Loco Mojo
You might think it’s expensive to go to Hawai‘i, but all you have to do is click here to visit the blog named after the 50th state. Actually, it’s a blog named after a guy whose nickname has it’s origins in the number he wore playing Ultimate... this is all too convulated, isn’t it? Anyway, get a heaping serving of pre-game mojo from the fevered imagination of an Ultimate-playing, pop culture reference-making guy from Northeastern giving Jose Melendez a run for the punchline. (Not placing too much pressure on him, am I?)
I should explain the title of this post. There is a dish in Hawai‘i called a loco moco that’s basically heaven in a bowl. I miss how Columbia Inn on Waialae makes it, but Sam Choy has some ono recipes here. (And I think the loco moco history page has the Hawaiian saying wrong; it should be “Eat ’til you sleep.” That’s how I remember it, anyway.) Anyway, go to Hawaii’s blog and read ’til you weep.
Comments
I was wondering why my readership had tripled today...
And thanks for the extensively long C&C Music Factory lyrics. I had always wonder what that was in the dance break (oddly enough, during a dance song) toward the end. Now I know its:
Tu dup du dup tup tup tup.. et cetera.
NU50 ∙ 20 June 2005 ∙ 11:03 PM
Now the three people that read my blog read yours. All part of the master plan to [dramatic pause] try to take over the world.
Was the lyric quoting a bit of overkill? Great, because there's no kill like overkill. I truly was only going to do a few lines, but when the lyric site I visited included the dups and tups, I just had to go all the way. As they say, "The music is my life." How true.
Empyreal ∙ 20 June 2005 ∙ 11:45 PM
My experience in Hawaii was nothing less than magical. The silver swords - oh, man, and the trumpet flowers and the breadfruit, and the banyan trees. I could go on and on. Someday, possibly at the Watch City Brewery, we can discuss the beauty...
Anonymous ∙ 21 June 2005 ∙ 1:59 AM
Well, granted, posting the entire song was a little overkill. So just to make us even, I give you the entireity of Vanilla Ice's smash hit from "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze", "Ninja Rap", because yes I have this movie on VHS, the song on MP3, and whenever I listen to it I'm compelled to reenact the choreography...
YO! it's the green machine--
gonna rock the town without bein' seen
have you ever seen a turtle Get Down?--
Slammin' Jammin' to the new swing sound
Yeah, everybody let's move--
Vanilla is here with the new Jack Groove
Gonna rock, and roll this place--
With the power of the ninja turtle bass
Iceman, ya know I'm not playin'--
Devastate the show while the turtles are sayin:
chorus:
Ninja, Ninja, RAP! Ninja, Ninja, RAP! Ninja, Ninja, RAP!
GO GO GO GO
Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO; Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO!
Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO; Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO!
GO GO GO GO
Lyrics, fill in the gap--Drop that bass and get the NINJA RAP
Feel it, if you know what i mean--
Give it up, for the heroes in Green
Just flowin, smooth with the power, kickin it up, hour after
hour
Cause in this life there's only one winner--
You better aim straight so you can hit the center
In it to win, with a team of four--
Ninja Turtles that you gotta adore it's the:
chorus:
Ninja, Ninja, RAP! Ninja, Ninja, RAP! Ninja, Ninja, RAP!
GO GO GO GO
Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO; Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO!
Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO; Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO!
GO GO GO GO
Villians you better run and hide--
Because one day you might not slide
So Choose your weapon but don't slip--
Vanilla's in control with the flex of the mic grip
Rockin' the crowd the way it should be rocked--
With the Miami drop that you like alot
You know, its Hittin' like a Ninja Turtle when the bass kicks
in--
You better check your level
The power of the Ninja is strong--
Fightin' all the crooks until they're all cold gone.
chorus:(x2)
Ninja, Ninja, RAP! Ninja, Ninja, RAP! Ninja, Ninja, RAP!
GO GO GO GO
Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO; Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO!
Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO; Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO!
GO GO GO GO
----
There, now we're even.
NU50 ∙ 21 June 2005 ∙ 8:13 AM
That's cool. I understand this is all in the name of Come-Uppance mojo.
Empyreal ∙ 23 June 2005 ∙ 9:30 PM