by Paul Ogata | Dec 3, 2017 | Blog
Hello, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Season’s Greetings! Hug your loved ones. Screw it… hug your enemies, too, and turn ’em into loved ones. All the best, The Ogatas
by Paul Ogata | Nov 23, 2017 | Blog
Flashback to November 1979. I was a lonely fat kid with no friends. Sure, little has changed since then, except I’m old now. And married. But let’s focus on this dream sequence. CUE THE HARP AND BLUR I desperately circled page 52 in the Sears catalog and...
by Paul Ogata | Nov 4, 2017 | Blog
When I was a kid in Hawaii, there was only one stand-up comic in the islands: Andy Bumatai. I had his albums and watched him on TV and wanted to do what he did. He’s really the person most responsible for what I am. Sort of like the Darth Sidious to my Darth...
by Paul Ogata | Oct 30, 2017 | Blog
In every conflict, you will find a purveyor of prevarication, a distiller of disinformation, a flinger of fraudulence. A liar for the regime. In the Korean War, you had Seoul City Sue. During the Vietnam War, there was Hanoi Hannah. And who could forget Saddam...
by Paul Ogata | Oct 22, 2017 | Blog
I never really watched the comedy/romance TV series, The Love Boat, when I was a kid. Too much icky romance. Yuck. Not enough comedy. All I knew for sure about the show was its catchy theme song: “Come aboard. We’re expecting you!” Well, of course...