I thought it was just another ho-hum day when one of my employees peeks her head in my office and says "Did you get what I sent this morning?"

I said "What's that?" She smiled and said "Look in your fridge...bye!"

I was puzzled for a second and reached over to the mini fridge in my office (ya know, the kind that they have in hotels...I keep my water, fruits, soda handy in there) and opened it.

All I could say was "WOW!"

Staring me in my face was about 3 and half lbs. of Ahi Tuna prepared Poke style! I was about as excited as I've been all week. It turns out her husband who had come back from Hawaii brought back a ton of fresh tuna the night before and prepared it for me because he knew I loved Poke. I wanted to give her a big kiss on the cheek but that's not professional and all...hahah. If you love Poke like I do, 3lbs. of it staring at you is probably alot like a pound of weed in the eyes of a dopehead.

It came in huge chunks! Im going to have to eat all this within two days...and if you want to help me eat this...u gotta holler asap or else its gonna be GONE.

To put it simply, Coldplay is on top. As far as I'm concerned they are only behind U2 as the premiere musical act in the entire world. They have set a standard in quality that few bands can achieve in 3 albums. At this point, a Coldplay album being 'good' is simply not good enough it has to be outstanding and they have not failed to deliver. I've been to shows but I haven't been to a show with this many people, not this many people standing up almost the entire time, not this many people knowing all the words to almost every song.

I was too far away to take photos of the band, but who really cares? I was blown away by the entire scene... Take a look at the sea of people fixated at the stage, everybody pretty much remained standing for the entire 2 hours. It was an incredible sight.

When I said I love hip hop, I mean it. Before I became part of the responsible working citizen, I was in SFSU circa '93-97 hangin out with my crew cutting class, talking about hip hop, listening to the newest records, going to shows, collecting 12" for instrumentals...living for Tuesdays when the latest albums and singles dropped. Everyone in the crew had their own taste...but in the end we all shared that same love for the music and in th end we pretty much became family. Yall know who you are...

One of our boys from the family, Dylan, aka Dcode has taken his love for hip hop one step further and actually used his gift for djing, mc'ing and producing and formed an underground hip hop group called Sum of Forces. Comprised of 3 mc's and 1 dj, SOF is true grass roots home grown San Francisco hip hop. They rocked the show with a 5 song set at Amnesia in SF on August 12th. Seeing him up there performing and rocking it live just made me smile from ear to ear...

Please check them out at http://www.sum-of-forces.com

That's fam right there...please support! If you don't like to get your hands up and get hype, don't bother going to their shows...because they give out and demand alot of energy!


Dcode and Onlychild (she's got an amazing flow and voice...if it weren't for the crappy mics I would have heard her lyrics better).




Practicing before the show...i made sure to annoy him with camera flashes. Oh, and he let me know right away what he thought of my hat...he called me "Sherlock Ho-mo" ...what a freaking ass!