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On The Set of  Lost   (November)in Haleiwa-- As Terry O'Quinn's  Stand-In Body Double. MY SAAB! Michael Emerson and Ed Reif Here with " Vincent The Dog ", and Michael Emerson 

With Terry O'Quinn First, you have to shave your head" is the life sentence to my great American novel life ---"Hair today.Gone tomorrow" Gone to Maui too. The best "career move" I ever made. In the beginning,  there was Michael.  Jordan  was the poster guy for the perfectly bald man. He made shaving cutting edge. He took "the shaved skull" from social outcast to rock star chick magnet status. The  follicly   challenged  started doing the numbers . Shaved head= Shiny, Smooth and Sexy. You could count on being noticed. Me no hair Is bald beautiful? Perhaps. Is bald a high end haircut? Maybe. One thing for sure, Bald is a hair color. If you want to make the statement that says, I run my own life. Shave your head and join the Union! Me no hair is a walking, breathing billboard and bullhorn that shouts, "I've got other plans" Love Me. Love My Dog! With Michael Emerson

Outcomes Informercials  over pay its celebrities for success and underpay for failure. Those long-format 23 minute commercials had several meteoric stars:   Juice Man Jay Kordish Juicers , and Susan Powter "Stop the Insanity!"  before and after you bought their products were all about  the call to action --your credit card and calling  1800 number. I had an action plan of my own. It wasn't about resources, but resourcefulness. Jay would  extol the virtues of raw live juices and their Christ like healing powers, while handing out the Eucharist  (carrot juice) to audience members. Militant Susan, the self proclaimed Lenny Bruce of Wellness, with her platinum buzz haircut, turned water into wine with her fat to fit solution of eating less.  Yes I have a juicer , but the IN to my SANE  is  Tony Robbins, the guru of transformations and late night TV (Prime time is the worst time for these commercials) —that’s the guy “Tony” i...

American History X is a 1998 American drama film  directed by Tony Kaye and starring Edward Norton and Edward Furlong and (Ed)ward Reif In film and TV walla is a sound effect imitating the murmur of a crowd in the background. A lot of Actor's don't like to shave their heads- Since I already do it, I have been getting a lot of prosthetic work on Galaxy Quest, and did a  Mocumentary  for the Sci Fi network; and a Series Regular as a Cro-Mag Soldier on Jerry O'Connell's  Sliders. A group of actors are usually  brought together in the post-production stage of film production to create this murmur is known as a walla group. We did it live. Here I am as Nazi Buddy Storm Trooper #4.  Check out the video for some Walla "Hell No! F No!"  below at Venice High School in the badlands of Los Angeles

I Got More Problems Than A Math Book. Maybe you're right 1+1 does equal infinity.   Indiana University at Indianapolis was a bit buttoned down In 1994 I don't work everyday on the TV set, so I teach the other times as a Substitute. The . students are sweet and it's not like LAUSD rough It's a lot more casual in Aloha land and a bit of culture shock ---less buttoned down, hanging loose, exactly as I expected from my previous trips.  My first extended stay was on the cruise ship SS Constitution. I just wanted a different experience, and I took the first job I could get, which was a deck hand. We sailed for seven  days and each day we had a port of call. Starting off with an embarkation day at Aloha Towers in Honolulu, then a sea day, and we hit Kauai, Maui(Lahina and Kahalui) Hilo and Kona. It was the best! The weather was always temperate and I had the most energizing and spirtually uplifting time, enjoying the weather, the people, the food, the culture and the OHANA-fam...

Barbie was right"Math is hard" A Pain in The English Hawaii is beautiful  The three reasons I became a teacher, June July and August are replaced by the four reasons I teach in Hawaii---Kauai, Maui, Oahu and The Big Island. Maui Paradise Found Nature's Mirror Big Island

In 1994 On Board The SS Constitution My first extended stay In  Paradise was on America Hawaii Cruises. I just wanted a different experience, and I took the first job I could get, which was a deck hand. We sailed for seven  days and each day we had a port of call. Starting off with an embarkation day at Aloha Towers in Honolulu, then a sea day, and we hit Kauai, Maui(Lahina and Kahalui) Hilo and Kona. It was the best!  The weather was always temperate and I had the most energizing and spirtually uplifting time, enjoying the weather, the people, the food, the culture and the OHANA-family atmosphere of Hawaii. I have been hooked ever since on these beautiful islands. The definition of ecstasy is that you are not doing your ordinary everyday ho-hum existence. Shoveling sunshine in Hawaii beats a day at the office.

Fire Training was the most fun That hose nearly catapulted me back 1000 feet Some are born great. Some achieve greatness.  Some get greatness as a graduation gift. We all got our SCTW Certifications and USCG Merchant Mariner Documents in June 2007, so we can work on Ships. NCLA was an all-American crew, flagged here in the USA, and "The Jones Act" of 1812 says that  NCLA has to hire Americans. I did a short contract(8 weeks!) as a  Head Waiter, but this ship life as a waiter is Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Midnight Snack. No time off and any time off, I just slept.  In August I took a leap of faith(actually jumped ship in Maui)/ One good thing about Hawaii is that is still America-The money is the same, my t mobile phone works andI can hustle and find a job---which I did-- and started working as a Sub and plus, as an added bonus, have been a working Actor  on the set of LOST as a body double and stand in. I have a SAG Union card from 1999, so th...

Go away Picasso, I want to learn how to paint. AT first, I was a little hesitant to publish excerpts of The Teaches Of Beaches pro bono before it's book release, next year. Then, I thought this is not just another car in a parking lot: Grand Theft Auto---A lot of cars are stolen in America, but not one US Mail Truck: because well,they are mail trucks. When I write, I kinda "go postal" in my own idiosyncratic Ed Reif way. It's my signature;a keen sense of the obvious. I like to challenge things that are taken for granted. Stuff that is obvious is below the radar. Therefore, I don't expect too much p lagerism with , The United States of Consciousness ... Cowboy French Fries, my thought(mare) virus , on the other hand, ---The Unted States of Unconscious Eating--- is up for grabs:you've got two eyes so plagiarize, and pass on the meme! Doing my part for the gift economy (free)dom... "Remember to start at the bottom, preferably rock bottom. Relax and lower ...

I find it so much easier to think in Hawaiian since I only know, like four words:Aloha (Hello-Goodbye) -Mahalo (Thank You) -E komo mai (Welcome) and Ono (Delicious) .

Greeti ngs from Caffeine Central, Bean and Nothingness : the 800 lb gorilla - St arbu c k s . I don't live near one, I live in one; a mad, mad, Starbucks world. It's tomorrow,and tomorrow is my permanent address! Just like Seinfeld is a show about nothing---Starbucks has nothing to do with coffee. Starbucks is just like Seinfeld Every year I find myself watching a little more of it. SBUX---America's favorite drug dealer is serving up, what Europeans call "Dirty Water"They have persuaded tens of millions of people to spend $4 for what had been a $1 product." That's an amazing-getting less for more value proposition. Drinking OK coffee and standing in line to buy it. The cult of the amateur, the army of one, patronizing the YOUniverse. Now that's EGOomics. Thank you Kid Starbucks--open-minded, we-centric, candid, devoted to progress, personally accountable, curious, and confident ---Kid Starbucks, Thank you for taking some of the quo out of the stat...