Archive for March, 2005
Guest Cup 17 – A Famous Person!
Posted by Lloyd Y. Asato | Filed under Guest Cups
Mr. Anderson writes:
Love the guest cuppas on your blog, so I’m sending my own!
Ext. Downtown Honolulu
Late afternoonI’m enjoying my afternoon iced Americano after a hard day’s work doing the indie film thang. I turn to my co-worker, who’s enjoying his daily fag. He’s perfecting his exhaling of “movie smoke”.
Guest Cup 17 is from our famous friend Anderson, Film Programmer for the Hawai???i International Film Festival. Anderson has the coolest job in the world programming America’s best film festival. They have a travel website where you can book air, room, and car. I cannot imagine a better place to fest, sun and sand in the morning then movies, movies, movies. The Spring Fest is coming up 1 to 7 April 2005 so click here to book your trip.
My saddest moment this past year was missing their Fall Festival and a new Johnnie To film. Anderson, I hope to see you soon. Best wishes and my love to you, Chuck and Dana, and the rest of the HIFF team.
Win a Pound of Peets from Presh
Coffee Cups 218 and 219
Posted by Lloyd Y. Asato | Filed under Poetics of Peet's
The Peets bi-monthly shipment has arrived.
Preparing for another rural health policy talk this afternoon.
Anyway, the Peets has arrived.
Win a Pound of Peets from Presh
Coffee Cup 220
Posted by Lloyd Y. Asato | Filed under Poetics of Peet's
Been thinking about Bob Greene’s OP-ED in today’s New York Times.
If you and your family would like to move to Crosby, N.D., not only will the town give you a free plot of land on which to build your house, they’ll also throw in a free membership to the Crosby Country Club.
If you and your family would like to move to Ellsworth, Kan., not only will the town give you free land, they’ll also give you thousands of dollars toward a down payment on the house you build if you have children who will attend the public school.
If you and your family would like to move to Plainville, Kan., not only will the town give you free land, they will also drastically reduce the property tax on your house for 10 years, and the first-year tax rate will be zero percent.
The logical question, upon hearing all of this, is the one I presented to Plainville’s mayor, Glenn Sears:
What’s the catch?
Mr. Sears paused for a good seven seconds before answering, as if the question itself did not make sense. Then he said, “There is no catch.”
Anyway it got me thinking.
No, not interested in moving to Crosby, North Dakota (just south of Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada). I was thinking of the growing divide between rural and urban. Also thinking of the poor people of Crosby. I do not think they are ready for scientists and Starbucks. I know this town (where I moved to) was not. 220.