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Coconut Wireless

Less than 24 hours after Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann tossed his hat into the gubernatorial ring, Rep. Neil Abercrombie fired the first shot.

Rob Report

Grace by Osmosis

To see the world in a ripe strawberry

Hearing that we're visiting from Maui, our new friend tells us he once lived on Oahu. "Look," he gestures, "taro!" He points to elephant ear, or ape', and a smaller dryland variety.

LC Watch

Last week, we started to tell you about a case that not only broke the LC Adjudication Board's six-month minor decoy-only streak, but also aroused confusion and a bit of peevishness from the board members.

Overheard

"Whose midriff...

By the Numbers

4 Number of new TV ads created by Hormel Foods Corp., which show a can of Spam bursting into boring situations to excite anthropomorphic food items 1 Number of hits yielded by a Google search for "Spam is exciting"

News of the Weird

A physical fitness video, purportedly made in April by a U.S.-based al-Qaida operative, gives workout tips to jihadists, urging that they "train as hard as possible" to inflict maximum damage on "the enemies of Allah."

Overheard this week

“I’m from Seattle. It’s great there—it’s really cool and the sky is always gray…”
-Guy at Fred’s Mexican Cantina in Kihei, June 10

Maui TIME

“A shell crashed ashore. In the dun-colored houses along Kahului’s waterfront, stevedores and their women heard the gun again, like a door slamming, and again the crash of the shell. The Jap fired ten rounds in all. Then the submarine disappeared in the night. Announcing this attack on an undefended, unimportant cane-&-pineapple port, the U.S. Navy reported: no casualties, negligible damage.”

-From “Dusk in Kahului,” Time Magazine, Dec. 28, 1941

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