Honors for Lanikai

Our own brand -- Lanikai Bath and Body -- the lotions, soaps, scrubs, washes, shampoos, salts, bubblebaths -- is going to be on TV Tokyo. They will be filming here on Saturday and the last

broadcast -- on Seoul -- got 8.6 million viewers. They expect Hawai`i to do better. Much better.

Also want to pat ourselves on the back for great comments we get about our products and our store in Lanikai. You can order online, too. www.lanikaibathandbody.com

Now There's Snuss

"Smokless tobacco" in little tea bags that you can slip between your gums and your teeth (no one notices) until you get to your next smoking tobacco opportunity.

NBC interviewed one kid who sucked on Snuss and smoked a pack a day. He even commented that he could suck on Snuss while brushing his teeth!

The Swedes have had it for three years. Now it debuts in America ..Keeps the addiction going ... another one for Big Tobacco.

Dog Food, Raccoons & Eyeglasses

Sears has some genuinely funny commercials for its optical department ...

Targeted at Boomers, one features a woman in her nightgown calling the cat in for the night ---

along comes a raccoon, which she ushers in to sleep with her.

The second features a guy barbecuing -- sniffing the air for the strange smell of charcoal he has just poured --- which is actually dog food.

Mistakes we getting-old-folks really could make.

Best Sound Identity : Playing Nightly

And daily. Who knew NBC had so many channels?

We're talking about the Olympic theme ...One of the most powerful and most recognized sound identities in the entire world!

Spy Candy

A Pennsylvania school gave laptops to their kids, and then spied on them through the webcams attached ... caught a kid eating something and reported to his parents that he was doing drugs.

Turns out he was eating ...candy ... Mike's & Ike's ... a favorite of our media maven friend Mary Kinoshita.

Of course, so far this is only a story on HLN. But we're pretty sure we heard in the background that he was eating "Mike's & Ike's".