Post #104893 by Satan's Sin on Thu, Jul 29, 2004 10:20 AM

Tiki Bong--

Good luck with your novel, it sounds poignant. Sort of like "Wuthering Heights." A sure bestseller.

My agent ran off with the advance for my last tiki novel, and the publisher won't pay me another advance so we are at a publishing impasse. They've threatened to condense it to one page and publish it on the back of a Special K cereal box, and I've threatened to go the LA Times and tell them how much they really pay authors.

According to Christians, Satan's thing isn't to initiate "sin" just as God's thing isn't to initiate "good." It's up to you to sin or not, and God's just watching. Just as Satan is. And depending on how you live your life, one or the other will welcome you into His particular realm. If I understand Christianity correctly.

But Satan did sin -- once. Depending on how one reads the Bible, Lucifer either lead a rebellion against God or just simply refused to kowtow to God, so his job description was changed from "Archangel" to "Satan" and he was transferred to the Lake of Fire Division in Afterlife, Inc. "Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven," Milton wrote, and this is precisely how I lost my last job.

But more importantly, "Satan's Sin" is a cocktail from the late, great Kahiki restaurant in Columbus, OH. Please see pg. 146 in BOT; there's a beautiful drink menu on that page, and "Satan's Sin" is on the lower left.

I've developed a stalker's-like obsession with this drink and have searched the Internet and every bar book I could get my hands on, but the recipe remains elusive. I even wrote the Kahiki (back when it was still in business), but the barman reports the recipe as lost. I even made a "Hail Mary" call to the barmen of the great Tiki-Ti in LA, but they had never heard of it. And in my many travels, when I'm in a new city and sitting in a bar with my big rabbit friend sitting next to me, I always ask the barman if he (or she) had ever heard of this drink. Using the same poignant tone Frank Sinatra uses when singing "One for My Baby." And the answer is always a heartbreaking no.

Still, I will not give up. Hey, maybe this should be my next novel. In fact, I think I'm going to tear up this one I'm working on about an evil robot tiki from the future who comes back in time to destroys the moais on Easter Island...

Mrs. Satan's Sin refuses even the kindest of cocktail suggestions.

[ Edited by: Satan's Sin on 2004-07-29 10:27 ]