Downsize Me-Lessons in Depressionomics

Flea Bag Shakedown

2010-06-07T01:49:00.000-07:00

The way I see it, that Deepwater Catastrophe was actually a fatal stab to the jugular of this planet. I can almost hear the frantic screams from the depths of our Mother and imagine SHE is not taking this calmly. The pictures I see look more like hemorraging of blood than oil. I have read way too many references to Revelations and those seven vials. Not that I believe that, but it is looking

Facebook Me-Lessons on Social Fabric Mending

2009-12-31T00:54:00.000-08:00

My good friend Teresa thinks that Facebook has the potential to be a great healing force for the collective consiousness. She says that society is reconnecting the threads to each other which ends up patching up lots of little holes in this giant quilt of humanity. I think it is profound and accurate. It also explains the gargantuan and ever growing popularity of this particular networking

Starving the Beast

2009-09-04T01:41:00.000-07:00

Over on Ticker Forum which has been my number one Favorite Internet Addiction for over 2 years now, we talk about "Starving the Beast". The beast, here refers to just about any company found on the S&P 500, DJIA or NYSE. Mostly though, we are referring to the Big Banks, the ones that the Uncle Sam and Turbo Timmy Geithner have deemed "too big to fail". The same ones that send us all of

Planet Infestation

2009-08-07T01:32:00.000-07:00

The million Coqui band playing all through the night reminds me daily that this planet is infested with a lot of creatures that maybe trashing the environment past the point of no return. Here on the Big Island, it's the little coqui frog, imported from Puerto Rico in a potted plant journey halfway across the globe via Matson Lines. Then there's the feral pigs from the Polynesian ancestral

The Backyard Garden Revolution on 60 Minutes

2009-07-24T00:41:00.000-07:00

I just read this in one of my favorite blogs, Life after the Oil Crash and felt a surge of pride that one of my New Year's predictions had made a major media vehicle, 60 minutes, no less. Yeah, yeah, I know, this is a no brainer. When the economy is this bad folks have got to pull all the panties they got and bunch em together. Besides, Michelle O and her Whitehouse organic garden deserves

The Idiocy of Coveting thy Neighbors McMansion

2009-05-29T18:07:00.000-07:00

Aloha Readers, It has been awhile since I posted. My muses seem to have gone holo holo these days, or maybe I'm channeling too much creative energy into video editing for N-2 Dance.I was struck pretty hard by this recent letter to Dear Abby in the newspaper last week. The one lazy muse that never leaves my shoulder has been riding my butt to get this response out of my brain and onto the keyboard

Is There a Vaccine for Affluenza?

2009-04-05T01:16:00.000-07:00

The face of affluenza looks a lot like this woman I met this morning. She could be a poster child for the disease of over-consumption. Employed by the state of Hawaii as a teacher at Hilo Union Elementary, she was securely under the government blanket for most of her adult life. When asked if her colleagues were worried about their jobs with all the budget cuts on the butcher block, my

"In No One We Trust"

2009-02-23T23:37:00.000-08:00