by Paul Ogata | Feb 18, 2018 | Blog
I don’t know how much glamour you think surrounds the very low rungs of the showbiz ladder which I inhabit, but last night a lady shit on my leg. That’s not some crazy euphemism for someone ruining my day. As in, “What? Arby’s discontinued...
by Paul Ogata | Jan 31, 2018 | Blog
Propaganda posters used to be all the rage back during the Cold War and World War 2. Stark images emblazoned with terse slogans. Come to think of it, propaganda posters were the original memes. But what was once artful and pithy is now simple and banal. Catchy slogans...
by Paul Ogata | Jan 16, 2018 | Blog
Years from now, people will remember where they were and what they were doing when they didn’t die from the imaginary ballistic missile. Me? I was in Hilo, Hawai’i, to perform for a flower growers conference. More specifically, an orchid growers...
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...
