There's No Place Like Work When You're Home
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📺 BREAKING: Ed Reif lands role on hit TV series LOST! 🎬 Zero commute to North Shore set - "Got paid for waiting, acting was free!" ✈️ Feeling like Oceanic Flight 815 crash survivor in paradise! 🏝️ Meets LOST stars Josh Holloway and Terry O'Quinn on set! 🚗 Craigslist SAAB 900 purchased for $100 - "Strength of weak ties" in action! ☕ Waikiki Starbucks laptop sessions fuel creative observations! 🌺 "This plane wreck is the best thing that's ever happened to me!" 💫 On the divine payroll - cosmic free lunch confirmed! 🎭 "Procrastinate Now!" philosophy thrives in Hawaiian TV production! 📱
ED REIF GETS LOST
From Teacher to TV Star - The Ultimate Hawaiian Adventure
The Call
📺Welcome to LOST
Greetings from the user-friendly universe of the North Shore! Got LOST this past week, feeling like an Oceanic Flight 815 crash survivor. The lush vegetation and flower essences of Oahu have clearly affected me - and this plane wreck is the best thing that's ever happened to me!
Set Life
🎬Zero Commute Paradise
Did the zero commute to the set. Got paid for the waiting, the acting was free. Living the dream - working on one of TV's most mysterious shows while surrounded by Hawaiian paradise. The North Shore becomes my office, the beach my break room.
"Gringos over the Rainbow in the Aloha State..."
Star Encounters
🌟Meeting the LOST Cast
Meeting Josh Holloway (Sawyer) and Terry O'Quinn (Locke) - two of TV's most enigmatic characters. Here I am, transformed from Hawaiian teaching veteran to TV extra, sharing scenes with actors who define mysterious island drama. The meta-reality is incredible - playing a crash survivor while living my own island adventure story.
Craigslist Magic
🚗The $100 SAAB Miracle
Put "The Strength of Weak Ties" (Craigslist!) into action and got a SAAB 900 for the same price Mom sold me her Dodge Dart in 1975 - $100 US Dollars! I am on the divine payroll these days, living a cosmic free lunch. The universe provides when you're doing what you're meant to do.
Philosophical Insights
🧘Island Consciousness
There is no there there - it just is. And it depends on what your definition of "is" is. For some it is "How high are you?"; for others, it's "Hi, how are you?" and then there's just plain "Hullo." Hawaii doesn't remove the heavy lifting of real thinking - it keeps you lean and trim on a low information diet.
"Ah Hawaii! In a place where marijuana trumps Blackberries for productivity." - Ed Reif
Creative Observations
☕Starbucks Revelations
Literary Sherpa to the critical mass, I feel like a local who "gets it" without having to resort to altered states. My happily crucified intellect is dying on the cross of Club Amnesia - aka the gathering place, aka Oahu.
"I feel like somebody from another tax bracket, part of the vast right wing conspiracy - using a laptop in a Waikiki Starbucks - and NO, I will not fix your computer!" - Ed Reif
The NOT To Do List
🌺Procrastinate Now!
Hawaii has a way of creating your NOT To Do List. The on-demand vibe is about simplicity, and that's scarce - a "To Be" list. It gives selective ignorance that is bliss. Although most folks here haven't heard of Joseph Campbell, they're certainly following his mandate to "Follow your bliss."
"If you thought washing your hands 30 times a day was fun, try spending time sitting still, doing nothing. Emptiness in full bloom... Try it: Procrastinate Now!"
Geography is Destiny
🌍Creative Class Insights
Biology may be biography, but geography is destiny. Lucky to be born in money-centric New York City, an IQ magnet, but now discovering that location-neutral Hotel @nyware proves it doesn't matter anymore. Hawaii becomes the ultimate test case - creative class living in paradise while working on cutting-edge television.
The Divine Payroll
💫Cosmic Free Lunch
"This plane wreck is the best thing that's ever happened to me!"
Legacy
🏝️Lost and Found
Getting LOST became the perfect metaphor for the entire Hawaiian experience. Sometimes you have to get completely lost to find exactly where you're supposed to be. From Lahaina meat grinder to Eddie Aikau inspiration to Mark Knopfler soundtracks to island teaching to TV stardom - every adventure led to this moment of being exactly where the universe intended.