Post #12827 by Basement Kahuna on Tue, Nov 5, 2002 10:13 AM

Gecko Tiki....are you Tiki Trader in Honolulu? If so I believe I am going to ask for a gift certificate for your place for Christmas..........On the topic: Along with the standard artifacts I have quite a few things in my bar that perhaps don't ascend from "American tiki culture" but are bona-fide objects from the South Seas, such as two Sepik River area New Guinea masks, some Maori and Cook Islands war clubs, a Lombok mask, blowgun, and shield from Bali, as well as a couple of other cool looking Indonesian-made hand (and remarkably well) carved repro masks and tikis that are as close as a poor junk man like me will ever get to a genuine found-in-a-streambed 200-year-old Hawaiian antiquity (large, well-executed, true-to-original repro: $150-400, real Mcoy: $75,000-100,000). All of these things I like and they come from a traditional and legitimate South Seas origin...(Of which I seem to like better, I might add, than a lot of the real goofy current-day carvings that are based very little on anything Polynesian.. Leroy Scmaltz is a believer in this origin thing, too, apparently...I like a man that's true to his school!). Now-African stuff....NOOOOOOOO. I don't retire down to my tiki bar to fantasize about drinking dust, starving to death, contracting HIV, and being shot at by Somali militiamen. Buffett...NOOOOOOOO. Reminds me of the 70's. I actually lived the 70's as a child, and I hated it. I spent the 70's wishing I lived in the 50's. I still do. I get reminded of that crap enough just by looking around at all of the teenie-boppers trying to emulate the 70's. If only they knew. They should all be forced to watch 48 continuous hours of "Love Boat" reruns. Then see how 70's they wanna be.