June 2005 Archives

A Bad Case of Mail-Practice

It’s not something we readily think about – but that’s why I’m here to bring it to your attention: never ever use your personal e-mail account for business/professional purposes.

It already peeves me when people solicit my e-mail box for business, but to do it from the e-mail address companypresident@yahoo.com? That’s downright unprofessional! Yahoo!, Road Runner or Hotmail have nothing to do with your business, so why should they be at the bottom of all your business proposals?

The Nature of the Beast - Extended

So I’ve been doing theatre for a while now, but have yet to really be in a full fledged Broadway like musical. I was in UH’s Primetime productiof of Philemon recently, but it wasn’t the kind of musical where you had a lot of choreography or movement (when you’re the commander of ancient Antioch ordering the deaths of hundreds of Christians there really isn’t much to dance about). Although I have been blessed with meaty roles in wonderful shows I had no clue I would be cast in the monster of Hawaii community theatre musicals, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.

Hawaiian Novel!

PUNAHOU BLUES is out! This is my first book of prose and I'm hoping it will be in local bookstores by the end of June or the beginning of July. If you write me I'll sell you an advance copy so you'll be the first on your block to have PUNAHOU BLUES. The ISBN is 0974106712. I was fortunate enough to have Maxine Hong Kingston as my instructor at UH-Manoa and later Frances Mayes (UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN) at SFSU. I also got encouragement from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.