Chasing The Blue Beyond

Hawaii Field Note / Honolulu / 2008 The Day My Car Caught on Fire — A Duct-Tape SAAB Story A hundred-dollar car, a Honolulu engine fire, and the all-purpose Island Style operating system known as Da Kine. See Image Read the Story Show Text “I made my way from Maui to Oahu with no address waiting. A Marine deploying to Iraq sold me his car for a hundred dollars — he said ‘give me $100,’ and I did, and I still consider it the best-leveraged transaction of my life. The car became shelter. Oahu became a blank page.” Original SAAB Story Honolulu Duct Tape Sighting! God made the world, but it’s held together with duct tape. Honolulu emergency response at Aloha Towers. The ultimate power tool enters the story. ...

The Oracle: Professor Charles- Kingsfield- Nesson's Mashed Up Pulp-Free Poker Chase--- Get your BS in Holdem-"Pimp My Harvard" Harvard Law School, the West Point of capitalism, has a little creative destruction going on at Roscoe Pound 's new student-led Poker Strategic Thinking Society ( GPSTS) , led by the mad hatter-- Professor Chuckles Nesson , the Crimson's own human hangover.Here he is putting a spin on the Confucian Idea: Give a man a fish you teach him for a day; teach him how to play poker, you don't have to teach him anything! The devil's advocate advocating for the devil---online gambling! Yea baby... Oh behave Gnarles. A great many people think they are thinking about poker when they are merely rearranging their bad habits . Part card sharks, part Mother Teresas’ it’s still nice to see the education outreach of legal elite F.O.P. Friend of Poker- Alan Dershowitz ; AND Charlie Nesson , a tweeds-to-riches—Crimson Prof high on silicon crack. The...

Skip to story Hawaii · Huna · The Hero’s Journey Hidden Hands in Hawaii Being T/here placed me in a unique space—one where good fortune, personal exploration, mana, and the life I ought to be living began to feel like the same story. See Full Image Open Original Show Text Story Position · The Elixir Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Being T/here Hawaii Created Space for a Different Kind of Knowing It supported personal exploration, oneness, and the mystical experiences of Huna—the practice of manifesting and tapping into mana, or life force. The Inner Landscape Mana Meets Momentum Hawaii did more than change the scenery. It changed the quality ...

On The Set of  Lost   (November)in Haleiwa-- As Terry O'Quinn's  Stand-In Body Double. MY SAAB! Michael Emerson and Ed Reif Here with " Vincent The Dog ", and Michael Emerson 

With Terry O'Quinn First, you have to shave your head" is the life sentence to my great American novel life ---"Hair today.Gone tomorrow" Gone to Maui too. The best "career move" I ever made. In the beginning,  there was Michael.  Jordan  was the poster guy for the perfectly bald man. He made shaving cutting edge. He took "the shaved skull" from social outcast to rock star chick magnet status. The  follicly   challenged  started doing the numbers . Shaved head= Shiny, Smooth and Sexy. You could count on being noticed. Me no hair Is bald beautiful? Perhaps. Is bald a high end haircut? Maybe. One thing for sure, Bald is a hair color. If you want to make the statement that says, I run my own life. Shave your head and join the Union! Me no hair is a walking, breathing billboard and bullhorn that shouts, "I've got other plans" Love Me. Love My Dog! With Michael Emerson

As Seen on TV / Hollywood Field Notes / Day 1–89 AS SEEN ON TV How I Got My SAG CARD From late-night transformation television to union vouchers, Hawaii, vampires, and live walla: the 90-day story of how showing up turned background work into a speaking contract—and a SAG card. See Full Image Enter the Journey Show Text AS SEEN ON TV promised transformation. My version required no 1-800 number—only a deadline, a willingness to improvise, and enough resourcefulness to keep moving until the outcome changed. Journey Map Ninety days. Five decisive turns. The plan did not unfold in a straight line. It moved through frustration, distance, chance encounters, and one early call time. Day 01 The Plan Begins I moved to Hollywood with a 90-day plan t...