UPDATE 2/11: Well, Kai made it onto Jimmy Kimmel. Watch that.
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Let’s run through some logic. You are reading this blog using the amazing internet. Therefore, you are familiar with the internet. One could then also conclude that you are familiar with the overnight hatchet-wielding memesation known as Kai the Homefree Hitchhiker who earlier this week smash, smash, suh-mashed his way into America’s idol-craving hearts.
(If, for some unfathomable reason, you missed Kai’s rise to internet superstardom, go here. And watch him on the Colbert Report here.)
Why does this matter to you, Humboldtian? As the Lost Coast Outpost noted earlier today, Kai’s personal Facebook page lists “Eureka, California” as the place Kai “lives in.” — so feel free to claim him as your hometown hero and check out the following picture from Kai’s Facebook page taken on the Arcata Plaza.
But seeing Kai on the Plaza triggered something in my brain: I’ve totally ran into this guy before. So I went back through my photos and, sure enough, found our hero in a series of shots I’d taken for the Journal‘s End of the World Issue “Plaza Prophecies” piece back in December. Kai kept quiet on his thoughts on Armageddon that day. Perhaps he knew better.
Congrats on the fame, Kai. And if you do end up, as rumored, on Jimmy Kimmel Live in the near future, remind him that he owes us a visit.
And if you made it this far and still don’t know what we’re talking about…
This article appears in Making Wood Sing.
Why is this labelled the early years? Deceptive appeal. I do not respect that in journalism.
This is too funny. As soon as I saw that video I said to myself, “He’s either on his way to Humboldt County or recently left it.”
Eureka needs a hero. Kai for Mayor! Or at least new police chief.
Eureka needs a hero. Kai for Mayor! Or at least new police chief.
Matt Czu visits a blog on an alt-weekly website and expects writing that conforms to the AP style guide.
And why would anyone want anything other than Goff’s waggish style for such a nutty-in-the-first-place story?
Haha, I thought the same thing, Buzz. This is a minor human interest piece on a blog, not election coverage. Relax Matt.
Kai you can have all the sex you wish for from your sexy Humboldt Forest Gals in Arcata! We love you!
Buzz tosses the AP Style Guide around like he’s read it, but he hasn’t read it. The style guide largely addresses grammar / spelling / punctuation, not good headline writing. And yeah, it would be nice if a professional publication followed the style guide. It’s something that stands to set the Journal apart from blogs written by everyday schmoes — good writing.
Does anyone besides me find the spin that the urban media makes on the “hatchet-wielding hitchhiker” to be totally out of touch with the ordinary tools of camping? Bless Kai for stopping the psychopathic racist from doing more harm to others.
Kai I love you! Are you Bi-Sexual I want to make live to you sweety. I think you’re beautiful man and I will do anything for you hint hint. I can let you be the dominate and I’ll be your slave.
I LOVE KAI!
Hey Kai I’m creating a golden hatchet with a large spike on the back and at the bottom handel,plus i’m creating a studed handle for you, it should be finished by Wednesday.
It doesn’t surprise me that such an awesome personality is from the North Coast…great people, great place.
I do believe the City of Eureka look no further for its new Chief of Police. Kai the Enforcer!
You can see this post on the Kai official facebook like page http://www.facebook.com/KaiTheHomeFreeHitchhiker
KAI THE MAN!
Kick the loggers bash them down
Take your hatchet
Smash their heads around
Kick them in the gonads
Piss on their dead body
KAI KAI KAI KAI KAI
Hey Kai lets get high and fly to the moon.
Kai is from Canada originally. Eureka is cool but i had a better time in Redway. -101 Traveler
Settle down Arcata it’s a grove place. I smoke free weed hand in the I bum food for free, I have the secret bushes to sht in and free showr. We can trip on shroomies and scam money for free drugs your alwaies welcome to join famiky.
I hope you all caught the NCJ censorship. I wondered why Mitch thought he could get away with further censorship of my comments on Heraldo and now we know why. Proggie political censorship collusion where now the NCJ which has always censored my posts but not ones here, is now censoring them because fellow Prog went to momma and said, “He’s picking on me! Help me out (and don’t let him expose any more of our nefarious Prog dirty tricks and dastardly deeds of stiffling other voices in the community we don’t like and don’t want anyone else to think about.).
Well, it may be time for a Times-Standard My Word on this issue of Progressive political censorship and what censorship of community voices does to community ability to address community issues as a community, and not as “Us” vs. “Them”, the Proggie elite’s standard political warfare directed at Humboldt County people.
Where/how/when were you censored, Steve? If you look through the comments above that we’ve left on you’ll note a certain leniency with what we leave up.
You censored my first post. Where is it? And you censored after Mitch started censoring my posts on Heraldo again thinking you would follow suit and protect the fellow Prog fascist censor of free speech of critics, and you did censor that post. Now you’re playing dumb. Maybe you’re regular readers will swallow your guff, Goff, but I won’t. Really, if you keep it up, I will go to the higher public venue with you too as I did with Mitch to stop you Proggies from letting the community speak its mind on public community current events blogs.
Actually, it’s time to address your NCJ fascist censorship too, not just the blog here but the Journal that refuses to publish any of my letters to the editor there or report anything about the Heartlands Project, refuses to publish any of my critiques of homestead subdivision eco-damage that I warned Humboldt County residents about starting in 1990 but never could get the NCJ to investigate, refuses to publish a follow up of the Paxcalibur story with publisher Judy Hodgson telling me the NCJ publishes political news and it wasn’t political even though it involved Palestinians protesting with me against the Israeli Apartheid Wall in Bethlehem, this isn’t considered political, yeah, sure, right..Got anything to say about that, Andrew? How it isn’t political censorship the NCJ is doing but Zionist pro-Israeli, anti-Palestinian protest censorship like Mitch and Eric do on their blogs? It’s a crying shame that the original community reporting mandate that began the NCJ was trashed for political reasons by our seasoned Prog political manipulators of Humboldt County citizens at the helms of community current events venues.
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