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The name of the group is the Maui County Cultural Resources Commission.    It is a group of  9 citizens appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Maui County Council. You can see their purpose on the web under Maui County Cultural Resources commission. 

On line, the articles in the Maui News so far are Thursday July 5, 2008 headline "Lahaina Town denied a Halloween permit", and an editorial Sunday, July 6, 2008 titled "Panel Changes Halloween operation".

Today’s Maui News on line is doing a survey for comments from the readers.  There is also a letter to the editor in today’s Maui News (Wednesday July 9th) from Ken Deasy titled "Halloween party just that, chance to have fun".   It is not as caustic as Blackie’s letter.    We’ll see if the Maui News prints an expurgated version of Blackie’s comments.  

Here is Blackie’s comments in the ‘expurgated’ edition of the Maui News:

"Cultural Resources Commission goes too far"

Here is Blackie’s ‘unexpurgated’ comment:

The culture control gang has done it again. Among other edicts, they have declared that Halloween is illegal because it does not show Lahaina’s Hawaiian cultural history.

Let’s do something about it. We need authenticity. Remove all buildings. No more streets. Remove them. Remove the harbor. Remove alien plants and trees that were brought here such as the banyan tree and plumerias. We shall have to somehow cause lava to flow from the volcano above Lahaina.

Everyone not Hawaiian must leave. We will need Hawaiians. There aren’t too many around. Bring some Hawaiians back from the California hotel in Las Vegas. Dress them in native dress. Put men in a loincloth covering like a grass Speedo. Put women in grass skirts. Women to be topless. Provide grass huts for everyone. Have them eat native delicacies such as breadfruit, taro, and fish.

Men would be making canoes to catch fish with. They would use shells and rocks to work with.

No more meat. The only meat available is if they eat each other. Once in a while a whale would wash ashore. That would cause a great feast. Women would cook and make babies. Money is not needed.

Tourists are not permitted around the village. Their very presence would detract from the native scene.

Anyway, that’s what I think the culture gang wants as a genuine Hawaiian village.

Of course, any of the culture bunch who are not pure Hawaiians would have to go.

The entire idea of recreating yesterday in Hawaii overwhelms me.

On second thought, fuck it all.

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There’s always a day when you decide to go out to the restaurant instead of eating at home.

When you look at a menu, you invariably see offerings such as “homemade meat loaf”, “home fries”, “homemade soup”, “homemade apple pie”, etc.

This brings up the questions: What really is “homemade” food? And why did you go out to eat when “homemade” is at home?

Maui Blackie – Blackie Gadarian

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It’s not easy for some of us Maui residents to be on a diet. I walk up and down the aisles in the market yearning for the goodies I want but can’t have. I watch vacationers piling their carts full of indulgent snacks and drinks.

Then a calamity happens. Vacationers give me their leftover snacks and drinks when they get ready to go home. There, in front of my eyes, are the goodies I saw in the market and couldn’t have. And it’s all free. It’s more than I can bear. There goes my diet, again.  

Blackie Gadarian – Maui Blackie

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CLICK ON THE IMAGE. WAIT A FEW MOMENTS IF YOU

HAVE A SLOW CONNECTION. THE IMAGE WILL GET LARGER AND YOU WILL BE ABLE TO READ IT….

I have watched people in the line at the ATM machine money wall.

The people waiting to use the ATM have a sad, grim look on their faces as if their dog died.

After they get their money, they leave happy and smiling.

They look like they just won a jackpot.

Do they think they got a bunch of free money?

Blackie Gadarian – Maui Blackie

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Many of us who travel check our bags in at the airlines and wonder if we will ever see them again.

One way to help yourself is to take photographs of all your bags.

If your bags get lost in foreign countries, you will be able to show pictures instead of trying to describe them.

You should take photos of your family too, so that you can find your family if they get lost. That is, if you want them back.

However, it won’t do you any good if you put the photos in the bags you check in.

Maui Blackie – Blackie Gadarian

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    While serving in the Navy in Oahu back in 1943, we would turn on the radio after reveille at 5 a.m. to hear the news of the day.

The first announcement was “There will be pineapples in the fields today”.

That meant that the weather was right and the workers should go to work in the many pineapple fields that were on the island.

Now the morning announcement says that the surf is up.

Times change, don’t they?  

Maui Blackie  – Blackie Gadarian

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