinner
Drinks
Booty
Shame
Dinner
Drinks
Booty
Shame Overqualified