by Jake Dunagan at 5:22 PM
Jim Dator responds to this
article in today's Honolulu Advertiser on the new sounds of Chinatown:
On the heels of the excellent publicity that Jake Dunagan, Stuart Candy, and Shanah Trevenna have been receiving recently, a tip of the futures hat to Stephen Lohse who also received outstanding photo and text coverage about his views on Chinatown in the Honolulu Advertiser for Saturday, October 27.
Although I must chide Stephen for complaining about the noise in Chinatown, as least as reported in the article.
One reason I like living in the heart of Hawaii's heavy-industry district, Waikiki, is because of the constantly rising and falling wail of sirens; the pulsing, deep-seated throb of slowly-passing woofers; the fighting, cursing, vomiting, and blood-curdling screaming when the bars let out at 12, 2, and 4 AM; the screech of poorly-maintained street-sweeping trucks, and the roar and fumes of the first morning buses competing with the grinding rage of beeping garbage trucks racing down the street underneath my window at full speed--in reverse--with the attendants, leaning out, barely holding on, and shouting gleefully like harpies heralding doom.
Ah the sounds of life, of urban life.
Cherish it, Stephen, while the dwindling oil and money flows, and dread the coming silence.
