The Pidgin Inferno is a complete retelling of all 34 cantos of Dante’s Inferno as reimagined in Hawai‘i by author Jeffrey Higa. Last week's Canto, Number 27, was on University of Hawai‘i football and June Jones. This week, Higa tops himself by doing Canto 2 on video like one TikTok, taking on the scene where an abashed Dante needs encouragement before descending into the Underworld.

If you're like, cool, whatevs, let's go to Hell, say no more. But if you're hesitating, here's our Lex Brodie kine guarantee: What you are about to witness, besides Rap Reiplinger as Virgil to the kinda panty Dante, and Loyal Garner as da kine Beatrice, is lights-out ka-boom mic-dropping showroom magic. —D.W.

Image by Jeffrey Higa.