Did you watch the big WAC football showdown between UH and Boise State? Or were you out looking for Black Friday deals? How about doing both?
Right after UH beat Boise State 39 to 27 to claim its first Western Athletic Conference championship, the UH Rainbowtique stores started selling WAC champions t-shirts. Why not remember this Warrior highlight with gifts of these special shirts?
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If there’s a new iPod owner in your family, why not help their music collection by adding more tunes with iTunes Gift Cards from Costco? Gone are the $50 card for $45. Instead Costco is now selling this $15 four pack for a little less than $60.
Not the greatest bargain, but it’s sure easier to give out $15 gift cards than a whopping $50 one.
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While I’ll probably sit out the madness and crowds of Black Friday sales, there’s bargains to be had. Apple has their specials on-line right now. Click on the image for a better view.
Kicks HI has their Black Friday sale along with a special VIP sale at their warehouse. Get 10% off items at the Makaloa store, 15% off the Ward store, and 50-80% items in the warehouse! Kinda weird the different discount and store hours.
All sales final and CASH ONLY at the warehouse.
And don’t forget about Amazon’s Customers Vote deals. Unlike last year, where a limited amount of great deals was available on a first come, first served basis, this year’s winners will randomly be picked, one for each day’s special until Wednesday, November 28. So far, I wasn’t picked to win a Wii.
The finals of Dancing with the Stars is next week and thank goodness it’s almost over. C’mon, how can Marie Osmond be dancing in the finals with Mel B and Helio Castroneves? What’s with that? Marie in the finals? She’s had 2-3 weeks of a grace period as she dealt with personal problems. Instead of being eliminated then, fans voted her on even though her performances were subpar.
Sadly, Jennie Garth and pro partner Derek Hough can’t go one more week to see if they could have pulled together one night of greatness. They were almost there getting a perfect score on their cha cha, but instead they fell to the Osmond PR machine.
If Marie wins DWTS Season 5, the series might as well call it quits.
Related: DWTS Season 5 Recap
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I’ve noticed on several occasions that the i94 Wake-Up Crew likes to play music from Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg quite a bit. Stuff like Nuthin But a G Thang. At first, these songs were familiar favorites, but then I noticed that these old school classics were played kinda frequently. I like the change up rather than hearing the same current pop and R&B stuff.
Thanks Wake-Up Crew!
The Week 9 semi-finals of Dancing with the Stars was a complete festival of love with no judge giving a score less than 9. With four couples performing two dances each, there were five perfect scores out of eight dances. Carrie Ann, Len, and Bruno were feeling the love tonight I tell you!
Mel B and Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Helio Castroneves and Julianne Hough are indeed the best two couples in the competition. Each couple received flawless scores for both their performances. Who’ll take the third spot for next week’s finals? This is a tough one.
Marie Osmond had the lowest overall score of the night, and Jennie Garth did receive one set of perfect scores. But, but, but, you cannot discount the PR machine of the Osmond family. From a talent perspective, I don’t think Marie should make it to the finals, but she is definitely a fan favorite and with the recent events in her personal life drawing more sympathy and attention, she might be tough to eliminate.
Jennie continued her roller coaster ride getting the lowest first round score of all the performers but then bouncing back and absolutely killing the cha cha with perfection and attitude. Can her comebacks overthrow the PR machine of the Osmonds?
The best move of the night belongs to Mel B in her Viennese Waltz. Check out her splits going across the length of the dance floor (about 55 seconds into the clip).
Related: DWTS Season 5 Recap
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Went to watch the UH Men’s basketball team take on Illinois and got treated to a double dip as the football game was shown in the Stan Sheriff Center during breaks. The basketball game itself was pretty empty even with a “powerhouse” like Illinois in town.
It was kinda funny when the football game was showing since it’d get cut off right when the action started and the basketball game resumed play. When the second half of the basketball game was going to start, the football team need a crucial first down to keep their chances alive. All the fans were watching the football game, but the basketball game had to start. So an akamai (or just lucky) ref called for the towel boys to wipe up a (phantom) wet spot on the floor. That took about a minute where the fans saw the Warriors continue their drive. Nice.
Thanks to the Greatest Legal Mind Ever, we had our good seats with a great view. Here are some pics I took during the game. Bobby Nash had a monster game worthy of a team captain. Lots of guys got playing time in the first half but not sure why that stopped in the second half. The guys that did get PT looked winded at crunch time. Got to see Adhar Mayen, Paul Campbell, and Alex Veit play some minutes. Most of the bench guys came in and got an offensive tip in for their first baskets.
Even with their flashy new green and white Adidas, the Bows fell again at the end of the game. Rookie mistakes was their downfall. Confusion of the final play by the freshman point, Nitoto, and an unclear timeout by rookie head coach Bob Nash led to an anti-climatic conclusion. Most fans were wondering if the game was over.
