Don Ho's Final Aloha

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It's a rough week in entertainment for the cult wonders. Today, Hawaii state (and, dare I say, national) treasure Don Ho made his way to the great Coconut Grove in the sky, leaving Wayne Newton and Tom Jones to fend for themselves as the last of a dying breed.

I don't quite know what to say at times like this, so I'll go with personal anecdote. See, back in the 1970s, my parents lived for a time in Hawaii. One time a bunch of my mom's relatives flew out to visit, and on a lark she got her two grandmothers a pair of tickets to see Don Ho. It was far and away the highlight of their trip, and they talked about it with wistful fondness for decades. Both of them passed away within the last year and a half, and now this. I've never exactly been into his music itself (nor do I expect many of you to be), but the man lived a great life and made a lot of elderly ladies very happy. So if it's all right with you, I'm going to go ahead and suppose that there's some spectacular astral luau going on right about now, and my great-grandmas are all up in the Mai Tais and wine like there's no tomorrow, tiny bubbles everywhere.

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