tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post7323829502996596427..comments2023-11-03T06:02:02.128-07:00Comments on By Ken Levine: Hawaiian IBy Ken Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305293821975250420noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-34208832687296340852013-03-05T01:31:01.292-08:002013-03-05T01:31:01.292-08:00the hotel on the first image looks awesome ,what h...the hotel on the first image looks awesome ,what hotel name is it?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09732330274044785545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-12219684960779030202007-12-09T23:49:00.000-08:002007-12-09T23:49:00.000-08:00just bought JCSuperstar on DVD yesterday. I used t...just bought JCSuperstar on DVD yesterday. I used to love the album as a young man. Still in love with Yvonne and her voice on Don't know how to love him and Everything's alright. Some things never change.<BR/><BR/>Daniel, www.SecretShortcuts.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-57721735586082891802007-11-11T00:50:00.000-08:002007-11-11T00:50:00.000-08:00The Renaissance was the best place to stay on Maui...The Renaissance was the best place to stay on Maui. It's closure was a tremendous loss. The Dali Lama did very well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-69140129560843679922007-11-11T00:48:00.000-08:002007-11-11T00:48:00.000-08:00The Dali Lama did very well in choosing the Renais...The Dali Lama did very well in choosing the Renaissance. It was the very best place to stay on Maui it's now only a memory. And if you were a part of Maui culture, or even Oahu's, any new without an aloha shirt with seem very strange.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-47029123130326778032007-06-01T16:30:00.000-07:002007-06-01T16:30:00.000-07:00ATTENTION:The robots at blogger.com have temporail...ATTENTION:<BR/><BR/>The robots at blogger.com have temporaily frozen my blog accidentally flagging it as sending spam. They've been alerted that it's not and now I wait while they review it. <BR/><BR/>I'm getting less and less enamored by blogger.com<BR/><BR/>I hope the problem is resolved soon.<BR/><BR/>KenBy Ken Levinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17305293821975250420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-23282650826360323272007-05-30T20:27:00.000-07:002007-05-30T20:27:00.000-07:00The soft island breeze brings you strange melodies...The soft island breeze brings you strange melodies<BR/><BR/>And they tell of exotic mysteries under the tropical spell of Hawaiian Eye.<BR/><BR/>Where love and adventure await this is your fate<BR/><BR/>And you can not stray from you can’t run away from Hawaiian Eye.Dwaconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07544514023626682777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-75833331862017737352007-05-29T20:55:00.000-07:002007-05-29T20:55:00.000-07:00Ahhhh, Temple Emanu-El (Shaloha)...at the kiddush ...Ahhhh, Temple Emanu-El (Shaloha)...at the kiddush luncheon after the Saturday "traditional" service, they serve Gefilte fish with poi!Eric Weinsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09584879315449798212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-49007200343753694012007-05-29T18:22:00.000-07:002007-05-29T18:22:00.000-07:00Just back from Maui myself Ken ... always stay at ...Just back from Maui myself Ken ... always stay at lovely condos adjacent to the big hotels ... the Grand Wailea and Kea Lani look like they belong in Vegas rather then paradise.<BR/>By the way, did you notice all the new condos going up across from the Grand Wailea? We should enjoy lovely Wailea while we can. Because, as the song says, "they're paving paradise and putting up parking lots!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-44141671421932691652007-05-29T11:26:00.000-07:002007-05-29T11:26:00.000-07:00Reading your notes and the "comments" on your Hawa...Reading your notes and the "comments" on your Hawaiian Vacation blog reinforces my belief that cynical mainlanders, (and that's what you and your readers are, Levine) can't see paradise beyond the recognition of LA's familiar commercial icons.<BR/>If you left your lounge chair long enough to take a swim in the most wonderful water on earth or stopped at a local snack bar to have some "saimin" and talk story with a local, maybe you would have had a better time. and please lay off Don Ho! He was so much more then "a lounge singer".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-82698525997424994192007-05-29T09:10:00.000-07:002007-05-29T09:10:00.000-07:00Is Yvonne Elliman the chick who played Mary Magdal...Is Yvonne Elliman the chick who played Mary Magdalene in the original cast recording of Jesus Christ, Superstar? Because if it is I love her voice. I've never heard "I Don't Know How to Love Him" sound better.Emily Blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02163221455899041141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-70951207187693996142007-05-29T08:59:00.000-07:002007-05-29T08:59:00.000-07:00Last time we were in Hawaii we stayed at the Grand...Last time we were in Hawaii we stayed at the Grand Wailea, (where, by the way, you SHOULD use their precious pools when you're not a guest just on principal -- whose gonna know?)my wife turned to me after our usual $60 a head buffet breakfast and said, "Wow, hundred is the new twenty." <BR/><BR/><BR/>BTW, you're so right about Kathrine McPhee and her perpetual smile. It's either a holdover from her beauty pagent days, or a nervous tic. Never seen anyone sing "I Who Have Nothing" while holding a rictus.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-12182952000685817932007-05-29T06:49:00.000-07:002007-05-29T06:49:00.000-07:00Your logic for going to Hawaii is the same reason ...Your logic for going to Hawaii is the same reason I'm headed to New York next week -- the little urchins don't get out of school until the end of June, so they're still inside while the weather outside is warm, but not yet in clothing-soaking mode. <BR/><BR/>(And people fly to resorts in Hawaii to read Jenny McCarthy books? Can't they just do that while on the treadmill down at Curves?)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-70471958618058286872007-05-29T00:20:00.000-07:002007-05-29T00:20:00.000-07:00Once again, another travelogue by you hits the ima...Once again, another travelogue by you hits the imagination in just the right place, enough to be transported there, charmed by Hawaii, and then leaving without crying for your wallet back. I may go one day, but this was fine for now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-16988869818124661682007-05-28T23:27:00.000-07:002007-05-28T23:27:00.000-07:00"volcanic emissions from a volcano on the big isla..."volcanic emissions from a volcano on the big island (I forget its name. It had an “l”, a “k” and sixteen “a’s”, five in a row)"<BR/><BR/>aloha Ken, the volcano is Kiluaea and the current vent spitting out the hot stuff and ash is Pu`u O`o. I live a few miles from the vent and run a small ad network over her on the Big Island. If you're ver over here, I can be your guide out to the laval flow in case you're interested and haven't been. ;)<BR/><BR/>aloha,<BR/>-Brent<BR/>http://www.bigislandfun.com/activities/lava-viewing.htm<BR/>http://bigislandads.comBrent Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01537830026004374050noreply@blogger.com