The biggest highlight of the night had to have been watching the football team beat Nevada on two field goals, well one real one and one disqualified one. Even with the basketball game going, all screens shifted to the football game so fans were screaming even when the basketball players were doing routine stuff like lining up for a free throw shot. Here’s what it looked and sounded like in the Stanley after the winning field goal.
And lastly, I think this was Jeffrey Jordan, the oldest son of Michael. As a team walk-on, he didn’t play in the close game and never took off his warmups so I couldn’t see his name or number. But I think this is Jeffrey, not Michael, Jordan.
Sorry, blurry on YouTube. This .Mac Gallery version is a little bit better.
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Make no doubt about it. Oprah rules daytime television absolutely. No soap opera like All My Children can stand in her way. Dancing with the Stars contestant and All My Children star, Cameron Mathison, found this out when he and partner Edyta Sliwinska were eliminated in Week 8 while the Oprah-featured Marie Osmond continued on, even to her astonishment.
Here’s Marie’s trump card and if Cameron had one, he needed it this week.
Either that or Cameron needed a gimmick like planting a messy kiss on Edyta at the end of their performance. As an example, see this clip of Helio kissing Julianne (about 15 seconds into the clip).
Related: DWTS Season 5 Recap
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Like everything else, each episode of Dancing with the Stars strives to tell a story. There’s the beginning, the middle, and hopefully, the climactic denouement. This week’s story, however, felt contrived and forced.
Week 8 of DWTS had a good start by yet again crushing the confidence of Jennie Garth. Though this time, her attitude was a little different. Instead of being completely dismantled, Jennie had a hint of defiance perhaps signaling a marked change needed for the finals. But can she finish her story before being voted off the competition?
The middle of the story was boring and non-dramatic. Cameron Mathison has plateaued and unfortunately cannot master the nuances of the dances that all the judges recognize. With only two weeks left in this season, it’s just too late for his story. Marie Osmond’s story has been overtold. With the Osmond PR machine in full gear, I’m tired of this story. All the extra activities have robbed Marie of practice time and it’s shown with content-lacking performances.
To lead the story to an enchanting end, the producers saved the top contenders for back-to-back performances. Helio Castroneves and Julianne Hough got the only perfect scores of the night with their quickstep after a technically accurate but boring paso doble. Mel B and Maks couldn’t quite continue their story of perfection but still had a solid night.
Even though Helio and Julianne got a perfect score, I didn’t think it was their greatest (except for that wet, sloppy kiss Helio planted on Julianne at the end of their samba). It seemed more like the crowd, the show, and the judges were looking for any performance to laud since everything up to that point was pretty benign. Hence my feel that this show’s story was contrived. The ending needed a bang and the judges obliged.
You think one of the Kardashians or decathlete Bruce Jenner will be on DWTS next season? They were shown in the audience quite a few times.
Related: DWTS Season 5 Recap
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Jeff Jordan, son of His Airness, is coming to Hawaii this week as the Illinois Fighting Illini take on the 0-and-1 Bows. I wonder if Mike will be taking a short Hawaiian vacation?
I have to keep an eye out on Jeff’s kicks to see if he gets any custom Air Jordans…
Starbucks free giveaway of hand picked iTunes songs finally finished this week. That’s 37 songs in 37 days, and yes, I have all 37 songs. Fortunately, I didn’t have to go to Starbucks 37 times, but I sure did up my visits. Like any other caffeine addict, I like a cup of java, but even this promotion was testing my limits.
Now that the promotion is done, I can start cutting back and let the decaffeination detox begin. Oh look! The Holiday trio of flavors is now available! Peppermint mocha, my precioussssss.
Today’s been a slow day so I decided to take advantage of the downtime to run some errands during lunch. What a star studded lunch it turned out to be!
Starting off on a not-so-starry note, but I happened to pass by Mitsu-Ken where business was slow. After recent incidents, the okazuya had been closed for a few days but reopened yesterday. Business was flat. Even though it was lunch time, there was no line of hungry customers like there usually is and there was plenty of street parking. I tried taking pictures with my iPhone, but… hey wait, I don’t got an iPhone! 🙁 I guess their garlic chicken isn’t so tasty anymore…
Back to the stars. I trekked down to the Apple Store at Kahala Mall since the Ala Moana store was closed for renovation. While looking for the boxes of AppleCare, I noticed two familiar faces. Local news stars, Guy Hagi and Kim Gennaula of KGMB9, were there picking up a brand new Mac and HP printer. Cool, Mac fans! Dang it where’s that iPhone for pictures?!
While waiting in line to pay for my AppleCare, this guy comes up with a broken HP printer. It’s none other than Andy Bumatai who does his Night Time with Andy Bumatai talk show on KFVE. Another Mac fan and another missed iPhone photo opportunity! I wonder if Andy’s broken printer is the same one Guy and Kim got?
As I was headed back to my car, I saw yet another star. Work superstar Susie was cruising and about to get lunch from CPK.
A star studded lunch indeed!
