New aloha shirt #2 (of many). Tap to view at full size.
Here’s the second of many vintage aloha shirts that I bought from Emily and Mike Stehle at last weekend’s Tampa Bay Ukulele Getaway, and it’s got swordfish aplenty!
Emily and Mike Stehle’s stand at the Tampa Bay Ukulele Getaway. Tap to view at full size.
Aloha shirts — a.k.a. “Hawaiian shirts” — are my sartorial “thing”, and the Stehles have the best selection I’ve seen in a long time. I bought a lot of them, and over the week, I’ll post them here. The photo at the top of this article is the second in the set.
Emily and Mike Stehle’s stand at the Tampa Bay Ukulele Getaway. Tap to view at full size.
Aloha shirts — a.k.a. “Hawaiian shirts” — are my sartorial “thing”, and the Stehles have the best selection I’ve seen in a long time. I bought a lot of them, and over the week, I’ll post them here. The photo at the top of this article is the first in the set.
More aloha shirt reading
Save the aloha shirt from the alt-right
The “boogaloo boys” have adopted the aloha shirt as part of their uniform, and that’s a bad thing. To do my part to take it back from them, this article features photos of me in some of my favorite aloha shirts.
There will be people who will try to convince you that it’s code for “Fuck Joe Biden,” but that’s not the case. The “Fuck Joe Biden” crowd are supposed to be strong First Amendment supporters who back up their words with the Second Amendment, and wouldn’t hide behind a a weasel-word phrase in such a scaredy-cat grade school fashion.
…and I’m going to learn how to play this instrument…
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…along with this lovely lady:
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I have to admit that I’m terrible with string instruments. However, Anitra’s been taking up the ukulele for the past few months, and the big Tampa Bay uke conference falls on my birthday weekend.
But hey, birthdays are a great time to take personal stock and even stretch oneself. So, I ordered a ukulele (we’re now a two-uke household), we got VIP tickets to the Tampa Bay Ukulele Getaway and also snagged rooms at the convention resort, the Sirata. It’s on St. Pete Beach, and right next door to where we got married — a return to the scene of the crime!
I’ve done a couple of evening’s worth of noodling on the uke, and I can already fumble my way through:
…and a whole lot of I-IV-V songs. That should help, because there are a lot of play-along jam sessions happening this weekend. I’m going to have to tap into my Pacific Islander powers this weekend.
If you have Filipino family or friends, you’ve probably encountered a nickname or two that seem really weird by non-Filipino standards. 
The slide above might be wrong — here’s another explanation for the nickname “Totoy”:
