Post #690801 by heylownine on Tue, Aug 20, 2013 6:24 PM

Aloha and thank you to Otto, Baby Doe, and all the staff and volunteers that pull this thing off each year. Val and I once again had a great time. It may be the thing we look forward to most each year. Each one goes by quicker than the last, but only because we meet so many more fun and interesting people to spend time with each year. There's just too many highlights to itemize them all, but a few personal standouts were:

• Creepxotica at the Bali Hai and the Thursday welcome night in general
• Learning about Moonshine and white whiskey with Matthew Rowley
• Martin Cate's presentation on Steve Crane
• The Purple Orchid, Boozin on The Bayou, COTE, and Thee Swank Bastards room parties. Thank you to the hosts, bands, and bartenders that make these happen.
• The Hula Girls set on Saturday night - they killed it.
• Charles Phoenix for helping get everyone up and awake on Sunday morning after everything that happens on Saturday night.
• Fisherman smiling and playing vibes in the atrium every chance he could. That was great to have outside the front door.
• Big Sandy on Sunday was a revelation for me. I'd never seen him perform before and wow, what a showman.

And, as the cliche goes, So. Much. More. It's the year's best exhausting vacation.

As for photos, I have a few. They're wildly inconsistent in terms of documenting the entire event. Mostly they were just taken when I remembered to take the camera off my shoulder.

Starting with Thursday, and more to come later this week as I sort through them.

Higher resolution versions can be found on Flickr.

Mahalo!

kevin